photoshop phun

haha, collage of me..... can you find the hidden claires?



for claire's sweet 16 i made her a photo album filled with pics, and so i did some editing and so i made this one..


and then this one was one i made a long time ago..

Old video

here's a video i found in some old documents on the computer, had to share. lol the funny thing is, we are in the middle of el chicos, just crankin the "i like big...... and i cannot lie!" song :] haha and i gotta agree with kelli, "whose kids are these?!"

Changing more lives than you think!

the other day, i was sitting in the living room and i see emma run by with her many many webkinz in a basket, i listened into her door and heard her conversating with them. when i walked in, i saw just what i had suspected, it was MK's lifechanging bag. haha i thought it was funny so i just had to get a pic to put on here.
so this is for you MK

With a little touch of photoshop, all things are possible.

kelli, you forgot i was at the beach with yall, didn't you!!




i never get bored :]

thank ya, thank ya very much.

Since this is the first post of Summer '08, i thought i'd give a small recap of what all has been going on with me and my fam. this summer. (minus pics because i dont have enough time to put them all on here right now)

As most of you know, (well, i mean the only two ppl that read my blog.. haha) we started our summer off with a family vacation to tennessee! The first day, we left early in the morning and headed to memphis. We stopped in graceland and we got to see Elvis's house, i learned aLOT about him... considering the fact i didnt know much in the first place. It was awesome to walk through his house and think that he and his family walked in the exact place we were walking.. and then getting to see his grave was pretty cool, just thinking that you're practically standing on top of "the King" along with his mom and dad, and did you know he had a twin brother!?! i forgot his name, but he died at birth.

After Graceland, we headed on to Nashville, we made a quick stop at casey jone's railroad thing... we went inside the old country store and it was pretty cool. The hours and hours of being stuck in the car consisted of movies, reading, listening to music, being on the computer, and for some of us sleeping, and just spending quality time together. So, our first night in Nashville, we went to the Grand Ole' Opry House for a concert. It was awesome!! The only bad part about the whole thing was the drunk guys sitting behind us, they were extremely obnoxious!! But we got to see Carrie Underwood, Mongomery Gentry, Luke Bryan (my mom's became obsessed lol), and then like 7 other people i didn't really know. But we had a great time.

The rest of that vacation was spent shopping and hanging out at the hotel and we also went to former president Andrew Jackson's house, it was pretty neat learning abot the history there. Pretty much the only thing we remembered from that pit stop was our tour guide on the horse ride. Her english needed a bit up to date.. she kept using double negatives we found it hilarious. She would be like, "then they learned that they was literate" haha that's just one example. One day, when my mom and dad went to the mall there, me and emma stayed at the hotel. We went swimming and then we went back up to the hotel room and got ready for lunch. There were a lot of resturants inside the hotel and emma and i searched for a kid-friendly one and finally found "stax" a build-your-own-burger resturant. It wasn't as exciting as it sounds, you go, and they give you buns with meat and cheese and a box with tomatoes and lettuce. So then we took our food to the table and then in a few minutes a guy about my age and his 8-year old bro. came and set at the table right next to us. and i guess it was the older boy's way of flirting, but he threw a piece of ice at our table. so then emma rips a chunk of her hamburger off and throws it back at them. haha! so we ran outta there.. lol. suprisingly, emma and i did not fight at all! the whole vacation!! and emma only almost threw one fit... and that's the whole vacation, not one fit a day.. so that's good! :] we had a good time.

G.N.O!

GNO-Girls Night Out! This weekend we had the long overdue sleepover at claire's with claire, dayna, leslie, alyssa, and me. First we kicked it off by going to the movies. We decided that we should have a "theme" and dress up. So... we decided to dress like nerds for the movies. We thought it would be funny to tell Claire that we were dressing differently... so we made her think we were going to wear our halloween costume to the movies. Dayna and Leslie REALLY got into the whole nerd thing.... i wasn't sure how anyone would dress... so i decided collar shirt, hair in pigtails, and plaid shorts would be enough. If i had time, i probably would've worn something better... but me and alyssa had the bright idea of going to goodwill to buy some clothes to wear, and when we got there, there was NOTHING there. so i had to go home, take a bath, plan what to wear and get ready for the movie all within a 20-30 minute time span. So by the time i got everything ready... i had no clue what to wear so i just pulled on some quick clothes. Claire on the other hand, pulled up to my house to pick me up.... and OMG, she was WAYYY into the halloween thing! She was dressed like a devil/vampire thing.. lol here's a picture......

i'm sure you're seeing this picture thinking, oh NO she didn't. But yes, she did.

