Easter Eggs

During this school semester I have touched back to my childhood.

I am taking a class that teaches you "how to teach elementary art", or Art Education. While studying in classed we also learn by doing those great old past time art projects we all loved growing up!

Such as paper mache. In my class we made paper mache masks, and had a blast. I thought that Jordan and I's nieces and nephews could and would enjoy making paper mache eggs; in the spirit of Easter.
It does take three stages to finish a paper mache project, so we took three days with the kids making the eggs, and had a blast!

Here are some fun pics and our egg.

If you want to see all the eggs and more exciting pictures, you should check out; the Basua's, Platt's, and Marie Beck's blogs!

Just one of those days

Have you ever noticed that sometimes we go through weeks at a time just completely frozen. Sometimes I forget what I have done or even for get what the day is because I find myself just going through the motions.

Well to day I will remember, as today was a day that woke me up!
Jordan had to be in Salt Lake early this morning. He left the house at 7:00am. Normally we can wake up together around 9:30am. Though, to no fault of his, when he left I couldn't go back to sleep for those couple of hours.

So I was up; tired, grumpy, and frustrated. I knew that the day was going to be a long one.
Since I had some time to kill before class at 11:00, I decided to get some work done on a project I have due in a couple weeks. As time passed I felt good because I was moving smoothly and getting good work done on my project. I looked at the clock on my desk top computer and realized that I still had an hour til class. It seemed later than what the computer said, but I realized that I had been up hours earlier than used to. That's why it felt later!
Time is ticking and I emerged from the extra bedroom to start getting ready for class when i glanced at the clock on the stove, assuming that the time was now about 45min til class.
WHAT...What does the stove say....11:15! S@#$!!! Oh Crap!

I realized that the clock on my desk top computer was never changed at day-light savings. this whole time I knew deep in me that it really was later that it said, and now I had missed class.
It's one of those classes that the teacher takes everything from her lectures and puts it in her test.

Then while, safely on time, in my next class I noticed that I had left all my supplies for at home when I was too busy rushing out the doors! In this class it's embarrassing to ask to borrow anything!

THEN...to top it off I found out from my painting teacher that the student gallery rejected my art work from their show. Evidently they thought it was muddy, over worked, and lacking concept and personality. Now, not only was I going to fail my next art history exam, I also have failed at my major.

There is nothing worse to an artist than to hear that his/her work is lacking personality. I could have handled just the "muddy" and "overworked," they are just constructed criticism, but the rest felt like an insult. And it's not like painting is just a hobby for me, it suppose to be my future.
I just regret now telling people about the art show. I was too excited to have family come see!

Fortunately I know that tomorrow is a different day, and I will have other chances!
I only hope that tomorrow will come sooner!!!

p.s. sorry for the novel!!

A day at the ZOOM!!

Today Jordan and I got an invite from a couple friend to go to the Zoo. They have been wanting to get together with us to hang out. With school and work it's has been hard to get a day that we were all available. Fortunately this week was spring break and a great sunny day for a trip to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake.

One of the many great things about being married to Jordan is that he has seven fascinating and beautiful nieces and nephews. One of which was able to come with us to the zoo.

Ariana Called it the Zoom!

It's great to have kids around because they can remind us of the simple things we take for granted every day.

Ariana did just that today!!

To little kids its not always about trickery and the most up-coming technology. They like to learn, see and experience. Simple shapes, simple colors and a whole lot of love!!!

Today Ari had fun, almost every animal she had learned about (and their sounds) was at the Zoo for us to.

On the ride up to Salt Lake to the Zoo, Jordan and I found out the Ari's favorite animal to see at the Zoo would be the Lion and Alligator! Wow, how exciting!! Getting to the zoo Jordan and I felt bad because we found out that the zoo did not have a Lion, or an Alligator. So Sad! But Ari is a trouper, she loved all that she would see!!

Although there was no Live Lion to see, Ari loved the lion drinking fountains found amongst the park!

We got to see Elephants. around the sides of the exhibit they had fun facts about the animal. Like what the skin of an elephants felt like and how big it's tusks can be.

it was rather interesting that all the birds were free to roam the whole park. Such as, even the turkeys and peacock were able to walk along side us if it wanted. We even found one in the Gorilla exhibit.

Penguins are always fun!!

Just for Adam we spent special time at the Rhino Exhibit!

Here are is giving the statue a kiss!

The real Rhinos were hiding a bit
Just a funny idea of Jordan's!

We got to see cougars. I'm sad I didn't get a picture, but Ari said a very special cheer to the cougars! "GOOOOOOOOO... COUGARRRRs," she exclaimed as she sat on Jordan's shoulders, rolling her fists!

Monkeys were probably my favorite! Jordan thought that was obvious!

Of course The bear was a big hit for Ari. Right away she named them Baby Bear and Papa Bear. Her and Jordan have a funny thing about that!

I thought it was cute how Ari was very sociable with other kids at the zoo. This little girl shared with Ari how cool the birds were!

This tortoise was Huge! it seemed like three times the size of Ari! And probable a hundred times her age!

The camels were cool! did you know that a camel can survive about six months with out water. Crazy!

This was also about the time Ari started getting tired of saying cheese.

Porcupines

More turtles

The gorilla was taking a nap

Ari got to see the full size of a gorilla


Jordan and I got to be groundhogs for a moment

At the end of seeing all the animals the zoo had a small park that the kids could play on. And to all our surprise and excitement Ari found what she was hoping for all day long! Yes, an alligator. Jordan and I were happy to see satisfaction!

Ari told Jordan that he was crazy!

So he tried to wrangle the Alligator!

Of course Ari wanted to join in!

Ari as a tortoise

Ari and our friend's little girl playing in an alligator egg! Or to Ari, "an Ex-ster egg."