Fist day of School

Lindson's first day of pre-school was today, I just got back from dropping him off and had to share this video with you. Now, you would think Lindson would be worried or scared or something but nope, he just walked right in and didn't even say goodbye. Too funny... I even got it on video!

Wedding Dress year 2

Check out my other blog for a great picture of Sierra!

White Water Rafting

We just returned from our vacation to Lake Tahoe, CA. The day after we arrived we visited Rock-N-Water and had a great day on the river enjoying and playing in God's creation. Here is a video of some of the action!

Sweet outfit!

We are moving....again....so Lindson and Sierra are being big helpers by assisting in the sorting and packing of boxes. Lindson thought some of my stuff looked neat and here is the outfit he decided he liked:

Whitewater helmet (backwards)

PDF (and the super cool whistle)

Socks for "gloves"

When asked what he was doing..."being a super hero to save the day"

Wolf Creek Falls

My buddy, Jerod, and I kayaked the Kettle & St. Louis rivers near Duluth a few weeks ago and had the chance to run a waterfall off a side creek of the Kettle. There happened to be a photographer walking by...thanks to Dan Steinbach for photographing us.

Here is a composite of three photos of me running the falls. Good times!

Cute girls

I'm always saying how cute Sierra is and when someone else comments on how adorable she is(it happens a lot) I always say "most of the credit goes to my wife".

We were looking though some of Erin's pictures from when she was little and now I know for certain most of the credit goes to her...

What do you think, do they look alike?

New Boat

This past January I purchased a new boat off of craigslist: Reno and last week I finally picked it up on my way to shoot a wedding in California. It's a Dagger Juice and is more "playful" then my current boat and you can see that I will have a little bit of a learning curve to catch up to the design of this boat(meaning I flip all the time).

Here I am running Class III Satan's Cesspool on the lower section of the Southfork of the American River near Coloma, CA.

Spring cleaning...

So I wasn't home today as usual but Adam and the kids were doing some cleaning of our "storage room" and Lindson found his climbing helmet and his dad's snowboarding goggles which he then proceeded to wear for the rest of the day apparently. He told me on the phone that he was wearing his snowboarding goggles and that he was going to go snowboarding "someday". His dad thinks maybe next winter :). Anyway, he used his helmet and goggles to explore outside and is pretty cute if I do say so myself. Sierra on the other hand always seems to look like a Rag-a-muffin when Adam takes care of her...and I'm pretty sure he is proud of that. Too funny. She is cute no matter what of course...just wish Adam didn't give her a Donald Trump comb-over!

Kite

This video cracks me up! Lindson is flying his first kite; I love his enthusiasm.

Union

The kids and I went down to Memorial Union on campus today over lunch. Lindson was super excited about the ducks and was throwing at them anything he could get his hands on in hopes that they would eat it. Cigarette butts, leaves, tin foil, rocks...

Here are the kids soaking up the sunshine and enjoying the lake:

Perhaps this is something for the ducks to eat

Fun in the Spring Sun...

Adam and the kids spent over 5 hours playing outside today in the 60 degree sunshine! Of course, Adam had his camera for a little bit of that time to get some pics of the kids. I'd like to point out a couple things:

1) Sierra is cute but boy can that girl scowl!

2) Lindson has gotten much faster on his bike and if this crash is any indication of things to come, we are in trouble.

3) I was not home so Sierra's hair was not brushed today...ugh :).

4) That beautiful purple fleece Sierra is wearing was made by my good friend Kaci...isn't that cute! You can find more of her stuff for sale on her Etsy blog where there is a link to her Etsy website. Check out http://birchmodern/blogspot.com.

Enjoy the pictures and the sunshine where ever you are at!

Dance

This is too funny! If you have sound on your computer turn it up to get the full effect...This isn't the type of music we usually listen to but when the kids heard it they went crazy dancing...I had a model send her online portfolio website to me and this is the music the website plays when you look at her pictures. Maybe we'll have to buy some techno dance cds for the kids!

Wrestling Season

It's wrestling season, the WI High School State Tournament starts on Thursday and I've been doing some coaching the past couple of weeks. Lindson and Sierra have been going to practice with me twice a week and apparently Lindson in picking up some of the basics...he's already got a pretty decent left leg lead stance(just like his dad) and all he wants to do lately is wrestle on our rug in the living room.

Here he is about to attack mom...

I'm not really sure how this came about but Lindson is showing off his stance while standing on mom...

Snowman named "snowman" by Lindson

Lindson has been wanting to build a snowman for about a week but the snow was too dry to pack. Fortunately for him the new snow that fell last night is good to go, so we made a masterpiece in the driveway.

Lindson was proud because he helped roll and lift each ball and dictated to me where to put the eyes, nose, mouth and arms. He even named his snowman "snowman" ...he might want to work on his originality....

Colorized

Apparently the kids grew bored of their coloring books and decided to try their own version of body painting

See Sara

Lindson still can't say Sierra's name. He has a tendency to simplify her name and just say Sara. Erin and I will correct him by saying, "Lindson, Sierra is her name, can you say it like this... See-era" Lindson's response is always the same, "See Sara".

So close but yet so far

Anywho, Here are a couple of pictures of the kids earlier today when we were building a tower out of blocks

Lindson proud of his tower

Sierra looking cute with mom's hat on

And finally, here is a video that illustrates why I can't seem to keep the house very clean

I've been staying busy with photography despite it being the "off season". If you haven't been following my other blog you can check it out here

It has been forever...

I realize that it has been so long since we last posted that it is ridiculous...we have lots of pictures to post but here are a few that didn't take much effort to put up being they were on our desktop (I'm a little tired). Thought you all might enjoy seeing what we all look like again :). More photos and updates to come soon!