Baby E on the fourth

The most important thing ever in my whole life, the love of my life, Baby E :D

Playing in the back yard, make sure you comment on the grass and how beautiful it is the next time you talk to Dad

;)Her buddy blue. He protects her really.
Us laying out, we had to flip her.
Yep, Jake does still exist see, here he is..
Oh no, this is the temper tantrum, then you tell her to get something for you or put something in the trash and she is fine it is miraculous how she turns it on and off
Ghetto parking valet's let me tell you what. Just kidding, it was to keep them safe from the fireworks extravaganza soon to come. Moms new van, my new truck and dads latest play toy the Jeep.
AW! look how cute they are. And no, you definitely cant tell whos kid she is :D
AH HA!~
The funnest part of the whole night. I decided I wanted a Pinata for the b-day. So we got one, apparently the cheaper you go the more cardboard they use and the harder it is to bust open.

First try we broke the string holding it up in half, go us
Then baby E had another go only she is a lover not a fighter and didnt like hitting the horse
I on the other hand had no problem with it! Because the sun went down faster than usual we had to get some lighting, remember the ghetto valet, yeah well the cars got to double as the ghetto lighting fixtures! Oh yeah, only in MO

Then we let Toni hit the pinata, and well a picture is worth a thousand words. Ha ha!

The night just getting started. Tiki torches, check, Lawn furniture, check, fire pit, check, music, check, piro's, check. Okay we are good.....Baby E's first sparkler....


It scared her at first but then she got to the point where she wanted to keep lighting them :D

Then we started the bigger ones :D



And alas, half way through the little person started loosing the battle to stay awake. So we chilled till she was pretty much limp, it was amazing.

Mural

Okay please, please keep in mind that the items that I paint are not my ideas, I just do what the people I am painting for pay me to do. I dont particularly like the colliseum and the leaning tower together, it just doesnt work for me especially considering they are in two totally different parts of Italy but here ya go, this is the process, mostly. I was okay with the end product but learned ALOT! from this job. ANd ALOT! about scaffelding. Fun times let me tell ya. Enjoy.

The beginning

Sunrise

Sketching on the buildings and the shadows

Okay the green is a long story but in short the guy didnt want to buy the paint I told him I needed so I tried to mix teh blue and yellow's I had, needless to say it was HORRIBLE!~ But keep going it gets fixed because I told him I wouldnt finish it unless he got me the paint I told him I needed before I even started the job.

Now we are adding the true white marble stonish stuff

He wanted it to say italy somewhere and he wanted a horse and carridge for this guy that works for him that actually leaved in Italy and had a farm and vineyard. Once he bought me the green it all came together. :D

This is the other wall and the happiness for me in this project :D It is of a canal in Venice, LOVE! So going there some day.

Note to self on this flag, it is supposed to be blowing in the wind. Hence the reason there is a fold where the whiteoverlaps the green. He had to complain abou teverything and the last thing he came up with was the flag looks weird. At that point, after no bathrrom for a 14 hour day, no AC, working on scaffelding, no paint, him being late twice and then rescheduling at the very freaking end of the day of me waiting for him I was not really caring. I didnt charge him enough for what I painted to begin with and then he was a jerk. Note to self put a jerk clause on the contract from now on. And the finished beautifulness. :D Sorry the pics are weird but it was up high.

Hope you enjoyed

She is an artist already!

Hello everyone :D

Hope your 4th was amazing! Lots of fun stuff to come, gotta wait for pics to get transfered. These are some I took with my camera though. They are all of my life's heart and love. Baby E of course. :D Enjoy

She was walking around holding her dress up, it was the funniest thing ever. We may need to work on how high she lifts it but all in all she is staying girlish :D

This is her telling me to stop it with the camera already! But really as she was coloring, you can see the creations behind her, she started walking up to the plants and the grass and coloring them. Then she started waving the chalk up in the air. When we watched her closer she was drawing the clouds! It was so awesome. I am so proud :D

This is her not being a daddy's girl. Nope, never. Look how gorgeous and happy she is.

