Gerard Blog

Monday, June 22, 2009

Montana for reunion weekend

We all headed to Elkhorn Ranch for the weekend. Scott and Daphne celebrated their 10th anniversary in the place it all began...and it was glorious! How fun it was meeting up with old freinds and teaching them all about "ba" and "da" -

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Thursday, June 04, 2009

One of the beautiful people...long time ago!

This is a photograph of me at 18 years of age, freshman year at LSU. Had I been born in Utah, I'd probably already be married with a baby on the way! Some things are better off as they were - I wanted Gerard to be able to see this photograph so that when he's older, he'll realize that his "old mom" was a "young lady" back in the day... blonde, skinny (because I didn't eat), tan (used sunscreen), perfect skin, perfect teeth, flirty eyes, fabulous wardrobe (becuase mon-mon sewed up every thing I designed), a heart-breaker in a man's field...your basic nightmare! Of course, one year of architecture school wrecked my body and my immune system, but I did make good enough grades to get me to Louisiana Tech, my first choice of colleges. Gooooooooo bulldogs! (OK, so I do root for the tigers to this day, but still, LSU was in my backyard and I needed to get away)! For all my friends who wondered why in the world I would attend a "dry county" school...truth is, I really loved North Louisiana's rolling hills, clean air and the solitude of being up there. Yes, the sorority thing was not as cool having a "lodge" instead of a real "house" on the row, but I did get to continue to lifeguard, danced like a fool at Stow's, met Carla K., met Michael on a blind date, fell in love... made wonderful friends in the graphic design program after the big "switch" - and was selected in a big competition for a Rotary International Scholarship to study for a year at the Henry Moore Sculpture Foundation at the University of Leeds, England that completely changed my life! (No wisecracks Mike Dawson).