a past life

I have been going thru our house and in the process I have come across a few boxes of my stuff.  Old stuff!  I am kinda amazed that so much of my life can fit into a few little boxes, it's crazy!  So, this post is a chunk of my life, in hopes that it will not be forgotten!  Are you ready?

once I lived by these...
and worked on getting these...

and then there was this house, that was my room in the top left corner...
and the drive to school looked like this, it was 45 minutes...
and you needed to pass guards to get into that school...
and i knew these guys that did things like this to our house....

and they also did this, which was way grosser than it looks here...
i hung out with these three a lot and they always let me take pictures of them, so it was cool...
and even a long time ago I had a thing for trees...


i used to chew with these...

i stayed here for a little while...

and i wore this, all the time...

and i had to do this sometimes...

then i went here...

and here...
and i loved him....

he introduced me to this...

and took me here....

i moved with him here...
and we did fun stuff like this...

then we had babies, that is a much bigger box!  I'll save that for another day.

gag

For those of you who know my sweet little Jackson you might know that he has a very strong gag reflex. It's been is kinda hilarious to see what exactly will make him gag next. The other night was the best, he was gaging on his own spit because we called it saliva and he didn't know what that was. He was in the middle of melting down but I thought it was so funny! I finally asked him if he knew what I was talking about and what saliva is and he said "it's slime!"  *gag*

Here is a photo of a happier day.

playing with mod

mod podge that is.  This is a project that I made my mom for her birthday.  So, Mom, if you are reading this, SURPRISE!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Mod Podge is fun!  I am excited to learn more about what I can do with it!  This looks way cooler in real life, this is a photo of it.  It is 11x14 and will be in a frame when I give it to her.

stopped to paint a picture

So, last Wednesday started out like any other day that Link and I sit down to paint rocks.  Then I was inspired and I painted a tree.  Now, no laughing, I have never really painted anything for real before and if you laugh it might be the end of my painting career, do you really want to be held responsible for that?  I hope not, because I really liked painting, even if I am not that good.   I painted the first one for Link and then Jack wanted one so I did the other for him.  They are both on 16x20 canvas.

happenings {aka the longest post ever}

Since about the end of December I have had a really bad case of bloggers block. I don't know what it is, I want to blog, I just really don't have anything interesting to say. Shocker, I know! I have been working on this post for a while and it has just grown, but I have to get it all posted before it is too late! To start off with is our trip to Vegas for my birthday, we went down and saw The Beatles Love by Cirque De Soleil. It was one of the coolest shows I have ever seen! As "Get Back" started I totally started crying because I was just so happy to be there! It was the very best birthday present for a Beatles lover like myself, and the boys are now big fans! Their favorite song "Hey Bulldog".   So Great!

Here is Link by an M&M, Jack wouldn't go near that thing!

Mike has been doing a bunch of traveling with the photobooth, when he is gone this is how we keep in touch. It is like he is never really gone! :)

After Vegas we were able to go down to Needles CA and see my mom, here I am during the drive

Then, the boys were having a meltdown and we thought it was funny to take pictures of them until they started laughing, it was a great time!

Joshua Tree

California tree

Then last week the whole family was able to go up to Lake Tahoe for an event with the photobooth. We found some awesome hills for tubing .

And very last are my artsy photos from around the lake.  Look at all the pretty negative space! I so love it!  Happy weekend!

focus-less

The thing I like about being an artist is the fact that you can translate your feeling into something beautiful.  I have never considered myself very good at at translating my feelings into anything but today I had the need to find a way to let go of all the feelings that were making my head feel like it was ready to explode.  So I created.  The best that I know how. I specifically wanted to create something that looked like what I felt.  I'm happy I did this project. Today this is me...

Quote of the Day

Lincoln: "Today, at school we saw a video about the groundhog and guess what?"

Me: "Tell me!"

Lincoln: "I saw the beaver."

Me: "Reeeally."

Lincoln: "Yup."