Mom and Dad's 59th Anniversary

We got together Monday night to celebrate Mom and Dad's 59th Anniversary!  Dawn and Doug were up from Rapid and Dustin LaRue and Faith had flown in from Arizona, so it was a full house.

Here are a few shots from that night.

 Faith played some Christmas carols on mom's old Ukulele while Dustin accompanied on his iPad. The old and the new mixing. Was fun to have someone other than me playing. And Faith can play the Uke in more than one key!! (unlike me, who's only learned the chords in the key of C so far. ha ha)

 The whole gang.

 The Shaw family

 The Diehl's

 Us five siblings.

I cropped this off one of the pictures, as I was taking a light reading. This was just too precious not to save.  Mommy giving her little sweetie a kiss. 

Nov Sunrise

Thanksgiving morning and the morning before Thanksgiving the sky was just beautiful. Just had to capture a couple of shots. Hope you like them too.

Wanted for making beautiful Music- The Peterson Family

On Sunday, I had so much fun with the Peterson family taking some family photos. It was cold and snowy but I think that just added to the 'charm' of the pictures (except for the cold part).  I wish my pictures could actually play the beautiful music they played while I shot the pictures.

 One of North Dakota's most talented musical families.

 Too cute for words.

Mom, it won't be long till they're all grown up!

Busted!! This should be on a Wanted poster! Wanted for beautiful music!! And no, the police didn't run them out, actually it was a lovely concert of Jingle Bells.  Like caroling with instruments. Awesome!

More Thanksgiving 2011

On Friday, Sarah and Tyson wanted to ride horse. Sarah had been thrown off two years ago on Thanksgiving and has been kind of fearful ever sense. So on Friday she worked on conquering her fears, and being a good cowgirl and getting back on the horse.  Tyson wouldn't let her get off till she started feeling more relaxed and let go of the fear.

Go Cowgirl Sarah!!

 I think Sarah about this time, was begging to get off, but Tyson made her stick to it and she did, and conquered the fear! Way to go girl!!!

Sweet little Kadence taking a nap with her bunny and Blankie that I gave her.  My dear friend Laura gave me the little bunny to give to Kadence and I wanted Laura to see how much she loves it. Sarah says she often snuggles with it while going to sleep. Thanks Laura for such a sweet thoughtful gift for our precious little girl.