Archive for the ‘The Great Outdoors’ Category

Creek Stomping

AWESOME photo by Skylar Ogren  photo by Skylar Ogren  Skylar getting Abigail to pose for him  Sky  Abigail mid-jump  Sky trying to fly?

How did you spend your Saturday afternoon? I spent mine learning what it would be like to have 7 children…


 I had a ton of fun playing in the sun with both the Peterson and Ogren children (plus Shaina) this Saturday afternoon :)  

gwen1  gwen2  gwen and maddy  emily  merritt and nolan  “for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”  iris  lily hiding

Owls Nest (photos primarily by skylar ogren)

by sky  by sky 2  by sky 3  by sky 4  by sky 5  by sky 6  by sky 7 (me!)  by sky 8  by sky 9  by me (sky pondering)  by me (caterpillar on sky’s hand)

Randoms from the past week+

poppy  bell flowers  luke  view from ferry bluff 1  view from ferry bluff 2  view from ferry bluff 3  sauk prairie! (my house is right by the water tower on the right)  winona  josh, lindsay, and emily taking a stop during our hike

Somewhere over the rainbow…

I caught a little glimpse of heaven this evening… The largest and most beautiful rainbow I’ve ever seen. And not only that, but it lasted almost 15 minutes and it was a double rainbow on one end! I had some problems with rain drop spots on my lens, but that’s to be expected. Oh and I was mad at the black spot in the middle of my third picture… until I realized it was a bird that I’d caught mid-flight! How awesome!

rainbow1 rainbow2 (double) rainbow3 (bird) rainbow4

Devil’s Lake State Park

1    2  3  4  5- “I am sooooo tired of going down!” -Sarah  6- a view from the top  7  8- enthralled by the minnows

Sidewalk Chalk

This evening I spent a quality hour with some CBC youngsters out in front of the church playing with some sidewalk chalk.  We had a blast in the sunshine and I got some pretty awesome pictures.  Enjoy!  :)

my box of chalk Christopher Madeline Ogren abigail ogren Sparkle sparkle and abby Merritt Ogren sun Abigail loves everyone

my favorite place in the whole entire world

Kiwi1  Kiwi2  Kiwi3  Kiwi4Kiwi4  Kiwi5  Kiwi6  Kiwi7  Kiwi8  Kiwi9  Kiwi10  rural wisconsin

april showers bring may flowers :)

Lois’ tulips  one of mom’s gardens  Mom’s daffodils  another one of mom’s gardens  Mom’s grape hyacinth  Mom’s bleeding hearts  Mom’s vinca

A Chilly Cook Out

Lindsay and Brad (and mr. trump in the background)  Brad  The Meat  Brads Burger  Jaci and Lindsay  Mitchell  Chilling (literally)  Ok so this is REALLY creepy… but I still wanted to include it…  It’s really just Mitch hanging off the branch of a tree