Alaska!

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Utah 2008

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Obsidian Butterfly

John played saxophone whle performing his composition, "Obsidian Butterfly", along with Carlin Ma on piano, Tuesday night (4-1-08) in Auer Hall at Indiana University. It is music that holds you from the very begining and takes you on a wonderful ride until the last note. BRAVO JOHN!

Tucson: First Day a Day of Contrast

On Tuesday 2/26/08 we left a very snowy Fort Wayne and landed in a beautiful sunny Tucson, AZ. At first it looked like the plane would not make it out of Fort Wayne as we waited in the plane for two hours as the plane rocked back and forth; stuck in the snow and then we had to wait for the de-icer truck to reload. And Bob's plane was delayed an hour also because of a sick crew memeber. But in the end, everyone made it out of Ft. Wayne and into the desert of Tucson.

This is our house as we head out the drive way.



A cactus garden at the Tucson Airport:



The Residence Inn had citrus and catus in the landscape:

A Well Dress Theif

A month ago, Becky and I went down to see John in the IU Symphonic Band while Bob stayed in Ft. Wayne to see Jenny play her ISSMA solo at the Bishop Dwenger Mardi Gras night. The music was great, especially the sax solos (John was the principal sax). After the concert, in the rain and I might add lighting, John was breaking the cable lock so he could liberate his bike from the bike rack. The key had broken off inside it and wouldn't release. They say you should dress for your job, but for this job I think he over dressed for the occasion.

Roast Duck

Jenny's boyfriend Eric likes to cook and one Sunday he fixed us roast duck. Yum, it was good!

Recent Art from Jenny

Jenny recently finished 3 oil paintings.
This one is a self portrait. She titled "Contemplation". She has yellow highlights on one side of her face and hair. She was sitting next to the fireplace. She used this in her portfolio to transition from paintings that had warm colors of yellow & orange to her black & white art.


This next one is an oil painting of me! I'm in the Marin Headlands by the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge and I'm running through one of the old military tunnels. They stored ammunition & cannons there to defend the coast. John L'ski took the original picture. She titled it, "Light at the end of Tunnel or Train!"


After the Christmas Formal Eric gave Jenny a dozen yellow roses. She took a picture of them and painted them in oil. She titled it, "Warm Petals"

Dogs on Ice

Yesterday we took the boys over to Krieger Park to play. There were areas of grass, snow, and ice where the snow had melted and then refroze. They had fun on the ice, went into a stream to get wet and then to finish it off they rolled in some snow. They both took long naps in the afternoon.

Christmas is here - Joy everywhere!

On Sunday, December 23, we had both Nancy's and Bob's families over for a Christmas get together. Here are some of the scenes from the day.
Pre-dinner activities:







Then there was dinner. The over 30 crowd ate upstairs and the "cousins" ate downstairs.








Then there were some post-dinner activites.









Then everyone gathered for a gift exchange.




Bud got a calendar with his grandkids in it.


The Golden's gave the Good kids a 20 pound box of cars!









We comissioned Jenny to draw a picture of Nick. She didn't have it completed yet, but Jess looked pleased.




Jenny with the dozen of roses Eric gave her the night before at the Christmas Formal.


And we visited some more.






Jenny demostrated how to eat one of her favorite foods, "puppy-chow".






Merry Christmas Everyone!