not much to show for a month gone by

So the trouble with having great photographers in the family is that you tend to leave the camera work up to them, and hence we have little to show for our week in California for Spring Break. If we're lucky, Steph might post more photos here so be on the lookout. Suffice it to say we had a great time just hanging out. No major plans or outings. Just cousins, grandparents, puppies, ball games, BBQs, birthdays, and bike riding. The drive out was fine, back was worse. Unfortunately we never made it out for the Montrose Cristo (I know, Paul&Ryan, unforgiveable), but we did get to try the great new Vietnamese place in Montrose.

The next day after we returned from CA our out-of-town guests started to arrive. We got to host them, but they were actually here for Rachel's graduation from the BYU Marriott School of Management with her Masters in Accountancy (I'm just bragging a little). We had such a great time with Steve & Ie Li & family here, as well as Mom & Dad and Uncle Zack.




















In typical Zackrison family reunion fashion, the weekend was complete with late night talking, game playing, lots (and lots and lots) of great food, house hunting with Mom & Dad, and great cousin bonding. We missed Annee terribly (the only missing sibling) and admired her restraint to not just hop on a 20-hour flight to be here too. Once again, Rachel and Ie Li are both notoriously avid photographers, so my camera did not come out much. Check here and here for more photos of the weekend.

Having house guests is always a good incentive to try to complete some projects I've had in mind.









This time I worked on these mini-silhouettes, inspired both by modern trends and traditional details. I saw these mini round ones on the mantle of the White House in the (highly recommended) John Adams series.

Now life is back to "normal" and the kids are finishing up their school year and enthusiastically anticipating the opening of Seven Peaks (ugh!). Scott is busy at work these days, with some pretty cool projects on the horizon.

I'm 26 weeks along now, and my belly continues to grow faster than with any of my other pregnancies, and my body is starting to complain a bit in the way of aches and pains and shortness of breath, etc, etc, etc. I'm trying hard not to get too depressed yet, as I still have the longest, hottest months of summer ahead of me. But I am starting to get excited too -- pulling out the old baby boy clothes, seeing newborns and imagining my own.

June is starting to get interested in the concept of a baby in my tummy. Oliver is excited to be the baby's stylist. Brenden still doesn't have much to say about it. We're still unsettled on the name. Might have to come down to a coin toss.









I'll leave you with some awesome footage shot by Oliver which I found on the camera today. He's trying hard to try to come up with something to send to America's Funniest Home Videos. We'll keep working on it.