Hidden Gems from the Edwin Monroe Westbrook IV Digital Photograph Collection

After 2 years of nagging convincing, I finally got Eddy to get started uploading some of his photos to Flickr. That means you can now enjoy such favorites as:

Nicci doing jazz hands on our camping trip in Yosemite,

the magnolia tree outside of our St. Louis apartment and, (drumroll...)

Eddy with long flowing locks and a weird beard!

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Green is How You Feel Inside

We enjoyed a lovely Christmas in the Chicagoland area with Eddy's family this year. Rick took us by the Goshen airport where we got to sit in some really tiny planes!

We also found some jewels created by little Eddy to rival my Harold the Great. Behold the intensity of this Jack-O-Lantern:

In keeping with the Fall theme, here is a Thanksgiving piece in which Eddy is thankful "for corn and sunshine and pies and wind."

Here's my favorite. A poem:

The full text is:

"Green is Happyness.
Green is how you Feel inside.
yellow is happyness.
yellow is the sun."

Very profound. Check out our Li'l Eddy Artwork Flickr set for more goodies to come.

Also, it snowed basically every moment. Here I am (not at all) enjoying that:

Wishing everyone very happy holidays and a wonderful new year!

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Thxgiving--We found some stuff under my bed...

We had an awesome time at home with the parents for Thanksgiving. We bid a fond farewell to our favorite Ozark institution, Riverside Inn:



We also found some sweet, sweet "works of art" under my bed:

This is a book I wrote in 6th grade. The full version of the book is now available on Flickr.

One of the strangest discoveries was this image on one of the last pages of the book. The resemblance between Eddie and Eddy is shocking.

Finally, there's this classic. This is a later drawing of Sgt. Drunkie, so it doesn't quite capture just how strange it was that my little brother drew pictures of a drunken military man, but you get the gist.

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