Venice Prints For Sale...

I just put these linocut prints up for sale on Etsy yesterday...




"Towards Gelato," Linocut, 21.5 x 12.5 in, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $60

"Before Gelato," Linocut, 13.25x24.5 in, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $80

"After Gelato," Linocut, 12x6.25, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $40

I made these prints in college by carving out the white on a soft clay-like surface. Then I rolled ink on them and put it through the press with paper. The finished product is the ink on the paper. I'm selling the rest that I have, which isn't very many...

Date Night

I forgot to add this in, but I still wanted to document this night on here. A week after Travis graduated on May 9th. I had a big night planned to celebrate Travis being graduated. He had no idea what we were going to do, but it was so awesome! We dropped the kids off at Mom G's (Thanks Mom and Dad G! and Jan and Dan for pinch hitting for a little while!) We don't get out much together without the kids. So it had been a long time since we last had a date night out. But anyway, we went and had a delicious dinner at Outback Steakhouse. And then I just told Travis each direction to go, and we ended up at Tuacahn. Travis still had no idea who/what we were seeing there, but the place was jam packed with people! We sat down and right before it started, I showed him a program, and he saw the picture of Brian Regan and got really excited! He was just like, "Are you serious?!?"


So yes, we saw Brian Regan. He's a hilarious and clean (no dirty jokes) comedian, he's awesome! Check him out here. And just so you know, he's coming back to Tuacahn May 14th and 15th, 2010. But anyway, we had an awesome night just laughing and being able to relax. It was the perfect way to celebrate Travis' graduation, and just be together.

Looky! Looky!

Ok, so I've joined the coupon movement.... Look what I got for $9.55! (including tax!)


So for a total of $9.55 I got:

6 boxes of Total-10.6 oz each
4 boxes of brownie mix
2 boxes of Fiber One bars
2 Wish Bone salad dressing

But I think what I got yesterday was an even better deal! For a total of $9.50 I got:
2 boxes of Total-10.6 oz each
2 boxes of Golden Grahams- 12 oz each
4 boxes of Trix-10.7 oz each
All liquid laundry detergent-32 loads
1 brownie mix
1 cake mix
1 small Skippy peanut butter

It's very nice to stock up my pantry, and getting so many things at a great price!!

We are SOOOOO Excited...

That Travis is done with school!!!

We (me and the kids and Travis' parents) drove up on Thursday, April 30th to meet Travis at a hotel in Ogden. We were soooo happy to see him after being apart for two weeks! The kids ran into his arms when they saw him, it was awesome!

The kids had a hard time going to sleep sharing a bed, so Travis had to lay between them for a little while.

So the next morning on May 1st, we went to the first ceremony. Needless to say, we were all a little excited! Elora kept giving Travis kisses, and they would not leave his side!

In between ceremonies we killed time by going to the Treehouse children's museum. We had a lot of fun!

We had lunch and then went to the next ceremony for the College of Science and Technology. Travis received his Bachelors of Science degree in his major of Automotive Technology.












I actually had teary eyes sitting through the ceremonies and thinking about the long road we've had in the past 5 years.

To say that I was happy was an understatement. I mean, we've been looking forward to this day for a long time! We haven't known anything different since we got married almost five years ago. So it is very nice to have Travis come home after work, and not have to worry about night classes, homework, tiredness, online classes, deadlines, both working and going to school full time.... Everything! We can actually spend more time together as a family.

We could not be happier! I am so proud of Travis and all that he has accomplished!

Happy Family...

Proud parents...

Proud graduate in beautiful Ogden...

Elora liked Daddy's hat...

I just liked this photo of Max with the lighting...

And now we can breathe a big sigh of relief! Phew! Travis is DONE with school!

Happy Birthday Max!

Max turned 2! on April 20th. (I can't believe that my kids are getting so big!) But since Travis made it in town for his birthday weekend, we celebrated the day before, on a Sunday.

Max LOVES Wall-E, when he asks to watch it, he says, "Wa-Wee, Wah-Wee..." in his cute little voice. So I made a Wall-E cake for him, and he absolutely loved it!

He got a little fire truck, which he LOVES! Anything to do with trucks and cars is his favorite. He always says, "Honk, honk, beep, beep!"

And when he opened a bag with a present in it, he made a surprised/happy gasp. It was so funny! (yes, I had shopping bags for gift wrap.... it was a week after our move...)

He had no problem blowing out the candles...

Here he is playing with his new little Wall-E. As you can see, he loves it!

Easter

Easter was on the day after we moved, so it was good to be in St. George and to be able to spend Easter with family.

Here is Elora in her new Easter dress, but she would not smile and look at me for a picture for the life of me!

First, we had an Easter egg hunt for the little kids. Here they are waiting to race out the door to find the eggs...

Yes, Elora had a pumpkin for a basket... I forgot to bring one for her... Candy still goes in it, right?

Here is Mya, (Dustin and Charity's second child) I can't believe how big she had gotten while we were away in Ogden.

The cutest picture that I got of the grandkids was unfortunately without Max, because he would not sit down without Travis or me.

So we tried setting him down, and then hurrying out of the picture. So we got one of him running towards us...

Then we had the big boy Easter egg hunt. It was so funny to see the guys racing around to get as many eggs as they could get...

Ella, Grandma, and Jaci...

Moving... (The First Time)

Alright, here we go, let's play blog catch-up.... phew!

After my parents left town on April 7th, we really got down and ready to move on the 11th. (Yes, we're blogging about April now, stay with me, 0k?)

Packing everything in boxes was loads of fun.... not... :)

But the kids kept themselves occupied pretty well for the most part. Here, they are coloring while I was packing...

We (and many helpers, thank you!) loaded everything up Friday night the 10th. That night we slept in our empty apartment in sleeping bags. We didn't have much of a problem sleeping, because we were all soooo tired! (Moving is exhausting!) The next morning, we got some last minute cleaning done, then headed down to St. George! We will miss you Ogden!

That night we (and many helpers, thanks to Travis' family) unloaded the u-haul into our much smaller apartment. I wasn't sure everything was going to fit! But I found a place for everything in every nook and cranny.

The kids had fun playing in the boxes... They looked like little puppies, it was so cute!

So on the Monday after we moved, April 13th, Travis went to a few interviews for jobs and then headed back up to Ogden to finish his last three weeks of school. That first week after we moved in, I got pretty much everything unpacked except for a few boxes in the office. Travis came back home that next weekend, April 17th, to have one more interview with Midas. He got the job, and we thought it was going to be great! But it didn't turn out that way.....