Olivia joins the family

So if my mom ever asks, I put these pictures up a month ago.

Olivia Kai Russell was born 12/27/08. I have no idea how much she weighed or how long she was. Sorry! But here's what she looked like:












Congrats Christin and Steve!

Another football game...

Here are some pictures from our recent trip to Phoenix: We stopped in Washington, UT (near St. George) to spend the night with Theron's grandparents. They showed us around some of the facilities. Logan loved playing on the playground. He hasn't had much opportunity to run around outside since he didn't walk until winter.
Here he is being silly on the car ride as we left St.George. He was pretty good in the car as long as we kept the food and drinks coming
The main reason for our trip: the Cardinals & Eagles game. Here is the stadium as we were walking up to it:

Sad days for us, the Cardinals won and are going to the Superbowl. It was a fun game though, since the Eagles dominated the 3rd quarter that made us believe they could win it. They couldn't keep it up though, and the Cards scored in the final minutes.
We were able to stay with Theron's sister for the weekend. It was fun to see Bree, Greg, & Axton, who is just younger than Logan. We loved the nice weather and took a dip in their swimming pool. We didn't get any picture of the boys together, but they had fun playing together in Axton's sandbox.
Love to all!

Me and My Munny

So I thought that I would post an update on the Munny doll that I am working on. The project is nearing its completion and I am really pleased with the final results so far. There are also several pictures of Aiden making a b-day present for my mom. We let him cover his hand in paint and then press it on to a canvas. It was a cute idea and a pretty fun project. Needless to say Aiden had paint everywhere by the time he was done. Anyway, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.


Aiden and his paintbrush have been inseperable lately.

Some test run hand prints.

Aiden thougth that the black paint was pretty fun and he wanted to touch everything afterwards.

These are the hands on my Munny doll.

starting to paint the body.

Just the body, and some detail sketching on the pants.

The work station.

I added some highlites to the hair.

high angle so you cansee both the central and side hair highlights.

I'm really pleased with the way they have turned out so far.

Pants and the belt buckle, it is a Flash buckle hehehe!

Here are all the pieces together. I just had to finish the tie.

Parts and pieces.

Tentatively pieced together. I am really pleased wiht the way this looks.

Aiden and the Munny. He was laughing about how much it looked like daddy. he said all it was missing was a cape. Fortunately I actually have one. Ha ha ha!

This is the Zombie, or as I like to refer to it, the Mumbie.

The two together. Yes, the Mumbie is supposed to have one are that has fallen off.

I wanted the Mumbie to have a black and white Horror film feel to it. I think that it turned out pretty well so far. Just some shading work to do and I should be ready to clear coat! Yeah!

Aiden really likes them both.

Cheers,
Price

Family Christmas Party

It was a ton of food, fun, and chaos at the Schow Family Christmas Party on Saturday night. There was a ton of talk of babies (Congrats to Steve and Christin) which may have been quite boring to those of you without babies (as Madeline pointed out). But overall, I think everyone had a lot of fun. I thought the White Elephant gifts this year were top notch (even though it may take me all year to forgive Ed and Annie for sending us home with two, live fish). As always, it was good to be together and see everyone again. Merry Christmas (until next year)!

Santa (from the 'hood):

I probably should have given some warning to the people in the following pictures...SORRY! I just panned around the room, and I don't think everyone was ready.

We ended the evening with Grandpa accompanying several favorite Christmas songs on the guitar while the kids danced around the room.