a "sweet" sixteen, indeed.

One of my best friends, Beth, recently had her sixteenth birthday party. She and her family asked me (eep!) if I would be interested in being the designated photographer for the party. Hmmm, let me think here...

Heck yes!

And I therefore photographed the entire party. Even the people who refused to let me take their picture, got their picture (secretly) taken.

 Everybody had a wonderful time and the day was made of {lots of} sugar, water, laughing, games, and chit-chatting.

I forgot to mention, I downloaded the thirty day free trial of Photoshop CS5. Can we say in love? This here picture, I made have a bit of a vintage look.



They purchased a $200 cake complete with zebra striped fondant  just for the festivity.

Kidding. About it being $200. Acutally, Beth's fourteen year old sister made it.

I know. Wow, right?!  I believe to my soul I could never make such a masterpiece. Swoon.



And of course, our lovely birthday girl! 

 

 

For those who have already turned sixteen, what do you remember about your party? Or just turning sixteen?

For those of you who haven't yet turned sixteen, what is your dream sweet sixteenth party?

Lovely Photo Wednesday!

Beth and Breanna, two sisters who are awesome friends of mine....



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Memorial Day!

Hi friends! I hope you all had a great Memorial Day on Monday. We definitely did! My brother went with a friend to a Memorial Day celebration, and my parents and I went to Wet n' Wild Water Park with a family we are good friends with.

Our friends and the three of us arrived at Wet n' Wild around 10:30, found a seat by the wave pool (it was extremely crowded!), got our stuff situated and then Beth, Breanna, and I did one slide. We waited like, 20 minutes JUST to get a tube to go down the slide. It was worth the wait though!

After we were done with the slide, we went back to the wave pool and were in it maybe 10 minutes. When we got out, guess what?

IT STARTED RAINING, THUNDERING, AND LIGHTENING.

Noooo! The forecast did call for scattered thunderstorms, but I mean, it started POURING.

Luckily though, we got a rain check (which means that we can go back with the family another time for free).

Here are some pictures of us at the Wet n' Wild though..............

Beth, Breanna (middle) and me eating lunch in the parking lot

Daddy, (red swim trunks), Mom, and Beth and Breanna's parents

Haha! We couldn't resist having this picture of us taken by that hot, little purple dune buggy parked right beside our van!

Being Silly =)

We don't have any photos of us actually 'in' the park, but I DO, however, have a good bit of pics of us at their house..............

So when we left the park because of the storm, we headed on over to Beth and Breanna's house to hang out for the day.

We watched a movie (which I can't remember the name of), danced to Alejandro (a song) about a million times, had supper, talked, and had a downright great time!

Beth and me being goofy

My french manicured nails *(compliments of Wal-Mart and my mom putting them on)*

Beth playing with Jen.

Our feeeeeet! My foot (on top), Beth's foot, and Breanna's foot

Breanna and I (ignore how bad I look, I wasn't wearing makeup that day!)

Beth playing on Jen again

Breanna

Beth with their adorable kitty, Rascal!

That's it for Memorial Day. We went to the zoo today and took a lot of pics too, so I will hopefully have those posted tomorrow or Saturday, =)

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