Painting

Here is a painting I did for a friends B-day. It is of Paris. Not really what it looks like there but ti is Paris which made her happy. This is my passion and if I could make enopugh to pay bills doing just this I would. Hope you enjoy :D

Baby E

Okay well the video hates me, I can load it or email it or anything. So grandpa O'Rear has it on disk to show you guys. For the Gerdes side I will mail you a copy.

Here are pics of baby E. First snow and sledding and all that stuff. Fun times.

Grandpa and me before our first venture

Oh yeah baby we sledding!

This is my christmas dress. Dont I look too cute.

I was a bunny for my grandpa runyon's church christmas pageant.

THEY WONT LET ME OUT!!!!! So what you in for?

Here is some of the snow. This is after it was cleaned off the first time. Then it snowed more.

The birds are freaking out about the fresh food we put out. The men were the first to come running. Imagine that. :D

From all of us to all of you.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Graduation and the surprises that came along with it

This is the multi where grad is held

This is all the professors that have to do graduation. With the snow storm they looked just as happy to be there as everybody else. We got 10 inches of snow yesterday, in the beginning of the day it was a mix of sleet and snow. It turned to just snow during graduation.

This is when we were standing before al the wonderful speeches. :D

This is after I walked across the stage and it is official. I am graduated! Hello world.

This is the whole family. from left to right- Edith, Grnadpa Orear, Grandma Orear, Jake, Me, Steve and Baby E, Toni and Dale.
And then the surprise.......

My parents gave me a lap top! I about died as you can see in the video. It is slick. I am using it right now to type this. My dad got wireless in the house so that when I am here I can use it to do whatever. He told me not to be in it all the time. Uh huh. Who used it mostly last night. Oh that was my dad. :D He likes it too. Ha ha.

Like the surprise at the end. Baby E started walking. She is practically walking now! It is crazy. Enjoy.

I am going to send thank you 's to everyone but I really want to say how much I appreciate everyone's support throughtout my college career. It relaly means a lot to have the backing of my family and friends. And thank you to everyone that gave me presents and money fro graduation you have no idea how much I appreciate it and how much it meant to me to see your kind words of support.

The next blog will be of Baby E and the snow

Titanic

Everyone meet my two closest friends leta and steph. Ha ha. This is my apartment and we were having a girls night but I didnt have the heat on yet so we were freezing. THANK GOD for mink blankets and military dad's that were once stationed in korea. :D

This was my birthday present from my parents. As we all know I am a freak about the Titanic. I love teh history, hard work and tragedy that surrounds it. So anyway, in Branson they made a replica. This is only half the size of the real ship but it was still amazing! They would not let you take pics inside do to copyright laws so all you get is the outside. But here ya go, enjoy!

Me, mom and dad. WHOS EXCITED?????

This is me standing about half way up it taking a pic straight up. The white blob on the left is the iceberg, it is approximated size because they dont actually know how big it was.

The glamour shot! Oh yeah baby.

Okay not really but it getsmore of the whole size and people comparison thing. :D

OH YEAH BABY!

it is finally here

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you are all invited to come, we wont be doing a party or anything but I would like you all to be a part of something that means so much to me and my family and that has taken a record amount of time but is finally over!

Baby E's First Real Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Baby E and Brittany. She baught her the lady bug outfit. AW!

Waiting patiently for aunt kandi to get home from work before she went trick or treating.

She has never been camera shy ever! I dont know.

Oh look, something on the ground, good lets put it in our mouth.

She is on the roof of the truck. Dare devil just like daddy who is holding her up there.

Quite possibly the cutest picture ever!

Oh yeah, bonfire and hunter orange, what more can you ask for.

One of Brittany's dogs had puppies. Baby E is so good with them.

Aw see, sharin the love

Big Borther's Big Sisters Halloween Party

This is a Halloween party I planned for the Big Brother's Big Sister's program for Johnson County. I am a partof the program as a Big. My little is Autumn is she is in the sixth grade now and is ten. I have learned a lot from her about how privileged I was growing up. There are so many people in this world that have nothing and wont ask for help. It is nice to help where I can.

Big brother's Big Sister's is a mentor program that allows underprivileged children spend time with an adult in hopes that they will make better choices in life and just have someone to tlak to and trust in their lives. You should check it out if you dont know about the program. They are all over the united states and are always in need of mentor's for children. Here is their website: www.bbbs.org

So anyway there is my soap box moment. This was for all the kids in the Johnson County area that in the program so that they could come and have fun for Halloween even if their parents couldn't afford costumes for them or pumpkins to carve. It was great!!!!! I hope you enjoy.

We played Bingo and gave away prizes,

This is my little, she won, and no it wasnt rigged. ;)

Can you find the grown ups???

These are the kids and their families, we had 45 kids show up and their parents and Big's

It got dark a lot faster than we had anticipated

We ate Pizza from Monetti's here in the burg, they donated three colossal pizza's for the three we bought. It was extremely generous since each pizza runs $20. SO thank you Monetti family.

Then we decorated Pumpkins that were also somewhat donated. I drove 45 minutes to this little Pumpkin patch in pleasant hill, mo. None of the big chains in the burg would help out at all, not even Wal-Mart. So I started calling around. These people had a ruff time with their crop and still were able to help us. They let us have $8 pumpkins for $1 a piece. They were amazing!

This is the kids at the end of the night with the pumpkins they donated

These are the big kids, ;)

No these are my fellow AMA'ers that came and helped keep everyone under control and add to teh fun atmosphere. WAY TO GO! Thank you guys.

BABY E!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh hold on the phone is forme, I gotta take this. ....

Look dad, i told you, the hat looks better on me :D

What can I say the girl knows good music when she hears it :D Ray Charles moment. Yeah Baby!

and last but not least, a big ol kiss for ya, MUAH!!!!!!!!!!

For the guys, the CORVETTE MUSEUM!

The engine that I will one day have, oh yes, :D

The car that I will one day have! And might I say the most impressive one there :D