Mother's Day Program

This morning was the Mother's Day Program at Asher's preschool. There was a program with lots of songs and poems, then the teacher read a Mother's Day book to the class, then we went back to the classroom for gifts and cookies/punch. Each child made a book, hand-print stepping stone, flower picture, and potted flower for their moms. What a special morning!

Running my first 5K

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Today I participated in my first 5K. My friend Melissa & I decided to run it all and I'm happy to say we accomplished our goal! My time was 33:21. 

It was a great experience and I will probably do it again in the future.

Before the race, probably 6:30 am.

After the 5K!

Renee, Leanne, & Melissa

Enjoying our Dunkin Donuts on Monument Circle to celebrate!

Asher enjoying his donut.

Awana

The Awana closing program was last night. The boys did a great job this year memorizing their verses!

Isaac + Glasses

The Oaks does vision screenings for 1st graders (Marion Co Health Dept). They suggested Isaac see an eye doctor because of slightly poor vision. Long story short, we went this weekend and Isaac's eyes overall are great....but he could use reading glasses. At the doctor's recommendation, we went to the dollar store for the glasses.  He is very excited to have glasses and was even disappointed that he doesn't need "full time" glasses. He is taking very good care of them. We may get him some kid-sized reading glasses, but for now he is enjoying the ones in the picture :)

Chicago trip!

Baltimore Trip Part 2

In addition to seeing Tiffany's amazing artwork, Mom, Summer, Aimee, and I got to see Tiffany's campus, house, studio, and town! What a special time we had together! Thank you to Seth and Brian for keeping the kiddos at home...we missed you, the kids, and Dad.

1. A Ravens picture for Isaac and Asher.


2. One of Tiffany's favorite parts of Baltimore, Fell's Point.


3. Fell's Point


4. Fell's Point


5. This Hoosier had to get plenty of pictures of the ocean! I know it's a bay, but close enough.


6. Summer and Tiffany


7. Tiffanys street where she lives.


8. Tiffany's cute house!


9. Tiffany, me, Aimee, Summer, and Mom - so happy to be together!


10. Tiffany and me


11. Our fun car for the weekend.


12. Aimee and Mom in front of Tiffany's house.


13. Tiffany's studio space is inside MICA Place.


14. Tiff's studio paints.


15. The artist's studio - a great space!


16. Figuring out the parking meter - cracks me up


17. Me and Tiffany in her classroom.


18. The outside of her main classroom building.


19. MICA


20. In Tiffany's classroom.

21. In Tiffany's classroom.



22. In Tiffany's classroom.


23. In Tiffany's classroom.


24. In Tiffany's classroom.

25. In Tiffany's classroom.

26. In Tiffany's classroom.

Baltimore Trip Part 1

What an amazing time we had in Baltimore! Mom, Summer, and I flew from Indianapolis and Aimee flew from Boston to have a girls weekend with our youngest sis Tiffany. She is a 1st year grad student at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) downtown. She is in the MFA in Community Arts program. She and her classmates have an exhibition from now until March 8. We were able to be there for the opening weekend! Well, Aimee was able to be there, but Mom, Summer, and I had so many flight delays that we missed the actual opening night (so sad!), but we were able to get to see everything the next day with Tiffany as our tour guide. We got to meet several of her classmates (not all, but hopefully someday we'll get to meet).


Tiffany's exhibition project is called The Shedding Room. She can do a MUCH better job of explaining it than I can, so if you want the full explanation, give Tiff a call :) The bottom line is that Tiffany is an amazing artist and I'm so proud of her!

Tiffany's description of The Shedding Room:

shedding and regeneration.

when cells die they naturally move out of the body.
dead skin, fingernails, toenails, hair
physical shedding.

when thoughts need to die, they don't leave on their own.
emotions, ideas, memories, obsessions
they need you to let go of them. sometimes they need you to force them out.
emotional shedding.

This installation was inspired by snakes and the transformative power of Michael Jackson's 1979 hit "Don't Stop Til Ya Get Enough."


1. "Dialogical" is the name of the exhibition.


2. Two of Tiffany's classmates' projects. The one on the right is a video.

3. One of Tiffany's roommates' projects. All of the girls!

4. Mom, me, Tiffany, and Summer.


5. Mom and Tiffany.


6. Tiffany showing the circle that she sanded into The Shedding Room.

7. Explaining to us the meaning of The Shedding Room (see below).


8. Classmates' presentation.


9. Aimee viewing Tiffany's video outside The Shedding Room.


10. Entrance to Shedding Room.


11. Closeup of tile.


12. Shedding Room


13. Description of Shedding Room.


14. Tiffany

15. Another close-up of a panel.


16. MICA


17. MICA campus

18. Tiffany and Aimee at one of Tiffany's favorite cafes.


19. Tiffany's street.


20. Great job, Tiffany!