Lauren turns 24 this year and she decided to re-visit a theme that she thrilled to on many occasions at her mother's house, affectionately called the Barbarian feast.

They would construct a giant table built low to the ground, upon which they piled all sorts of food stuffs to be partaken sans chairs or utensils.  Most participants would get into the spirit of the event by dressing up in their finest barbarian garb.  After filling their bellies, the leftovers would become weapons of war in a massive food fight!

A desert dwelling friend from Landers, CA offered to host Lauren's birthday feast, and from the pictures I've seen, it looks like everyone had a riot fully committing to the messy, barbarous melee!

My piano teaching sister requested another t-shirt design for her students as an incentive, to hand out at their recital this year.  I remember my mother awarded little composer statuettes to her students, and we thought it would be fun to use this idea for the design, Beethoven being the most universally recognized  and influential composer.  Can't mistake his unruly, very full mane, and though almost completely deaf, and despite a rather sullen countenance, he managed to write the most magnificent, inspiring music that truly changed the world.

Kristi and her sister recently returned from a trip to New Zealand, and amongst some of their adventures was attending and participating in a Maori cultural performance.  I thought the facial expressions during the Haka dance would be perfect for her 25th birthday card.

I guess my thoughts were that since my sister Karen is turning 55, cheetahs can outrun the old speed limit and jeeps can go over, around and through stuff.  Happy birthday sis!  It is what it is…;)

2016 Christmas cards for my three girls.  Heather utilizes lots of nature, wildlife, and celestial bodies as design elements in her photography, and has a passion for her red hiking boots, so along with those, I chose an owl to represent the wisdom, beauty, majesty, freedom, joy, and soaring of spirit that Heather has experienced since moving to Lake Tahoe.

Middle daughter Kristi loves the character Deadpool, I think because she shares some similar traits as he; lots of sass and spunk, a hilarious sense of humor, a potty mouth, a "don't take no shit" attitude, and while she doesn't have super powers per say, she is dedicated to working out in the gym, and has a rock'n bod.  Since I like to draw animals in my cards, I thought "Deerpool" would be perfect for her and the season.

After a little hiatus, the travel bug finally re-emerged to take a bite.  Lauren will be going with Kristi to New Zealand in January.  While emu's are actually native to Australia, I couldn't resist the wacky features and expression on this bird.  This is Lauren!  Happiness, laughter, adventure, acting goony and having lots of fun is her daily dose of medicine…it's addictive!!

I feel so fortunate to be a father to such beautiful, wonderful daughter's, each with unique personalities, gifts and talents that continually amaze and profoundly affect my life life for the better!

Well, other than I usually do some sort of Halloween or Fall theme for my sister Shauna's birthday card, and wanted to do something a bit different, I have no clue why I came up with a fish…I just wanted it to be colorful.  So there it is…a bubble blowing, colorful fish.  Happy Birthday sis!

My eldest daughter, Heather, and I have joyously reconnected after a rather long period of tension and estrangement, and her birthday has arrived at a most opportune time to renew my card tradition with her.

Heather has been living in the breathtaking town of South Lake Tahoe for the last year or so, and has been inspired and become passionate about nature, hiking, camping, painting, and photography, among other things, so I used some of these elements as inspiration for her card.  She actually has a pair of bright red hiking boots, and the dots are an ode to one of her favorite design elements.