A Day in the Garden

Oh, don't I know it!

Today we took Elsa to the sculpture garden at the Walker Art Center. You must know that if you are in the sculpture garden, you must never pass up a photo op with the Spoon Bridge and Cherry, it is terribly un-Minnesotan if you do. And who wants that?

Family photo.

Elsa travels 1270 miles, meets her Grandparents, goes to a wedding and laughs her ass off.

We took Elsa to meet her Grandparents in Minot, ND. Of course they were smitten! After a week in Minot we hit the road to get to a friends wedding at Lake Metagoshe, just seconds away from the Canadian border.

The weather was beautiful, as was the wedding. Elsa was a good Chicky and we managed to get our first official family photo. Go Team Ripplinger!

Pretty Pretty Lady Babies

My all time Friend Anna and her hubby Matt welcomed their girl, Navie May, into this world on August 3rd. Elsa and I paid our new Lady Friend a visit this afternoon. The girls got along famously! Navie is so pretty and I have a feeling there will be a lot of sleep overs and clothes borrowing in the future for these two!

Announced

Elsa has been announced in the Brainerd Daily Dispatch.

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/080509/fyi_20090805034.shtml

Cool. It's official now, I guess!

We Got A Baby The Other Day........

Elsa Mary Jane Ripplinger was born on 7/16/09 at 3:56 in the afternoon. She is AWESOME! No joke. Our days have thus far been filled with some activities that we were not, but now are, accustom to. These activities include, but are not limited to baby gazing for hours on end, having one sided conversations, coming in contact with human waste and not being too bothered by it, making up songs about babies and things that rhyme with Elsa or baby and having my boob hang out more often then not. She's a real peach of a girl and I just can't help but gush over her!

Stay tuned for more Elsa news!