My New Toy

... A Nikon D60 DSLR!!!!

I have soooo much to learn, but I am practicing.  Lots. 

Hey Shaney, its ya' birthday. We gonna party like its ya' birthday.

My bro turned 28.  Yowza!  He is friggin' old now!

I took his very first baseball jersey and his little trading card with his photo on it and made him a collage in a shadow box.  He always gave me a hard time about that little size 10 youth jersey because I took it, cut off the sleeves, and made it a tank top for myself.  Oh, how I will miss my fave tank.  I hope he enjoys his present cuz I now have NOTHING to wear.

We all went to Little O's to celebrate. 

These days I rarely get out for grown up time, so it was a super good time.

 All the single ladies, all the single ladies

 Put your hands up!  Uh uh oh, uh uh oh.

 Nikki dared me. (I didn't take much persuading.) I had to.

 She is a now a felon, unconvicted. 

 My ride to the next party.

 

We didn't get to celebrate the 4th on the actual day, but we did shoot off some fireworks with some good friends and family to commemorate this awesome country's independence.

Man talk.  Its serious.

Tay loves Mel!

She also loves to jump in the water to Mel.

 There she goes!

 She is so young to already have such an extreme shoe fetish!  Is it just in a girl's blood?

 Chicken Dance!  Tay's signature move.

 Breakin' it down with the chicken dance.  Woo hoo!

 Cutie pie!

 She adores Mark, especially when he dunks her.  Haha!

 Adores him!

 Love.

 Sharing her new found treasure - a boy's chunky flip flop.

 Jump!

 Uncle Jay.

 Lil' ham.

 My sweet baby Tay.

Christian was thrown...

 UP

 And UP

 And UP

 And UP!

 And waaay UP!

 Jay had to show Christian's tricks up. 

 A lesson in fireworks

 Ruunnnn!!!

He thought it was cool to stand super close to the BlackCats... like it proved he was a man.  Jay dared him, of course.  Us girls just rolled our eyes, unimpressed. 

 Tay's reaction to fireworks

 She was kind of in a daze watching the boys.

 Then she got super excited!

 This bad boy is called "A Girl's Best Friend" (stay tuned to see why)...

 because it sparkled so BEAUTIFULLY!  This pic doesn't do it justice at all.

 Nikki and Mark.  Aaawww...

 Bedtime!!!

 We had a great time with great company.  Here's to a great country.