Ode to Brandon.....

so recently we celebrated my dear hubby's 27th birthday... Happy Belated Shoutout Sugar!! so this post is in honor of that very handsome man:

he has been very diligently working on his metal sculptures/art and has been a very busy boy. Here are his latest creations that I would like to brag about.
theyre bookends that he made out of steel and driftwood (from our trip to Oregon the beginning of this year) the detail on them is quite amazing and overall, im pretty impressed. the grain on the driftwood actually wasn't stained, he used an oxysetaline torch to burn and raise the grain... pretty amazing, pretty creative.

In other B news, his much larger piece was accepted into the Springville Art Museum and it has been there on display for the last month. So of course we had to take a trip to the SMOA to see it proudly displayed......
Liz and I had already dont a lap around the exhibit and has scoped out B's art in advance. This is his first time walking into the room, if you look closely you can see a side view of his hanging on the right hand side almost straight infront of him... He hadn't noticed it yet in the picture above..


As far as baby goes, he totally surprised me last night by doing probably the funniest but super sentimental/sweet thing ever. So he asked me to bring him home some headphones, not earbuds but the oldschool pancake headphones that were so major in the late 90's, early 00's... He quickly disassembled them as started sewing them into this cloth strip that was about 9 inches long and 1 inch wide. I seriously had no clie what he was doing. so he finishes up and askes me to guess what I think it is.... im still thinking headphones go by the ears, so maybe an eye mask with built in earphones?? nope, waaaay wrong. So he brought me into the living room to demonstrate by plugging in my ipod and i was already sitting down. He laughed at me again and said I had to be laying down for this.... He had made a little sling/wrap that drapes over my tummy so the baby can hear music better! I was SOOOO surprised! I was so happy and touched by his creativness and thought he had put into it. His only restriction? No lady gaga allowed for the baby which also made me bust out laughing again. He's now currently devising a plan so I can wear it during the day as I move at work when the baby will sleep the most.. What a funny man.

Thats my funny little baby story for the day, 1 month to go till we find out if its a girl or boy!! I can't wait..

XOXO,
Imelda & fam