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© 2009 by Erica Lea

Every year, Grandma makes a large batch of lefse for Christmas. This year, she asked us to help her!
First, Grandma rolled out the dough on her well-floured counter.

Then, she transported it to the table, where John waited to cook the dough.

Next John, the expert lefse cooker, carefully placed the dough onto the hot griddle. I [...]

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This week’s photo challenge from I ♥ Faces is “Sweet Dreams”.

I couldn’t remember any nice sleeping photos (I generally take them as a joke), but I knew that Judah would be the perfect subject. He seems to sleep through most of the day.
To see many more sleeping photos, stop by I ♥ Faces.
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Judah Evan Kastner
Born: Sunday, November 29th at 9:00 p.m.
I am so proud to be the aunt of this little boy! To see more photos, follow this link.
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© 2009 by Erica Lea

As I have mentioned before, I ♥ Faces is a photo blog dedicated to the beauty of faces. Every week they hold a photo contest, and I decided to join in this week.

This week’s challenge is “Autumn Beauty”. My entry is of my beautiful sister, Katelyn. This photo was taken on a lovely Autumn evening [...]

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For the past week or so we have been enjoying an Indian Summer. It really was a nice break from the cold and gloom we experienced in October.
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One fine afternoon, Mom insisted that we all take a walk. We ambled down to the beach and found many birds on the lake.
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Elinor loved playing in the [...]

On Tuesday, the sun rose a vibrant orange-pink.
This was a “Hey, photographer!” moment:
“Hey Erica, you have to take a picture of this!” my brother John informed me as I was reading Monday’s paper. I managed to snap off a few shots while the colors were still vivid.
© 2009 by Erica Lea

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Thursday morning dawned cold and misty. There were countless webs crisscrossing and dangling from the plants in our yard. I grabbed the camera and spent the better part of an hour capturing the delicate webs and drops of moisture.
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