Morgan's artistic talent!

Today after Pop Pop's retirement Morgan raced to her friend's painting birthday party.  I thought her card was very creative and her final painting was amazing too!  Great job Morgan!!

RJ and Morgan creativity

So proud of the card RJ made for Felicity!  She loves cheetahs... look at that cool card!  Even pop-up hearts... all on his own!  Love it!!

While he was at home creating, Morgan was at her friend's birthday party creating her own masterpiece!  I may be just a little prejudice... but I think Morgan's is the best! Great job Peanut!

Morgan + Birthday = Painting Party

Morgan had an absolute blast at her party!!!  I think all the kiddos really enjoyed themselves!  They took their time and listened carefully to all the directions.  BUT... craziness ensued when it was down time!  I didn't realize how loud 11 little girls could be!  Holy Moly!!

Check out their fun!!

Here is the original...

And so they begin...

Finished!!!

Ta-Da!!

Time for ice cream sundaes!

And of course... presents!!

oh... and a little bit of this...

Update on Painting

Ok... back... late night!

I will admit, although I did sit by myself,  I introduced myself to someone who works at Felicity and Luke's daycare and at least talked a tiny bit, it wasn't AS horrible as I thought it would be.  Dare I say, it was a tiny bit fun... although I felt nervous the entire time because I didn't want my painting to turn out looking bad!

To remind you... here is what the final project was projected to look like...

Here it is, the progression... 

Blank start

Background

Tree with snow

Add gyrations? (AKA POLK-A-DOTS)

No thanks... how about just falling snow?

Yes please!

So... I kind of feel like mine looks like reindeer antlers with some falling snow, but again, better than I thought it would look like.

 Everyone holding up their creation!

Annoyed.

This is my blog, and I just need to vent... I will probably remove this before long, but just need to get it out.  I don't have many friend. I know that. I am good with that.  (well, most of the time.)  Tonight someone I consider a friend really hurt me.

My SIL is having a painting party tonight.  You go, they tell you how to paint and then your painting comes out just like theirs.  Many problems with this for me:

1. I am NOT artistic
2. I do  NOT like to embarrass myself when I KNOW I am not good at something
3. I will not know ANYONE or if I do, I will have to pretend I care to talk to them... which I probably won't
4. It is a 45 minute drive from my house
5. It is a Friday night and I just want to curl up in my PJs and watch TV and go to bed EARLY
6. It is a tree with snowflakes...um... those snowflakes are POLK-A-DOTS! Yea, yea, they are snowflakes, but they really are POLK-A-DOTS.

A couple weeks ago I asked a friend I used to work with if she wanted to go... after having many of the same worries I did she said she would go... oh and p.s. the studio is a 4 minute walk from her house!

At 5:20 tonight she texted, not called, but texted and said she was 'pooped' and just couldn't come out tonight.  She had a crazy long day.  

Seriously?!  What?!  You kidding me?  I responded with a disappointed text.  Her response, "Guess I am a shitty friend."  My response back... yes.  

NOW, I am leaving in like 5 minutes... to go somewhere I have many reasons why I don't want to go... to spend $35.00 that I don't really want to waste on a painting that I am not going to like even if it is perfect... insert polk-a-dots here... and... believe me, it won't be perfect... so it will most likely go in a corner or in the trash... by myself and have to put on my happy face even though I don't want to be going... BUT I am a better person than my said 'friend' and can't back out on someone at the LAST minute when they are counting on me to be there!

Ok... done vent... 

oh...and p.s.... as I was typing this, Oreo just jumped up on the kitchen table and ate half of the left over cake from the kiddos party... guess that is one way to get rid of it...

gotta go drive now.......later..........