Great News!

We were given GREAT NEWS this week and we are so very excited! My daughter has been faithfully praying for this news for sometime and she reminds me everyday how excited she is. Because this news is not officially ours to share, I will respectfully wait for the people to share the news before I post it.

I just had to say something because I want it documented how happy we all are. Our lives will be forever changed in a blessed way! Thank You Dear Lord for answering our prayers!

Looking for the Light

While her poor brother was hard at work looking for the needle in the haystack, this one was only looking for one thing...

the spotlight! This kid can spot the camera almost immediately when I pull it out.

And she loves to let me take her picture! What a little ham.

Sweet Number 5

My sweet little girl turned 5 today! Once again it is so hard to believe that she has been blessing our family for 5 years now. She is still my sweet little early riser who is always happy in the morning. She continues to keep us on our toes and keeps us laughing with her antics.

I have been sad thinking about her turning 5. It makes she realize that she is no longer a baby or even a toddler. She is a kid now, in school and learning new things every day. But it makes me long for the times when she was that little sweet baby.

Playing on her blanket and letting me put whatever bow I wanted to in her hair.

Still riding in the back pack and smiling for her crazy mother with the camera.

Eating that first birthday cake!

Having hair that did its own thing!

And putting up with a mother that was terrible at taking pictures!

Dear Lord, Thank You for my sweet little girl. She has changed my life for the better and is a joy everyday that she is in it. May she be blessed with a happy, healthy and long life devoted to you.

Jessica Sprague Day 8

This is probably my favorite new thing, Typography. Now I will be able to add text to pictures! I also learned how to download and install fonts! The install was difficult. I wish I would have changed the color of "find" so as to add more contrast. Next time!

Jessica Sprague is so creative and talented and she is also a great teacher. If you want to learn about digital photography, she has great online classes. Check her out. This class was free and she gives you lost of free downloads. What a deal!

Jessica Sprague Day 5

Okay, I skipped Day 4, I was too tired to think that hard; so instead I went to Day 5. Once again I had a whole lot of fun!

Straight Out of the Camera

Edited in color

Edited in Black and White

Straight Out of the Camera

Edited in Color

I have a lot of pictures that I think this technique would be fun to play with. I love old things and this adds textures and age to photos which makes them look antique. I love it!

Jessica Sprague Day 3

After

Before

This is actually my second try and I like how I was able to play with the color; especially of the barbed wire.

After

Before

My attempt at day three. This was my first try and it is okay. My third try I really liked but I can't get it to load. I wonder if all the changes made it too big to load? I will have to work on it.

Jessica Sprague Day 2

Day 2 was Brushes in Photoshop. They could be a lot of fun! And I could spend way too much time playing with them.

Jessica Spraque Class

My first attempt at playing with layouts and layers. It looks like it is going to be fun!

Scenes from the 4th

We again enjoyed the small town 4th of July Parade in Cayucos, CA. It makes you feel like you are in Small Town, USA. It was a beautiful day, not to warm, not windy and full of fun and festivities!

Sprinklers

The weather forecast called for extreme heat this weekend. It was 104 degrees today and it is going to be hotter tomorrow. Oh Yeah!

So yard work was done early this morning, while it was still tolerable. Afterwards the kids wanted to play in the sprinklers. It wasn't even noon but it felt so good. The backyard was shaded and with the sprinklers on it was really quite pleasant. It was nice just relaxing and watching the kids play.

It was funny they both wanted to leave their t-shirts on. My daughter got the snow sled out and was pretending that she was surfing. She did end up "surfing" when she fell on her behind from all the silly dancing she was doing.

It is so nice that they are still small enough to share a chair and young enough to still want too! It makes me happy when I see them get along so well.

Our little Lila Girl enjoys the kids being outside with her. Now that it is so hot, they don't go out for as long of a period, but my daughter loves going out to play with her still. It is almost always the first things she does when she wakes up in the morning.

While they were taking a rest from all the sprinkler fun, I had fun taking pictures of them. It is funny how they will sit and keep talking to me even though I have the camera in front of my face.

It doesn't look like it from these pictures, but my son was having a good time and he wasn't upset.

After enjoying the sprinklers we went to see UP. My sweet son cried at the beginning and the end of the movie. He is so sentimental and matters of the heart always pull on him. I hope he always has such a kind heart.

Having Fun!

Oh what fun it is to have such a big, strong and willing older cousin!

May, Where did you Go?

Where did May go? I can't believe this is my only post for May; talk about slacking! Here is a brief pictorial of where the month has gone for us:

Our annual family reunion at the coast. This is probably the last reunion for awhile for my husband's nephew as he will be joining the Airforce in August. He is the cool one with the sunglasses. We are standing in front of his brand new car and kayak that he won on The Price is Right! He was the showcase winner that day!

A sweet 17th birthday for my beautiful niece.

A surprise 25th Wedding Anniversary celebration for her parents. Can you believe these two have been married for 25 years? They do not look anything like the pictures of the couples on 25th anniversary cards. Their oldest daughter will be getting married in July. It is so hard to believe.

Two confirmations; the first was my niece. Her sponsor is my oldest sister.

The second is my nephew. He is my oldest sister's son and my brother in law is his sponsor.

We had a graduation of my sweet little girl. It is only preschool, but to her it might as well have been college! She was so excited about all the songs she was going to sing to us.

We had a Spring Fling on the hottest day of the year so far! It started at 5:45pm and it was outside. My son did a wonderful job doing a traditional Filipino dance. We were all melting by the time it was over so we went and had an SOS. It made it all worth it.

We made a quick trip to Papa's cabin to open it for the season. We did get to stay 3 days and 2 nights, which were not enough! I could have stayed for a month.

The kids had so much fun playing in the creek and finding sticks and rocks!

We finished the month with an airshow. Here are two cute kids that had fun for most of the day but after several hours of sun, they were ready to go home.

Don't they all look cute in their sunglasses and hats?

This was the kids favorite plane. It was flown by a woman who got out of the plane dressed as Wonder Woman. She had red, white and blue smoke as well as fireworks! It is amazing what they can do in the aerobatic planes.

My daughter is out of school but my son has to go until Thursday. Oh how I can't wait for Thursday. It will be so nice to have a relaxed schedule for a few months. Summer here we come!