A History of My family

So for my final in art, our assignment was to build a shrine. That was all the instruction the class was given. So after much thought, I decided to do a shrine to my family history. I grabbed a bunch of old pictures and objects we had around the house and built my project.


This is what the final product ended up looking like.

I used various pictures, and i have no idea who most of them are. But they are all family.

Zola Cline

Zola Cline is one of the people (they are sitting on a car, sorry i know it's blurry)







The colored picture is Grandma Smout with my dad and John Paul.











The women holding the baby in the back left...the baby is my great grandma Macklin.


Grandma Smout



The colored picture is my dad


...i think this is also Zola Cline...not positive



The picture of the two little kids holding hands was taken around 1899, but i don't know who they are. Same with the other picture.

Other than pictures, I also put in various objects.


The hat belonged to my Grandpa Taylor
These glasses belonged to Genevieve Lipsey I believe. I know they were here first pair in 1925.



The books, skateboard, and letter-mens jacket all belonged to my Grandpa Taylor.


The school was my great-grandma Macklins, and the dishes were a wedding gift to....i can't remember...but i do know they were some of the only dishes to survive the cyclone in....19..something. Can't remember the exact date. 1918 maybe? The heart braclet belonged to Zola Cline. Don't know for the camera.


The Elsie book belonged to Emma Macklin, and I don't know who owned the bible.

I don't know about the latern, but the baseball glove was my Grandpa Taylor's and my Grandma Taylor gave me the typewriter a few years ago.

I didn't take close of pictures of these, but I added my parents graduation tassels, and one of my Grandpa Taylor's horse blankets.

I had a lot of fun with this project, and I still don't know everything about my history, obviously, but it's always fun to look at old things and know somebody used it at one point or look at an old picture and know that moment happened a long time ago.

My class loved it, all they were all asking questions (some i couldn't answer). My teacher told me he could see it in a museum. That made me feel good cause that meant I did good on the project.

Drive-in

So i don't have any pictures for this one cause I was a loser and forgot my camera at home, but Alex and I went to the drive in last night.

Beforehand we loaded Alex's truck up with anything we could think of the make the bed of it comfortable, plus plenty of blankets for both of us so we could stay warm. Then, of course, we went to Fred Meyers and bought junk food/pop. We were wearing our PJ's so we got a bunch of looks from random people, but whatever. We didn't care.

The two movies we saw were Iron Man 2 and How to Train Your Dragon. Iron Man, for me, wasn't very good. There were really only two major action scenes and neither of them were spectacular. The rest of the movie was boring and there wasn't really a plot to follow. Not one I would buy.

How to Train you Dragon on the other hand, I love. It was my second time seeing it because my family saw it for mothers day, but it is just as good the second time around. For sure that is one i want to own.

It was a lot of fun and we are planning on going a couple more times this summer...assuming the movies are good.

Mizu

Alex surprised me the other day by taking me out to a new restaurant. Before hand all he told me was dress semi nice. So i had no idea what to expect. The restaurant he took me to was Mizu.


Us outside the restaurant.


I wanted to take a picture of out table cause I thought it looked cool, and of course, Alex jumped in at the last second. He's so cute.


They cooked our food right in front of us and this is the chief lighting up the grill. It was super warm. That was nice cause I was cold almost the whole time.


The first thing he did was spin and egg on the grill and got it moving super fast then he flicked it up in the air. Then he used his spatula and was almost juggling the egg in the air. When he finally let it drop, it hit the grill and slit perfectly down the center. It was way cool.


He also made what he called a "onion volcano". He un-layered a slice on onion and made a volcano out of it, then poured whatever he used to make the fires...cause i highly doubt it was gasoline.. and poured that inside the top of the onion and lite it.

This was the initial fire, but i wanted this picture at the end cause I think it looks the coolest.

The image and service at the restaurant was really amazing. Having them cook in front of us was super cool too. The price was up there though, and the food was a little too salty for me. It still tasted good, but every couple bites I had to swallow it with a mouth full of pop so I could get past the saltiness.

Another minor cool thing, they had the coolest ice cubes!!!

Cow Tipping

So I wrote an article in my journalism class that I really like so I'm going to post it so you can read it if you would like. I write for the satire section, so keep that in mind.



Enumclaw campus to offer Cow Tipping&101 for Fall Quarter

By: Jessi Cheney

Starting Fall Quarter, the Green River Enumclaw campus is offering new classes for their students, one of them being Cow Tipping-&101.

