Uncle Sam Wants You... To Have a Good President's Day

President's Day was February 16. I got a selfie with the American flag that Jr. Jr. and Lucky helped set out with the Young Men that morning.

At Jeremy's most recent fair convention, he created an Uncle Sam balloon. A lot of fairs this year are celebrating the 250th Birthday of our nation so that's what he created.

I Miss Him When He's Gone

Jeremy had a shorter trip recently. He was gone for only a few days and was only a state away.

I still miss him when he's gone but I'm happy when he comes home. I love him so much.

While he was at this fair convention, he built a one man band out of balloons. It was based on a real entertainer, Eric Haines. Eric's website is funmanband.com 

He wasn't at the convention but so many people were sending him pictures of the balloon sculpture before Jeremy could even send him one. Jeremy had talked to him in advance about basing a balloon sculpture on him. This is one of the pictures Eric sent to Jeremy to use as a reference picture.

 

Isn't that so cool? Eric really liked the balloon sculpture. 

Along with the one man band, Jeremy built a few animals following him. I can't get over how much I love the cow. 

The chicken is dancing- it turns on a turn table.

I do love seeing what my husband creates. That's Balloon Guy Entertainment. He is so awesome. 

He Came Back... Again!

I'm thankful for my husband's incredible talent with balloon sculpting. I miss him when he is on trips but I love to see what he is building and I'm very thankful when he comes home.

Jeremy got back this last weekend from the fair convention he does every year (this year it was in Montana). He was able to use those lights he and Jet were playing with the night of the Star Party and it added a fun element. It's hard to see from the pictures but he used different light up objects in different parts of the balloon display. It's fun to see him experimenting. The globe on the pedestal also rotated. Cool.

Other Things in November

One of the Young Men activities in November was a cooking contest. The Young Men brought their goods and they were judged. Both our boys won third place in their categories. Jr. made cookies (from The Food Nanny) and won third place in the cookies category and Jr. Jr. made braided rolls and got third place in the Miscellaneous category. Way to go, boys.

Jeremy had two fair conventions in November. For the first one he built a carnivorous man-eating plant.

For the second, he built a Chinese Dragon which he donated to the Orem Library afterward.

Jeremy and the librarians named it Jian.

At the end of October/beginning of November, Jeremy and our friend, Debbie, built big balloon sculptures for the Light of the Nations event (Luz de las Naciones). The set design was done by Doug Ellis of Doug Ellis Design & Studio. The following are his pictures. Check out his website. He has done some pretty amazing things.

Must Drive Faster

While the kids and I were celebrating at home last week, Jeremy was at a fair convention. He built this:

 

Great for photo opportunities.

Even though the convention was in Utah, there were long enough hours that Jeremy just stayed there instead of coming home. He came home the first night but didn't get enough sleep because of it so he stayed there the other nights.

We were all happy to have him home when it was over.