Photowalk!

My friend Janelle, who I did some photography lessons with a few months back, has been organizing photowalks for a group of people in the Twin Cities - we had our 2nd one last night, and it was a blast! Even more so because I recruited a few of my family and friends to come along for the ride :) (check out the beautiful photos that Kate took here!) I almost skipped out because I ended up needing to bring Annie because Ben had a very important beer tasting to attend, but I'm glad I decided to go, especially since it was FINALLY a beautiful spring day in Minneapolis! It's been so fun to see everyone else's photos from the walk.

Janelle tasked us with the hard choice of choosing only six photos to feature in our flickr group. You might guess that this it is difficult for me to edit down my photos, and you'd be right. Here are the six that I chose to share.

Yes, a classic shot. I tried a few other variations of this when editing (as you will see below), but just love the bright blue and yellow - so much that I even have it displayed in my home!

Janelle and Kate, photowalking it up

I just love a good rusted structure in bright sunlight - this is at Mill Ruins Park

Well, of course I had to throw a sunburst in there

And because you KNOW I can't choose just six photos for my own blog post, here are some more :)

I brought Annie a smoothie because I knew it'd be a bit of a late dinner - she had it gone within 5 minutes. (This is just in a Take n Toss Straw Cup for those who are wondering)

Oh, the green! The sun! Beautiful spring days in Minneapolis are truly magical and ALMOST make the winters worth it.

Thanks to Janelle for snapping this great pic of Annie and I! Please note her shirt has a camera on it. Yes, that was definitely on purpose :) (Thanks to Janelle and Jen for the shirt!!)

Photo credit: Janelle

Kate and my little snuggle muffin - this photo just melts my heart!

One of the other edits of the above photo

Mill Ruins Park with the Stone Arch Bridge in the background

Kate does what it takes to get a good photo

A little difficult to take photos and push a stroller at the same time, but I managed

Trying to escape!

All smiles now

My niece and nephew made it out as well! Grace was a bit peeved the whole time but Sam was just silent and observing

An alternate mode of transport for Grace

After we were done photowalking, we all headed over to Aster Cafe for some munchies and miraculously managed to get several tables on the patio. I love Janelle's face in this one :)

Annie had so many liquids that night that her diaper was literally bursting at the seams when we finally got home - usually she's pretty dry between daycare and bed, but this was seriously the biggest diaper I'd ever seen, even more so than her overnight ones. Yeah, these are the things that shock me now.

Annie practicing taking bites of her grilled cheese. I had to quick eat all these chips (I had Joe help me) so Annie wouldn't shove them all in at once :)