Father's Day

This year my parents came to San Diego during Father's Day weekend. I was very excited because usually I don't get to see my parents on either Father's or Mother's Day very often. For my Dad's gift this year I found this old photo of us. My Mom took this photograph of us when I was about 5 years old. I was told I used to like to walk to work with my Dad when I was younger. Since we lived on base we lived pretty close to where my Dad worked at. So I decided to scan this picture into my computer and edit it through Photoshop to give it some artistic flair. It kind of makes me think of a photograph during the World War II era. My Dad said that helmet he is wearing was from World War II, so I guess some part of the picture is. Anyways, here is the end result:



We celebrated Father's Day at my sister's house and the kids and my Dad went swimming while my mom and I worked on a sewing project together. Well... let me rephrase that. My Mom worked on it while I gave her moral support! I kind of botch my way when sewing things so I left this one up to her. The shrug we were working on is for my bridesmaid dress for my brother's wedding and I wanted it to look nice, so I had her help me.

Here are a couple pictures of my Mom sewing. She is so talented! :o) Go Mom!!!





This one is a picture of my neices being silly. I think they were going for the pitiful look... They had just gotten out of the pool and I think they were cold...



The next day we went to Daddy Don's house to celebrate Father's Day. To accommodate both families we spent father's Day with my Dad on Saturday and we spent Father's day with Don's family on Sunday. In addition we celebrated Grandma Horn's birthday on Sunday as well. Here are some pictures from that day:

Here is a picture of Grandma Horn and Daddy Don eating their strawberry shortcake desert.



Here are a couple of pictures of Shadie and her Grandaughter Kylie.





This one is Daddy Don. He was caught sleeping! Actually he seems to have a large collection of pictures with him sleeping. Towards the end of the day we realized we didn't get a picture of him sleeping yet, so we posed this one. Daddy Don should get an Academy Award!



This is a picture of my brother in law Jon. He is always good for a funny picture. I was surprised I didn't get a picture of him sticking his tongue out! That is his usual trade mark. :o) "One million dollars! Muuuuuhahahaha, Muuuuuhahaha, haha..."



And last but not least, this was my latest project I was working on. I have been wanting to create a silky water effect with a waterfall for quite some time. Luckily Daddy Don has a pond with a small waterfall in his backyard so I practiced on that while we were at his house. I had to leave the shutter open for a LONG time to get this shot. I achieved the silky water effect, but I will still be working on this technique to perfect it...