Stylin'

We took Gabriel to get his hair cut the other day. I've always wanted to get Gabriel a mohawk, I thought it would look cool! Then I was informed when I got there after I explained what I wanted his hair cut to be that what I really had in mind was a fohawk, not a mohawk... I don't keep up with these types of things!

Anyway. Gabriel has never had his hair cut before in a salon. I've always done it myself. So he got to sit on my lap and have his own drape around him. He didn't like the trimmer. He doesn't like it when I do it either to be honest, he hates the feeling of it buzzing.

He didn't cry at all, he just hid in Mommy's arms the whole time and the hairdresser had to work around him.

Now, to be completely honest, I loved every minute of it. Gabriel never sits on my lap for that long anymore and he definitely doesn't hug me for that long. So I was soaking it all up :)

He did a lot better with the scissors.

And he was very excited to get the sucker in the end!

The hairdresser cut his hair a little too short unfortunately. So even with mousse, it never really stays in a fohawk, it just flattens. But while it lasts, it's oh soooo cute!

Eli's hair on the other hand will stay up all day long.

And this is the face Eli will give you if he sees you are taking a picture of him. He wrinkles his nose and shows you all his beautiful teeth:)

I love my boys!

Tiger!

This is the newest member to our family...

Gabriel named him Tiger!

I've wanted to get Gabriel a fish for awhile because I thought he would love it, and he does, a lot! He loves it so much he talks to it all the time and is always telling it to move. Problem is, our fish is boring. I know Betta fish aren't the most exciting, but I've had some in the past and our is extra boring. It rarely moves.

On the first day Gabriel tried to pet it and he also tried to feed it jello... that didn't turn out so well. By day three the fish started to look a little... well, like he was on the verge of death. But a little change of water and he's doing better. Let's hope he stays with us for awhile... and that Gabriel stops feeding him human food :)

Art...

What is art? Does art depend on the eye of the creator, the eye of the viewer? Does it depend on opinion? Sometimes I will see something on television, someone will claim something it as 'art' and I think it could be anything but the truth. But then again, I think my two year old scribbles is art.

When I went to my Discipleship Training School (DTS) in Switzerland about 5 years ago I had this teacher that spoke a lot about art. He said that art was anything that a person does deliberately. Therefore anything, painting, singing, dancing, murdering, sitting down, scrunching your nose, prostitution ect. could be art.

This made my friend Whitney and I very annoyed. Out of our school of (I think) 26 students Whitney and I were the drawers, painters, artsy people. There were dancers and musicians in the school too, but they didn't seem to get as annoyed as Whitney and I did. Actually, Whitney made much more of a stand against it then I did in class, but I was cheering her on :)

It took me awhile to wrap my head around it, but I really had no choice but to agree with him in the end, however much it pained me to do so. I didn't want what I enjoyed creating so much to be in the same category as murder, but alas it was. Art is art, deliberate human action.

Now, if you are anything like I was when I started my DTS 5 years ago, you will be fiery mad right now about my statement here. That's ok. I don't blame you. Sometimes I still get that way too. Especially when I see something that someone created that is absolutly beautiful, how can two things, say burping on que and the Mona Lisa, both be labeled as art? *Sigh.

I'm gonna go and create some art... and do the dishes ;)

tid bits...

So you know how I said that I had a lot of things to share with you and I was going to do that all last week? Yeah, so my old computer died the day after I wrote that. My trusty ol' computer has been all over the world with me, helped me create, helped me reach people, helped save my sanity in Korea, helped write many things, held many pictures, helped me organized my life a little and kept precious pictures of my little babies... now it's dead. And all of my things that I just mentioned are all trapped inside.

Apparently I should be able to get all of my documents, pictures, music ect. off of my computer with something called a firewire and connecting my new computer with the old... errr something like that. So there is hope that I can still save everything, once I figure out what a firewire is of course...

So all those things I was going to share with you, well they all had pictures to go with them and since my pictures are trapped in my old computer blogging about said things just can't happen.

On to more interesting things...

My new computer... so beautiful! Ok, ok, I know, it's just a piece of machinery, but I can think it's pretty :)

That wasn't very interesting though...

I made a ton a baby food last night. It took all night because I waited waaaay too long.

That's not super interesting either...

Hmm...

So today, yeah, it's one of THOSE days. I think I was the only one who woke up in a good mood and my children have been trying to change that mood all day. Sadly, I think they are succeeding. Eli is crabby and moody because he is teething. Can't really blame the poor kid for that. He is not an easy teether. Last time it took him 3 weeks to pop through his two front teeth, let's hope and pray it doesn't take that long this time!

Gabriel on the other hand doesn't have much for an excuse for testing my sanity, he's just mad. He has whined about everything under the sun thus far today and decided to have a melt down half way through eating his cereal this morning because apparently he didn't like it anymore, even though he had no problem eating the first half of it. Then he spilt some food all over my couch while being naughty, then he got mad at me because he spilt it and even madder when I told him that he needed to clean it up. He got so mad that I think the whole apartment building heard our disagreement and it took him ten minutes and many disciplinary actions taken before he cleaned up his mess.

Josh has an interview on the southwest side of the cities today. He was/is super excited and nervous about it. Then on the way into work this morning the check engine light came on in our car... so here it to hoping that he makes it all the way down to his interview and back and nothing happens to him or our van.

As for me, I'm just trying to save this household from anymore emotional melt downs today... did I say yet that I'm looking forward to nap time? 'Cause I am, a lot.

Not that my day is super interesting to you either... but as I said, it is just one of those days.

Valentine project...

Yes, Valentines Day was almost a month ago. I told you I was behind in blogging! Ok, so I wouldn't have even mentioned it but I had to show you our cute project that Gabriel and I made for Josh on Valentines Day.

On Valentines Day Gabriel and I made these chocolate cookies while Josh was at work. We wanted to spell out something fun and cute to welcome Josh home with. So we made hearts and letters and decided to decorate them with chocolate and strawberry frosting.

Gabriel put frosting on his heart shaped cookie...

He didn't just put it on, he loaded it on...

This was his beautiful heart when he was done decorating :D

Then he decided to do a pink heart. He was supposed to decorate it but instead he decided to go straight to the eating part...

This is one of those 'only a face (and shirt) a mother could love' moments...

The end project...

Opa's Cake

I haven't blogged lately, life has been busy. But I have quite a few things to put up and I will get to that this week.

Last week was my dad's birthday. I decided at the last minute to make a cake for him and I've never thrown a fondant cake together so 'quickly'. See normally when I know I'm making a cake I start preparing days in advance, making fondant, coloring it, making figures, making modeling chocolate, figuring out pictures, designs ect. This time I made the fondant the night before his birthday and then on his birthday while he was at work I threw together the rest of it.

I've never used edible paint before so this was my first time. I've made do with other things to make it look like edible paint but I finally bought some of the actual stuff (I was pretty excited when it came in the mail). I had to mix it together and I ended up putting a bit too much liquid in it so it was a little thin but it still worked really well. I had also never used coconut pecan frosting before, much less have tried to get it work with fondant... but that's a whole other story... it's very soft frosting...

Since my dad is a true hunter/trapper/fishing type of guy I figured I would do something along those lines so I painted a white tail buck at sunset in some tall grass.

Gabriel and his Opa on Opa's birthday...

Happy Birthday Dad! (even though I'm kinda a week late putting this up :D)