Here are some new animal painting videos

The Howler Monkey

The Ray

The Toucan

The Sky

Baby Room: Animal Paintings

We have started receiving animal drawings back from relatives and have started working on them. Michelle finished the habitats a few weeks ago and has started tracing the animals on the walls and painting them. I've been trying to get pictures and video of her in progress and I think I've got all of them so far. I decided I'll try to put together a video of each animal for their originator to see how it turned out on the wall.

I just finished the first video of the first animal we received back, the Zebra from my mom. This was an experiment since I had to figure out how to speed up the video so that it wouldn't be an hour and a half long and boring. I ended up having to create a temporary video since the software will only let me compress it 10x, but I needed to compress it 60x to get it down to an appropriate size. Not to hard to compress it 10x then load the compressed video as an original and compress another 6x and add photos.

Here is the video. I'll post the videos of the animals soon (I think all that have been sent back have been painted), but I can't create a video if you haven't sent your animal back yet...

Getting ready for the baby

Michelle and I have made some pretty good progress getting ready for the baby.  Michelle has been painting the habitat murals, and I have been installing the diaper sprayer.  Tomorrow Michelle will start adding the animals that family has drawn for us to add to the mural and I will start working on the sky.  The sky will have glow-in-the-dark paint that will replicate the alignment of the stars of her due date (since we want to have it done BEFORE she's born and won't actually know the real birthdate).  Here are some pictures of our progress.

N951CC flies to Tehachapi

Michelle and I flew to Tehachapi for lunch just like we did when we got engaged 3 years ago. We ate lunch at the Apple Shed and got dessert at the bakery. Unfortunately, the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is now out of business.