The following images are not perfect photographs, but have interesting stories behind them.   Windfall  The first, for example, is an image of Dorothy with three of the six year old girl cousins in the receiving line.  Standing off to the side of the picture, but not visible in the…

I kind of felt like Cinderella for the day, because my job at Dorothy’s wedding was to take pictures of everything.  Dorothy told me I had free license to take whatever pictures I wanted for the whole entire day, which meant that I could be her personal paparazzi, and she…

This is ALMOST all of my husband's immediate family including step-siblings.  We are only missing my sister-in-law Amy who no one realized had driven a load of coleslaw (or something) back to the house when we were gathering for pictures, and her husband and kids, and maybe one of my…

Let me start by saying that this wedding was likely one of my most favorite weddings ever. I think I had more fun than I did at my own wedding! This feeling might be attributed to the fact that Auntie Dot took two children with her from Minneapolis to North…

We arrived back from our journey to find that we didn't miss all the flowering apple and crab trees after all!  Our tulips are just blooming (what a cold spring we've been having!  Tulips in the middle of June!) along with lilacs and a couple of brave irises.  Even though…

My desire to scoop this little one up and cover in kisses increases daily.  She is such fun to watch outside as she investigates with intention.  I love her fuzzy hair that self-sculpts just like her big sister's used to.  I love the countless silent facial expressions that portray everything…

While out rummaging Friday morning, Mr. Sneaky Pants found a kids hockey helmet. It was $2. I couldn’t not get it for him. You should have seen the little guy, going on and on and on and on about how he could use the helmet to pretend to be a…

On Friday afternoon and all day Saturday we were blessed with baby rainshowers. It was the kind of day when a cloud would come and block out the sun, it would get extremely windy, rain would fall for about five minutes, and then it would be perfectly sunny and still…

At the end of a crazy day filled with garage sales in the morning, a walk to the post office, grocery store and branch library in the afternoon, and several quick and messy meals in between, Sarah and I zipped off to the school carnival while Dr. Peds gave the…

Directly after putting down the kidlets that weren’t in school for their daily nap, I read in the local newspaper that there would be a free airshow extravaganza this afternoon at 5:30 right over the edge of Lake Superior. It was to serve as a preview for some kind of…