Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 08:16PM 
Can you see it? Our house in the rain drop.
Last year at this time we had had enough rain. This year, not enough. We got about 3 hours of much needed rain today. And we couldn't stay in and let it happen. We went out to play in it.
Monday, June 30, 2008 at 06:30AM "How did it get so late so soon? December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" -Dr. Seuss
Howdy, Monday. I can't believe that June is ending. It's seems like Summer break is zippin' on by so fast. We took a trip to CA last week to the Hub's family. The girls had a great time, I had a virus of some sort so I was out of commission for most of the trip. We'll be home for a couple of weeks then off on another trip. We had a nice weekend back. Just chilled at home mostly and celebrated our favorite friend's 3rd birthday.
July is looking like a very busy month for me. Some exciting things happening that I will elaborate on later. We'll be celebrating Vienne's 4th birthday over the next two weeks. Talk about time zippin' on by. I've been listening to her talk lately and taking it all in because I just love that little 3 year old voice.
This is My Best Shot for today. And, holla!! I'm a guest blogger at Shutter Sisters today! Go, see. And don't forget to participate there. Come on, make me look good.
Monday, April 28, 2008 at 06:02AM Has anyone else realized that there is just one more month left of school? Where has the time gone? What are we going to do this summer? I really wish Natalya was up for the idea of some kind of day camp. There are so many great ones around. Anyway, I'll have to work on that because the thought of having them home all summer...eek. Now I know how my mom felt.
We had a very fun weekend as always. On Friday night, we went to our local library because they had an Indian dance presentation. I thought the girls could use some culture and Vienne loves dancing. V was immediately smitten because the girls were SO fancy and sparkly. She also loved that they were bare foot. She stood on a chair and danced with the girls. I couldn't help but smile behind her.
You can see the fancy girls in the background.
On Saturday, the HipChicks Christened the pool with the first swim. It was about 80 degrees outside and about 78 degrees in the water. No way was I going in. The water needs to get about 10 degrees warmer.
Daddy is always such a sport. He braves the cold water. It was his idea anyway. He didn't have a choice. Yesterday we went to Fiesta Texas (Six Flags) for the first time this season. It was cool and windy but we made our rounds and the girls had fun.
And here is a picture of the cutiepie I took pictures of last week.
I don't think she could ever do wrong with a face like this. I may post more after Mom sees them all. This will be My Best Shot because it's the prettiest. Have a Happy Monday!
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 06:14AM The Theme at Stacy's today is Before and After. So I took it literally today and will show a picture before it was edited and after is was edited. I posted this picture a few days ago of Natalya finally learning how to ride her bike with no training wheels. Go, girl!
This is the before. Still a cute face but she was a little far away and we have the looney dog in the way. Rockey just has to be a part of everything. Oh, she barks at bicycles. So when Natalya rides down the driveway, Rockey chases her and barks. Looney.
And this would be the after. Cropped of course, to bring her closer. Then I took out the looney dog. You would never know, huh? When I cropped it it took most of Rockey out but there was still her back and tail in the picture. I did that with the patch tool (nice tutorial, the dude is trying way to hard to be funny so I apologize in advance), clone stamp tool, and spot healer. Just a little bit of each. I added, viewed, if I didn't like it, I backed up and tried again. Then I do my usual, curves, contrast, hue/saturation, sharpen. Not necessarily in that order. If you try the patch too or clone tool, let me know. I'd love to see what you've done. The best way to learn is to play. It won't hurt the picture to mess around as long as you don't save it.
Ok, Happy Love Thursday. Thursdays are always a busy and long day here. Oh, I get to take some pictures today. Of someone other than my own children. Yay. Wish me luck.
