Spellcheck

When I type my last name, it comes up as a spelling error. No big surprise there. However:

Suggested correction: "brontosaur"

Maybe I should change my last name.

Happy (almost) Halloween!

A few weeks ago, my mom reminded me that I had some Halloween decorations here with me in Atlanta. So after pulling half the boxes out of the crawlspace in my bedroom, I found the bag containing the Halloween "puppets" I made in clay class sometime in elementary school. Say hello...


Then my dear friend Annalise came to visit while she was in town for a work conference. Visiting another mutual friend, we got to carve a pumpkin! Carving pumpkins is probably my favorite Halloween activity, besides eating candy corn, of course.


(click for all the Halloween pictures)

art weekend

A few weekends ago, my parents flew up from Houston to visit (aren't their arms sore? ha ha ha...) It was my dad's birthday a few weeks before that, so I made him a shirt (well, not the shirt, but I decorated it):


Sunday evening was Expressions, an art show at my church. I had a few clocks in the show. It was a really fun evening with some amazing musical performances and lots of artwork which will be in the sanctuary for another couple of weeks.


see a larger version of the wire clock here.

Anna’s Surprise Birthday Party

A few weeks ago, Ryder and I threw a surprise birthday party for our friend Anna. She was completely surprised and jumped about a foot in the air when twenty people yelled "surprise" from her loft.


see the whole story

Michigan in the summer of ‘08

Unlike every other year of my life, this summer I spent just a few days in the state of Michigan as opposed to just a few days out of the state of Michigan.

First was Cheri & Darren's wedding, where I got to see lots of my college friends (see all the pictures):


The rest of the weekend was spent seeing family & more college friends and reminiscing about the good ol' days in Grand Rapids (see a few more pictures)...