Easter 2009

Our Easter this year was GREAT!!! We had a lot of fun with the Beck, Platt, and Basua family.

Before I go any further I have to say how much we missed my family; and having a holiday like this reminds me how much I miss having them around!

This year my parents sent us some Easter goodies!!! Thank you Mom and Dad!!! We love you too!!

After enjoying our gifts from Mitchell parents, we did our first Easter egg dying!

That Saturday afternoon we had an amazing lunch and had a big Easter egg hunt with the kids! so much fun!

Jordan and baby Tori

One big tradition in the Basua/Beck family is Confetti Eggs. Since the beginning of the year we saved all the egg shells from every egg meal we had. All together we probably had about 500 eggs! We dyed the eggs and filled them with confetti and flour. Saturday was too rainy so we did confetti eggs Sunday afternoon.

Here's how it went...

It was so much fun! We looked so good afterwards with all our white hair! JK

Jordan and I helped with dinner later. This is how Jordan helps!

One great thing about hanging with Jordan's family is that they are big into playing sports and games. Everyone gets involved and we all have an awesome time!

Arts and Crafts

Jordan and I have been working on making our apartment look more like a cozy home! First came the storage for the kitchen, and for the past two weeks we have been working on the living room.
We bought a brown sofa cover, and last weekend I made pillows to go on them!

In the kitchen we have a window that is always so bright in the morning so we got some curtains and of course I couldn't just let them be; I also sewed on a modern floral print (from an old skirt). to bring some of the brown in from the living room.

Also last weekend we got bamboo blinds for the living room. Jordan is such a great handy man!

Here Jordan is helping me put together a panel for my next painting.

This was my last painting I did. Not the one rejected!

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!!