I thought that considering one of the only home videos we have of our family includes something quite similar to what you're about to see, we all needed to see this. Apparently, it just runs in the family.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Well it certainly has been a while hasn't it?
Well hello blog world! You may have noticed that I haven't posted in a while. This past...well..year...I've been at school and I pretty much figured I didn't really have anything too exciting to say. It wasn't until recently that my brilliant brother told me to post pictures of the artwork I've been working on. This past semester I took a few art classes (being an art major, you tend to take art classes) and I thought it might be cool to post some things I've done. So to all those that read or happen upon my blog, I'd love to hear any feedback you've got! I'm always looking to improve, so have at it!
So I took a drawing class, a computer art class, and my personal favorite, sculpture.
We'll start with drawing. Most of the work we did in this class was just exercises on perspective, vanishing points, value, cubes, spheres...boring stuff. But some things toward the end we got to draw actual pictures that I ended up being rather proud of. The first is charcoal and the next four are graphite and the last one is in pen.
In my next post I'll move on to sculpture. But I'd love to hear critiques on these!
Oh and just to let everyone know, my experience with MS seems to be going just fine. I'm taking my shot everyday and looking forward to whenever the day comes that my doctor will tell me that there is now a pill instead of a shot! (Everytime I see him he tells me they are working on a pill.) But other than that, I really don't even feel like I have MS! It can get irritating sometimes because I will feel off in some way and I don't know if it has to do with MS or not. Usually it will kinda feel like my eye prescription is off or something like that, and I don't know if it's because of MS goings on, or if it's just natural eye functions. But I really have nothing to complain about. Life is wonderful, and I'm a happy girl.
I'll post again soon (I promise this time) with pictures of sculptures!
So I took a drawing class, a computer art class, and my personal favorite, sculpture.
We'll start with drawing. Most of the work we did in this class was just exercises on perspective, vanishing points, value, cubes, spheres...boring stuff. But some things toward the end we got to draw actual pictures that I ended up being rather proud of. The first is charcoal and the next four are graphite and the last one is in pen.
In my next post I'll move on to sculpture. But I'd love to hear critiques on these!
Oh and just to let everyone know, my experience with MS seems to be going just fine. I'm taking my shot everyday and looking forward to whenever the day comes that my doctor will tell me that there is now a pill instead of a shot! (Everytime I see him he tells me they are working on a pill.) But other than that, I really don't even feel like I have MS! It can get irritating sometimes because I will feel off in some way and I don't know if it has to do with MS or not. Usually it will kinda feel like my eye prescription is off or something like that, and I don't know if it's because of MS goings on, or if it's just natural eye functions. But I really have nothing to complain about. Life is wonderful, and I'm a happy girl.
I'll post again soon (I promise this time) with pictures of sculptures!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
A little bit of an update...
Well seeing as I haven't written in a while, I figured this would be a good time to update my life.
I've been working at Trader Joe's all summer and I love it! Good job, great people to work with and I love working with mom, it makes work a lot more enjoyable!
Well a few weeks ago, I started feeling a pins and needles feeling in my fingers of my left hand. I went to a chiropractor and it went away for a few days. Then unfortunately, my entire left side went numb. Then one day while at work I realized that I was seeing double. Went back to the Chiropractor and he could help.
We went to our family practice doctor and she suggested I get an MRI. This was on July 2nd, so later that night I went down to the hospital to get an MRI but the doctor I saw suggested that I be admitted to the hospital and do enough tests for them to figure out exactly what was going on. I ended up staying until this morning (the 4th) and after a plethora of tests over the last couple days the doctors still do not have a definite diagnosis, but they all seem pretty certain that it is Multiple Sclerosis. At first when I heard this I was pretty scared but I got a bunch of VERY comforting nurses, and GREAT doctors, I really don't feel scared.
Every case of MS is different, so there's no way to tell what my situation will be. I'm not worried. I know my Heavenly Father is watching me and has a plan for me so if I can keep the eternal perspective in mind, I can keep all fear out.
I thanks all my family for the prayers sent my way. I really felt the love and spirit while in the hospital. I love you all very much!!!
I'll be sure to update with details when they come!
I've been working at Trader Joe's all summer and I love it! Good job, great people to work with and I love working with mom, it makes work a lot more enjoyable!
Well a few weeks ago, I started feeling a pins and needles feeling in my fingers of my left hand. I went to a chiropractor and it went away for a few days. Then unfortunately, my entire left side went numb. Then one day while at work I realized that I was seeing double. Went back to the Chiropractor and he could help.
