The Alaska Seidels

It's been a while since I have last updated this. I have uploaded all of June's pictures on to the family website so you can see them there. July fourth is also on there (home page). Kevin's dad is visiting right now and leaves on Saturday. Austin has been having a great time with him mainly because "Papa" keeps him entertained and plays with the footballs. LOL! We've gone to the zoo, to the city of Seward, and some lakes. Austin has changed, unfortunately, for the worse recently. He's become quite moody and ornery! He does this 'whine' that you just want to quiet very quickly and since hitting is not the answer, we tend to just give in. Most of the time its in public while we are in a restaurant and you don't want to draw attention to yourselves. Its sooooo embarrassing. By the end of Kevin's dad's trip, I couldn't go out to eat with them. I had to stay home with Austin, he's becoming that bad. It sucks! i just don't know what to do. He doesn't listen when I tell him to stop, or yell it at him or throw him into time out...I just want it to stop. It won't though. This whining will turn into screaming and then into screaming and hitting us in public to a terror that's unstoppable...which is who I was. I am cursed I tell ya!!!! I totally apologize for all the boys I bite, and the doctor that I called derogatory words to and the hitting and screaming of my past! I'm so sorry, please take this curse of us. We miss the cute Austin.
Well besides that, I have been getting into a creative mood. This artist, Elise, that is just simply amazing paints, and crafts these amazing collections that she's inspired me to get my juices flowing. I have this 'white' space on my wall that I want to fill. I have a canvas that I wanted to paint on but just didn't know what. So Elise does these most awesome paintings and I'm like man, that one looks just like me and with a camera and starbucks to boot. I want to draw something just like that. I let her know of course and totally give all the credit to her for the idea and the outline. This will only in my room and on my blog, never anywhere else or be sold any way shape or form. Her ideas, not mine.
So this is my rough draft. I haven't put it up on the canvas just yet. I just painted the background pink tonight and I will get started tomorrow I think. I hope it turns out alright. It's been a while since I've drawn so...we'll see. So yeah, please pray with me and for Austin and us b/c I'm close to loosing my mind with him. Oh but a good trait of my gorgeous son is how freaking smart he is. I was hanging up the laundry and pushing my shirts out of the way to look for empty hangers. I had pushed them all back together and this kid got up, walked over to the shirts and pushed back just one shirt in the middle of the pile and said 'woo, woo' which means dog for him. He had said it as I was going thru the laundry and that fact he remembered the shirt and where it was...and this dog is just the lil symbol of the PINK collection of Victoria Secret. Craziness!