Photo editing... A journey

I have primarily used Flickr as my sole place for editing. I use it as a hosting site so it just seemed easier to do it all there.

Well, I decided I should try to start using my PSE. I follow a blog of lady who posts about her family life. Her photos are awesome and her kiddos are the cutest... Not as cute as my son that is! She had a few PSE tutorials on her blog so I went ahead and followed her instructions and I was able to boost my color, convert to black and white and also a brown toned black and white. I could totally follow her directions... Why couldn't I do more.

Then I got lazy (sort of) and decided I would give downloading actions ONE MORE TRY. I usually get frustrated with them since I'm not very hip when it comes to the computer. Hope I'm not alone. I found a video tutorial and was able to upload both sets of the Pioneer Woman actions... and I'm loving them!! Why, oh why did I wait so long to do that.

Can I blame it on having a busy life or maybe that I have a very active baby. Nope, I think it was just pure laziness on my part (sort of). I'm just glad I was able to try one more time.

See it's good to never give up! Keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.. Sung to the tune of "Keep Swimming" from "Finding Nemo"! Since I have these new fun actions to try out, I've been using my camera lots more. Oh and I also figured out how to resize my photos for blogger so that way they'd be bigger! I'm so movin' up in the world!!

Here's one of me just snapping photos in the car over the weekend. I wasn't the driver at the time, of course. Haha!

Fun in the sun

All this week we've had rare sunny days! It's so nice to have a break from all the rain. We're gonna get used to this sun and then, BAM, back comes the rain. Let me clarify, it's sunny, but yet only in the high 50's-low 60's. So it's warm sunshine, but I'll still take it over the rain. The wind accompanies it sometimes, but we're used to the wind.

Yesterday we decided to venture to the park. It was the first real park experience for Logan. We asked Mema to go with us. Thought she would enjoy seeing his reactions to everything there. When we got there, it was a bit chilly and a tad windy. Didn't let that stop us from having FUN! Eventually the wind went away and the it was really warm out. Felt really good to get some vitamin D!!

Logan was really distracted at the park. There was so much to look at. He loved watching the other children do their thing! He loved the swing and went down the slide a few times with Daddy. There were these little wooden tunnels that he loved crawling thru, but he would get a little distracted it them because he would try to stand up in them. It was pretty cute!

My sister and niece showed up at the park, which was a pleasant surprise. Logan loved seeing them! He's face totally lit up when he saw A! we didn't visit and play together long... had to get going.

*I* can't wait to go back to the park!!!

8 years ago...

8 years ago, at this time, I was getting ready to marry my best friend! I can remember that day like it was yesterday. All of our family and friend's helped us celebrate our special day! I'm so very blessed that God gave me Chris. We've been through so much... good and bad, but I wouldn't change it at all. A few things we've been through... It's so awesome to see the way the Lord's been working in our marriage. Praying that He continues to be the head of our marriage and household.

1. New job

2. Moved to a new town

3. Moved back home

4. Miscarriage

5. Trouble TTC

6. Had our first child

Our wedding night was spent at Whaleshead. We love that place and have gone back a few times since then. The remainder of our honeymoon was spent in Vegas. Fun, fun. Even though neither one of us are big drinkers, we enjoyed our time there. Lots of sightseeing and walking around the casinos.

This was on our wedding day

Today is Chris' Friday and I'm so ready for some family time! There's something even more exciting coming our way.... He's got 2 weeks vacation, starting the 17th! Our anniversary is the 18th and my birthday's the 19th. Can't even remember when he didn't have to work on either of those days.

The only thing we have planned during vacation is a trip to a zoo with Memaw and Poppop. The remainder of vacation will be filled with relaxation!!

The not so lovely rain is back. This storm is supposed to be here through the weekend. Joy! NOT! I hate not being able to go on walks. Logan and I enjoy it so much in the evenings. Monday was the last walk we went on.


