Who should paint my portrait?

Who Should Paint You: Pablo Picasso

Your an expressive soul who shows many emotions, with many subtleties Only a master painter could represent your glorious contradictions

What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

Violet The Dancing Queen

This is kind of dark, but it's of Violet dancing. It's so cute! She loves to dance so much. Sometimes she'll even dance when there's no music!

Happy 30 Ryan!

Happy Birthday Ryan! I can't believe that we started dating when you were only 20! We've come so far together and it's been so much fun! I love you so much. Have a great 31st journey around the sun!

Our Fun Girls

Lydia had her last day of school for this semester on Friday. She begged me to buy her some hair rollers and do her hair like a princess for her last day of school. So I bought some rollers at the dollar store and we played Beauty Salon Thursday night. She slept with them in without complaining one bit and awoke the next morning to beautiful curly locks! Don't you love her pretty pose?

Violet's new favorite thing to do is to empty out the kids' kitchen drawer and get inside and play! It's so cute! She wants to do it all the time, but she can't open the drawer by herself. She stands in front of it and points and says "Ah...Ah..." when she wants me to open it for her.

Ho Ho Ho- HA HA HA!

SYDNEY, Australia — He is an unlikely revolutionary, but this Christmas, Santa is a rebel with a claus.

He is having the last laugh on political correctness — and it's a great big fat belly laugh.

Santas across Sydney, Australia, are rebelling against attempts to ban their traditional greeting of "ho, ho, ho" in favor of "ha, ha, ha."

Recruitment firm Westaff — which supplies hundreds of Santas across the country — has told its trainees that the "ho ho ho" phrase could frighten children and could even be derogatory to women.

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Painting With Lydia

Lydia and I did our first painting together last week. It was so much fun! I taught her different painting techniques all with craft paint, a paintbrush, q-tips, toothpicks, and cotton balls. She caught on so fast! First, we talked about what she wanted a picture of. When she said a castle, I told her to look in her books for ideas. She got to decide where everything would go, including the ground and sky line. She painted the sky, the grass, bushes, flowers, the tree, a lot of the details on the castle, and the princesses' shoes, some of their dresses, all of their accessories, and all but one bird in the sky!

We are working on another painting today!

Ryan's Senior Recital!

Yay! Ryan had his senior recital on Sunday and it was INCREDIBLE!!!! I was seriously one of the coolest concerts I've ever been to (and I'm not just saying that because I am so fond of him!) He has worked so hard for this. It's so great to be with him and watch his dreams come true. He is such an amazing husband, Dad, musician, friend, and so much more. During and after the recital I was grinning from ear to ear. I couldn't be more proud!

I am also so glad to have this over too, because now I have my husband back. This recital has consumed him all semester. Although he was physically near me, his mind was always on this recital. Now we can just talk about anything!