New School-New Classes

So many of you know that I have quit theater to go back to school and get another degree in Illustration. Well this degree will be from the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Comic Book Art, and my first correspondence class came yesterday!!!

The front / What cool Packaging!!!

The side of the package / the school is located in New Jersey.

The packet with all my assignments in it.

My bristol boards I will draw on and the envelope to send back my homework!

They send you all the tools you would need to complete assignments / Good thing I have a full studio full of Art Supplies.

!!!I AM SO EXCITED!!!!

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Stefanie is in the wonderful production of The Scarlet Pimpernel at the Hale Centre Theatre, and she is absolutely wonderful. I went to see it last Thursday with Gerry and Denise (Stef's Dad and Step Mother), Rebekah (Stef's sister), Adam (her nephew), Everest (her niece), and Brit, Scott, Blake and Doug (our good friends) and it was just wonderful. The sets were so impressive and the costumes were beautiful, the lead actors were just incredible there voices blew me away. But the highlight is watching my beautiful wife have the time of her life on stage, she is so happy when she is there and she lights up every scene they have the luck to have her in. She smiles and laughs and sing to her hearts content, she is a shinning gem of the show. Our good friend Erica Hansen was at the show that night and she in the critic for the Desert News, her is her review if you would like ot read it http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705323483,00.html.

Go see Stef perform in this wonderful show, you will be glad you do!

24th at Jordanelle

Well we got together with some friends and went to Jordanelle on Sundayto finish off the 24th weekend.

We met at O.C.Tanner at 10:30 a.m. and carpooled up to the lake.

The players were myself, Stefanie, Seth Larsen, Arron Hales, Mike Hatch, Jason Baker, Zhen Wang, Eric and Juanita Atencio, and Edna and Toby!

Seth, Stef, and Edna checking the water.

Mr. Toby was just dying to get in the water..he LOVED the lake.

So I took him for a swim, he swims so good, he swam from shore all the way out to me and just sat on my lap on the floaty.

Mike Hatch enjoying a delicious liquid adult beverage.

This is how Seth and Stef spent most of the day..in the shade.
It was a good day, spent about 4 hours out there it felt like a thousand hours, I fished (I sucked), we swam, Toby played, and we were smart and put sunscreen on so we didn't even get burnt.
It was a happy 24th, Happy Birthday Utah!

SEE THIS MOVIE!

That is all I can say about this film..Stef and I have seen it twice, we own the
soundtrack, and as soon as it comes out on video we will own the unrated, unedited, full VEGAS version.

Old and New and MY BACK!!!

Last Tuesday I took Stef down a bowl of cereal for breakfast and she said "The milk is warm?" so we went upstairs and the fridge took a dump on us. The freezer was working overtime, frost on everything, but no more cold. So we went out and bought a new one, YEA! The lady we talked to says "We can't deliver it until the 30th" WTF?!? So a week with no cold food..we had to throw out all our perishables..ugh.
Here is the old (1998) fridge, it came with the house.

But the new one came today!!!! And it matches the rest of our appliances (the stove is next, but have to wait till it takes a dump). It is so pretty and shinny!!

Also my back went out!! Well I had been jumping around on it for close to 9 weeks with my show Treasure Island..I could feel pain and numbness the whole time, but last week it became unbearable, I had an MRI Monday and the doctor said I had Herniated Disk between the L4 AND L5 Lumbar. So hopefully I can get this resolved soon, I have been taking it really easy and not doing any strenuous actions. I will keep you all updated.
(Check out my image I found it is written in Spanish LOL)

The Side of the House

Hi Ho Garrick here, Stefanie is spending her summer at the Hale Centre Theatre.
So I have started my summer projects, this is the first one, complete the South side of the house.

So I dug up all the weeds and grass that was on the side and laid a path of stones for Prince Toby to prance along (he is not so keen on walking on the grass, little girly boy)

After that I made a small box to lay under the hose to catch water and to frame the hose, redwood sides and river stones.

My mom and Roger gave us a great frog to put in our yard for a house warming gift and he fits so well in here, see him in the corner.


Here is the side with the sod laid in it turned out so well, if you look at the overhang my mom and Rog also gave us a windchime and it is hanging on the corner, it sounds beautiful.


Here it is complete, it was a lot of work and Stef was a big help, but we love how it looks.

The fam came to town!!

Well Treasure Island closed (Finally!) on June 6th and the fam made the trek out to see Garrick's last show. If you don' t know Garrick is following his dream and going back to school to get his Illustration degree in Comic Book Art and he has officially retired from theater life.

Aurora, Mom and Roger all flew in to see this show, it was so great. Grandma Joan, Mom, Rog, Quinn, Jodi, Stefanie and Aurora all went and saw the show together, and we had a great BBQ at the house afterwards...a mini family reunion.

Dick joined Grandma at the house and saw the show a couple days later. Q feeding Toby.

Q and G enjoying life.

Apparently something was happening to the right of us?

Garrick, Deb, Quinn
Can't believe she pushed out these two motley crew.

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