once upon a time a boy saw a girl.  he asked her to go get lime bars.  she said yes.  he was a viking and she was dutch.  but this didn’t stop them.  eventually they fell in love, got married, became the H’s, bought a house in the mountains and had a little dutch-viking hybrid. 


then they decided that some sort of modern narritive of life in general [l.i.g], preferably in the digital format, may be in order. 


(little dutch-viking hybrids tend to make these things necessary.)


so here is an attempt to capture l.i.g in all it’s wonderful, wild, blessed, busy, changing, challenging gusto.  


frequency tbd.  


Saturday, July 24, 2010

Sweet Cincinnati

It's been a while - whoops! The Pnut and I headed to Cinci for a quick visit in honor of Aunt Linnea's sweet 16 at the beginning of the month. We had a great few days, always too short though. Aida got to experience many important Cincinnati firsts: 4th of July humidity (yay! - not), swinging in Oma and Opa's hammock, being a surprise birthday present (in a laundry basket, of course), Parkie's Ark Water Park, BonBonerie cake (essential) and her first dose of the fine arts, courtesy of the CCM students at Vito's Singing Cafe. Here's some pics from our time!

Firecracker baby with Oma and Opa
Just after we surprised Aunt Linnea on the 4th - she was a little overwhelmed. We put her in a laundry basket on the front porch of her friends house and rang the doorbell...we had Linnea set-up to answer...Aida was holding a flag :)
Playing with Oma!
My girls :) Don't leave, Sarah!
Water baby
Started Linnea's 16th Birthday out with some pottery painting (I painted a paisley-esqu piggy bank for Aida :) )
Ended it with yummy Italian dinner at Vito's Singing Cafe. All the wait staff were undergrad or grad students at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and perform throughout dinner. Our waitress has just finished her masters and was pursuing a career in opera. Later that night, the cafe was hosting a cast party for La Boheme - the Cincinnati Opera's current production.
Aida was a champ for the two hour dinner
The most amazing rendition of "Happy Birthday" I will ever hear. Perfectly accompanied by BonBoneire cake - The. Best. Ever.
With the birthday girl
Love this picture, even though Aida isn't really looking....alert.
Beating the heat at a Parkie's Ark water park. It was a hit - for baby and adults.
She kept trying to put her mouth over the fountain, silly girl :)
Dinner with Great Oma and Opa
Family shot minus Opa

The trip was definitely too short....good thing there's less than a month till Hilton Head!



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