Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Another completed art project

Every art class our teacher gives us a drawing lesson. This one was about shapes and values. She had Irises on the table and we were to just "see" the shapes and roughly draw them. Then we transferred those drawings to water color paper and used these special drawing pencils (I can't remember what she called them) and then we finished our pictures using values (shading) and then using brushes applied water to finish the drawing. Here is the finished product.


Sunday, April 12, 2015

Bicycling adventures in Monterey California

Allan and I have started a new adventure in our lives. I bought a new bicycle a couple of months ago and now we are finding places to go on bike rides together. There are really no bike paths in Hollister so it is hard to find places to ride and feel safe. We did do one 12 mile ride here in Hollister, it was more out in the country and the roads were fairly quiet. On Saturday we headed down to the Monterey area where there are bicycles paths all along the coast. After some searching we finally found the Fort Ord Sand Dune park and found a place to park and start our ride. We plan to go back often to explore more of the bike paths. It was a beautiful day as you can tell!!




Monday, April 6, 2015

Easter April 5, 2015

We hosted Easter this year. 
The McNutt's, Baerwaldt's and Griffith's all came. Highlight of the day was the easter egg hunt.
 Let the Easter egg hunt begin!!!






Nathan and Brady
 Cousins
Daniel, Hudson, Nicholas, Garrison
Crystal, Amber
Nathan and Brady



Rowland's Visit 4-3-2015

Kerri and Adam came to California for a week. They spent some time with Terri and Dave and Adam's family in Benicia. We celebrated Liam's birthday here before they headed home.

Our beautiful Keira.

 The boys trying their hand at Battleship.


 Such beautiful eyes!!!
 Playtime with Papa.
 Aidan, Nathan and Liam playing Mario cart on the Wii.

 Adam, Kerri, Keira, Aidan and Liam.
 Pistachios and Papa
 Keira was sick the last part of their vacation which resulted in some rough nights for Kerri.
 Brady loves his cousin!
 We celebrated Liam's 5th birthday!
 "I want to open that one next!"
These boys love being together! 

 Happy Birthday Liam!!!
 Love these munchkins!!!
 Liam, Keira, Aidan, Nathan and Brady

 Silly boys!