Joy to the World

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Christmas Morning 2013

  The first words spoken to me today were Thank You! Way to go, Gloria! (First one up and opened her stocking without waking anyone else!)

First Snow

credits: Studio4 Designworks 123 Christmas Way

Bye Bye White

credits: Chelle’s Creations: Bluebird on my Shoulder Atomic Cupcake: Office Scraps Amber Clegg mismatched typekeys Miss Tiina: alpha fragme...

Jamie First Grade Portraits

Instead of buying school pictures, we did a mini photo shoot at home before heading off in the morning. Jamie got help fixing her hair from...

Katie First Day of Tenth Grade

credits: Christine Smith: Cardstock Jusme Digital: splats, Craft-tastrophic: Elements, Journaling Cards, Papers KathrynEstry: Overlay Stam...

Lauren 8th Grade Portraits

Instead of buying school pictures this year, we took our own photos at home. They turned out so much better than the ones we’ve gotten from ...

So Totally You–Jamie

credits: everything from December Group Therapy at DigiScrapAddicts (retired) Christine Smith: Papers, Art Bytes, Frames, Flowers & Fl...

Juliana’s Photo Shoot

Juliana was taking an online photography class and we went together over to Purgatory Park one day to try and capture some interesting stuf...

Juliana Photo Class

These are some of the best images from around our house that Juliana shot for her summer photography class at Normandale.  

A Sad Day

A sad day is coming soon – when all the girls will succumb to the idea that dandelions are weeds and will no longer bring me a carefully pi...

Valleyfair 2013

We went to Valleyfair on the last day of school and multiple times this summer! credits: DigiScrapAddicts  December Group Therapy (retired...

St Croix Valley Vineyard

credits: everything from Christine Smith's September Group Therapy at DigiScrapAddicts.com

Gloria 5th Grade Graduation–3 layouts

credits: everything from December Group Therapy at DigiScrapAddicts (retired)

May 2013 Part 1

After attending the spring arts festival at MHS, we were inspired to create and leave of “random acts of art” inside little glass bottle fr...

May 2013 Part 2

Birthday Dinner an KinhDo in Uptown || Anniversary Dinner at Spasso || Poster the kids at school made for me

Happy

Still laughing together after 22 years. Or probably – still together because we are still laughing

April 2013 Week 5

What a dramatic difference a few days can make in a MN spring. Everyone sure was ready for warmer weather and getting outside. I came home ...

April 2013 Week 4

turkey dinner just because it’s yummy | more snow late in the year |shopping at Old Navy with Katie

Granny Gadget

Grandma Sharon got an ipad mini for Christmas (from my brother) and she brought it to our house to play word games with the girls during a ...

April 2013 Week 3

  We got another enormous dump of snow but it was the really good “packy” kind so it could be rolled into a BIG ball. There was a LOT of o...

Unwelcome but Beautiful

Late season snow – an unwelcome but beautiful view out the front window on April 19. Needless to say, we had already had PLENTY of winter t...

Patiently Waiting

  Poor Roxy – she spends a lot of time sitting by the front picture window or looking out the bottom window in the door. I sometimes wonde...

Kinh Do

Lauren had a big Asia project in Honors Language Arts and part of it was visiting an Asian restaurant. We went to Kinh Do, a Vietnamese res...

Deephaven Art Show–April 2013 Week 2 Part 1

Photos from the annual Deephaven Art show – samples of art made by each grade level is hung in the school hallways and there is an open hou...

April 2013 Week 2 Part 2

Yes…MORE snow pictures. Seems excessive but it’s the COLD hard truth.

Hugs

Gloria is the biggest hugger I’ve met in my entire life. She gives me multiple hugs every day but I think her favorite is the group hug whe...

Spring Break 2013