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Jean Cummins had a stroke on Thursday morning. Her granddaughter took her to the hospital in Grass Valley. There it was determined that there was no lasting effects from the stroke and that she would be able to return home after a careful observation period…

It is finaly over.  That was a fast 16 weeks for Inez and I.  Too fast.  I made some progress on my BFA show for next fall.  A few kinks are ironed out and a few new wrinkles were introduced.  Over all good progress was made.  Our finals week went rather well.  It had been such a great help to us to have Mark and Kim here.  There were some very long days spent in the clay lab working.  the 1st summer term starts in a couple days.  Inez is taking Painting with me and She is also taking Ceramics I.  That should be alot of fun for her and I.  The kids are doing alright.  I think we are all gearing up for summer and the endless possibilities it will present

Today we are going to Draper to attend the baptism of one of Ryan Mose’s girls.  We are looking forward to it.

Now that the semester is over I will make a better attempt to post more often on our goings ons.

The new semester started and I didn’t take the time to write that “Catch-up” Post I wanted to. Oh well. When I get some time on my hands and don’t use it for other stuff, I will put down all that has been going on with us.

The week of birthdays is in full swing. Inez and I are going over to our friends, The Hamby’s for dinner tonight, Matthew is an excellent cook and will be surprising us with his culinary delights. Last night Matthew brought “The Dark Knight” over and we watched it upstairs on the bigger screen. It was a very enjoyable movie and I had a good time with Matthew watching it. There were some pretty intense moments in the film. Last semester went very well for Inez and I and this semester promises to do the same. I am now working at the school as a lab tech, in the ceramics lab.

Well I need to get going and get ready to leave for the Hamby’s.

– Jerel

Just a quick note, The semester has finally ended (a week ago) and we are able to breathe again.  I will be working on a post for the begining of next week that will fill you all in on what has been happening with us over the past couple of months.  So stay tuned.

– Jerel

Esperanza is one year older this month.  She is growing so fast.  We have been extremely busy since the start of this semester.  I feel like we are running with the throttle wide open and as such I hope you all do not give up on me posting semi regularly.  I plan to do so.  I just have to catch up with everything that is going on.
Faythe is doing awesome in school.  He is bringing home high marks in all of his school work Inez and I are so proud of him and the work he is doing.  Esperanza surprised Inez the other day by reading to her.  Inez didn’t know that Esperanza could read as well as she does.  I had an idea that she could when we sat down and I helped her read a chapter out of Dick and Jane. She is a smart little girl.

School is running me ragged, I started this post two weeks ago and am now getting around to writing again.  I would go into our current medical woes but that would take up a bit more space than I want to.  Suffice to say, Inez and I are going in for MRI’s on our lower backs tomorrow.  I even hurts to wedge clay, which is not a good thing, since I tend to need to do quite a bit of that.  I am taking figure drawing this semester as well and it is going great.  I am very happy in my progress in being able to render the human body.  I have also posted a picture of one of my current works; in progress.  I will write more about it on my portfolio site, ’cause I need to add some more content there too.

Inez is doing well in her classes as well.  She is an excellent writer.  She should be writing more posts, I should teach her how.

Faythe rashed out a couple months ago, and he was recently able to get into the allergist.  It turns out he is deathly allergic to Tree Nuts and very allergic to Cats and Dogs.  When he was younger he showed an allergic tendancy to peanuts so we have been pretty careful to keep him from eating any types of nuts.  As it turns out that was a good decision.  Now we have to carry an epi-pen around with us just in case.

Well that is all for now.

– Jerel