Old Salem

Bri and I have made a decision to try to visit interesting places locally with Belle.  On Saturday, we decided to take her to Old Salem since the weather was beautiful.  We are so fortunate have such a special piece of history in our community.  Check it out at http://www.oldsalem.org/!  Every year we attend the Love Feast and Christmas Eve service at the beautiful home church on the campus. Bri and I both went on field trips here in Elementary School and we can't wait for Belle to get a little older so we can tour the exhibits with her. Grams even completed her Masters Degree here!  So there is a lot of special meaning to us.

The Moravian Cemetary has a ginkgo tree located on the grounds. http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/rkr/ginkgo/ginkgo.html

The leaves hit a beautiful yellow peak for a brief time and then all of a sudden with a quick wind they leave the tree completely naked of it's beautiful leaves.  I wouldn't say we saw it at perfection but pretty close!

We enjoyed walking and letting Belle take in all the sites and sounds!  I wasn't going to post any pictures of us because I didn't want to ruin Belle's Christmas Eve dress, but she is just too adorable, so here you go!

Obviously, just a few shots and of course she isn't in her entire Christmas outfit, but still close...isn't she just adorable :)  We are so fortunate to have Brian's work schedule dying down for the rest of the year.  Since business has slowed, that means no more weekends the rest of the year.  As my dear friend Linda said, "What a great early Christmas present!" Indeed it is!