Hooray for Thanksgiving!

This year Clint and I had Thanksgiving with our friends Britney & Justin. Justin and Clint have been friends since their early years and both happened to come out to OSU for med school. They have a darling 3 year old son and a cute little baby girl. This pic was taken by their son, Traeden (hence the blurriness) He was cracking us up the whole day! Although we missed being with family, we had a great time and had some mighty tasty food. Hooray for thanksgiving!

What was clint doing while we were cooking in the kitchen? Maybe this next picture shows it more clearly....

He was watching the Dog Show, which apparently, is on every year after the parade. Who knew? ha ha. He was trying to predict the winners from each category. Sadly the Beagle lost and Clint pretty much gave up at that point.

One of the funniest moments of the night was when after dinner Justin decided it was a good idea to put on the movie Willow. ( We were both a little confused why anyone would think this a good idea....and after watching the movie felt even stronger on this.) Anyway...there is a part at the end when the witch spills blood all over and in attempts to make the move less scary to the 3 year old, we all started saying, "Ew! That lady spilled cranberry sauce!" Traeden looked at us and said, "No! Its blood!" Duh! what were we thinking.

we also had a familiar visitor stop by this holiday:
Our good old friend Felix!

Upcoming Show

I have a show Dec 30th-Jan 30th here in Columbus at the ROY G BIV gallery with a fellow classmate (Sara Barens, work on left) Opening on January 2nd. If you'd like an announcement mailed to you post me a comment!

Inspiration

Today I stumbled upon this lovely website, by my favorite store anthropologie. Lets just say I could spend all day on this site! Its basically all the ideas, inspiration, art, whatever that inspires the people at anthropologie.

I found this trailer for this documentary on 5 women artist, and now I am dying to see it! check out the trailer. I am half tempted to just buy the documentary, since I already looked at the libraries and its not there. boo. I love this stuff!




Other things that are inspiring me right now, The Wexner Center in Columbus has an awesome Luc Tuymans retrospective showing right now. If you are in Columbus check it out. I love art that makes you think, and I love how subtle and unassuming it is. And of course I love this one because its a bunny!

.What is inspiring you lately?

Football 101

Saturday Clint and I went to what will likely be our last Buckeye's football game. Clint LOVES football. I'm pretty sure he thinks about it all the time :) He loves football season like most normal people love Christmas season, in fact, he refers to it as Christmas Eve. Silly Clinton.

He has tried very diligently to convert me to the sport. We even had a Family Home Evening dedicated to teaching me about football. I'm trying to think what I remember from that... hmm.... I'm a lost cause!


You see, when you stick me in a stadium for four hours this is what I see: (oh and I was not coveting those nachos, more likely gagging at the sight of them and wondering why someone would chose to consume them. Being in a football stadium is kinda like being in another planet for me! everything is so foreign! he he he And yes, the second picture on the top is my viewpoint while everyone else was standing, I was comfortably sitting on the bleachers! Hey, 4 hours is a long time to stand. Dang student section.)

This is what clint sees! He sure gets into the games! And this game was a pretty close and exciting one. It went in to overtime and the bucks won! Hooray. I sure love my football loving husband. Maybe someday I will see the light and love football too.

Ice Cream Social

This weekend we had a fabulous ice cream social. A few of us with ice cream makers made some delicious and creative concoctions. Stephen was one of our distinguished taste testers, and as you can tell by the expression on his face, he was the most enthusiastic one as well. (Well actually I think that is probably the same expression he pulls in most pictures. Silly Stephen.)

We had Raspberry Pecan (My personal favorite, made by Bryce), Ricotta Almond (made by me) Lemon Blueberry FroYo (Top secret recipe from Jeni's!! Made by Kate yum!), Chocolate Chip Boca Pandan (Kira's award winning treat! made with young coconuts) and Fruity Fun (Bryce's mystery banana-y frozen fruitiness). Every flavor was pretty tasty. We are already planning a second spring event. Homemade ice cream is truly one of the most delectable goodies out there. Thanks friends for coming! We had a great time.

Cookin My Way to the Good Life

I come from a family of readers. My mom basically thrives off of reading, as do many of my brothers and sisters. I have often been scoffed at for reading a book half through and never finishing it. ( Including reading over 400 pages of david copperfield and then stopping) I just have never been a huge reader! However, I LOVE reading cook books! I will check them out from the library like crazy and just read through the recipes. I read recipes before I go to bed, in the morning over breakfast and pretty much all through the day. I don't even make the recipes all the time. I just like to read them!

Anyway, I came across this book, Jamie at Home and I think it might be my new favorite book. I wonder how many times I can renew it from the library? Hmm. Its just a lovely book, and mostly I love the idea of growing most of your own food organically and becoming more self sustaining. Someday I will have a huge garden and we can eat yummy home grown produce all year. Until then we can still have delicious seasonal meals with fabulous fresh ingredients such as this tasty one we had tonight: Squash soup, beet salad and apple pie!

My Halloween Hottie

Clint worked very hard on his costume. He worked on it literally non-stop for over a week! Here he is a few moments before the big unveiling. I think he looks pretty cute with a beard!
And the finished product: SCARY! Now you might not guess it, but Clint was planning on going as the Sundance Kid. He had been planning it for months and months, ever since we saw the classic film Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid this summer. However, we both kinda forgot about Robert Redfords sweeping blonde locks, and we also forgot to get a cowboy hat. The result: Clint looked a little more like a 1970's trailer park resident. He he. Sorry Honey, I thought about saying porn star, but I upgraded it a notch :) I didn't take a picture of him in his cowboy garb, which actually tied the costume together quite nicely. Isn't he cute?