I'm an ARTIST!!!

One thing I love is getting together with girlfriends to celebrate birthdays. Victoria's is the first of the year and she set the bar HIGH for us. She chose to go to Tag It Art where the owner, Jackie, walked us through painting a picture...on a blank canvas. No fill in the lines on this! It was sooooo much fun and according to Glenn my painting was "really good...much better than expected". Happy birthday, Victoria....and thank you for such a fun evening.

with Paula, Victoria and Peggy
Victoria and her mom

this is what I started with

Birthday Girl!

I look like an artist!

at the end of step 1

Paula and Peg hard at work

my tree is drawn!

and....VOILA! My finished product!

me and my girls with our paintings!

Happy First Anniversary!!!

It is hard to believe that one year ago today we were in Las Vegas getting ready to get married. This year we spent our anniversary day with the boys and Glenn's family at our house for Thanksgiving, visiting his grandparents in their retirement homes, eating a bite of our cake's top layer and then sleeping in the recliners in front of the TV! It was not the romantic first anniversary one would expect, but it turned out to be perfect.

Being my traditional self, I decided that we should follow the "traditional" list for gifts each year. First being paper. After weeks of trying to figure out paper gifts for each other we decided on artwork! This would be the start to our personal art collection.

Glenn's gift: Alicia Leeke's "Rocket Man"

My gift: Jo Dean Bauknight's "Garden Path"