Monday, August 25, 2008

Chinese Art

a very detailed, beautiful and heavy ancient door


very beautiful, impressive art work on silk screens
























This statue has a real horse hair tail




Wine Vessel


The museum had a good collection of Asian art, mostly Chinese. We will defiantly be bringing Bre back when she is old enough to enjoy it.













Really??

This one cracked me up! It was titled "Female Figure". No duh!

A & A cont.

swords








Arms and Armor



guns

Sporting crossbow with winder from the 17th century


Mitten Gauntlet for the left hand from 1563,
Gold-plated stirrups from 1558

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Mummies











Native American



Native American paintings, took the photos for dad.

outside of St. Louis Art Museum



Weekend Get-a-way

For some reason Joey thought I needed to get away for the weekend. Just the 2 of us headed to St. Louis yesterday afternoon. We are taking it easy and mostly just hanging out. I have done a good bit of Christmas shopping....go ahead and laugh but I will be the one laughing at you a few months from now! Other than that we went to the St. Louis Art Museum. It is somewhere I have always wanted to go but figured I couldn't drag anyone along with me. Once again my husband has surprised me by not only going and being a good sport but actually acting like he enjoyed it too.
There will be pictures to follow (though most will probably find them boring).

Friday, August 22, 2008

Just Like Mommy's

Bre loves to look at any one's pretty fingernails and she loves to have her own painted. Just one problem though, she eats the polish off when no one is looking.
I am trying to tempt her out of this nasty habit by bribing her with the idea IF she didn't do that then she could have fingernails just like mommy's.
Today I went overboard and got flowers airbrushed on both thumbs. She liked them and wanted some just like mommy's but I still got the blank stare when I told her she couldn't eat them off though.
Maybe I should have went with pink flowers instead...maybe pink princess crowns. Nope, even I have limits.



Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Time for a Story





Sunday, August 17, 2008

Convention in town

School started back Wednesday, very early even for this redneck part of the country.
Of course Marcus's outfit for the day was Cardinals from head to toe but Dylan, well Dylan marches to his own beat (at least as much as he can get away with that is, LOL).
I am sure he would tell you after his experience Wednesday that school is holding him back by not letting him express himself. As for me all I done was try to straighten up his hair good enough for them to let him back in the front doors.
When I walked into the office after being called approximately 10 minutes after the bell had rang I was greeted by what I have been referring to as the "Rainbow Bright Convention".
There was a beautiful young lady with blond hair streaked with pink. Another girl with brown hair which included very unnatural red highlights. In the middle of the 2, of course he was in between the 2 girls-where else would he have been, was my blue haired baby boy!
I took him home and dyed over the shock blue with shock black color and the principle even thanked him for toning it down some and for removing his wallet from it's chain so it could be free.

Have I mentioned lately that I am NOT old enough to deal with all of this teenage stuff yet?

Monday, August 11, 2008

Groupie, 80's Style






























I know this is a lot of pictures but I couldn't resist.
Grandma Ward and I took the boys to get school clothes Friday. While in Spencer's I found this dress and with much encouragement from grandma, decided to buy it. It reads "SORRY BOYS, I ONLY DATE ROCK STARS" in hot pink letters with an electric guitar in the background. I then found the hot pink footless tights at Gymboree (of course).
Today she went to preschool in true groupie style with an 80's fashion kick complete with a ponytail on the side of her head.







Strange Entertainment







For some reason Bre thought it would be a cool thing to watch her clothes being washed (our washer has a clear lid).






Anticipation





It is hard to wait on a Mickey Mouse pizza to bake!



Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Blue

Dylan now has blue hair, yes I said blue. If you want to get technical, only part of it is blue. It makes my blond highlights seem kind of boring. Of course there will be pictures once my laptop joins the world wide web again.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Awesome


Bre picked this for dinner the other night out of the freezer. After it was baked and placed in front of her she had one word to describe it-AWESOME!
BTW, for all those nosey people who ask if she is speaking English yet. All I can say is yes she is, awesomely!

Computer problems-again

I am downstairs on Dylan's computer cause my laptop, once again, will not connect to the internet.
Till Joey gets back in next month and deals with it I doubt there will be any pictures cause Dylan loves to gripe about how much space photos take up on the memory of a computer (like all his music downloads don't!).

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Family

Travis, Cyndi, Issac, and Mia

Tim with sons Ryan and Evan

Trish, Cyndi, Tim and Aunt Norma