Autumn Beauty

This week the theme at I ♥ Faces is Autumn Beauty. Here is my version done boy style ; )
This is Judah Michael enjoying the fresh air and fallen leaves of October. He loved it when the wind would blow and make the leaves dance around him!

You can find other Autumn Beauty pictures over at the I ♥ Faces site.

It's Time

Once again it is time to start checking out Gotta Deal for all the leaked Black Friday ads! I get so excited this time of year! This is one of my favorite days of the year and I think we have it down to a science now. Anyway, head over and get your Christmas list started... I already have! But 2 weeks from now - be sure to stay outta my way ; )

One Little Indian

OABA

This past weekend we all went to Columbus for the OABA Apaca Fest. For any non-alpaca peeps this is just a big alpaca show in Columbus. We went to promote Openherd. This was a great weekend for us and we got to spend quality family time just enjoying each other! We stayed at the Drury Inn in a two room suit and the boys loved it. It was so neat and exciting to them! We took them to the show with us and we all wore our Openherd shirts. I let them all take pictures of any alpacas they wanted and they also got to climb and play on the John Deere tractors and gators that were on display.

This was Elijah and Isaiah's favorite alpaca. The one with the white neck and darker body.

This little guy took a big interest in Josiah and JoJo told us that he made a new alpaca friend. The black ones are his very favorite color and he wants one of his own!


After the show we went to Red Lobster for dinner a favorite of the boys. They love crab legs and shrimp pasta and they love when we let them get dessert!Judah enjoyed it too!

On our way out we realized Adam locked the keys in the van! After searching the diaper bag and a bit of panicking on my part Josiah became the hero of the night!

Once he got into the van he was so excited about the whole thing that he was dancing around and laughing so hard he fell over! I thought for sure that now we had a real problem on our hands but he got up and did, indeed, get the doors unlocked for us! The whole thing was just so funny!

Once we got back to the hotel we took the boys swimming at the pool and then let them stay up until midnight. It was such a nice weekend and a much needed dose of family fun!

Ahland

I have been so busy I forgot to tell you about our business name change. For obvious reasons we had to change the name 3 Knights Alpacas. We had the hardest time thinking of something because we wanted it to be meaningful. After throwing out a number of options and having a few others already in use we have decided on Ahland Alpacas. The ah of course represents all 4 of our boys and there is room for growth - just in case we would need it - not that we will! Anyway we are up and running and you can visit our web site if you want. Also, we now have 3 girls being bred and will be looking forward to 3 new cria next fall!
Ahland Alpacas

School Pictures

I continually find it hard to believe that Elijah is in 3rd grade already. Jeesh!! He is, though and I have the picture to prove it!



Isaiah got very embarrassed and had a hard time keeping his head up. His teacher wasn't sure if they even got a picture of his face. Well, they did and here is Isaiah's 1st grade school picture.

Parade

Friday the boys got to dress up at school and have a party; they were so excited! What they didn't know was that they also got to have a little costume parade outside for all the parents and relatives before the party. We didn't spend much time on costumes this year due to H1N1 - it really wiped us out for a couple weeks. Josiah was excited to get to go and see his big brothers and all the other kids that he had to dress up too!

First up was Isaiah dressed as Wind Waker Link from the video game.

Then Elijah was an old man. His friend told me Elijah looked just like his grandpa!

Judah was very excited about all the kids in costume!

Here is my Super Hero, Josiah very ready for action!