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. :)

wiggling her loose tooth and getting quite 

the reaction from her grossed out mother. 

the last pictures of my fully toothed girl. 

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. 

Family Portrait - by Ava

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!

"Just Reading"

Thanks for teaching me about my camera Tracy :)

Candy Land

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. 

Mini Me

Tis the Season

for both knees with band-aids. 

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. 

Big Girl

Pirates Luca and Mikey

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. 

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)

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. 

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. 

Wild