Here is a layout that was in today's ScrapGirls newsletter. I just love this photo of Ty and thought it fit right into this layout perfectly. I hope you enjoyed your 4th of July weekend! I'm still sifting through the parade and fireworks photos, but hope to have some soon to post.
Hope you all are enjoying your 4th of July! We have been by going to our local parade this morning and just waiting to head out to fireworks in a little bit. I took the kiddos out between the rain this afternoon to take their pics, this was the best I could do with the two of them but Bailey was a bit more cooperative in my new bucket I picked up at Target the other day.
Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed 4th of July! Happy Birthday America!
My mom sent this to me. She was over yesterday for her weekly day with the kids, and we were talking about how it's so hard to keep everything picked up, get all the things done that we want, etc when you have kids. This is so true and reminds me to treasure this time with them when they're little. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Someday
by Charles R. SwindollSOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, things are going to be a lot different. The garage won't be full of bikes, electric train tracks on plywood, sawhorses surrounded by chunks of two-by-fours, nails, a hammer and saw, unfinished "experimental projects," and the rabbit cage. I'll be able to park both cars neatly in just the right places, and never again stumble over skateboards, a pile of papers (saved for the school fund drive), or the bag of rabbit food---now split and spilled. Ugh! SOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, the kitchen will be incredibly neat. The sink will be free of sticky dishes, the garbage disposal won't get choked on rubber bands or paper cups, the refrigerator won't be clogged with nine bottles of milk, and we won't lose the tops to jelly jars, catsup bottles, the peanut butter, the margarine, or the mustard. The water jar won't be put back empty, the ice trays won't be left out overnight, the blender won't stand for six hours coated with the remains of a midnight malt, and the honey will stay inside the container. SOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, my lovely wife will actually have time to get dressed leisurely. A long, hot bath (without three panic interruptions), time to do her nails (even toenails if she pleases!) without answering a dozen questions and reviewing spelling words, having had her hair done that afternoon without trying to squeeze it in between racing a sick dog to the vet and a trip to the orthodontist with a kid in a bad mood because she lost her headgear. SOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, the instrument called a "telephone" will actually be available. It won't look like it's growing from a teenager's ear. It will simply hang there . . . silently and amazingly available! It will be free of lipstick, human saliva, mayonnaise, corn chip crumbs, and toothpicks stuck in those little holes. SOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, I'll be able to see through the car windows. Fingerprints, tongue licks, sneaker footprints, and dog tracks (nobody knows how) will be conspicuous by their absence. The back seat won't be a disaster area, we won't sit on jacks or crayons anymore, the tank will not always be somewhere between empty and fumes, and (glory to God!) I won't have to clean up dog messes another time. SOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, we will return to normal conversations. You know, just plain American talk. "Gross" won't punctuate every sentence seven times. "Yuk!" will not be heard. "Hurry up, I gotta go!" will not accompany the banging of fists on the bathroom door. "It's my turn" won't call for a referee. And a magazine article will be read in full without interruption, then discussed at length without mom and dad having to hide in the attic to finish the conversation. SOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, we won't run out of toilet tissue. My wife won't lose her keys. We won't forget to shut the refrigerator door. I won't have to dream up new ways of diverting attention from the gumball machine . . . or have to answer "Daddy, is it a sin that you're driving forty-seven in a thirty-mile-per-hour zone?" . . . or promise to kiss the rabbit goodnight . . . or wait up forever until they get home from dates . . . or have to take a number to get a word in at the supper table . . . or endure the pious pounding of one Keith Green just below the level of acute pain. Yes, someday when the kids are grown, things are going to be a lot different. One by one they'll leave our nest, and the place will begin to resemble order and maybe even a touch of elegance. The clink of china and silver will be heard on occasion. The crackling of the fireplace will echo through the hallway. The phone will be strangely silent. The house will be quiet . . . and calm . . . and always clean . . . and empty . . . and filled with memories . . . and lonely . . . and we won't like that at all. And we'll spend our time not looking forward to Someday but looking back to Yesterday. And thinking, "Maybe we can babysit the grandkids and get some life back in this place for a change!" Could it be that the apostle Paul had some of this in mind when he wrote: I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. (Philippians 4:11)
Maybe so. But then again, chances are good Paul never had to clean up many dog messes. Excerpted from Come Before Winter and Share My Hope, Copyright © 1985, 1994 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc.
We have this empty field behind our house and it's now overgrown with weeds, but there's a dirt path where the driveway to the house that used to be there is. I took Ty out last evening to take some shots with my red chair and to just practice some more with my lens. He was completely uncooperative, but I at least got a couple of decent ones. :-)
I told him to be silly and act like a superhero!
Kickin' in the dirt
Working on a little backlighting here
Thanks for looking!
For the next 3 weeks, I'm renting a new awesome 85 mm lens for my camera. I already want to buy it, but I knew it would be good.
Anyway, here are a couple of shots of Bailey that I took when I was playing around with it.
I'm doing two senior portrait session in the next couple of weeks, more to come on that later in the week. I'm uber excited to be able to do these and really hope they turn out great.
Onto the pics!
It's here! Today over at ScrapGirls, they have just released an updated version of their ever popular Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop! This has been completely re-vamped in order to cover the the CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4 versions of Photoshop. If you've ever wanted to learn how to digital scrapbook, now is the perfect time to get this great video series and get digital scrapbooking!
Using this series is how I learned how to use my Photoshop Elements software. It had me up and scrapping my first page within just a few hours of finishing the videos. Ro is the best teacher and she is so easy to follow along with as you're watching her on her screen, just as though she's sitting next to you.
And even better, they're having a sale right now, so you can get this for an extremely low price!
To see everything that is included with your purchase and to watch sample videos from this set, visit here: Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop
And if you don't have this version of Photoshop, you can get these same great tutorials for the other versions of software here:
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed: Photoshop Elements 6.0 and 7.0
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed: Photoshop Elements 5.0
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed: Photoshop Elements
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed: Photoshop (Versions 6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
We had some nasty thunderstorms roll through last week and now that I know how to capture shots like this, I took out my camera and got this shot of the awesome lightning through our kitchen window!
The theme this week over at I ♥ Faces is Let's hear it for the boys! This is SO perfect for this week since it's Father's day today. I knew exactly which picture I was going to use as soon as I saw the theme. I just LOVE this photo of Tony and Tyson. We are SO blessed to have this man as a Daddy in our house. For those of you that don't know, he is a stay at home dad (I don't know how he does it) and he is one of the best daddies out there. While he's wrapped around Miss Bailey's little finger, he and his best buddy Tyson have one of the greatest Father/Son bonds there can be.
Thank you Tony, for all that you do for us!
Be sure to head over to http://www.iheartfaces.com/ to check out all of the other great entries and thanks for looking!
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