pics of me

Kim requested that I put more pics of me on here

artwork

Hey here are some things i have worked on this year in the art department of my life...

This project was for a bulletin board at church (primary)...

I dressed up as 'Andre the Artist.' The kids found it to be very exciting, as they don't usually see guest artists coming in to do sharing time. They especially loved making fun of my terrible accent (i am NOT an actor!!) and laughing when my hairy mustache would shed in my mouth (and eventually fell completely off). I am trying to do something like this every couple of months for the primary now. It is fun. When the kids answer gospel questions correctly, they get to come up and help paint. For this one they painted most of the sky.

I went home and finished it up during the week.

Now it is the year theme bulletin and has lettering in the bottom area that reads
"I am a Child of God!"

Sorry about the blurry picture--this is a painting hanging in my living room. It was inspired by the trip Danny and I took to Spain the summer we graduated. It is not finished...but I don't know how to finish it and don't expect to soon, so it hangs on our wall anyway. It used to bug me and make me feel bad that I hadn't finished it, but now I like to imagine the different possibilities for what would give it the ring it needs.

This is a work-in-progress mural at my in-laws house. It is a part of a cute little room made for the kids. I've basically taken a two month break from it in order to do some problem solving on the project. I started painting it before I knew exactly what it was supposed to look like in my head...so poor Anne has to be very patient as I prepare to fix it...and make some pretty substantial changes.

I will post more pics as I work on it. You will see it quite a bit thicker in foliage, with much lighter and softer greens, maybe see a lower branch added to give it some lower visual weight (so it appears as a more inviting tree to the children). then once the basic tree is done I will add a few chipmunks, maybe a hole in the trunk, some birds, and some long soft grass which will run along the perimeter of the room, just above the 8" wood baseboards.
If you have any other ideas for me, pitch em please, that would be great!
(neat doll house, huh? the girls absolutely love it)

canned goods--er, i mean, canned grosses

Well I did an inventory of our 3-month, "rotating" food supply last Saturday. It felt good because sorting it has been on my to-do list for a while now ( I am obsessive about my lists). Well, I took out about 20 cans of expired/unappetizing foods and gave them to my neighbor, along with 5 boxes of expired mac-n-cheese that each member of our family disdains. My whole goal for food storage is to eat it regularly, you know, rotate it. The stuff I got rid of seemed to be choking up the rotation line!
Well Danny did not approve of my actions. Well--he approved the inventory part of course but not the discarding of the goods part. He said, "Annie, if we need to rely on that food storage tomorrow, I am not going to be unhappy to be eating slightly expired store brand cream of mushroom soup and macaroni and cheese. ...Does macaroni and cheese really ever expire?"
At first I was offended that he would interfere with food storage business, because so far, it has been my baby, not his. But he does have a point. That night we both took a can off the shelf and ate it for dinner to commemorate our food storage mishap. I chose Tomato soup--I've never had it, never wanted it. I am not sure how it even got to my food storage shelf. And Danny chose Dinty Moore Beef stew, a food item he had liked when we first got married (when he was used to that sort of thing a lot during college days) but now isn't so fond of. We tried to share with Melia. She ate a bit of the dinty moore but mostly just wanted the saltines.
That night we fed ourselves, like usual. But more than that, our hearts got a little bigger just thinking about how lucky we are to have so much.

I've been husband tagged!

What is his name? Daniel Robert Hyde

How long have you been married? 5 1/2 years

How long did you date? 9 months

How old is he? 27

Who eats more? Me, definitely. I don't know how he manages to stay 60 pounds heavier than me because I pork

Who said "I love you" first? Danny

Who is taller? He has me by almost a foot

Who sings better? Ummm...our daughter, Melia

Who is smarter? Danny is a genius. He can figure out ANYTHING--work, tools, puzzles, ...ME!

Whose temper is worse? Mine. When he is mad he gets a little snappy

What are your color codes? He is a red, I am a white

Who does the laundry? me, of course

Who does the dishes? me



What is a little thing or two you love about him? How he is so great at cheering me up, how he is always looking for original new tunes, I love his forthright communication style, and he has a nice zest for learning

Who pays the bills? me, but only because I beat him to the punch, he is good with money

Who mows the lawn? ummm...this last summer? Danny. But I have a decent amount of mowing to claim

Who cooks dinner? me

Who drives when you are together? When the girls are in the car, Danny. It is much easier for my shorter self to climb over into the back seat to attend to our little dears.

Who is more stubborn? me

Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? It used to be Danny, all the way...but I think I have turned a new leaf over the past couple years

Who proposed? Danny...like 5 times (I said 'yes' every time!)

Who has more friends? Me

What is his love language? quality time and touch

What attracted me to him? His face, hair, smile, style of carrying himself

Who wears the pants? We share the pants, the close contact is nice!


I tag Beth, Shannon, Candy, Kari, Karen and Shelly