Mill City Ruins

Enjoying the beautiful afternoon, walking on the stone arch bridge and taking in the sites.....






For anyone not familiar with Minneapolis, the large bridge in the background (below)
is the new 35W bridge after the old one collapsed back on August 1, 2007.
Its still hard to believe something so unimaginable could happen.

Up, Up and Away

Wow.....I totally need to update my header since it is WARM now. :0)

Our little bull in a china shop is officially a walker. Those rolly polly thighs move most every second she is awake. Olivia walks for practice. She walks for sport. She paces the living room in circles, always holding something in both hands. She has found her freedom....And she loves it!

So much has happened in a month and a half since my last post. Olivia has turned one and Ella just had her first dance recitals. Thankfully, I have had more of a chance to pick up the camera and take pictures now that Olivia can get around herself. I totally see that "second child" thing has happened. There's certainly a lot less pictures of Olivia than there is of Ella. I really gotta do something about that before I forget how small she once was/is.







And just for good measure....a picture of Ella. :0)

A Peanut Feeding A Monkey

I tend to be a little uptight sometimes especially when it comes to the kids....wanting to get from point A to point B as fast as possible, get in get out, no side tracking sorta thing. Ella had been asking me for weeks if she could feed Olivia so this day we went for it. I had to ask myself what's the worst that could happen? We had all the time in the world and she might just need a tubby by the end of it....or both of them!

I got some good shots off before Ella got frustrated and had yogurt all over herself from Olivia swatting the spoon, shaking her head back and forth and spitting at her. ;0) Even if it wasnt the sisterly bonding that she had hoped it would be, atleast I gave into the moment for once.

I allowed Ella to do what she wanted, Olivia was down to her diaper sticky with yogurt, and ironically those messy and carefree times seem to be when I enjoy my camera the most.....

WW - Angel In Hipsta-Land

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Hipstaprint of Today

Ella got some glow in the dark stars for Christmas that we put on her ceiling. Since our dog died just before xmas, we decided to make Lulu a big shooting star right above her bed. The other small stars are me, Keith, Ella and Olivia. It comforts her to see it every night. :0)


Lens: Melodie
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
Flash: Off

Christmas Vacation

Christmas vacation turned out to be looooong.....I forgot what it was like to have Ella home all day, everyday for 2 weeks. Between her and Olivia, they wore me down!

Thankfully we were lucky to have Ella's cousin Jack over for a day to play. I could see after only an hour or two that staying in the house all day was not going to be an option. I thought they would keep each other company but it was more like they came to me and said they were bored! What?! Go play with all the toys downstairs you silly children!

My sister in law Crystal must have known better, having 3 children of her own, she brought over Jack's snow gear thinking we might play outside. That we did! I sent Olivia up to my Mom's and camera in hand....off we went to the hill up the street.

Besides Ella barely making it up the hill with the sled at times, it was actually more fun than I expected since I am not a snowy winter kind of gal! Jack and Ella teamed up to get the sleds up the hill. Jack was at the top and Ella would push the sled as high as she could until Jack could grab it and pull it up. At that point, Ella only had to worry about getting herself up the hill! Clever little people I tell ya, and great teamwork!

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