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!

Nice Surprise!

Wade & Megan came up last week and spent a couple of days at Nonna's. We went and ate one night at Carpenetti's and I took some pictures and thought you might like to see them! Brett & Bethany, they said tell you "hello and they were sorry that they didn't get to see you". Aunt Bonnie invited all of us to the farm for Thanksgiving, so we might just have to think about doing that this year?????

Wade, Kaylor & Megan

Jaizy & Harley

Harley & Hunter

Jaizy & Ryder

Who's ready for fall weather?!

I know Brett and I sure are. This weekend was alumni weekend at rural studio, so I went up and visited Brett in Greensboro. The thesis kids threw a "wedding party" which was really fun...Grant and Brooke met us there to join in on the fun. Sadly, we forgot to take any pictures. However, here are a few pics from a couple weekends ago when Brett came to Auburn. We had fall activities which included great food, games, and pumpkin carving. It was fun.

But mostly, I am just excited for cooler weather! Has anyone else been enjoying the weather lately? Or have any fun fall plans in the next few weeks? 

Girl's Night Out!

Terri and I were the only ones who showed up tonight. It was so much fun. We had a great time laughing at ourselves and everyone else!



Here's our masterpieces!




Terri's Pic





Cathi's Pic

new house!

finally! i took some pictures of my new house. we still have some work to do, but here it is so far:

living room

living room again

dining room

kitchen

upstairs will be coming soon! it is a little messy at the moment :)

CLICK HERE for more pictures!

G.D.O. (Girls Day Out)

Terri was off today so we met at Sips-n-Strokes and painted Aubie & Big Al. Sooooooo, here they are! Aren't they cute? It was really fun!

Happy Birthday!

As you know, yesterday was Dad's birthday. He wanted to go to
Fire & Ice for dinner to celebrate! I don't know if ya'll have ever
been there, if not, we're gonna go when you come home for a visit.
It's really good and it's a fun place to eat!

Personalized Overalls

This is the overalls I painted for Harley's Birthday.
I thinked they turned out pretty cute!

Cruisin' the Caribbean

Dad & I got to go see Bethany Saturday and spent the night in Pensacola. We got to see where she lives and was able to go to church with her on Sunday. We were hoping to get to go to the beach . . . . but that didn't happen. Maybe we'll get to go to the beach on the next trip. We left Sunday afternoon and Bethany was leaving Monday morning to go on a cruise with the Brownsville AG Young Adults! I'm glad she got to go on a cruise since she didn't get to go on a cruise when she graduated and Brett said how awesome it was when he went! Maybe I can talk Dad into going on a cruise (you know how he is when it comes to boats and water)!eeeech!