2 new pics I drew...

Ian Ethan

Wakeboarding...

We went to a wakeboarding party for the snowboard team on Lake Minnetonka and had a great time!

Here are some pics from it...

Ian Wake Surfing ...and his big fall!

Easton Wake Skating at sunset

The boys hangin' out around the fire

Tristin and Ian Don't let go of the boat...whatever you do!

Shoes required again...

We are back from the Outer Banks in North Carolina. A wonderful week on the beach! It was super hot...almost 100 degrees every day so the water felt great!

Renegade

I'm a Mommy...

Look what we found in my window box outside my bedroom window! Four cute little Purple Finches! I was not expecting them to be so be already!

This morning, I was taking pictures of them and frightened them! They all flew out of the nest, but weren't good enough flyers to make it back to the nest. I grabbed a bucket and went hunting for them. I found one in the bushes below, one on the driveway and the Momma and Daddy where hanging out with the third in a bush. I couldn't find the fourth one though! I searched until it rained, but the Momma wasn't leading me to him.

Here he was still in the flowerbox just on the opposite side. I was so happy and relieved!

New Tricks...

Our daredevil is learning new tricks!

The "Flying Squirrel" and "Stale Fish".

Emmet happened to catch a beautiful sunset to top it all off!

New Haircut...

A "Superior" weekend...

We had a blast up in Duluth this past weekend! We had a snowboard competition at Giants Ridge and then stayed at "The Edge" waterpark in Duluth.

Tristin competed in Slolom and Giant Slolom and took 5th place and 2 6th places. He also was going to compete in Boarder Cross, but on the first turn, he got edged off the run and went flying and crashed into a snow fence. He had a little trip to the Ski Patrol building on a snowmobile! He bruised his ankle but he competed the next day! Way to Go Tristin!






This is the only picture I got of Tristin's trip
to the Ski Patrol. I had my zoom lens on and
was way to close to get any good photos!

Awesome photos...

I took some photos today out on the hill and got some awesome results!

Some of them I have included some test images too!

You will see the original and then the test photos using

different settings from PhotoShop.

Gradient- Metal

Gradient- Metal

ORIGINAL

Gradient Metal -Reverse..............................................Gradient Metal

ORIGINAL

Threshold settings

Gradient - Blue and Brown................................................... Gradient- Metal

Threshold Setting..............................................Channel Mixer

The rest are all originals...

A Perfect Sunset!

Some of the older kids let me take their picture too!

Original.................................Auto Contract................................Original

Threshold Setting................................................Original

ORIGINAL

Threshold Setting...........................................Posterized

Gradient - Metal