fun with picnik

I love this editing site - picnik. It's a little tricky though because some of the things they offer are free and some (that they conveniently mix in with the free stuff) are included only if you pay for a yearly subscription. I've resisted the subscription so far, but the more I play, the more I want access to everything!!

I was having fun playing around with pictures from our trip to the park today and decided to put up a fun little mix of my editing skills. And just to be clear, by 'editing skills' I mean by pushing a button...

front porch

I'm not sure what was more fun, taking these pictures or editing them. :)

come on tomatoes!

Matt and the boys did some more work in the garden today!

Andrew tried to lock us in the secret garden. We got out though, don't worry. :)

Oliver

Tonight I got to watch my niece in her school's production of Oliver. It was fun to watch her on stage and the show was great!

We got there early to make sure we got good seats. Any time I have to wait long, I tend to pull out my camera to entertain myself - hence a self portrait of the three of us as we waited for the show to start.

Here we are hanging out with the celebrities after the show. :)

where's the bouncy house?

We went to a fun event called Touch-a-Truck today. It was filled with cool stuff including a concert, Lightening McQueen and tons of cars, trucks and tractors but all Andrew cared about was finding the bouncy house. And getting a balloon... (drives me crazy!).

I tried to get a picture of the boys before we left. They were too busy watching Handy Manny to look at me, but not too busy to hug. :)

It was a cool event because the kids could get in and really play in the cars and trucks. Andrew said his favorite part was when a truck ran over and crushed a car.

The boys were pretty impressed by the skateboard demo.

On our way home we noticed some action at Lake Tye so we stopped to see what was going on. It was a remote control boat race that ended up being pretty cool.

fun in the backseat

On the way home from school today we stopped for ice cream to celebrate Friday and 4 days of sun in a row! After our ice cream the boys were in a great mood. Out of the blue they just started laughing in the backseat. They were just playing and being silly. I prefer this so much more than Mason crying all the way home!! Thank you ice cream!

sun shadow race track

underdog

Sorry the pictures are a bit hazy but THE SUN WAS OUT! and kept trying to sneak in my pictures. :) It is so nice out today! The boys didn't need sweatshirts but they both wanted to keep them on for a little while for some reason.

In other exciting park news... Andrew learned what an underdog is today. A lady next to us was doing them for her kids and Andrew looked at me and asked for one as if it's something we've always done. He's a very good eavesdropper! And he loves underdogs.

maybe it is spring

The boys started and ended their day wearing glasses...

How fun is this?! The boys were tossing their washcloth up in the air and I caught it mid flight. :)

hit it here

We had our annual M's night out with the Gamradt's last night. Before the game we met up at the Pyramid and Brooke was able to join us after work!! Now that she has a new job she can do stuff like this because our happy-hour time is no longer her breakfast time. (I never could understand her schedule, but I'm pretty sure she had breakfast around 4:30) :)

On the way to our seats, someone directed us to go through some doors and down a hallway. When we went through the doors we found ourselves in the Terrace Club area and couldn't help but be really rad and pose like the some of our favorite Mariners...

On the way out they were handing out free Safeco Field soil. You have no idea how many jokes can be made about free soil at a ballgame. We had tears from laughing so hard from all the comments. I'd recap it for you, but I'm 99% sure you had to be there...

thanks grandma & grandpa!

Grandma & grandpa stayed the night last night so we could go the the M's game. It worked out great for us! :) Thanks!!

blast off

We woke Andrew up to watch Endeavour's last lift off this morning. On the way into school he told me he wanted to be an alien but then corrected himself and said he wants to be an astronaut. :) Then he upped it to a Super Astronaut - his super power will be that he can fly in space. He was lovin' it!