Entries from June 2008

June 27, 2008

Samuel’s Baseball Game

Oh man.  Little boys during the first few years of their baseball careers are absolutely priceless.  Shepherd and I went with Ashley to Samuel’s last game of the season last night.  We had so much fun!  The boys were so cute I almost cried a couple of times!  They are still in the stage where [...]

June 24, 2008

I’m a published graphic designer/art director!

My first issue of Bride & Groom is on newsstands!
 It was ~ahem~ quite a learning curve.  I’m not completely satisfied with how it turned out, there are some things I noticed once it was published that I was too stressed to notice before.  But overall I’m proud of myself for surviving the first issue, and [...]

June 23, 2008

Charlie & Odille Engaged!

Sunday morning before church I had the privilege of using all of my stealthy paparazzi moves to capture Charlie proposing to Odille.  Isn’t that sweet?  Gentleman take note!  They went on a walk in a beautiful park where they came across signs describing things he loves about her with roses attached so that by the time they [...]

June 20, 2008

Pregnancy blogs posted!

Today I posted all of my pregnancy blogs on their own page in this blog!  
For those of you who followed along when I was writing them, you know how sassy and funny they are.  If you did not follow along with me as I was writing them during my pregnancy last year, there they [...]

June 19, 2008

More amazingness with Actions

Here are some more examples of how using actions can streamline your Photoshop time - 
Before:  Quite dark, my flash was overexposing the image way too much and I didn’t want to fool with exposure because I had a limited amount of time he that would keep that hat on his head!

 
After: Using the TRA – [...]

June 14, 2008

Shoes

Today we went shopping for Jake for Father’s Day.  I was going to get him a present from Shep and surprise him, but I didn’t feel like shopping by myself and Jake doesn’t care about surprises.  We shopped around and he wanted to buy these shoes -

Even though I like to believe I am not [...]

June 9, 2008

Back From Vacation

We are back from vacation!  We had such a great time with our friends Nate and Miriam and their children at Miriam’s parents’ home on Lake Michigan.  Aaaahhhh that house has such a relaxing atmosphere!  It was just what we all needed.  Now we are back, rejuvenated, and ready to go.  AND, my first issue of [...]