Weekly Wrap Up 6/7/19 -- Birthday, College camp, and painting class

Happy Birthday to MarioFan, who turns 15 this week!! My oh my time flies past.  MarioFan is over 6 feet tall and towers over all of us now:)   Next week he is going to his first sleep away camp!

MarioFan got a drone for his birthday and was pretty good at flying it around the house.  Unfortunately  our dog did not like the drone and tried to attack it.  I think it was making a noise that only she could hear as she was howling and quite upset at the drone:(.  

We sent Firedrake off to college camp this week for two weeks.  She was accepted into the Creative Arts academy this spring.  This is the first time she has been away from home so it was a nerve wrecking send off for all of us.  While Firedrake is excited to be at college she is nervous about not knowing anyone and being away from us.  My husband and I feel the same way but it is time for her to expand her wings and begin to fly away from us.

Checking in at the college 

Getting her dorm room all set up for her two week stay.  She was very nervous to meet her roommate.  We also checked out the jam packed schedule for the next two weeks.  She is going to be very, very busy.  I promised her that the week she gets home she can take off to recuperate before looking for a summer job:)

Once her room mate arrived they hit it off brilliantly and found out they like very similar things. 

A picture of the college mascot the Bear:)

The college had a bar-be-que and opening ceremony and then we had to leave her behind.  It was hard to drive away but I know she will love it and have a great time.  She will be earning 3 college credits in Fine arts after the two weeks is over.  

For Art,  MarioFan and his friend have been learning about a Missouri artist named Benton.  We had planned to drive up to the Capital of Missouri this week to visit his gallery and mural painted at the state capital, however a tornado ripped though the night before we were to go and we decided not to go due to the damaged in the area.

For the art project I signed the boys up for a painting class at Painting with a Twist.

This was the painting the kids were to recreate

Firedrake joined us for this outing as she was off school.  We were the only ones signed up so we had the whole studio to ourselves

Kids paying attention to the directions

Everyone had a different interpretation of the painting

I thought they did great and it was good for them to have a different instructor to listen too for art:). Everyone had a different interpretation of the trees which was fun:)

Next style of art we will be working on is the surrealist movement and looking at Salvador Dalli.