Morgan & Mark Engagements

This is my first time doing engagement pictures and I think they turned out pretty good! It was also my first time taking pictures for people that I didn't know very well. Overall it was a good day and we got some good pictures!

In the corn field

The Great Migration

Every year, this is the thing I want to get a good picture of! and every year I fail to succeed at it. They turn out alright but I need more than just the Geese, maybe clouds, dramatic light, I don't know. A different angle (from above) would be amazing but nearly impossible! This is my favorite one so far.

Outside with Lexa!

I'm back at it! all the babysitting, visiting friends, hiking and taking pictures! Its wonderful! These are a few  of lexa's pictures from this past weekend. I took Karli fishing on friday and then babysat both girls on Sunday. First time in a LONG time!

Fall Snapshots

Piggg!

I don't understand why I find this interesting, but I somehow I do!

Just a HUGE catch of the day. Some how I caught a smaller one after this.

 

Only a few of these were intended to be photography pictures but some of them turned out pretty nice. Fall is  definitely my favorite season, and I'm going to go with: its because of all of the leaves and I have a "problem" with leaves. Its the season where we are constantly going, making sure we fit everything we  want to do into our day before winter. I took a best friend of mine fishing with me. We had a great time! We have a few more plans for this week to go camping and what not and we decided were too excited for it to not happen! 

It's October and Brooke is back!

Good start to the new month! Today, October 1st, is my first day back after being discharged from Mayo for good! I started the day early by going out to Aunt Bonnie's (with BOTH of the famous boots) :) and fished with my new Ugly Stik. I ended up catching a 15 inch Red Horse and after that the fish just weren't biting. But I was satisfied with that catch mostly because my new rod was casting like no other! I went back up to the house a few hours later and let my pig out. He ended up literally pulling the kayaks out from underneath the deck. I cleaned his pen and picked some food from the garden for him. Before I knew it I was at a friends catching up on homework I hadn't finished in Rochester. I also got the camera out today and took a few pictures! I feel like it has been forever!

      This one may take a little bit to figure out! 

Leaf pictures are back too!

 Sometimes "fall" looks good in B&W

 The Boots

 October!

And of course the colors of fall

Avi - 6 Months

Well I am stuck in Rochester for a month now and actually have some extra time to work on some pictures! Hopefully when I get back to Wisconsin I will be completely healed, our house will be half way done with remodeling process and I can get back to normal activities.. or should I say normal way of doing things. These are a few of Avi's 6 mo. pictures I have been working on. She's looking absolutely adorable.. like always! More to come! 

From the 16th floor of Peds.

View from 16th floor

The Mayo Plaza

1 week ago I was headed to one of the most famous hospitals in the world. The Mayo Clinic. I ended up having to stay there Wed. and Thursday night and man was it the worst ever. Most people wouldn't believe me when I say that this was a terrible hospital but really I did not like it. I was planning on being there only wed night- thursday but they made me stay and get a test done on Friday where they injected radioactive liquid in me and then I sat around for 3 hours waiting for it to "soak" into my bones. These pictures I took on Thursday before our lunch break. We were on the 16th floor in pediatrics all day Thursday and I think here I was in the waiting room to get a blood test done. How fun... Friday I was in Nuclear Med. all day but there were no windows in that area.

Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis

Our neighbors gave us a jar of caterpillars that were in the process of turning into butterflies. These were some that were already in the chrysalis which was connected to the crocheted jar topper. If you look close there are little specs and on top a line of gold. Pretty neat!

Summer with the girls

These two little girls, who I have known for a very very long time, keep me veryyy busy! Last summer babysitting wasn't nearly as energy consuming as this summer. Lexa is 17 mo. old, can walk, gets into everything and is starting to talk, except really her only understandable words are  "uh-oh" (usually when she's dumping her lunch on the floor) or "mamama" (and yes in 3 syllables everytime). She's definitely a drama queen, even more so than Karli. Karli hates when Alexa tries to play with her toys, needs to hear 1-2-3 before she will even think about what you said, and loves food almost as much as me. But besides being a little harder to do this summer I still enjoy watching these two. We have quite a bit of fun together.

 We are not always happy.

 Stella, the "bull puppy". She causes LOTS of trouble!

 Here I braided her hair, she fell asleep while I was braiding it.

Jumping of the bench... naughty naughty!