And Then We Snapped - Week #38

Another week of photos! We started the week with a Harry Potter Birthday Party, ended with some I Spy reading and a lot of fun in between. 

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” 

― J.K. Rowling

“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.” 

― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky...” 

― Jandy Nelson

“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” 

― J.M. Barrie

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.” 

― Ira Glass

“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be with each other.” 

― Christopher McDougall

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.” 

― Christopher Paolini

Now take a trip around our blog circle. Up next is Minnesota photographer Sarah Ann Photography. 

And Then We Snapped - Week #37

This week we took lots of trips to the park and I also used my new 16-18mm lens a ton. I did pull out the 50mm to freelens  some bubbles at the end of the week. Hope you enjoy this weeks photos! 

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

― Muhammad Ali

“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”

― Joss Whedon

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” 
― Winston S. Churchill


Today was school board elections. Buddy was mad because he thought we were going boating not voting. 



“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” 

― Robert Frost



“As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.” 

― Chaim Potok



"Little airplane in the sky you point up at it
I watch your face as you watch it go by
Everything is perfect"

- Mason Jennings



“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.” 

― Laurence Sterne

Now travel around the blog circle to see everyone else's daily photos. Up next is Allyson Wasmund Photography.

And Then We Snapped - Week #36

Another week of photos. We started with a fun afternoon at Aunt Babs's for Easter and a rainy trip to the Zoo. Midweek I got a new lens, a tokina16-28mm, and I have been playing with it ever since.

“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?” 

― Rick Riordan

When the sun shines, we'll shine together

Told you I'd be here forever

Said I'll always be a friend

Took an oath I'ma stick it out 'til the end

Now that it's raining more than ever

Know that we'll still have each other

You can stand under my umbrella

You can stand under my umbrella

- Rihanna

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.” 

― Herman Melville

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.” 

― A.A. Milne

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” 

― Hunter S. Thompson

“With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.” 

― Scott Westerfeld

“You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.” 

― Neil Gaiman

Now travel around the circle to check out some more fun daily photos. Next up is Erica E. Photography. 

And Then We Snapped - Week #35

Another week! This week we enjoyed spring!

“One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him sometimes & wonder if he ever got there.” 

― Brian Andreas

“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.” 

― Rebecca Wells

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” 

― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird

“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.” 

― James Frey

“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.” 

― Tom Robbins

Our first trip to B & G Milky Way for the year! 

“All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.” 

― Shane Claiborne

“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” 

― J.M. Barrie

Now travel around the circle to see what Allyson Wasmund Photography has been up too. 

And Then We Snapped - Week #34

This was a fun week! Piper turned five and now has a big girl bike. I also took a trip to Minneapolis for a couple engagement sessions. Here are my favorite photos from each day.

"I wish I was a picture frame
The kind that you can get engraved
One that says 'I love you Jill'
One that says 'I miss you Jane'
Now I know you won't get scratched
Underneath a pane of glass
I wanna be a picture frame
I wanna be a photograph"
-Rabbit!



“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
― Norton Juster



“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”
― Emma Donoghue



“Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn't matter where you are, when you're on the saddle, you're taken away.”
― Doug Donaldson



"In the waves of change we find our true direction"- unkown



“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anaïs Nin



“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Rumi

Now head over to Mel Karlberg Photography's page. I peeked and her photos this week are so fun! 

Happy Birthday Pipe!!

My little girl turned 5 today, so we of course had to do her Birthday interview. Here is what she had to say.

How old are you? 4, I mean 5!

Who is your best friend? Tyler

What is your favorite thing to do? Play with my pet shops

What is your favorite color? Pink

What is your favorite food? Macaroni

What do you like to do with your family? Go to the children’s museum

What is your favorite toy? Barbies

What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher princess

What makes you happy? When Dexter is silly

What makes you sad? When I bump my leg

What is your favorite song? Taylor Swift Songs

What is you favorite show to watch? Cinderella

What is your favorite book? Chrysanthemum

What is your teachers name? Mrs. Nagel

What do you love to learn about? School, I like to do work sheets

What was the best part of your birthday? When I open presents

Where do you like to go? The Mall

What is your favorite treat? Cupcake Goldfish

What do you think about before you fall asleep?  My Bunny

If you could meet someone famous who would it be? Babs

What was your favorite birthday present?  The Russell Tree House

What is your favorite memory from when you were 4? Eating Ice Cream and Cake

Happy Birthday Girly!!! Hope you had a great day! I know you are going to love being a five year old:)

And Then We Snapped - Week #33

We started this week with our first outside Popsicle of the year and ended it with a birthday party for an almost 5 year old.

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.” 

― Agatha Christie

The first outside Popsicle of the year!

 “Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”  ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.” 

― Jodi Picoult

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” 

― Stephen Hawking

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.” 

― John Green

“Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.” 

― Sarah Dessen

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.” 

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Now head around the circle to see what Indira Klotzer has been up to. Her photos are always such a treat!