Thanksgiving - Journal Entry

I had the best Thanksgiving. My parents were able to come to town and celebrate it with me. My mom's side of the family has always been drama... My two aunts are always fighting about something, but this thanksgiving was special -  There was NO drama and everyone got along. It was beautiful. We all celebrated thanksgiving at my Aunt Jeanne's house and had a HUGE dinner. On the Saturday after everyone came over to her house again to have brunch and have a baby shower for my cousin Jayne. Everyone was there. Cousins, Aunts, Uncle and Second cousins. Everyone got along, we all sat in the living room and talked and laughed shared memories and made new ones. It was truly the best thanksgiving that i have ever had. I am thankful for my family, they are a huge support system and my number one fans. I wouldn't be where i am today if i didn't have the support i had from them. I love them all.

Journal Entry - Beautiful Cross

I also took this picture at Table Rock. I can really connect to it, now only because i took it, but because i am starting to go to church again. I really believe that Christ can heal anything and he can lead you through the way. Sunday Dec. 5th -  The sermon was about "The Living Hope"  -  Hope is the attitude of confidence, expectation and trust. A living hope transforms our life. You must have hope in yourself, partners, jobs, your future, and doctors. Sometimes the hope fails and they aren't able to be successful, but they are always going to be there for you and you must trust and have hope in them and that is one way to keep your relationship strong. At the end of the sermon, the pastor's ending words were: "No person has to live without unless they choose to." Hope is the path so success. God is great.

Snow Snow Snow - Journal Entry.

I am going to miss the snow as it is slowly melting. I went to table rock to take some pictures last week! It was beautiful up there... I wanted to go up there to because it was peaceful and i could really concentrate on the pictures that i was taking. I and working on my portfolio and want to get a lot of pictures at different places. This was taken at sunset. It is a beautiful view of Boise City. It shows how nature is a natural beauty. I wanted to take a picture with the snow because it only comes once a year. Not like the sun when it shines all year long. I was very lucky to get a shot like this with the sunset perfect in the background. It just really shows how beautiful something simple can be. I really like this picture because it can say so many things. =]

12-6-10 - Journal Entry

Rob Schimdt -

Published on Friday, December 03, 2010

Robert B. Schmidt 

Rob was born on February 26, 1971 in Cortez, Colorado. The youngest of three chil- dren, Rob graduated from Walla Walla Valley Academy in 1989. He attended Walla Walla College before striking out on his first of many busi- ness adventures, selling long- distance telephone service door-to-door.
Rob took the proceeds of those early efforts and opened an auto glass shop near Portland, Oregon, which eventually.

grew to several shops in that area and in Denver, Colorado. Upon selling those businesses, Rob spent some time day trading in the stock market before moving with his family to Walla Walla and starting RBS Interactive, which grew into Quality Smith.

He brought a contagious, spontaneous energy and en- thusiasm to everything he did. He was passionate about anything he could share with his beloved boys, Carson and Cole, especially outdoors activities including hiking, four-wheeling and camping. Rob loved to fly and was an accomplished pilot.
An avid athlete with a particular passion for basketball, Rob often spent lunch hours in a regular game at the YMCA, where he served on the Board of Directors for a term. He was frequently sighted downtown, walking quickly to and from Starbucks, talking intently on the phone.
Rob will be remembered as a loving father, a caring hus- band, a generous friend, an inspiring leader, intuitive and fearless in business.

A funeral service honoring Rob's life and his many con- tributions to the lives of others will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday at the University Church in College Place, fol- lowed by a graveside service at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Memorial donations in lieu of flowers can be made to Walla Walla University's basketball program to establish a Robert B. Schmidt memorial scholarship or to the Walla Walla YMCA.
Rob is survived by his sons, Carson Michael and Cole Matthew and their mother, Rebecca, of Walla Walla; father Bruce Schmidt (Gwen) of The Dalles, Oregon; mother Trudy Harvey of Portland, Oregon; sister Tami Arias (George) of Walla Walla; sister Tricia Schmidt of Portland, Oregon; nephews Colton and Sammy Arias of Walla Walla; uncle David Schmidt (Donna) of Oregon City, Oregon, and uncle Clancy Schmidt (Connie) of Phoenix, Arizona

** This is my high school leader and my best friend Colton's uncle -  He was in a plane crash and will be dearly missed by all -  it's a hard time right now because I cannot be home to be with my friends and his family -  but he will be always be in my thoughts and prayers -  please pray for his family and continue to be strong Arias family. My god be with his two little boys that he has left behind I love you all. 

Mark Dion

In class we looked Mark Dion's work and i really liked his piece called "Neukom Vivarium". The reason i liked his piece was because he was taking a piece of nature (tree) that had fallen, took it to a new place and made something new out of it. He made a garden. He took something that had no use left and made it useful.  He took it a protected water-shed and preserved it, the tree didn't touch the ground which allowed it to not rot away as quickly.

I think that the most important thing in working with things like this is being positive and its a nature experience. He took a dead tree that still had a living system of insects and organisms and bringing it back to life and taking it to another site. Being in the greenhouse they are able to support the life system by giving it air, humidity water and rich soil to keep it going. By doing all those things is a substitution for what nature does.

I believe that he is trying to say that despite all the technology and money that they have, when you destroy a natural system its impossible to get it back, and he is proving the sense of failure. It is kinda of like seeing a tree hooked up on life support.

The display is really beautiful and when you look at it, you see all the nature that is building back up, even though its not out in the real nature environment -  the nature is still growing just in a enclosed environment. The nature is still developing and then insects and organisms are still growing and developing. They didn't actually kill anything.

Final Project - Journal Entry

I am very excited about the final project that i was assigned and the group that i am in.  I am doing the "magical potions" display and i am really excited to get started on it. I really liked the idea because it kinda reminded me of Harry Potter and i am a huge fan of Harry Potter. I love the fact that we are going to be able to come up with random crazy potions and display them. I can't wait to see our final product.

My second choice was the "childhood myths"  - I also liked this idea because when i was little my grandpa would always tell me things i like.. "scrambled eggs put hair on your chest" and "cross your eyes and they will get stuck like that." It would have also been fun doing this display because it reminds me so much of my childhood and brings back those good memories.

Photography - Journal Entry

This is a picture that i have taken and added to my portfolio. Some people say a picture is worth a million words and at times its true, but the other times its not true because you are not actually there. In this case, the picture that i have take is worth a million words. This is a picture of my horse Bo and my little sister feeding him an apple. She has her hand laying flat while giving him the apple so that when they bite, they don't bite your fingers off. You can see that he is being gentle when about to bite the apple. Bo, is a horse that everyone can ride, no matter your age. My little sister is 8 and ever since she was 6 she was able to go out to the barn but the bridle or halter on and jump on his back. He is a gentle and loving horse, and one of our safest horses for the little kids that come to our barn.

This picture is one of my favorites -  it says so much without a lot of words. If you just look at it, you can feel the sense or love, gentle and loyalty with the horse and rider. I just love it. It also got 1st place at the fair and i have sold many copies of it at the displays that i have around my home town.