Spent Easter Sunday with my family… the girls actually decided to dress up… at least for pictures.

My mom is very proud of her grandkids.

I think the best part of the meal is the game the two youngest make us play. They write sentences on the back of our name cards that we have to somehow incorporate into the conversation without anyone noticing. Mine was… “There’s a bunny in my shoe.” Uh huh. Nobody would ever notice me saying that. There was definitely a lot of laughing going on.

For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.
~ Alice Freeman Palmer

It took a few days, but we finally got the prints from our disposable camera walk in Hollywood. Although it was fun, I will certainly not win any awards with these. I think I need to try a real film camera now… just to see what kind of control I can get.

I brought these into Lightroom and just ran a ’70′s action on them called Muskrat Love because it seemed to fit.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

A lot of you have been following along as I have Facebooked and Twittered my girl’s trip to the East Coast. She and a group of about 50 others from her eighth grade class went on a week long tour of Washington DC, Gettysburg, and New York. It was definitely a trip of a lifetime and I was so excited she was able to go with three of her best friends from school. She took her camera so I decided to post just a few of the shots she got. Yes, I am a proud mother…

Washington DC

Gettysburg

Central Park

New York

30 Rockefeller Plaza
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What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be.
~ Helen Claes