Nicole is 29! Really!

         Nicole Kathryn Hendrickson Shelby
It's just amazing, but my Nicole was born this morning 29 years ago.  What an amazing addition to our family, what a beautiful daughter, inside and out.  I love being with her.

                                   May, 1980

                                   Easter 1981
                                         Easter 1985
                            Orchestra performance--Claremont Youth Symphony 

                                           High School Graduation, 1998

                                   Isabelle's Baptism, April 2008

       

What more can I say you are loved and I will Love you forever!!

Painting with the Geezer

While Nicole was here, she got to spend some great time with her dad, they spent it creating (throwing paint) and creating art.  You start by soaking the canvas with water and then adding/flinging acrylic paint in different manners on the canvas.  Our driveway is covered with a huge tarp to help contain the mess, the process is messy but the pictures turn out great.  You can keep them the way that they are, or you can then add more paint in a different manner on top on the finished product.  This is the process that Mark used on his LA Temple picture for the background.  Every one sure does turn out different.Here is Nicole's first painting project.  

I sure do love my painting/artsy family.