Twins

My mom's was actually chocolate cake with a mocha icing.

 

Not quite sure how the Beetlejuice sand worm reminded my wife of her pillow, but it did.

Spontaneity...

8-20-2011

At a family members going away party...

8-21-2011

We were driving to the grocery store when we started seeing the signs.

It was a great day!

Sum up...

8-7-2011

Viability Day means that it could be possible for the twins to survive if there was an emergency and Amanda had to have the babies now. Hopefully they'll stay in there as long as possible (early Nov.), but time will tell.

7-31-2011 through 8-15-2011

We've moved!

After having sold and packed our house, living with my parents for a week and a half, moving into our new home, and living without internet for a week, we have settled in. Whew!

I didn't journal everyday, but I'll post a few a day and get caught up. Sadly, no watercolors.

7-24-2011

8-3-2011

Curried Tofu with Broccoli and Noodles.

More Packing

This was the only fun part of packing yesterday. Can't believe we aren't done yet.

All is well...

My wife was having some pain near her hip/stomach area and couldn't straighten up to walk normally or even move her right leg without excruciating pain. We know she has two kidney stones and we were worried they might be on the move and causing her pain. The wait at the first hospital was horrible. It was jam packed and not one person was called back while we were there for that hour. Meanwhile people are throwing up next to us, listening to horrible music on their phones, without headphones, so everyone one in the room has to hear it. It was awful. We said, "Screw it." and drove 20 minutes to a different hospital in the burbs and we were seen immediately. It was bizarre.

Turns out the pain was not from kidney stones, but more than likely a pulled/strained muscle that runs from her leg, through her abdomen and connects to the top of her pelvis. She's doing much better today and able to walk around kind of normal again.

Our realtor is an interesting woman. It's hard to tell from the drawing, but we were all in the same room at the time. She heard the home inspector say he was going to test it and she still screamed at the top of her lungs when it went off.

The main reason we didn't go garage saling is because it rained yesterday morning. We got a lot done though.

 

Want to see the coolest chair ever made? It seats four! Check it out.

Summer's Great!

My wife is obsessed with Sesame Street and The Muppets. We rented the first disc of Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days, using Netflix. I guess I didn't realize there was a difference between Sesame Street and The Muppets. I just thought they were the same thing, so my wife educated me. My favorite skit was "Oklahoma." I can't wait to watch this stuff with our twins, but I know Amanda is looking forward to it even more than I am.

Stress...

 

I haven't drawn much in the past two weeks because I've been so stressed out. I didn't know how to illustrate this stressful feeling until I was walking in between our house and the neighbors and I nearly got ran over by a bunch of birds zooming down the driveway.

Why the stress? We negotiated the sale of our house! Great news, but my wife it pregnant with twins and I'm not sure where we are moving to next!

Last Four Days...

Amanda was putting on her hoody in the car and some how got the hood caught across the front of her face. It was quite entertaining.

Poor Emma...

Baby Stuff...

I created both of these today since I had some extra time. However, neither one is actually from events that happened today.

That would be Pop-Ice, me, photography, and our kitties.

Beautiful Bulge

Happy Fathers To Be Day!

Thursday and Friday

 

Saturday

We stayed in and watched "Somethings Gotta Give." Jack Nicholson is insane. We're going to rent "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" soon.

I opened up my book at the end of the day today to draw something and found this...

My wife snuck down early this morning and drew this in my book! She's awesome!

16 Weeks, 3 Days

 

I also drew my father-in-law's business partner, for his wine label today. It turned out well, but the second doesn't look as much like him.

Let's get caught up...

Here are my visual journal entries from the past few days, which I actually colored. How about that?

My father-in-law also asked me to draw a wine label of his twin brother and business partner, in a similar fashion for what I did for him.

Here's a bit of the process for his twin brother...

Post 504

I've made over 500 posts!

Here are three more that I need to water color yet. Not sure if I'm going to get caught up on that. Wait! I've got one more day of school. Maybe I'll get caught up sooner than I thought!

I'm trying to make my entries the same size, just like American Elf and Spina Doodles. It's working out nicely and should allow me to fit in photographs from the day next to the drawings.

Delay

I'm more than a little back logged. I'm meaning to watercolor these, but just haven't had the time. I'm going to go a head and post them black and white. I've got one more week of school and will hopefully be able to get to it then.

Memorial Day Weekend

[18cm x 18cm - pen, watercolor on sketchbook paper]

They were her maternity jeans. They are about all she wears nowadays. Also, if you were wondering, Ben is a pseudonym.

[18cm x 18cm - pen, watercolor on sketchbook paper]

An old entry from a few weeks back.

[29cm x 21cm - pen, watercolor on sketchbook paper]

Clutz...

From today...

I didn't get to watch the UFC pay-per-view tonight, but here's an entry from one about a month ago...

Entertainer

Dang it! Switch "kids" and "cats" around. Crap.

Babies!!!

Here are a couple old drawings from when my mom took my wife and I to North Carolina to visit my cousin. Just got too lazy to post them until now.

I've seen lots of drawings like this on Urban Sketchers and wanted to give a fish-eye-inside-plane drawing a try.

Other observations...

 

My parents came into town yesterday...

And today I made my wife laugh...

It was a good day, but I'm tired.