In 1902 my great grandparents, Walfrid & Lina, traveled by ship from Sweden to the USA and started all of this. We have spent the last 2 days visiting with long lost relatives and reminiscing about the good old days. I have always thought that my cousin Lisa resembled my mom and I love how...
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Jon & Sue photos
Dear Jon & Sue, I am finally getting to your photos again and hope to have them ready in time to send home with your girls. Thank you for being patient with me. Here are a few of my favorite candid shots. I try to capture the true moments & emotions of life and it...
39 weeks
Sabra snapped the photos while I yelled at the Saint Bernard to “Get out of here & quit slobbering on me!”, as a result I look angry in most of the snapshots. I added as much texture, burning & actions as possible to hide my many imperfections. These may very well be the last photos of...
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Going to Germany
My bags are packed and I am going to Germany. Not really, but my grandmother’s generation would have said this as code for “going to the hospital”. Almost as if it was too vulgar to say you were going to deliver a baby. The same generation that would say “in the family way”. So old...
Great aunts & new cousins
Great aunt Marian from South Dakota came to visit us last Sunday. I hope I am still traveling the country when I am her age. I was awakened Monday morning by a frantic phone call from my aunt Becka. She was in labor and Uncle Tim was 4 hours away. We were due at the same time...
Astoria, Oregon
We impulsively decided to sneak away before baby is born and figured our 17th anniversary was as good excuse as any. We stayed at the Cannery Pier Hotel on the Astoria water front. Astoria is the oldest town west of the Rockies, rich in Finnish & Scandinavian history and you know how I love history. The...
Lucky me
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Back to school sale
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The waning days of summer
photo taken with iPhone by Sabra on one of our evening strolls I find it hard to believe that we are already in the middle of August. We have savored and squeezed every drop out of this fleeting season so far(perhaps the triple digits were a bit much for my pregnant body). Daytrips to the...