Five Years Old Tomorrow

My little girl turns 5 tomorrow. She is growing into such an amazing person. She has an amazing sense of humor, she's caring and empathetic, she's so bright and just so much fun to be around. Here is a look back on her year as a 4 year old.

And Then We Snapped - Week #32

This week was awesome. As you will see we spent as much time outside as we possibly could. We know this time of year that beautiful weather can be fleeting so we binged. 

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” 

― Phil Jackson

“They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!” 

― Osho

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.” 

― Nenia Campbell

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” 

― Jean-Paul Sartre

“It’s a pretty good zoo,” 

Said young Gerald McGrew, 

“And the fellow who runs it 

Seems proud of it too.

But if I ran the zoo,” 

Said young Gerald McGrew,  “I’d make a few changes. That’s just what I’d do."

- Dr. Seuss

“It is St Patrick's Day and here at Scranton, that is a huge deal... It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas.” 

― Steve Carell

Now head around the circle to an amazing Minnesota photographer, Sarah from Sarah Ann Photography. 

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And Then We Snapped - Week #31

I had a horrible cold most of this week so I kind of slacked on photos. As you will see I waited until it was dark outside to take photos the first 3 days of the week. It is starting to get warmer out and I'm looking forward to many more outside photos! Yay for spring!!

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” 

― J.K. Rowling

“But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.” 

― Neil Gaiman

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” 

― Bram Stoker

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” 

― William Shakespeare

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.” 

― Harper Lee

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” 

― Pablo Neruda

“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.” 

― John Irving

Now head around the circle to see what my friend Sarah from Sarah Ann Photography has been up to. 

And Then We Snapped - Week #30

We spent a lot of time playing and imagining this week. Also something else really exciting happened this past week. The Daily Show used one of my Getty photos during an episode  and it was a huge and very exciting

surprise ! I added a screen shot to the bottom of this post.

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” 

― Mark Twain

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” 

― Abraham Lincoln

“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. ” 

― Alberto Manguel

“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” 

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.” 

― Paula Poundstone

“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,

At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,

When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,

And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.” 

― C.S. Lewis

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”

— José Martí

Now make your way around the blog circle! Next up is the amazing Melissa Pizzalato.

My Kids Were Here - February 2015

Here are a few of my favorite personal Kids Were Here photos from this past month. Please be sure to check out the group post!