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Saturday, June 30, 2012


Hot Cabin Weekend











Laid back cabin weekend. 
Visits from Charley, Megan and Matti. 
Two dogs named Max. 
Frog catching, swimming and lots of 
Spidey adventures. 

Ruthie, if you're reading this -
notice the return of Whitey McWhiterson. :)

Thursday, June 28, 2012




wiggling her loose tooth and getting quite 
the reaction from her grossed out mother. 

the last pictures of my fully toothed girl. 




Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Great Grandma


Ava and great grandma Phyllis playing a made up dice game, 
I think they both giggled non stop. 

I love that my kids are lucky enough to have two grandmothers, 
and a great grandmother...neither of which I had growing up. 

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Country Clouds



I love to take pictures of clouds. Whenever i have my camera at the park, the beach or pretty much anywhere I always end up with cloud pictures. Sometimes I edit them, try to make a pretty collage or create a funky sky color. Sometimes they just get filed away into folders of other cloud pictures which I'm pretty sure will turn into something amazing someday.

Pontooning Birthday Fun







great friends, great weather
great times.
happy birthday to Dustin!

Monday, June 18, 2012

"Just Reading"


Thanks for teaching me about my camera Tracy :)

Candy Land


Sunday, June 17, 2012

Happy Father's Day


happy father's day to my dad, my father in law
and to my husband...
we may drive each other crazy at times
but you are the best dad i know. 
from the kids and i, we love you. 

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Friday, June 15, 2012

Tis the Season


for both knees with band-aids. 

Tuesday, June 12, 2012




See You Later Kindergarten!






I can't say enough nice things about Ava's kindergarten 
experience and about her awesome teacher. 
We were nervous when she transferred from McFarland
but she did great...jumped right in and loved 
pretty much everything about kindergarten. 

Way to go big girl, so proud of you!  

Dear Mr. Stoker,








sending her off for her last day of kindergarten, 
wow does time fly. 

Friday, June 8, 2012

Daddy Horse


Harold



We took a visit to Olbrich Park in our old hood and 
up walks Harold, a park regular who loves
attention from little kids. 
Nice to see you Harold. 

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

King of the Compost Pile


From the look on the face of the bulldozer driver
and city compost site worker
he was not used to seeing a barefoot skirt wearing woman
shoveling her own compost
and four year old climbing the compost pile
with his snow shovel. 
we're amateurs, but a little sunshine and
exercise did us well. 
(minus the blisters)

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Booo




disappointed. angry. frustrated. pissed off. sad. 

i guess madison really is a bubble in the state. 
maybe i'm a hopeless liberal but i really believed that
the people would step up and do the right thing. 

heavy heart for my fellow union employees, 
for my many family members who are teachers, 
for my children's future education in a deteriorating 
and under valued system and for my daughter's 
likely lack of future reproductive health choices. 

i'm scared for the future of wisconsin government
for the national implications from this ass of a governor. 
that the wealthy can buy a win, 
that the people who really need a hand are 
misled or offered false promises. 

super bummed. 





Saturday, June 2, 2012

Farmer's Market and a Cranky Family




remember when you could walk around the Farmers Market
taking your time to taste a little of this, 
buy a little of that,
stop to chat with a friend and maybe even 
park it in an outdoor patio for a bloody mary???

so not the case anymore. 

i love my kids and i love the farmers market
but sometimes the two should just not go together. 


Friday, June 1, 2012