the past 4 weeks

Gwennie's memorial

guys watching football

brothers punching each other at church

pip's new pad

skeletons in a museum

thanksgiving

gummi worms

pies and fries

maranatha kids making animals with various sweet things

home-made biscotti

borders with amaris

decorating the christmas tree

morrissey in concert

and life keeps going...

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real quick takes...

a Warrior's themed party at my friend Cassandra's apartment

big nasty amazing spider that's been living in front of our house for 2 weeks

friends hanging out in my new apartment

cam

caid and cam

caid

alex and cam

the braces twins...but not for long!! cam gets his off next week (so the rumors say)

hey, guess what, amaris and i going to new york in the morning. my plane leaves at 7:25 am from LAX. we'll also be going to boston and connecticut. then i'll be visiting laurel and chad in annapolis. you should pray for the trip...that would be radical. 

and hey aren't you glad i did this post just for you when i should be packing?

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snapshots of the past few weeks

well, here's what's been going on.

Two weekends ago, Amaris and i had, what we call, a "creative isolation" weekend, where we stake out a spot, and don't really leave it for two days...and we just work. Her, on her novel, and me on whatever drawing project i have going at the time.

cats--not so much

At one point Amaris made herself a sandwich using some packaged deli meat and cheese...only to figure out about 1/3 of the way through eating it that she had forgotten to remove the paper from the cheese.

yep, she ate it.

Amaris working

me working

yaaay

The sad part to this story is that i ended up having to start my drawing over a few days later, because i went and made the heads bigger than i had measured out. I NEED TO NOT DO THAT.

Well, that's how we learn... :P

Caid expounding on the health-improving qualities of a good cobbler and ice cream.
...not really. i just like the way he's holding the spoon...

reid and cam playing croquet...

Oops, ice cream on the shoulder.

Water play at grammies! This was last week.

We had just watched the old Disney Swiss Family Robinson, and Caid was inspired by the scene where the older boy (Fritz?) wrestles a water snake.

So Caid wrapped himself in the hose and began squirming around in it yelling "help! hellllp! it's a water snake!!"

And grammie came to the rescue...beating the snake away!!

Caid also had to examine a brown furry beetle that was making weird hissing noises

poke

A few videos that actually accompany the post below...

whew