And here's dayna and claire
Leslie didn't have to dress like a dork to look like one in this next pic! haha!

And this is the nerdy-ist i could get...

The sleepover was fun and the movie was good. We saw What Happens in Vegas which was funny and we also watched 27 dresses which was such a cute movie!

That's about it for this weekend. Emma has a game tonight.. we went and ate subway earlier, and i drove :] haha i actually like to drive now! i think i do alot better when im by myself!

Photo Update

Since that last post was mainly about my birthday, I haven't really posted about anything going on in my life other than sweet sixteen! Which, if you saw the pictures on MK's blog, then you will know how much fun we had over our weekend! We went to dallas and the spa and shopping and that life's a beach resturant, and if you didn't read her blog you need to now.. because that pretty much explains it all. It was really a fun time tho!!

Well, to start off with... i'm gonna post some pictures that we took one day that we spent at the cabin that were specifically for my blog.. but i never got around to posting any of them. So here's a few from a fun family day with madison and garrett! (i promised you guys i'd put these on here :] )

I'll start with some photography.

<-i really liked this picture..

Here's some snaps of us throughout the day.. We had boat rides and picnics... classic.

And speaking of G-man and Maddie.... I wanna tell you both THANKS for thinking of me on my bday and getting me the keychain, and of course the mini scrapbook madison made for me... i loved it! i caught the key chain in this pic... it says "clear the road, im 16!" lol it made me laugh because, it's the truth! (note: this picture was taken after a softball game and i had no makeup on and as you can tell, i was very tired. haha) But speaking of key chains, I actually got to drive by myself.. to mcdonalds! haha, i know that might not seem like a very large accomplishment.. but it was for me! (even tho i took all the back roads lol) but then I got to drive emma to mcdonalds, and apparently i am old enough to be driving her around because the lady in the drive thru asked me if she was my daughter!! haha, I was like, "No! That's my sister!" A sixteen year old teen with an 8 year old kid? idk if that's possible!

And here's just a pic of me and maddie!

And, on a different note, tonight was the kickoff to softball play-offs! my team ended up finishing first in district and we only lost one district game (but we won't discuss that game... it was terrible!) But, here's a picture of our team playoff shirt.... idk why the colors are pink and blue.. but for some reason, that's what the seniors picked out. and they ended up cuter than i thought! My friend Manda did the drawing on it and they put it on the shirt... each one of our personalities are somewhat portrayed in the drawing.. haha..

I'm the smallest one on the bottom right with the cell phone! lol it's kind of an insider between the team because i got in trouble for being on my phone instead of focusing on softball a few times. Claire is the one at the top left with the headband and alyssa is beside her listening to her music and singing..

The moms of the team also got some shirts... i had to get me one like it they were cute!! heres a pic...

The first one's the front and the second pic is of the back.

I don't know if you caught on as fast as others did... but it says diamonds are a girls best friend because a softball field is in the shape of a diamond! and i just figured that out.. lol. The shirts also have a little softball with my number in it.. (well i mean mine and my mom's do..) they're really cute.

But anyways, today was our first playoff game, and we won! We are playing best two out of three so we play at C.H. tmro at 3.. and if we win, we advance to the next round in the playoffs. Today was a very nerve-racking game!! (is that a word?) But anyways, we started off in the lead but in the 5th inning they came back and were leading by two points and then we caught up in the last inning and went into extra innings and we ended up winning by one point! Idk if i've ever been that nervous! I made a double play tho, my first ever! haha so other than one strike out, i did well.

And, here's my final pictures for this post.. just some of me and my two best friends at softball practice :]