Cow Tipping&101 is designed specifically for the Enumclaw campus. 98% of Enumclaw families own cattle farms so the school board thought it would be beneficial to offer the students the chance to learn all about tipping cows.

There is more to this class than just tipping cows, however. Over the course of the quarter, students will learn how to tip cows, protect their families cows from cow tipping, and debate all the controversial topics related to cow tipping. The class also provides students with veterinary experience to correctly help bovine back up and repair potential injuries received during the tipping.

“Because cows cannot get up themselves, we have to do it.” Says Holly May, one of the instructors for the class. “It’s a massive amount of work and usually takes all day and sometimes well into the next day because some of the cows get injured.”
Originally, there was debate on whether the course should be transferable. Advocates pushed for the class to be transferable, and as of right now, they have won their case.

Cow tipping isn’t the only new subject that might be added to the class listings. Safe Bestiality 101 is also being considered.

Students attending Green River’s main are intrigued and interested as in why the Enumclaw campus gets an easy class, while the main campus just has regular courses.

“I think if the school board is going to put a cow tipping class over in Enumclaw, they need to put an easy class for us here too,” Commented student Victor Kurnk. “Like maybe Squirrel hunting.”

The new course in Enumclaw has raised suspicion in a lot of people. They feel that the only reason the school is offering the class is so the students will have a higher grade point average , which will in turn raise the school’s reputation.
The School Board, however, says they are only offering the classes for the benefit of the students. Humphry stated there is no motive behind the class other than to inform the students about the controversial topics of cow tipping and the safe practices of bestiality; the new courses will be taken no different than any other course they already offer.

Though the school board is pleased with the idea of this new class, some staff members, and even some students at the Enumclaw Campus, have their own opinions behind the new class.

“I think this class is a great idea,” stated English Profesor Charles MaCoy. “In my personal opinion I think the school board needs to come up with corky classes like that for every campus. It’s a great way for the students to get an education, but have fun at the same time.”

The class, will in the Enumclaw’s 2010-2011 Course Catalogue. Enumclaw residents believe the class will be a huge hit.

Uncle Sam

So my latest art project was to take a person, real or not, that everybody knows and create that create them by only using objects that relate to that person/idea. So i created Uncle Sam. Alex came over to help and we had a ton of fun putting him together.

A yogurt lid was the hat just covered with paper. And everyone knows baseball is the American past time, so we made that his head. Cotton from my mom's salon made perfect hair, beard, and eyebrows. For the mouth we just used red string and two dimes for the eyes and


For the legs we used penny rolls. They actually fit perfect because the penny rolls we have are pinstriped with red so it was an amazing fit. For the feet Alex brought over some toy tanks he used to play with and we hot glued them to death until Uncle Sam could stand on his own.


Our last touch was the "Made In China" sticker. Because everything in America is made in China so it was funny. It made everyone in my class laugh.

The torso was a really skinny coca-cola can. Alex made a mini bow tie, and the jacket. He also brought over the bullet shells...ops, cartridges (he is always correcting me)... and used those for the arms. I think he turned out amazing and I'm really proud of him. I for sure think he's a keeper!!! He has earned him spot on the bookcase.

Double Date

So my new goal is to start blogging more. I think it's a good idea and I'm going to try and make time for it.

So the other weekend Alex and I went on a double date with Jeff and Tori. We went to Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Afterward we went out to lunch and...surprise...got gas pop!


So when we first went into the zoo Alex saw a peacock and started acting like a little kid. He ran towards it and was all like "i wanna touch it!". It was so cute and very funny.


After Alex was done chasing the peacock, we followed it for a little while and i think it got territorial, because it brought all of it's feathers up. It made for a really cool picture though.


The animal is behind us in the top left corner. We just set the camera on a trash can to take the picture.


So these little fix animals were so adorable. I really wanted wanted to bring one home.


We had fun watching the oters too. They were really cute cause they were all cleaning themselves and they were washing there faces and they were all bunched up. Super cute!



My mom wanted a picture of Jeff and Tori so this is the first one i took.



Alex was giving me a piggy back ride for some of it. I felt really tall.


So these animals were all climbing over each other and running around everywhere. It was super cute.



I'm Gary the Snail!!!


It's the spiderweb picture!!!!!!!


This is the restaurant we ate it. It was actually kind of funny because we walked in the bar door at fist and we we thought it was just a bar but then we figured it out. The food was actually pretty good.



It was a really fun day and hopefully we'll be able to go out and have another fun day again sometime soon!!