Posted for Ellen

Well, I haven't posted in a while and Ellen is driving me crazy about it so here we go. I will try to post more often, but to be honest my new job is quite time consuming...I love it anyway. The first several pictures are at eStem's Carnival. For those of you who know Ellen, get ready for this, ...she didn't bring her camera. What??!! I know, I know! She takes it everywhere, looking for a moment to snap. The other day she showed me a picture of her toliet paper roll. There they are...the chosen ones. It doesn't matter what anyone says, these two kids have stolen Bryan's heart and mine, too. Look at the innocence. Bryan thinks this is D's chance to go Goth. We have a bet she will have her nose pierced by age 16.

Don't let the smiles fool you. These two are up to no good. I promise, somewhere that night, somebody was hexed.

Just look at him. What can you say?

The several pictures are some I took while at Gilliam Park. I thought I better throw some other things in their besides the chosen family.

I have heard my comments about my Halloween costume. People asking if I was truly not straight. Well, up yours! I am who I am. I don't have the gene that others have for clothing and decorating but I can make mean Itailian Creme Cake.

Bryan and I went to the park in our new neighborhood to feed the birds. It was beautiful

Doesn't he look so handome. We were woored about the male bird below because his wings were al pointed back up and we hoped he was okay.

Putting this in just for fun.

Chicago w/ Kids

I am going to try to do this in sets. Now that I am home and rested, I am trying to revist the whole experience of an educational field trip with 45 students in the city of Chicago. So this is my way of debriefing the whole experience through photos. For instance, the mating turtles. It was spring in Chicago and that means it is mating season. The animals were on the prowl and the students were on the aware. I avoid many questions. My favorite, "Do all animals do it that way? You know from behind."
Love the trees in Chicago. Prettiest trees and best fragrances. Nothing like those stinky Bradford Pear trees all over Little Rock.
This is my first time seeing wolves in the wild. I just watched them as they moved. They made me homesick for my two babies.

Sundat in the Park is one of my favorite paintings of all time. I love the show of classes, the shadowing, the little monkey and the colors.
I don't know how Idid it but this is actually one pot and the back one is the reflection.

Hot Springs Family

This group of pictures was during Easter with my dad. It was the first time he got to see his new grandaughter. He was quite pleased with all the noise in the house when he woke up that morning. The boys love their Grandpa Felton. This is the Crab Apple Tree in our backyard. We sold that house and now we are moving.
My brother with his baby girl. Doesn't she look so cute.

This is my late step-mother's favorite statue. She used to talk to it when she was sick and dying.
This is the crazy Mockingbird that I have ever seen. It talks to my dad everyday and defends his yard for him.

Speak of which this is my daddy. He is a great daddy. Do we favor?
My nephew and learned to skip rocks together and he was estatic.

Went to my mom's house to get our taxes done. It was a beautiful weekend for it. My nephew's were there and so was my baby niece. This is one of the many wild cats that Pop keeps around the house to kill field mice, so he says. The sad part is they keep multiplying.
Here Mom with the boys. They are watching Cars. The boys love that show. Which one do you think is a ham like me?
This is the road to my mom's house. We had to go around the river flooded areas. There is still more rain coming they say.

Every year my mom tends to several beautiful gardens around her house. This year she took a break and is doing more working on the inside. This is one of her flowers that grew any way.
I don't know what kind of birds these are but they were everywhere. The laid on the ground moving and playing with each other. They were pretty.
Gracie doesn't really look excited about being held by Bryan. I think it is that brain tumor she has wrapped around her head. It has to cut the blood off to the brain.

The Big Storm

Thes storm on Thursday night was probably the worst I have ever lived through. I am from tornado country but let me just say that this one was bad. I have never been so scared. We spent most of the night in the bathroom with the dogs. They were both freaked out. We were the lucky ones.

Pine trees seem to have the worst damage. They tend to fall easy, however, it was big old hardwoods that were being uprooted. That was some powerful wind.

This was a neighbors truck. His car was destroyed, too.

The big storm hit our neighborhood and by the grace of God or kismit or kharma or whatever you buy into; we escaped alive and unharmed. This is allt hat matters.

The calm after the storm.

Part two New Orleans

These pictures were actually by the hotman Bryan. He took them with his i-Phone. He actually is a really good photographer. He got that part of the gay gene that I didn't get. I took this picture because my girl is not here. She is in Oklahoma or Nebraska or some god-forsaken straight hole in the US. Magic we are right there with you. We miss them, too.
The next few photos are when Bryan went to the aquarium. He has such an eye. The moray eel freeks me the white out. He used to have a coral reef aquarium. He also lived in Hawaii and loves reef fish.

I hate jelly fish. I got stung once in Florida and it burned like heck.
This one is a funny for Ellen. This hardware store was across from the gay bars on Burbon Street. It is just to funny.

These palm trees are amazing. This one especially was cool because it had ferns growing out of it. Blowfish are one of my favorite fish. I actually ate some blowfish in Chicago once. Bryan still chews my butt out for that one.
Overall, New Orleans was okay. It is by far not my favorite city but I would go back. We are actually thinking about going back for Southern Decadence.

New Orleans 2008

New Orleans was a blast. Here we are with the bartender from a gay bar on Burbon Street. He was really nice. I flunked Burbon Street 101 that night. But I did better than Bryan on the first night.

Here is MY BOYFRIEND with some guy with a dirty hat. He was very nice. Bryan on the other hand had his night with guys grabbing his but and flirting with him all night. He of course is a little bear cub.

Bryan and I immediately hit the bar. We first went to Bubba Gumps. We met the other teachers that went there for the same conference. Bryan wasn't none to happy about this picture but it is how he looks at me a lot.

I have never been to New Orleans in my life. It was a plae like no other. I am glad that I went. I am glad that Bryan went with me too. It was an experience that I will never forget. New Orleans is a little crazy and a little dirty. Well, a lot dirty actually.

Week Before Spring Break

We have had this orchid for about 5 years now. We bought it and it was full bloom and we thought it would never bloom. However, now we have these two beautiful blooms and we are so excited. They save if you can make a orchid bloom in your house it has great energy.

Art freakiness

Okay. I have met a lot of people in my life that are cool. I have only met a few people that are in my life forever. Outside my childhood friends, I first met this person, Amanda, AKA Blue. She changed my life forever. Other friends that changed my life are Pam Clark, Dee Knott, Mark and Gwyen, Dan, Denise, Mary Zies, Pam Seber, Terrie, Rodney, etc. I mean we meet lots of people in our lives and they have some effect. However, it is those friends that put their mark on you that you will never forget. A recent friend and quite awesome I must admit is Ellen Hagood. She changed the way I look at the world. Bryan, too. She put her mark upon us and we are blessed b/c of it. Here is some art that she inspired into Bryan, Bryan has already made two other ceative dolls. He is really talented. More so than me.

Below are some of my altered books that I started doing in my own journal. I am trying to find the "art" gay in me. I have the cooking gay and the nice gay but I don't have much of the creative gay. Blue has that talent. She is able to be creative. I am trying to build that into me.

I want to own my personal bed and breakfast some day. I can't wait for that. I love cooking and making people happy. One day that dream will come true.