Pictures from Christmas

Ethans new train set. This gift was the best idea ever, he spends most of his time playing with it.

Grandma Anderson got him a keyboard, which he also loves to play with. I told him to smile and this is what I got.....:)

Ethans beautiful hair last night after his bath.

we were playing around with the camera and taking funny photos, but I really liked how this one turned out.

My favorite two songs (along with some paintings I like). Merry Christmas

artist: Walter Rane

artist: Carl Bloch

I recommend sitting and listening to both songs all of the way through. It's worth it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkEeTJOY96g

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjMT9xlyMw

Three year olds are hard work. There are days when I think Ethan is driving me to the brink of insanity, but then he will do something sweet that will make me feel guilty for being annoyed. Like when he poops on the carpet, and I'm so frustrated and trying to scrub it out and he brings me a wad of toilet paper in his attempt at helping. Or when he wakes up at 5am, wide awake, turning on all the lights. He ended up in bed with us, and he wouldn't stop wiggling. And then out of no where, he leans over and wraps his arms around me and gives me a kiss on the cheek. It's a good thing he's cute.

I hate potty training. seriously. why can't they be like cats, you stick them in the litter box a couple times and they get the hang of it. I never had problems potty training a cat.

We are moved into our new apartment now, sorry no pictures yet. I've been busy cleaning, unpacking and organizing. Sadly, Ryan was told that they've changed their minds and have decided that they can't afford to hire him. He had been hired, originally, for a farm manager position, but they had him doing hard labor farm work, with the promise that they would put him in as a manager come December. So now we are back on the job hunt. It's very frustrating, and being on our own again makes it harder, but I don't regret moving out of the in-laws and into our own apartment. It will be hard, but we will be okay. It's nice to be our own little family again.

Ethan is doing really well with talking and is trying to learn to read also. He's started saying his own prayers, and its fun to hear what he wants to pray about. I've started potty training him and it is going relatively well. It's not fun, but it hasn't been too horrible this time around. I've tried to potty train him a couple times before and he just wasn't ready. This time he seems to be getting the hang of it and I think it won't take him terribly long either, but who knows.

I've got several clients lined up for my portraits, and so I'm excited that my art is starting to bring in some income, even if it's only a little at first.

Thats about all I have to blog about. We don't have internet at our apartment yet, inernet is really expensive out in Rupert, but it looks like it will be something we will just have to give in and pay and arm and a leg for, since we need it for job hunting.

Wanting Feedback.

There are two things I have almost always known about myself, and those are that I want to be a stay at home mother, and the second is that I want to create and sell art. I am wanting to make a home business out of my artwork, but I don't really know what kinds of artwork people would actually be likely to purchase for their homes. My sister Heather suggested that I take a survey to find out what people are interested in paying money for. I am aware that I will most likely not make a great amount of money doing artwork, but it is what I want to do and it's something I can do while staying home with my children.

What kind of artwork would you realistically buy for your home?
The following are ideas of artwork that I could make and sell: Landscape paintings; Portraits; Storybook Murals to hang in childrens rooms; drawings or paintings mounted on objects such as shelves or wooden blocks (coffee table kinds of things); handmade books.

If anyone has any other ideas or likes the ones I posted please respond to my post. Don't worry about having to commit to purchasing anything, I just want to know what you think.

New portrait finished

This is Tabitha, a co-workers daughter who was married in the Twin Falls ID LDS temple a couple of weeks ago. I need to find some quality fixative to spray on it so it won't smudge when they scan it to put on my CD (for my portfolio). Once I have a saved copy it will go to Vicky and she's very excited for it. After seeing the finished drawing she decided she wanted to pay me to do one of her other daughter also.