Oficially Spring

Happy first day of Spring!

 

 

Birds

There are eagles everywhere.  Seems like I see one every time I look in the sky.  The river is melting and it is bringing out the birds.  So fun to see them.

Austin's Birthday Party

Austin's Curious George birthday party was fun.  I had fun making his cake and coloring some traced pictures for decorations.  I made some butter pecan and cherry vanilla cake balls too.  It was fun having company at the house so I could show off my new home decorations I put up.  Austin got lots of fun presents and enjoyed all the attention at a party just for him. 

 

I made everyone put there party hats on for a picture before they could leave.  Look at all those fake smiles, you know they don't want a picture in a monkey hat!  I think it is adorable.

 

So Austin is now a two year old.  He is the cutest boy and I love having so many pictures as memories.  He is saying a few more words and I love that he knows his brother's name now.  He says "Riey".  It is cute.

 

Eagle Flying Over

Painted Sky

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo latter

Finished my barn latter.  I really like it, now I just have to figure out how to hang it on the wall. 

Austie turns 2!

Happy Birthday to our little Austie!

 

 

 

Fountain City and Alma

Had a fun day with Linda on Wednesday.  Had a half day at work, so we drove to Fountain City and Alma to see what we could see.  Our fist stop was at a Coffee Shop called "Fortanata's".  From the outside it looked like an old, run down shack but glad we gave it a chance.  The inside had a lot of neat antique looking things in it and it was a unique place with fun things to photograph.  The man who owned it inherited the shop from his late grandmother to whom the Coffee Shop is named after. 

 
In the summer this town is much more fun.  During the winter it is dead and this coffee shop was pretty much the only place open other than one other craft store we stopped at.  I loved the awesome textures of the old doors and buildings.

Alma is a city on a hill.  Reminds me of Duluth with all the hills and I would not enjoy driving through Alma on a icy day.  We drove up a long windy hill to an awesome park and along the way we found a cool barn with some awesome horses.

We froze our buns off walking on the bridge to look at some eagles on the river. 

We had a great day!  Can't wait for many more Photographic Adventures to come.

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."  Diane Arbus

Riley brought home his new friend Ted E. Bear yesterday from pre school.  It is a cute little bear he gets to keep for a few nights and make sure to take good care of while he has him.  He was very excited to show him to me and very protective of him.  His first thing he wanted to do was watch Scooby Doo with him.

Austin's birthday is tomorrow.  Can't believe he is 2 years old!  I really do wish the time would slow down, at least when it comes to my kids growing!  He loves Curious George and today I tried to find some George birthday gifts for him and there was nothing.  Books were all I could find, they didn't even have coloring books of him.  Weird.  He got his first birthday gift in the mail from Grandpa Tony.  A leap frog pad and he loves it.  He is not letting Riley touch it.