Even More Christmas Cheer

In Alabama I took Ben to the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. I remember it as being very pretty and the weather was so nice I thought we needed to get out. Lo and behold there was a bamboo forest. Ben loves bamboo. His dream is for us to have some bamboo in our backyard. He especially likes the black variety..but this green forest will do. Here is Ben in the bamboo forest.


The two of us in the bamboo.


Ben's "pioneer" pose.



We saw some funky fungi on a log.


They have a section where you can see giant Bald Cyprus trees and they are really beautiful in a spooky sort of way.


Is she beautiful or what?


Gwen's namesake and Aunt... Rebekah (Beki)


Gwen's Uncle Jake. We like to call him crazy Uncle BoBo just for fun. Hasn't everyone got a crazy uncle?


We came home yesterday to find one of our trees lost a limb. The men went out with power tools today and ended up chopping down the entire tree. I was astonished in one way... and not in another. Here they are making their "we are men" faces.