Jan 2014 Week 5

More extreme cold temperatures dictated our week. On Sunday, we ventured out skating even though it was very windy. School would have been...

Jan 2014 Week 4

While organizing the play room, we found the forgotten puppet theater so on a no school day, lots of puppets were made (kids own idea) an...

The BEST Way to Deal with Winter

We complain about what a lazy mope Roxy is … but maybe she’s the only one who REALLY has it right during the long cold winter we are stuck. ...

Keys on the Roof

This is a great example of why I love being part of the Mills Church Community. It’s really a place where I feel like we can really be ourse...

Jan 2014 Week 3

Time to settle in for the long part of Winter! A lot of our week was routine but we had a few surprises like dinner out with Mike & Ma...

Jan 2014 Week 2

Going into Winter Break, we knew we  would have one of the longest breaks ever but when Minnetonka closed school for 2 extra days due to e...

Just Like Bouncing Off the Walls

With all the incredibly cold weather we’ve been having, there has been a near-desperation level need to be active in SOME way around here. Y...

Super Cold Day Experiments

We were supposed to be back a school today after Winter Break but it was too cold! So we decided to do some cold weather experiments in t...

Jan 2014 Week 1

Elementary January 1 - Juliana left on her first business trip to Kansas with Thrive Concepts. Belated fireworks because Mom feel asle...

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