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Happy 10th Birthday Jake!  Can't believe you're already 10 though! 
Here's a few of Jake's favorite things:

 Hunting!!

 Being outside in the woods

And, fishing! 

Happy 10th Birthday Big Jake--
Love you oodles!

Happy birthday dear Jael! 
Happy birthday to you!

Can't wait to see you soon!

My Favorite Season Because......

The camera doesn't quite do it justice

1st Day Buck Luck

Opening day Joe went bowhunting....of Course!  A few hours later he called me to come with my camera, so I knew it was something good.  This was the beast he got =)

Happy Daddy & the 2 lucky kids heading out to hunt. 

Zoo

 This swan was out in the middle of the lake when we stopped but made a beeline for us.  We did what any tourist would do...

 Quick lets feed the swan!  Luckily we had some leftover chips and stuff in the car.  It wasn't picky.  We got it to come up on the shoreline.

I'm watching you

 
 These mountain lions were amusing...since they were behind the fence!  They would pace back and forth growling.   

 Annndd...time to chase the ducks!

Then, try and feed them to get them back =)

Annndd...when the feed ran out, chase them away again =) 

Our lineup =)

They had 2 wolves in this pen.  This one was large--much larger than it looks here.

A few weeks ago we went to the logging congress in oshkosh.  On our trip back, we stopped in Marshfield at their little zoo.  We've been wanting to get to the zoo all summer--esp. Madison or Milw. zoo!  but somehow the summer slipped by us again.  So we decided to check this one out and were glad we stopped.  They had basic animals, no elephants, penguins, giraffes.  But lots of woodland animals, although their bear had recently died and wasn't replaced yet=(  But they had elk, deer, buffalo, prairie dogs, rabbits, eagle, owl, hawk, .....and more.  The kids had a blast running around and well, chasing ducks ;-)