that girl of mine

nothing very interesting happened today, so here's a few shots i grabbed of taylor acting silly yesterday. it's what she does best, and i haven't a clue where she gets it.


this is a shot of her sitting in the backseat of my car, decked out in her soccer gear with her snowball in hand.


here she's trying to make the same face as the partially earless chocolate rabbit.... one eye and all..


and then she chomped out another piece of its ears

oh, and i'd like to thank the academy, my adoring fans for staying up to date with my life by reading my blogs, and my dear friend lauren for coming shopping with me to buy my "girlie" clothes which i was sporting at the french quarter festival. thanks bertha!

"plethora" because i just like that word

i've had a couple things happen since my last post... the saturday before easter me, taylor, & matt sat down in my mom's kitchen and dyed a smurf-load of eggs. i picked up some tie-dye and funky paint egg dye and mom had the cups-o-color for egg dunking (which was taylor's main method of egg-coloring). we spent a good while prettying the eggs up, and well, for some of the eggs... they actually looked better before we got our hands on them. i actually think taylor put more egg dye on her shirt and my mom's floor than she did on the eggs. here's a couple shots from the "egg coloring eggstravaganza" (haha.. i crack me up... get it .. crack.. haha).

this is matt telling taylor how she's supposed to slice gouda cheese.. oh, no wait.. he's explaining how to dye the eggs.. silly me.



check out her shirt.


i tried using one of the cups for a funky photo effect, but i wasn't impressed (impressed with myself, of course.. just not the "effect'')

matt fashioned him some eggshell eyeballs.. the one on the right was his pride and joy.. he made some really cool looking dead trees on the egg.

this is my swamp egg... i know, i know.. you're jealous. i'm not surprised.

easter morning the bunny paid a visit to taylor and got her some really neat junk (if i do say so myself).. she got some bubbles, lots of candy, sweedish fish, a frisbee, happy feet dvd, some jewelry, a doll that came with markers for her to write on it with, which i'm supposed to throw in the washer to clean it off for her to draw on it all over again, but it looks like instead her comforter is going to have to take a trip to the washer because she apparently "missed" when trying to write on the doll and went to town on her comforter.

here's some shots from easter morning:

that's her "wow, look at that easter grass" face.



probably the most photographed child ever.

taylor sporting her easter dress with her massive chocolate bunny who's ears she chomped off last night.... and that's her brand new basketball goal there to the left.

we had a good easter.... lots of food, lots of eggs, and of course... lots of reese's peanutbutter eggs.

post-easter news:

last monday i didn't have to bowl league.. thanks to brandi and lisa who were on their awesome cruise kissing dolphins and snorkeling and junk.... but i still love them anyway (punks). so me and matt hit up the bowling alley to shoot a few games and i um.... well, let's just say i knocked one out of the park. it's really too bad i wasn't bowling league that night (thanks again y'all) because i bowled a 215 baby!! the funny thing is that me, matt, and the little dude bowling on the lane on side of us all had strikes in the first frame.. and i said "hey, look, we're all working on our first 300 game".. even though that wasn't true, i sure thought it was when my first six balls were strikes...


this is the printout of the games i bowled that night.. pretty consistent eh? i really think i deserve a ring or something for this.

this is matt reading taylor dr seuss' "sneetches". if you've never read it, read it. it's a pretty awesome book.

oh and something else.. we've made some more paintings...

this one is another one of our "jelly donuts". the left side is mine and the right side is matt's.

this is my newest one. i figured i'd be a little less retarded about this whole abstract art thing and make use of my elementary circles and lines paint skills. matt's been working on one for a while, but it's not done yet and i don't want to spoil it, so you'll have to wait until he finishes it.

also... we have our paintings hanging at the waterlife museum here in houma. we put them up thursday for "art after dark". to read about the event, just click here. and if you look really good at the photo on that link, you can see our paintings on the wall.... but no fear.. if you can't see them in there, check them out here:
they'll be there for the next couple weeks i guess.. so if you've got a hair appointment that got cancelled or just got out of court, take a walk over to the museum and check it out.

we didn't get to visit art after dark and listen to the awesome comments people said about our paintings because we were at the french quarter festival in new orleans. i showed up a little late, but i got to hear rebirth... here's a shot of them.. and then, of course, a self portrait.




it was muggy for a while and then the wind started blowing like 48.763 miles an hour, but we loaded up on coke caps, so that was good.. ah ahem.. by the way.. i'm still accepting those.. you know, just whenever. um, no.. now. i meant now. i'm accepting them now. but you know, just whenever. (i'd like to thank all of those who have helped us out so far... just like "that person who just farted, but is trying not to look like they did"... you know who you are).

