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  Since we were all together, we celebrated my and my mother-in-law’s birthdays on Saturday with brownies and oatmeal cookies.  My in-laws gave me a dozen gorgeous long stem roses.

 E2 has a toy he likes to play with at his grandparents’ house.  It’s an old happy-meal-type toy that he calls “party ball” and puts inside small things he finds.  I think right now it has a rubber band and super ball.

 We love books!

  One of our family’s favorite outings is shopping at Target.  And if it’s close to meal time, the kids get especially excited- because it often means a hot dog combo!

  This was sort of posed, she was on the couch but got off before I could get the camera, so I asked her to get back on.  I started to tell her, “Say ‘Cheese,’” but instead asked her what else we could say.  She came up with a bunch.  This particular shot was, “Fuzzy pink […]

  Part of my current “art in everything” series: the kids had left the Teddy Grahams on the table after their snack, and I thought the monochromatic look made an interesting composition.  I like the way this one turned out.

  K brought me roses, just because.

  Typical for this time of year, the rain forced us to move the annual family egg hunt indoors.  K’s mom went all out with getting the eggs ready, the adults had a good time hiding them, and the kids found them in a fraction of the time it took us to hide them. The entire […]

  For the past 9 years we have gotten together with K’s parents the day before Easter so the kids can color eggs. (I don’t think we did when E1 was a few months old, but I don’t remember.)  What was once a fun activity has now become a grand production, since there are so many more […]

  E3 graciously said okay to posing for me, although she wasn’t all that interested.  Which meant, all her smiles were completely fake.  I tried all sorts of things, but this was really the only one that turned out at all.  This the one I said, “Whatever you do, don’t smile!” and pressed the shutter […]