Sunday, May 8, 2016

Troy Finished 5 Semesters!

We have definitely taken a hiatus from this blog.

Our last post was about 1.5 years ago. One reason it's taken me (Laura) so long to resume this blog is because there is so much sad in the last few posts. I really miss Jenny.

*sigh*

Anyway.

We went to a Cat Show. And wore our cat shirts that my brother made for us!


Me wearing my Chloe cat shirt while I hold a Chloe cat!
Troy was given a Diamond cat shirt because her love for him is undying.

Observe Diamond's love for Troy:









What else has happened...?

We stayed in Arizona for Christmas 2014. It was the first time Troy and I had a Christmas just the 2 of us. We fed the sister missionaries dinner that night, and Skyped with family. It was also the first time we made Christmas dinner, and one of our dinner guests (from Idaho) praised my mashed potatoes. Score!

I started a music blog on January 1, 2015, which I update weekly (usually... there's a video for each week of the year, sometimes it doesn't come out in the intended week): myfriendmusicandmusing.blogspot.com

Troy decided to shave only after finishing a semester:


Here's a good side profile of Troy's out-of-control facial hair. That's the Grand Canyon in the background (more in an upcoming blog post!).


We went to Texas for my family reunion:


Our breakfast in Houston: Shipley's doughnuts. If there was a soundtrack to this moment, it would be, "Reunited and it feels so good..."


We hung out on Galveston, and played on the beach with my nieces and nephews. It was cloudy this day, but the next day was beautiful. So beautiful I forgot to take pictures as we frolicked in the ocean.


Troy has done some pretty cool stuff over the past 5 semesters (handing blogger over to Troy now):


 
For my first Photoshop class's final, I had to make a movie poster for an existing movie.


I turned a picture I took atop South Mountain into a scene from Fallout New Vegas. This was my final for my art class, first semester.


In my second level Photoshop class I turned a photo of Laura into a painting.



Also in my second level Photoshop class we learned how to do photo restoration. I chose a random picture I found online.



In my typography class, I had to create a fake company and create an ad campaign based on it. I decided that Smart Mines was a middleware company that made digital explosions for movies and video games.




The rest of the pictures are posters I made for an art class I took this spring. We had an election on campus at the end of this past semester to decide if cats or dogs are better.


























VOTE CAT!!!