Lakehouse and Long Lost Photos

This has been an interesting week....just zoomed by. Hard to beleive that the kids have less than a month left of school before summer vacation starts and Keith has about 2 months left before he has to take off. In the short time, we have a lot of stuff planned.

Last weekend, we went to Kingsley so spend some time with Keith's dad at this lakehouse he rented. Keith and Bridger went early to go play in a golf tournament and Jadyn and I joined them Saturday evening after we spent a day of shopping in Temple. (note to self: Temple is not that great!) Jadyn and I enjoyed ourselves.

On Sunday the kids spent the entire day fishing. We had thoughts of renting a boat and jet ski but it was too windy and the sun never came out which was a bit of a bummer.

Back of House looking up from lake


Fish catching



And the catch of the day is the turtle Bridger caught


About a mile or so up the road there is this really shallow place called Llano slabs-- it is where the granite rock is really smooth and more like a river flowing here.

And that wraps up our weekend..........

So, onto the long lost photos.
While at the lakehouse I got my camera out to take some pics and noticed that I had forgotten my memory card so my camera was full. I was going to delete the few pictures that were evidently stored on my cameras memory when I noticed that they were from Jadyn's 8th birthday party (she will be 10 this summer). I thought these pictures were forever lost and back then it almost broke my heart. I took and scrapbooked all these pictures that I took the next day trying to make up for it. It was the weirdest thing back then, but even weirder that I find them all this time later still on my camera.

It was the birthday party of the year! Keith was supposed to be home by her birthday but did not make it until about 3 weeks later. So we decided that we were just going to have a big bash.

We rented this huge slide. It was taller than the houses around it-- probably a 2-story tall slide.
We also got a snow cone machine.

Then I set up this candy bar that all the kids got to fill up their goody bags with before they left. But with that slide and snow cone machine I don't think the last kid left until dark...or about 9pm and I want to say the party started at noon or 1 pm. So funny, we even had kids who just showed up because they saw the slide. We welcomed them all to join in on the fun.

This was the cake I made for Jadyn

Isn't it a cutie!

And a photo of opening some presents

I can't believe I found these pictures!!! It is so exciting!!! I had to place a call to my friend Leigh who was also taking pictures with my camera that day to tell her I found them almost 2 years later. The day after the party when I thought the pictures were forever gone, we were trying to recreate a party with some tired and unenthusiastic children so I could get some 'authentic' pictures! Too funny!!

And here are some things I have been working on lately as far as Swanky Graffiti goes.

This is a custom order for a daughter named Silver. Sorta a present for Mother's Day and daughter.


Also, some new smaller frames that I am bringing to the market very soon.