We went to our family practice doctor and she suggested I get an MRI. This was on July 2nd, so later that night I went down to the hospital to get an MRI but the doctor I saw suggested that I be admitted to the hospital and do enough tests for them to figure out exactly what was going on. I ended up staying until this morning (the 4th) and after a plethora of tests over the last couple days the doctors still do not have a definite diagnosis, but they all seem pretty certain that it is Multiple Sclerosis. At first when I heard this I was pretty scared but I got a bunch of VERY comforting nurses, and GREAT doctors, I really don't feel scared.
Every case of MS is different, so there's no way to tell what my situation will be. I'm not worried. I know my Heavenly Father is watching me and has a plan for me so if I can keep the eternal perspective in mind, I can keep all fear out.
I thanks all my family for the prayers sent my way. I really felt the love and spirit while in the hospital. I love you all very much!!!
I'll be sure to update with details when they come!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
LONG overdue...
So thanks to my tech savvy sister I FINALLY got my memory card to work so I could get all 500 pictures on the computer (THANKS CARRIE)! I don't have too much time right now to post too many pictures but here's a video of some good times from the summer when my fam was all together! These little boys have already grown A LOT since this video!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Frustration
I currently have 496 pictures on my camera but my DANG computer is having a heck of a time uploading them. I am sufficiently irritated. I'll have good pictures as soon as I can, but for now...I'm afraid I'll just be a lame blogger again.
My apologies.
My apologies.
Friday, October 24, 2008
And the Grammy goes to...
Well maybe not a Grammy, but....
I have a little story to update some news in college life!
So I am currently in a choir here at BYU-I. It was a non audition choir so it's pretty low key but fun! I love the director and we do some pretty neat songs and get to sing at devotionals and stuff like that.
Next month is our first concert and one of the songs we're singing is a BEAUTIFUL arrangement of "O My Father". In this particular arrangement there is a solo verse, and our choir teacher lets us know that she'll be holding auditions for it. At first I think, "Hey, that would be fun! I like to sing!" then I thought, "Wait a second this is college, not high school...how about I keep the embarrassment to a minimum." I also hate auditioning in front of the class because I feel like the auditionees are just trying to show off...I did NOT want to be a show off to the college crowd.
But something nudged me to try it, so I did.
I got to the front of the class and immediately said a prayer to just be able to sing and get the message of the words through more than just having a pretty voice.
I started singing and I felt like I did pretty good. The director said, "wow, that was really good." So that made me feel better, but after listening to the others I knew it was curtains for me. But to my surprise I made callbacks! She asked me and a few other girls to sing again.
When I sang the second time she stopped and asked me to work more on my vibrato (critiques are a good sign in auditions because it means they are considering you!)
I sang again and she stopped for a second and said, "I don't know if I'll get through this song without crying."
To make a long story short, I GOT THE SOLO! Well not the whole thing, she decided to slit the verse with me and one other girl. I truly felt that I was being helped while singing.
I went up to her afterwords to thank her and she told me that she had a powerful spiritual experience while I sang, so she knew it had to be me. Then I knew, that it wasn't my singing, rather someone was helping me to get the message of the song out, just the thing I asked for.
I have a little story to update some news in college life!
So I am currently in a choir here at BYU-I. It was a non audition choir so it's pretty low key but fun! I love the director and we do some pretty neat songs and get to sing at devotionals and stuff like that.
Next month is our first concert and one of the songs we're singing is a BEAUTIFUL arrangement of "O My Father". In this particular arrangement there is a solo verse, and our choir teacher lets us know that she'll be holding auditions for it. At first I think, "Hey, that would be fun! I like to sing!" then I thought, "Wait a second this is college, not high school...how about I keep the embarrassment to a minimum." I also hate auditioning in front of the class because I feel like the auditionees are just trying to show off...I did NOT want to be a show off to the college crowd.
But something nudged me to try it, so I did.
I got to the front of the class and immediately said a prayer to just be able to sing and get the message of the words through more than just having a pretty voice.
I started singing and I felt like I did pretty good. The director said, "wow, that was really good." So that made me feel better, but after listening to the others I knew it was curtains for me. But to my surprise I made callbacks! She asked me and a few other girls to sing again.
When I sang the second time she stopped and asked me to work more on my vibrato (critiques are a good sign in auditions because it means they are considering you!)
I sang again and she stopped for a second and said, "I don't know if I'll get through this song without crying."
To make a long story short, I GOT THE SOLO! Well not the whole thing, she decided to slit the verse with me and one other girl. I truly felt that I was being helped while singing.
I went up to her afterwords to thank her and she told me that she had a powerful spiritual experience while I sang, so she knew it had to be me. Then I knew, that it wasn't my singing, rather someone was helping me to get the message of the song out, just the thing I asked for.
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