Busy Weekend.

We had a very busy weekend...letting us get no more than 8 hours of sleep in 3 days time. I went to Sharayah's bridal shower, Paul and I went to a concert an hour north of Pittsburgh, hung out with friends until the wee hours of the night, visited with Paul's family and went to Gavin's 9th birthday party...then drove home, watched Changeling and finally went to bed Sunday night around midnight- all to start work at 6am on Monday!!! PHEW!!! It was a busy weekend, but all-in-all a fun weekend, catching up with friends :D

Sugar cookies I made for the shower. Beaut's.

Cupcake truffles I made. Shot's approved.

The cookies, cuppy's and a fruit arrangement I created that morn. On 2 hours of sleep............

Cute! Tess was helping me set up the fruit- she liked skewering the fruit on the sticks.

BFF's: Cindy and Kathy

Nice little ladies :D

My momma!!

The "Who Knows the Bride the Best" game. I won this one! However, since I am a bridesmaid, I did not 'officially' win.

Punch! I LOOOOVE punch!

I scooped the sherbet into the bowl. And I loved every colorful second of it.

Sharayah opening her presents.

Gavin's party was funny. He had decided he wanted to get CPR certified as party festivities. So him and his friends did just that! He crack's me up...

Birthday cake

An awesome Rockwell calendar in the Fire hall.

Love it.

Present time!

Best drawing ever, I give it an 'A'

See! I was not lying, they really did get certified. haha!!

I was pretty worn out today at work...teaching needy kids with not much sleep sucks. I just wanted to walk out of the room multiple times and crawl away for some much needed slumber. But! I did not...

In other school news, the kids are finishing up their self portraits and have done pretty darn good. I have had some amazing portraits come out of this project and I am like a proud mama. (I have also had some that baffle me...not in a good way...but ya know...) I think that the kids have come pretty far, since at the beginning of the year they could not use a ruler (SERIOUSLY!) and now, they are griding pictures, critiquing art work, know some art history and have the elements of design down. Yeah baby! I also have one of my large value images, that the kids worked on, being hung in the library. Woot. Oh! and my one class is going to be a judge for a video contest at the University of MD, the other judge is one of the big wig news reporters out here. sweet. (My one students mom works at UMD so she emailed me and asked if we would participate.)

Workin..

Some beginning stages.

She is amazing. Beautiful work.

Hey!! She must have a pretty freaking awesome art teacher........

My sister also sent me her 50 mm lens since she got a new one. Her new one is super fancy and it makes the pictures crazy and warped- pretty cool- so she had no use for keeping this old one. I told her I suppose I could take it off her hands *grin* and she sent it my way *larger grin*...so I sent her some cookies and a bookmark that I made with my Martha paper cutter as payment for her lovely lens. I got it in the mail after work today and have been experimenting with it already. Here are some of my pics I got tonight:

Our paper lantern cluster

Sweetest little monkey you have ever met.

I'll testify to that.

Pretty bedside light

This picture pretty much sums up Shotzye...

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And. A ring shot. I mean, why not?? My fingers look somewhat emaciated in this pic...if that is even possible.

Whew! What a packed post. I think I am fairly caught up now. See ya soon!

Paul turns 25

Paul celebrated his 25th birthday yesterday. Because he had the day off, and we had talked about him doing this for a long time now, he came to school with me to talk to the kids about graphic design. It was "Take your husband to work day"...not really, but he came anyways. It was my 'bad day' at work so he saw the class that tortures me. Lets just put it this way..Paul had just finished a large coffee before that class and in the middle of the bad class, he had to go to pee really bad. Naturally, I told him to run to the bathroom (it was right next door) and he said, "No- I am not leaving you in here alone!" haha. Paul summed it up perfectly by explaining teaching my bad class as giving you the same feeling as, "Writing a 20 page research report and every time you hit save, because you finally got it perfect, the computer crashes...10 times in a row."

All jokes aside, the kids really liked Paul and he had a lot of fun teaching them (they loved his personal logo-it uses negative space-which I just taught those sucka's, so they thought they were pretty cool), it was a good day. He also realized why I get so tired after teaching them (tons of repetition and a million questions, plus the discipline involved) and when we got home, he said he was so exhausted from the day...so we took a nap :)
I made some miniature cakes the we snacked on, we went to Rita's Italian Ice for our free ice (spring equinox= free Rita's!) and watched 2 good movies. Paul also fit in some Wii Guitar Hero- a gift from his family- before the night was over.

Here are a couple pics from the night:

Little cake #1

Little cake #2

Little cake #3
These were cherry cake filled with cherry preserves and milk chocolate cream cheese frosting.


"I am 25!"

Oh, I forgot to mention, Paul is acually terrified that he is 25 years old.

Leeloo is 1!

Someone had a birthday today!! Leeloo was especially cheerful this morning as she woke Paul and I up...Since we werent going to be home until much later- we decided to give leeloo her special birthday food for breakfast. She enjoyed! Happy Birthday littlest kitty :D

Leeloo's modeling shot

Watchin the birdies

This morning, sitting on the fridge

A cat's birthday cake...

Yummy.

More stuff.

Here are some pictures from the times that have past. I have just been so busy teaching and not having the internet puts a damper on things. I graduate in a month and then I will have internet again! YES!

Fluffy on the trip up to give him away. We cried.
Oh, Squidword!
Paul and I on Easter
The cupcakes I made Paul before they melted into a big ol mess!
Paul blowing out his candles on the melted cupcakes :(

We made turkey meatloaf and mac and cheese with bacon on top :)
my new fossil watch- my wrist looks dumb and broken.
chubby thing.
My favorite drawing a student has gifted me with. haha.
why hello there fluffy! I hear you are loing your new home!

Have a nice day.