There's no place like home

A few days ago Gwen started saying to me, "I want to go home." Or, "Let's go home now." She will say things like this while we are standing in our living room. It wasn't until last night when she started asking if we could ride in the truck, and talked about going home at the same time, that I finally figured out that she wants to go back to Greer. Last night she confidently said that after dinner we were going to go in the truck and go home to the 'baby house'.
I do love the way a two year old mind works.

Photoshop II

She's so cute!!!

I LOVE PHOTOSHOP

I have been using the clone stamp in photoshop for months now. It was the main reason that I wanted the program. Lorelei has a scratch on a cute pic., no problem. Clone it. Sam has a spot of ketchup on his shirt, no problem. Clone it. Anna has a old temporary tattoo on her arm, no problem. Clone it. Now I am finding the time to play with color and texture, and I love it. Someday, when I have spare time, I will have to take a class so I can get the full potential of the program.

This is what I remember it looking like.

We Are Back

We had a great time on our trip to the White Mountains. We left here on Monday at 9:30 in the morning and made our first stop at Tonto Creek recreation area. Then our second stop at Fool Hollow Lake just outside of Show Low. This is the first time we have been to this state park and I think we will visit there again. It was very beautiful and a great final stop on the trip to Greer. We arrived at our cabin about 5:30 that evening and got settled in. On our trip we spotted a half dozen deer, a fox, and two not so wild well fed squirrels.
We continued to see more wildlife on this trip than I have in the years past. On our second day we spotted a tree frog, and on the third we saw an antelope that let us get within 50 feet of it before slowly wandering away. The kids followed her for quite aways before noticing that Matt and I had stopped walking and they were getting farther and farther away from us. On the fourth day we finally spotted some elk!! Again on the next day we saw another and this time she sat still so the kids were able to get a really good look at her. They also got an up close look at the two deer we almost hit the day before. When speeding up to a mule deer at 55 miles an hour they look very big and menacing.
We have lots of pictures and a few of the 579 pictures and videos that we took are posted on our web album. I'm sure some of them will be posted here at a later date.

A Preveiw of things to Come

"With this ring I thee wed..."

I thought we had a few more years before we started to think about this.

Happy day at the park

We have been busy this month with the end of school, dance classes, and T-ball it seems we havent had time for much at all. Then after all that was over, last week we decided to do a yard sale. So this week we have been cleaning up after that and getting ready for our yearly trip to Greer. We are very excited and there is still much to do, but kids being kids needed a break from tedium and we took this morning at the park.

Anna got ready all by herself. She even got to use her makeup from her new makeup box.(read Mom's old stuff).