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My August Babies!

Last friday night we celebrated Rylyn's 2nd, Ethan's 10th, and Jeff's 34th birthdays. August is a busy month for us. Here are some pictures from the evening at Lynn and Harvey's house.

The Ice Cream Cake

My August Babies

Blowing out the candles

Ethan opening a present

Ry reading her card

The birthday girl

The August 12th Babies

Ry doing the Hula!

Parker

Last weekend the three of us, Rylyn stayed home, went to Parker with the Morrows. We stayed in their little trailer by night and cruised the river during the day. It was hot, 116 to be exact, but we had a blast. Sunday the boat broke down. Apparentley, the fuel pump went out which was a bummer. But, we still had fun floating down river and being taxied home! Here are some pics from our trip.

Laguna Beach

On Sunday we spent the day at 1000 steps beach in Laguna Beach. Every year Jeff's Aunt and Uncle rent a beach house right on the corner of PCH and Cress. There entire family came down this year, including Meagan, Eric and their girls who live in Ohio. Ethan loves playing with all the girls. There are five of them, ranging in ages from 12 to 7. We played at the beach and had a wonderful BBQ in the evening. It really is a beautiful place!

Rylyn and her Daddy

Lounging in the Sand

Playing in the sand

E playing in the surf

Ry and her Opa

Ethan and Emily

All the kids together

Drinking Buddies

Two Years of Rylyn!

Crazy, Rylyn will be Two in Two weeks! Here are some of my favorite pictures of her starting from the most recent and going back to two weeks old! What a ride it has been!

Jessica Sprague

If you haven't discovered Jessica Sprague's site yet, check her out! http://www.jessicasprague.com/ I have been following her BLOG for over a year now. One Friday a month she devotes her post to what she calls Photoshop Friday. These are great tips and tricks for using Photoshop. She is a PRO! She also has wonderful editing, hybrid and digital scrapping classes. For her two year anniversary of her site and her amazing classes, she offered a free class for photo editing. It is a two week long course. I unfortunately was on vacation during the class, so I am doing it after the fact but here are examples of the masks, brushes, tints, and frame ups from the first five days.

Huge Fan!!!

Ok I am excited! I am going to see Harry Potter VI tomorrow and I can't wait! Yes I am a huge fan. So I had to do a shout out! If Ethan had been in town we would have been a couple of those nutty people in line at midnight last night!