oh, and on sunday was the annual blessing of the fleet in chauvin. it's basically a boat parade where all the shrimp boats and skiffs.. and even some smaller boats get decorated up and parade down the bayou into lake boudreaux. the priest rides on the lead boat and blesses all the shrimp boats he passes as he goes down the bayou (before they all go out into the waters for the shrimping season). matt put up a gallery of photos from the event on houmatoday.com so go check it out. as for me,... i've got my own little gallery of photos from the boat blessing:


this is the boat we rode on (the lead boat).


me and matt on the boat


and, of course (sorry matt) me and martin folse (for those of you who don't know him, he was in my first blog.. sort of.. and he's a "local celebrity" .. the guy who owns the tv station and proudly puts himself on it every chance he gets). i got him to volunteer for the dunk tank for relay for life at the end of this month, so that should be fun. anyone who wants to see martin folse get dunked.... or wants to dunk him yourself.. hey hey... now you get your chance. you're welcome. i am accepting gifts for this awesome work that i do for the community, so please, don't be shy.

please direct all positive comments about me, my blog, my paintings, my photography, my exceptional cheeseball eating skills, my awesome car, my wonderful use of the words "a", "and", & "the", or my pop a shot skills to me personally (oh and anything else you'd like to leave positive feedback about).

as for all negative comments, please refer them to my dog dixie. she doesn't listen to you anyway.

oh and congratulations are in order.. since i finally finished my taxes.

i wish you all a great week... and myself as well :o)

pibbs and cokes

a few weeks ago i drove with matt to lafayette to photograph the high school boys basketball finals.. and to avoid as much sports talk as humanly possible (chimichanga).... i'll just say that we took alot of photos and you can find the galleries of those photos on www.houmatoday.com. there is also an option to purchase the photos online now if you'd like (just fyi).

anyway... i've got this very strange attraction to mr. pibb. i'd say it ranks right up there with spam in my book (yes people, it's no secret.. misty loves spam). i am all too familiar with the fact that none of the grocery stores in and around the houmthibodeauxneworleansmorgancity area carry mr pibb. nono.. you've gotta drive clear through to lafayette to find these little jewels. (i am currently aware that the civic stop right next to the houma courier carries bottles of mr pibb, but i was not aware of this until about a month ago.... and well, even though the information comes from reliable enough sources, i still have yet to see them with my own eyes so i'll just pretend that i've never heard that information for the sake of this blog.)

well, matt took several trips to lafayette to photograph the lhsaa basketball tournaments (boys and girls).. and everytime he'd bring me back several bottles of mr. pibb (thanks matt!)... i thought i was in heaven. until.......... we both went up there. on our way back from lafayette we decided to stop in at a gas station and stock up on a few bottles of pibb just in case we didn't come across any in a grocery store.. we grabbed about 7 bottles from the gas station then got directions to albertson's (the nearest grocery store).. there we found twelve packs and two liters!!!! holy bearded cow!! i couldn't believe it.. so we stocked up on about $30 worth of pibb and headed out... and when i got home, i loaded up my refrigerator..

and on another entirely unrelated note... i took first place with my ncaa tourney bracket in my mom's office pool.. $120.. i came in 3 points above my dad's bracket (which i filled out also).. it was fun talking trash to people who have no idea what teams they picked (my mom and dad).. so that gave me an interesting few weeks.. and a reason to watch the tournament.

oh, and another thing.. me and matt are saving the coke rewards.. any red bottle caps from coke, diet coke, and coke zero.. oh, and vault (but those caps are silver)... and the rewards off the twelve packs (it's the part you pull off the fridge pack to get inside the box). we've got about 200 some odd points and we need 26,000, so we're asking for your help. any cap or box that says cokerewards on it... we want that code. you can save them up for the next time we see you, or you can just e-mail us the codes. (we've even gone as far as walking up to strange people asking them for their empty bottles that are sitting on their tables.. and um.. matt is going around making u-turns in the middle of subdivisions in his efforts to snatch up any and every red cap he finds.. so please people.. save him from running over innocent people walking their schnoodle puppies). i'm thinking about giving away one of our jelly donut paintings to the person who sends in the most points. either that.. or we could get your picture on a mug... a bundle of multi-colored coathangers.. used toothbrushes.. our autographs... toe socks... big huge tub of cheeseballs... you name it. and if anyone else has any good ideas as to how we can get the most coke rewards, feel free to send them to me. (and did we mention how much we love all of you??) :o)

tomorrow is good friday and i plan on filling up my tummy with as much crawfish, yogurt pretzels, and cheeseballs as humanly possible... (it is a shame i can't have any sausage with my crawfish, but ah, well).

happy early easter to everyone!