My birthday.

It was my birthday. So I loaded up these darling kiddos and drove them over the mountain to the gem of the Rockies: Bear Lake.  It was a grand celebration.  I even brought cupcakes!

And then Natalie brought me cheesecake, and it was a pretty near perfect day.

Summer Art Camp for Kids

We had some good times this summer doing really cool art.

                                                      Fruit and veggie prints...

Layla and Clara

Color mixing...

Fish printing... always a hit!

Jack

Stinky fun!

Layla

Super cool silk-screening!

Awesome miniature books made with playing cards for the covers!

And little clay mice...

Lachlan

Here's the silk-screening process:

Owen

Bennett

And some underwater watercolor collaging!

Stella and Claire

And a cool glue and chalk flower project!

Naomi

Sooo many cute, cute, kids excited about ART!  

J.T.

And of course... TIE DYE!

And these super cool tunnel books... (This one is Owen's.)

These pictures are all out of order, but I'm not going to change them.  Nope.  Because you're smart and you can figure it out.

Jesse

The most beautiful spiral ever!

Ruby

                                                                 Gel-glue batiks!

Anna

Owen, Anna, Ruby and Naomi

Naomi

And tempera batiks!  These were gorgeous and new for me...

We had to hide out under the trampoline for shade one day while making mini-tie-dyes on t-shirts using sharpies and alcohol.

Eliza

Aidan

Summer art is truly ELECTRIFYING!!!!!!

Aidan, Owen and Ruby

I love teaching my friends' kids art.  They are so creative and AWESOME!  It almost makes me want to get more serious about it, like get organized and stuff.... Naaahhhhhhhh.

New Leaf

I basically fell off the blogging wagon for a few months.  How will I catch up?  Well, I probably won't do a very good job, but it will be fun.  Because you know what we got?  A big, ginormous, gorgeous computer.  Seriously.  It's large.  And beautiful.  And I am so excited to sit in front of it in the late hours and blog, blog away.  Yay!  Starting tomorrow.  Because I'm tired.