Monday, February 05, 2007

The Super Bowl

Yesterday was the Super Bowl. I kept switching over to ABC, hoping to find a commercial, but kept landing on the game instead. I do not care about football. I do not care about boys in the rain who like to run into each other and toss around a ball that resembles a small turd. I did, however, like the part where the coaches got giant coolers of icy drinks dumped on their heads. I noticed one got water and the other got some sort of McDonalds orange drink. I think if I were getting something poured on me, I would like it to be liquid gold. Then the gold would harden and I would turn myself in for cash. What a shiny, golden, statuesque, female Super Bowl coach I would be. And then I could make a big speech about how I was the first golden coach in the history of football to ever win the Super Bowl. It would be a big step for my people, my golden people, who have never won such a thing before.

I also think that if I were going to have a game where boys were tumbling around all over each other, just running into each other and falling on each other, I wouldn't call it the Super Bowl. I would call it the Gayish Convention of Man Collision & Turd Toss. That's the GCMCTT, for short.

While I have you, please take note of this most impressive post, because I guarantee you that it is the only sports-related post you will ever read from this blogger. You should print it out right this very minute. Print it out and write "Sports" at the top of it in brown marker and then draw little football turds on either side of that. Then go to Target and buy a golden frame with non-glare glass and diamond studs in the corners. Frame my post, and hang it in a prominant place in your home. Then go to Home Depot and buy a spotlight, install it above my post, and direct the beam directly on the non-glare glass containing this sports post. After you've cleaned up from that, put an ad in the paper letting people know that they can come to your home to view my post. When the line begins to form, make sure you have refreshments ready for the early-birds who have camped out all night just to be first. Make something like cookies with cranberry and white chocolate, that sounds good. Or maybe some sort of flaming dessert. You know what to do. Charge the people $13.95 for admission. Once the last admirer has left, gather all the money, put it in an envelope and write "Sports Post Reward Money" on the outside. Then send it directly to my home. I accept cashier's checks only. Thanks.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Father Daughter Walk

Here is a "painting" I just finished of Mike and Hannah, using Photoshop. Below it are two of the images I used to create it. I also used three different textured papers with different blending modes and the leaf graphic. I'm thinking of having this printed on canvas and hanging it downstairs.
















Thursday, January 25, 2007

Summer, Come Back!!!!


Summer, we miss you. We want you to come back to us. Whatever we did, we're sorry. If you want candy, you've got it. If you want some sort of political favor, well, okay, but I don't know why you have to be so demanding.




Juliana, in honor of your upcoming birthday, we take a look far, far back in the past. So far, that some of us may not even be able to comprehend this sort of look into the past. We look back 9 months.







Inspiration


Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Christmas 2006

 

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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Radio Show

In case you're interested, my layout below is being spotlighted on a digital scrapbooking radio show. You can download it and listen to it by clicking on the spotlight thing that's blinking at you. The show is called Dishin' the Digi - Coast 2 Coast and you have to sign-in in order to download the show. (sorry.) Anyway, you have to listen to six minutes of these ladies talk about buttered rum before they get to it, but that's the price of fame. (okay, that doesn't make any sense, I know.) This is actually pretty dorky, and yes, I am fully aware of that. Rolling in the dorkiness. That's me.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Our Family

Sunday, November 26, 2006

What a Cutie

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Favorites From The Dance




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Engagements of the Heart Dance

 
 
 
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More from the Dance

 
 
 
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Andy & Nicole at the Dance




These boys aren't afraid to dance!


Who's leading here?
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Friends Never Let Friends Hold One of Them Longways


We love you, Kris, but seriously, you are about to be dropped.


Are you seeing your imminent doom?


Strong husband-man to the rescue


Earlier, before we'd lost composure
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What Friends, What a Time!


Ken and Marla


Kirby and Angel


Julie and Brock


Kris and Brooks
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Thursday, November 23, 2006

At An Old Church

 
 
 
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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Marla's Birthday

Here's a picture from Marla's birthday. What a joy she is to me.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Baby of Mine

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Mike

If you would let me, I would plaster your picture over every surface that my eyes could rest.




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Saturday, September 23, 2006

The Perfect Fall Saturday

Today, we had the perfect day to set the mood for fall. We went to Columbia to the Devil's Icebox for a picnic, hiking, and cave exploring. Hannah had so much fun all day, but her favorite part was the cave. It was a beautiful day with perfect weather, damp, moss-covered rocks, leaves falling in slow-motion, frogs for the catching, creeks to skip, and a chilly cave to shout "hello!" (hello, hello, hello) in.

Click on any of the pictures to see them larger.




Acorns on Moss


A Leaf Collecting Water


Hannah's Reflection


Curious Snail




VERY Curious!



Wonder What This Is?


Tiny Frog


VERY Tiny!




On A Hike


In a Pitch Black Cave, My Flash Lights A Frog


Spelunking with Flair

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Newlyweds

 

Congratulations Dad and Julie!

Monday, August 07, 2006

Swimming Lessons

Well, I'm excited to say that I got a new camera! I broke my old one on our last Colorado vacation, so I got to pick out a shiny, new one! So far, I'm really liking it a lot. It's a Sony DSC-H2. I know, that means a lot to you. Anyway, it's got this cool 12x optical zoom, so I tried it out the other day at Hannah's swimming lessons. I was all the way on the other side of the pool, way far off, and I zoomed in as far as the camera would let me. I didn't think any of them would turn out, but every single one was crystal clear.


 
 
 

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Lamb Tots

Yesterday, Hannah looked down at her chicken strips and said, "So....this is a real chicken?"
"Yes."
"I'm eating a real chicken?"
"Yes."
She looked at my hamburger. "And that's a real cow?"
"Yes."
"You're eating a cow?"
"Yes."
It was at this point in the conversation that she became very thoughtful. I looked at her. She looked at me.
"So....mashed potatoes. They're made out of sheep, right?"

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Contemplating Life

I've been trying to learn more about using layers and masks in Photoshop CS, so here's a practice page I did. Sara, you are so darn cute!

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