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

       

Breakfast at Ikea

We love free breakfast day at Ikea. If you go early, you get eggs, bacon and hash browns for nothing. We like to jazz it up a bit with a ci...

Fairy Gardens

We saw these adorable little fairy gardens at the MN Landscape Arboretum. It was so fun looking at all the tiny things and miniature plants...

Signs of Spring

A welcome sight after a long winter: a budding tree spotted at the Arboretum

Fairy Garden

credits: Equinox by Jen Yurko

Waiting for Spring

credits: Little Pistol by Designs by Laura Burger2

Go Away Winter

…see you next spring.

March 2013

Juliana’s 20th birthday: note interesting assortment of favorite foods – crab, cocktail weinies, cheesecake and caesar salad Lauren’s fir...

You Make Me Smile

Gloria needed a baby picture for display at the 5th grade graduation and I knew I wanted to offer one of my favorites – taken over the back...

Natalie’s House of Cards

We often take photos of things that get built the need to get taken down afterward because of space issues. Such was the case with this hous...

Deephaven Talent Show 2013

Gloria was in the fifth grade girls finale dance group for Deephaven’s Got Talent 2013. There were 30 girls and they worked really hard wit...

Icicles

As a homeowner, when I see huge icicles I think YIKES that’s bad but the kid in me thinks likes the girls – YAY that’s fun!

Jamie Joy

everything from the DST March Blog Train freebie on Christine Smith's blog (retired)

Monkey Bread

Recipe page we made for a fundraising cookbook done by Deephaven 5th grade families

Thriller

Gloria, Mikaela, Sophia & Pepe did “Thriller” for the fifth grade orchestra recital – complete with costumes and makeup. They were an i...

Katie’s Birthday Week 2013

Katie’s 15th birthday – shopping in downtown Minneapolis with a stop at Candyland Sweethearts dance with Jake Barton very elaborate a...

Sweetheart’s Dance

  Katie and Jake Barton going to the Sweetheart’s Dance at Minnetonka High School

Valentine’s Day

I staged these 3 photos for a V-Day “card” for the man of the house from the ladies of the house.

Valentine Roses

Jim got me these roses for Valentine’s Day

100th Day of Kindergarten

Jamie’s 100th Day of school celebration hat from Deephaven Elementary in Senora Forsman’s class

Snow Fort

  fresh snowfall on a Sunday afternoons was good for about three hours of outdoor fort building in the front yard

Jason Gray Concert at MOA

Musical highlights from early winter – Jason Gray concert at MOA and winter district orchestra festival at MHS. We arrived fairly early for...