playing

Yesterday I decided to take a lesson from my sil Veronica and take the kids to the park to feed the ducks. Christian had fun for about 30 seconds then I got to finish up for him. :)It was a pretty fun time though and we will do it agian soon I'm sure.

This also gave me the chance to get a few new pics to use in my new editing program. I am still VERY new with it, but both Dustin and I are having fun playing with it. Thought I would share a few.

before
after

my two new loves

my first new love

I am in love with this water! It could be the fact that the first time I had this was at Disneyland on a flippin HOT day and that it was way over priced that makes it taste so good to me. I have had it a few times since and still love it. It's not the most inexpensive brand so I don't have it too often, but I do enjoy when I do. :)

my second new love

My new Tracy Joy camera bag. I had been telling Dustin that I needed a camera bag really bad, but couldn't find any that I really liked. I didn't want just a plain old regular one. Well literally the next day I was reading my friend Letti's blog and she had a post about this company. I was thrilled!! They can be used as either camera bags or diaper bags and the cool thing is that the flaps are detachable so you can put a different one on and have a whole new look. Funny thing is that when I got my bag they forgot to ship the shoulder strap with it. Well they shipped it to me right away and instead of putting it on right away like I should have I set it down. Now I can't find it anywhere...no joke. So anyway I'm begging them to sell me a new one and hopefully will be using it soon. :)

donuts...no joke in this house

So I thought this was pretty funny. On Friday Dustin and I did some running around to get some things done for our upcoming camping trip. We found ourselves at one point near the Krispy Kreme store so decided to get some to take home.


Then Saturday morning after taking my dad to a rental property we stopped by the store to get a few things. Well Christian spotted what he wanted and I of course gave in. I'm such a sucker!


As we returned home I saw a box waiting for us on our porch. Looks like the donut fairy had visited while we were gone.


So as you can imagine we have had our sugar fix this weekend. :)

finishing up the weekend

Well we sure did have a long, busy and fun weekend. On Sunday we attended the blessing of Leilani, Ryan and Lizeth's baby girl. She looked so precious in her gown and daddy did a great good blessing her. It was so great to be there with ALL the family and see old friends and visit and I even got to meet a new friend that I had yet to meet in person.:) We even managed to get a complete family picture this time since the ENTIRE family was here. What a fun time and thank goodness for self timers on cameras. :)

I had to throw this picture in because it made me laugh. Christian is crying while Chloe and Savannah stare at him.
Then on Monday we celebrated 3 birthdays. Mia, Emma and Marci's birthdays. It was a fun time and Marci made her girls the cutest Barbie cake. Too bad poor Barbie suffered a melted hand during the wish making. :) OK, that was pretty funny! Happy birthday ladies!

Chloe being silly with Auntie Veronica

yea for September

September is here and I'm so excited. I think it's going to be a good month with all the things that we have going on. Here are my top reasons why I love this month (in no particular order). :)

* camping
* trip to AZ
* Chloe's birthday
* first day of Fall
* cooler weather (hopefully)
* shorter lines at Disneyland
* my favorite TV shows starting back up new & even some new shows that look pretty good


Do you have any favorites for this month??

meet Alex

My niece and I thought it would be fun to take pictures of her little boy now that he is 2. Well I guess that Alex didn't get that memo because he didn't want too much to do with us. We managed to get a few shoots before he quit on us. It was still a fun time and we will torture him again at a later date. :)

another party

Saturday we had another birthday party to attend. OK, so we didn't HAVE to, but I'm glad we did. It was for Dustin's boss's daughter who was turning the big 1. It was at Yucaipa Regional park and it ended up being a blast. OK, minus the 100+ temperatures and the ridiculous humidity. I had never been to the water park part before and it had been years since Dustin had. The kids had so much fun and hopefully we can take them back on a day that's not so crowded. I swear it must have been magic water because Chloe was walking around in it like a pro. I thought for sure that when we got home she would be walking, but nope. I think it will still be a little longer and that's fine with me.