Photoshoppin' It

My mom bought me Photoshop for Christmas last year and thanks to this blog I stumbled across, I've finally gotten around to playing with it. Here are a few of the random things I created. They aren't anything fabulous and I still have a ton to learn about the program, but I thought I'd share what I have so far.

Looks like I need to take some new pictures, the All-Star Game ones are getting kind of old.

The blog had a post on how to create a reflection, so I created one of Hallie eating a s'more at the lake. I'm not really sure why I picked the picture of Hallie eating a s'more other than the fact that we were at the lake.
Don't get too excited about getting this as a Christmas card, I was just playing around.

Hopefully this will encourage me to complete #16 and learn to take better pictures.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

It's Coming...

Baby Bennett that is. I had the privilege of hosting a baby shower for baby Bennett on Sunday. Tami, was kind enough to host the shower at her house, Tina made the food, and my contribution was the pacifier mints. (I think I lucked out!)

The mint making process...

The finished product

Nothing better that a party with cake!
I found the idea to use baby blocks on-line and thought it turned out pretty cute, plus baby Bennett can play with them later. (Just now noticed the e is sideways, oops!)
The hostesses with the mom-to-be

The proud parents-to-be
Congrats Bennetts! I can't wait to meet baby Bennett!

Goodbye...

my daily fountain drink. It's not really a daily thing, but I'm definitely addicted. So, I've decided to start working on #14 and to stop drinking soda.

So goodbye refill cup, goodbye friendly gas station workers, goodbye soda (at least for a little while).

Changing of the Seasons...

Fall is finally here! I love fall! A couple of weekends ago, I began the process of putting up my fall decorations. Here are a few of the pics, although I'm always looking for new fall decorations, this is how it looks for now.

Good-bye summer decorations!

The pie cabinet in my kitchen. I originally bought the pumpkin, witch, and ghost sign to hang on my door, but thought it looked cute hanging there, so that is where it will stay.
The fire place

Our entryway
I always think putting my decorations out should be a quick and easy thing, but I never remember where I put things, so I'm hoping to use these pictures next year too!

Now if the weather would just cooperate and stay fall-like instead of winter-like, I'd be happy!

Cardinal Wordle

In honor of the Cardinals making it to the play-off and in hopes of giving them some good luck as they play the Dodgers in St. Louis, I made them a Wordle.

One of our district technology specialists showed us how to use Wordle a couple of weeks ago and I finally got the chance to play around with it. It's a neat website you can use to create word pictures. You just copy and paste any text you want to the website and it creates a picture using the words. The words that are used the most turn out the biggest. I used it at a writing project for my 5th graders and they loved it.

Aside from watching the Cardinals in the play-offs, not much is new with us. My volleyball season ended on Monday, I won't tell you exactly how many we games we won or lost, but just that my team improved a lot and we had lots of fun. I loved coaching, but it is sure nice to have the afternoon back to work in my classroom. I feel like I'm finally starting to get caught back up.