My Dad

With having celebrated Fathers' Day this week, a scrapbooking group list I particapate with asked us to share pictures of our dad. This is the photo I shared as it is a favorite picture of mine. Here is the story behind the shot....

I was traveling in Peru with my father and sister Lois. Our group was in the Amazon Rain Forest of Peru and were visiting a small village on the river. This woman Maria came out to greet our boat , bringing her 2 pets with her. One was a parrot and the other, a three toed tree sloth. We were all invited to hold each of the animals, the sloth being the most popular. Holding him was like getting a hug from a live teddy bear. As the sloth was being passed around my father came up to me and asked me to get a photograph of him when he got his hug. "Of Course," I replied. Then someone went to pass him the sloth and he said, "Not with him!" And then my dad proceded to grab Maria and hug her, laughing harder than I have ever seen him laugh. When I see this picture it reminds me of a moment when my dad showed us another side of himself I had not seen before, his silly joking side. Of all the amazing things I saw on that trip This was truly my favorite moment.

Happy Fathers' Day Dad, I love you.


PS..Thanks go to Shelby for figuring out how to use our scanner so that I could post this picture.Thank God for smart kids.

Inside and out

Here you can see the mud room. Jay is planning on making me a bench for the area but until then I just put a big old chair to fill the space.

This is the view of our house from the base of the front lawn. Jay has landscaped it beautifully and I just love pulling up to our finished house.

The bathroom

Jay hates the color of this bathroom but hey, its my room and I love the bright color. I used subway and hexagon tiles and old style fixtures. And of course a little artwork finishes it up. No mirror but I have my priorities straight..photos yes...mirror- that will come.

more room

The first couple of pictures I posted were of the main croopping space- my tables and paper storage. Here is another storage area and my photo gallery...I love having a place to hang some of the hundreds of pictures I take.

My cropping room

I have been remiss in posting photos of my "play" room. Last year I posted a lot of photos of the building scene but forgot to show the finished space. SO..here is my dream room. There is plenty of space to hold all my stuff and lots of room to grow. I am still working on getting everything organized but here you go...