{new stuff & more hair}

so... this is my newest drawing. nicoles friend got married a couple weeks ago. last night was the open house. anyway. nicole bought this for them... it turned out absolutely fantastic! i really love everything about it. it is the snowflake temple [where they got married]. i love it. here goes...


sorry the color is a little off.... i just took pictures of it.

that was the monogram from their announcement. i think it added a very nice, personal touch :)

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also... look how long and luscious larry's hair is now! its beautiful. although he still has a bald spot right in the front. haha... oh how he makes me smile.

{the collett kids}

so... this is my newest drawing- i finished it last week. these are my bishops kids [quite a few years ago... like 15]. haha.... anyway. i pretty much love it... and i think they do too! :)

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"collett kids"
graphite

8x10

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close-ups...

{oh wow}

so this morning me and kelsey went to deliver a couple framed pictures to dad at work. one is the one we gave him for father's day [the prayer at valley forge] and the other was a newly reframed drawing that i did of the columbia river gorge a couple years ago. it turned out lovely... and now daddy has a beautifully decorated office [with a window... and a view of the mountains! :) ]

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we spent the afternoon in the pool. dustin, adrian and hayley came up. and ashley, our fun cousin, is here for the weekend. anyway.... we were in there for quite awhile [until a storm blew in, and even then we were in until it was raining and thundering right above us! haha]... but dustin did get mighty burned... poor dude. it just looks painful. hahaha. pray for him!

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we've been playing and having fun this evening... until mom came in [not quite yelling, because miss hayley bug is asleep] but telling us that there was a gila monster in the carport! oh wow!! we've only seen one other gila monster our whole 16 years. my mom called rural metro because the gila monster is a protected animal in arizona [rural metro is the fire department place] and they got here in 18 minutes [kelsey won... with a vote of 18 minutes. haha]. so all of us... mom, dad, adrian, dustin, austin, me, kelsey, ashley, and devin and zac... went out to witness the monumentous occasion.... and these are the pictures! enjoy!


it hid behind the pole thingy... so i was a litte bit more brave to get a little closer to it... haha... then when the fire man dude came we had to nudge it out a bit... haha... look how cool this is though... he had these sweet little forcep things then dropped it into this bucket that looks like a camping toilet!! :) and then i really did get nice close pictures!!


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end note:

there were 1o cars here when the fire department came... for the 11 people in this house [the only one without a car was baby hayley. haha... austin cant really drive. nor is he legally allowed to... but we let him "have" the truck. so really it was 10 cars... for the 9 driving adults in this house.] thats kinda embarrassing. and that is what we should have gotten a picture of. but now its raining... and dustin is gone, so... just imagine! :)

this is my 101st post! woohoo!!

{updated}

can you believe it?! one-hundred and one posts! :)

what a good day!!

haha... anyway- i started a drawing of my favorite niece today! its only an 8x10 [ive never done one this small!] but i think its coming along....

i obviously just started today... and ive only worked on it for a little bit, but here you go!

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picture that im working from...

1st picture...
2nd picture.... this is all ive got so far...
{updated portion...}
3rd picture....
4th...

5th... now this is all ive got so far. stay tuned! :)
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'tis complete

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