Then we went inside and she threw a fit! She wanted to go back outside. Once we did, she kept making me go into the garage. Finally I figured it out! She wanted a pop sicle, hello! It was on then. She looked like she couldnt breath cause her whole mouth was purple :D

Her mommy wanted to watch Spiderwick so we put it in and she was glued, she got so excited when the flower fairies came out of the flower bushes. It was so cute. :D

More to come stay tuned

Baby E's Baby Show and New Friend

I fear that every year baby e will inevitably have to go through life's lesson of being in a baby show in a town she doest live in and not win. Yes yes she is the cuttiest baby there has ever been but in a town as small as knob its all in who you know. And the other babies are gigantors compared to her. But owell fun times for mommy and her. Enjoy.........


Now this is where it got really interesting, see daddy doesnt know about taking pictures so Elane had to show him how it was done. :D

Okay I am not going to blame this one on her, it was all me. What can I say it was an artistic moment. I have those sometimes
The what in God's name are you doing look.
AND.........The new member of the Runyon family, may I introduce Gus Gus :D




Thank you thankyou, yet another succesful post, stayed tuned for updates on the new job and pics on the first mural I ever got paid to do. Talk about learning lessons, oie! See ya then

Painting and Baby E, the two loves of my life :D

Okay so I am pretty excited. This month God has blessed me in so many ways. I got the amazing new job which I start monday! SO PSYCHED!

I finished my first Grad class with minimal amounts of stress. THANK GOD I dont have to take math and science, true story trey.

And lastly well for right now, I was just commissioned to do two paintings, well one is a mural. The mural is in an up and coming restaraunt in Knob and the painting is for a friend in Arizona. AH! The mural is in two sections about 3 feet tall and 6 feet wide, I will have to work on scaffolding (s/p) and am terrified! But hey bring on Michelangelo moments, I think so!

Baby E is growing so fast and the best part is I will be around to see her grow. :D

K so that was all the news I had, here are some pics of Baby E and our day at Bass Pro for dads car show. Hope you enjoy :D

The most beautiful Corvette I have ever seen! The champagne color or BUFF as it was known as then is BEAUTIFUL!

DOUBLE TAKE! All though the red one did not have the traditional white scoops on the side we forgave him and loved the fact that he put a brand new Corvette engine in an old car, wonder what it could do, he wouldnt let me try ;)

We got a little bored by the cars so we went in to the Bass Pro, here is Elane watching slow pokes Grandpa and Mommy coming up in the elevator. She was so excited she covered her mouth

Then on Sunday for father's day we took Dad and Steve out to dinner. On the way there a song came on the radio and Baby E just started belting it out. Really Look...

When we go to the restaraunt she wanted to run around. We didnt care but then more kids came in and we figured grandpa should hold her. He isnt proud or happy in this picture, nope, not at all :D

Baby E was trying to share the love, she was giving licks and open mouth kisses because I stuck my tongue out at her! Ha ha. It was great :D

Okay well that is all I have, Happy Father's Day to all you dad's, grandpa's, and great's! :D Thank you for all the well wishes on the new job. Will keep you posted.

NEW JOB!

So, as some of you may have already heard:

I GOT A NEW JOB

I am now amongst the working environment as a "real" job holder. Ha ha.
I am going to be the Program Assistant for the Dual Credit program at Central. This means I will have the entire state of Missouri's Dual Credit Program under my charge. I am pretty psyched. I will get to travel, get kids interested in Dual Credit and help teachers become a part of the program. :D
Although this is not what I want to do forever, it is an extremely huge honor to be able to be a part of this and the best part is I KEEP MY BENEFITS! Ha ha.

I also started working on my masters degree. I am getting it in Speech Communication. This is a degree that basically helps you understand why people do the things they do and say the things they say. I love my Master's Coordinator and she is also one of my professors. She is really laid back but is a great teacher and it isnt like pulling teeth to get me to learn the information. I love it. I feel at home in this major. Thank you to everyone who believed in me and backed me.

So, that is the latest. I will have pics in a couple weeks from the birthdays. And new pics of Baby E. She is getting so big you wont even believe it. She is talking up a storm now and has definitely began hitting her terrible two's. Hence the reason she gets to go home at the end of the night ;)
No I am just kidding. She is amazing and I soak up anytime I have with her.

Miss you all very much and hope this finds you all well.