This is my ultra messy bike rider. His face is smeared with disgusting ketchup (because that amazing Auntie Dot cannot help but to indulge his love of red goop). He's ready to embark on a swooping run down the asphalt driveway at Grandma's house. This is my ultra messy boy…

This is one of my favorite images of my sister-in-law Amy. I acutally have two sisters-in-law named Amy, so my kids refer to this Auntie Amy as “Texas Auntie Amy.” This is a friend of the family. He just looked at me at exactly the right second. This is my…

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…