lights. giraffes. coldness. & snowmen = fun & winter

ZOOLIGHT SAFARI

.llama kisses.giraffe faces.fake snow.winter inflatables.

.ha, last night was FULL of randomness but full of fun.

This is captain, the llama i was talking about. 

this is him kissing me:] 

it was odd.

me&jamie with the boys.

& inflatables

i was bored @ the craft station.

so i decided to growl with the bear.

(even though he looks frightened)

.the girls.

.i was trying to fit the part.

.and look like a giraffe.

CAPTAIN!!!

so. i went to the zoolight safari tonight and saw animals. i havent downloaded all the pictures(more to come) but i just thought i would put this random picture i took, of a llama on here. his name is captain, and when you called his name and tapped your cheek, he would kiss you. it was cute. and dont yall worry, i got a picture of that as well, so all you ENQUIRING minds will soon see:]

Christmas Day

We can barely see you two in the picture for all the snow, but I went ahead and posted it anyway since YOU ARE my two most favorite children in the world!

I posted this picture of Bethany just because I thought it was so cute!

Sips-n-Strokes

These are pictures of the last time we went to S&S. We painted on glass. We wanted to go to S&S for our party at work but we couldn't get enough reservations, soooooooo we did it at the school and I taught them how to do it. The set at the top was Kathy Tice's (These were the only ones I had pictures of from our party. Everyone else had already taken theirs home). It was fun! We all went to dinner and came back to the school and had our Paint Party!

FELIZ NAVIDAD:]

FELIZ NAVIDAD:]

merry christmas to all...

so we had a christmas party tuesday night and me & a few girls decorated this cute little gingerbread house. i love it:] and i just wanted to post a few pictures just to show everyone. brett and kelsey, maybe we can decorate our own this weekend while we're together:]]

.see you all sooooooooon.

the back of the house

the front of it

Early Christmas Present

This past weekend Brett and I gave each other our early Christmas present and saw A Christmas Carol in Montgomery at the Shakespeare Festival. It was so great...I hope to see another Shakespeare Festival production soon!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yea! Holidays . . . Brett & Bethany are home!

Brett came home Friday and Kelsey got to come and spend the night before leaving to go to Colorado on Saturday. P.S. Kelsey - glad you got to stay for a little while at least, before you had to leave!


Bethany is coming home today! Jarron is coming with her since she is not going to get to go home for Thanksgiving AND Christmas. (Jarron - we look forward to having you in our home for the Thanksgiving Holidays!)

Big Al!

I painted a pic of Big Al for Jessica for her birthday. I think he turned out pretty cute considering I didn't paint him in a class. Nevertheless, she loved it!!

NYC - Day 4!

Standing on the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge - When we got there it was pretty dark, so the pics didn't turn out to great.

Soup Nazi (Seinfeld)

New York - Day 3!

It was a beautiful day in the Big Apple! We did several things today, but here
are a couple of highlights.




Shopping at Bloomingdales



We got tickets to "Grease" on Broadway. It was so fun! We took a couple of pics from the show. This is "Rydell High".




This is the cast at the end of the show.

We also took a carriage ride through Central Park. (We have a picture, but I had to
reload it from my camera, so I'll have to edit this and put it on later).

Tomorrow is another fun-FILLED day! We're excited!

New York City - Day 2!

On Day 1 - by the time we got fom the airport to Terri's apartment it was about
7:30. We just took a shower and ordered take-out and waited on Terri to get home
from work. Then we just sit and talked and enjoyed each other's company. It was fun!




Here we are in Times Square!

Times Square

The Manhattan Apple Store is a neat building.

When Santa Turned Green! Terri and I thought this was cute. It is on display in the FAO Shwartz Display Window.

Rural Studio Team Picture.

This is my team for my Thesis project. Me, Carrie, and Evan, who is my roommate too.  I will post some of our drawings soon.

Also, we have a project blog. Check it out to keep in touch. 

http://cadc.auburn.edu/soa/rural-studio/skateplusplay/

Happy Halloween (four days late)

love,  mad scientist + dinosaur

Happy Day!

Brett & Kelsey - Bethany and I are glad we got to see you yesterday and spend
a couple of hours together before you went to meet Brooke & Grant for Grant's
birthday. See you in a few weeks! Love Mom~

down & dirty camping trip 08:]

so, last weekend me and 20 of the young adults at my church went camping. We left on thursday and drove 7 HOURS and ended in tiftonia/chattanooga, tennessee!!! After we got there we set up the campsight and tents and later we went hiking while we cut down trees to make walking sticks and spears...[fyi: while we were doing this we were marinating & cooking steaks] After we got back to the campsite we just ate and hung around the fire...the next morning we woke up around 9am and cooked breakfast, biscuits, bacon, and eggs..it was good. When we got done eating we tried to thaw out a little so we could be semi warm on our long hiking day we had ahead of us. We left around 10 and hiked from about 10:30 to 2:00. It was so much fun, other than the fact the wind was blowing, it was 40 degrees and pouring down rain. So, as you all can imagine it was . . . interesting but totally a blast!! When we got back to the site we took showers and melted the ice-sicles off our noses. After that we made chili and played games and hung out around the campfire...It rained all throught the night so it was FREEZING the whole night but since we had alot of clothes on we kept warm. The next morning we woke up at 8am, ate breakfast and got dressed for our 4 hour WILD CAVE TOUR. i thought it would be pretty interesting and hard but i never thought it would've been as intense as it was. It lasted 4 hours and the tallest part was about 20 feet tall. We did everything from 100 yard belly-crawls to straddling a 100 ft down crevace while leaning and keeping our balance on the wall across from us to sideways walking a 1ft wide shelf and hugging the side of a cliff only to look down into a black hole!!! It was the scariest thing i have ever done....ha. but as you can see I made it out alive and I had the time of my life..it was so much fun and i'm so glad that i went. anyways i'm posting pictures and i'll explain them as i go...love and miss you all.!.!.! can't wait to see ya'll on turkey day:]

PICTURES from the CAMPING TRIP

CONTINUED POST....PICTURES:]

the girls at the end of the 4 hours...we were so dirty

our group outside the cave

our group inside the cave[this was pitch black]

[this was the SHALLOW part of the crevace we had to lean over]

me, bellycrawling about 100 yards!!

this was a neat part we rested at

walking through

before we started

relaxing in the field

me & cat in the leaves

on a big rock we climbed

around the canpfire

Brrrr - Snowmen?

Since Terri is working out of town for a few weeks I celebrated Girl's Night Out all by myself - so I suppose it was GIRL Night Out! (I miss my friend!) There are always other ladies who come by themselves, so it always ends up that you might meet someone new. Here's my picture. I painted it to hang on the back porch during the winter months. I think they are cute!

Tonite was the Fall Festival at church. Here are a few pictures of some familiar faces!

This is Owen! (Herb & Connie's baby)



Here's Miss Valerie. By the way - SHE IS smiling. I said - smile Miss Valerie - and she said - I am smiling!)

Jeff & Ricki (dressed from the mod 70' s??)


Harley - with her painted face. She always wants "Aubrun" (as she says it) painted on her face!