A Little Family Time

Today we met up with family to celebrate my cousin Hannah's 8th birthday.  Following her birthday party at Make-A-Messterpiece, we went out to lunch with her family, my grandma, and my brother and sister-in-law.  It truly is hard to believe how fast my little cousins are growing up.  Hannah was born my senior year of high school, and I'm happy that I've had the chance to spend many, many holidays with her and her family.  I feel like she is growing like a weed.  I look back at our wedding pictures and think she looks totally different in just a few months. Such a pretty girl!

I've become the annoying one with the camera and gladly captured some of the moments from our lunch.  Since I bought my new MacBook earlier this month, I have been playing with Photoshop Elements to take my pictures up a notch.  All of the pictures below have been edited, some more than others.  I've been doing a lot of reading and playing around with the program to learn what its potential is.  While my goal is to get great pictures SOOC (straight out of the camera), I thought it wouldn't heart to learn how to edit. If any of you out there are interested in learning more about photography or Photoshop/Photoshop Elements, please leave me a comment, and I'll gladly write a post about some of my favorite blogs and websites that I use as resources.

Now, onto the pictures...

The Birthday Girl

Hannah and her mom (my Aunt Laurel)

Cousin Emma and Sister-in-Law Jess

Hannah and Laurel

Cousin Emma and her static-y hair.  She insisted I take several pictures!

Emma peeking thru Raul's arms

My beautiful Grandma JoAnn

Cousin Christian

It was a great lunch filled with lots of conversation and beer.  They had 130 beers on draft which made the selection all that much more difficult, but we managed to try a few good ones!

Raul and I are spending the evening cheering on the COLTS!  We're looking forward to a relaxing Sunday, and I'm especially looking forward to my day off of work on Monday.  Hope that you all are having a great weekend!