Here Logan is all bundled up and ready to go

The house is so quiet tonight and I like it! My baby's in bed and my husband's at work. I truly do enjoy all the going ons during the day, but I also enjoy my quiet time, all by myself. Since becoming a mother, I've noticed that my wants and needs get tossed to the back burner (which I'm fine with) so the time to myself is quite needed!



Logan can jabber all day long! Usually it's lots of "Dada", "Baba" and "Uhuh"... Today is was all about one word.. MAMA!! I was so happy that he's started to use the "M" sound! Before today he's only said "Mama" a handful of times. Usually it's all about "Dada". It pretty much melted my heart even though he may not actually comprehend what he's saying, doesn't make it any less special.



Before Chris went to work he was trying to teach Logan to toss/roll the ball back to him. He did a few times and LOVED it! Before bedtime we were rolling the ball back and forth to each other. Logan giggled so much! Thought it was the funniest thing. I love to hear him giggle like that. He's a happy baby, but he doesn't always belly laugh like that. It was a rolling laughter, with a few snorts thrown in. Makes me smile just thinking about it!



Logan has TONS of toys, but he loves to play with the gate. He'll stand up and sit down... over and over and over!

Fun at the beach

I'm so glad that we've had a break in the rain. The suns been shining the last few days, but it's still only in the 50's. It's pretty chilly, but we can't let that stop us from doing outdoorsy type things or we would be stuck in the house forever!

The other day we went to visit a family friend and decided when we were done to go on a short drive instead of heading straight home. At some point I mentioned that the sky looked awfully pretty and maybe we should go by the house get the camera, coats and head to the beach. Chris thought that was a great idea!

We were thankful that the wind wasn't blowing. It would have made a time there much shorter since it was already a bit chilly... Man did Logan enjoy himself!

There was another little boy down there with his Daddy and Logan about gave himself whip lash when the little boy walked out of his sight (hope he wasn't trying to get some pointers on walking). Eventually the little boy left and Logan was interested in the beach again!

It's so funny that we live literally, like a 2 minute drive from the beach and this was only his second visit. I feel like we are depriving him from witnessing God's awesome creation! I love the beach and hope to instill that in my son.

Logan thoroughly enjoyed himself. He wanted to crawl so bad...



Walking with Daddy and snuggling with Momma

Cooking/baking to try in 2011

I am not a great cook, by any means. I've never made pie dough from scratch and I think all great cooks can do that, among many other things! I can cook and bake fairly well though... No complaints from the people who eat my food, yet.

So here's a list of some things I want to try this year, in no particular order:

1. English muffins
2. Cinnamon rolls
3. Chili Verde
4. Salsa
5. Shortbread
6. Caramel popcorn
7. Chicken and dumplings
8. Eggnog truffles
9. Pizza dough
10. Samoas
11. Risotto
12. Cheesecake

I know it's not a very ambitious list, but I gotta take baby steps. See how I only choose 12... One for each month of this year. I feel good about accomplishing that! Hmmmm.... Wonder what will be made this month??!!!!

So, I'm thinking my blog posts may only be about my little guy, for the most part anyway. He's so easy to talk about or in this case, write about! Can't believe that he's almost 10 months old. We'll be planning a first birthday party before we know it.

Memaw and Poppop bought this for Logan as a Christmas gift. He absolutely LOVES it! He didn't really get it at first, which is pretty understandable. Eventually, he would push it around while on his knees. Just the other night he figured out that he could actually push it AND walk at the same time. Genius, I tell ya!!

Doesn't he just have the cutest face you've ever seen??!!!!

New Year Resolution

Well, Hello Blog! My have I missed you. I really do need to get better about posting entries. Thus, the title of this one... and I'm already 2 days behind. I am gonna try to post often. We shall see though, with a 10 month old crawling and cruising around that may make it a little bit more difficult, but I will try!

My husband and I were blessed with a baby boy, March 11th, 2010. He truly is a joy in our lives and we LOVE him so much. He is such fun and continues to amaze me, each and every day. There is always something new and exciting that he is doing (oh, I can document those things here).

That's good for a step back into blogging post. Now, I'm off to catch some zzzzz's!