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I've heard that Springer Spaniels were also referred as "water dogs", but I didn't quite get the reason till we got our dog Shaggy. This dog LOVES water, loves swimming, loves our pool. So much so that it was easy to train him to get out of the pool on his own coming up the ladder. He knows when he goes out on the deck he has to wait for those few words from us "Go Swimming" and once he hears them......

While at first it didn't do much for me. The more I seen and the more I learned, the more I wanted to learn. Right now I am teaching myself through online tutorials, but I've also signed up for a photoshop elements class that begins in the fall. Here is my first crack at a digital layout! I'm pretty happy with my first attempt.

I cannot believe all the fun new releases coming up from this weekends CHA show! There are sneak peaks every where you look!
I love the new Basic Grey for Christmas and all the new Prima flowers!

What a good time we had at Ben's graduation party! There was tons of people, food, a DJ and Karaoke and fun! I don't think Lisa sat down the whole evening and the kids had a blast swimming and dancing too!

Here we are hard to believe already half-way through the month of July and I wonder where did the month go - so I will try and recap the things I worked on or completed.
July 15th - today - Ben's Graduation Party
July 14th - work at Treasured Friends all day, finish favors and goodies for Ben's graduation party. Chel with the Helsel's and Zach going to movies with grandma.
July 13th - work all day...

The kids had such a blast at Zach and Cameron's birthday this year. We did a pool party at our house and I don't know who did more laughing - me or the kids? The weather was perfect for a pool party and the kids were a really great group of boys!
What we thought was silly string was actually some kind of foam - and what a mess it was to clean off all these poor boys, but they didn't seem to mind.

Thanks to my checking out Donna Downey's blog I read about these cute little albums at the dollar spot at Michaels. Once I got to Michael's there were only 4 left - I'm hoping to search other store's in the area to find more - they'd make great gifts coming up this Christmas!

Went to the book signing on Friday night at Scraptacular and then took the Ali Edwards class at Scraptacular on Sunday morning and made this awesome album - one of the first projects where I actually took a class and used all the pictures I had with me and "almost" completed the class. It was a very laid back class where we did a couple familiar techniques and put our book together and talked with...

HAPPY BIRTHAY ZACH!!!
Today is Zach's 12th birthday so we will have the usual celebration dinner at the restaurant of his choice. I think he's leaning towards Longhorn, but we'll see what it is by tonight.
He is so excited about his birthday this year, well mostly the "gift" but he has to wait until tonight to get it. He already knows the gift and has wanted it since just after Christmas so...