TBT - Titus and Micah, 2009

In the summer of 2009 I was working at a Redcloud Ranch, a Christian family camp in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. It was during that summer, while I was working, that I met my husband. We had a handful of conversations in person before our relationship turned electronic/long distance–he went back to Colorado Springs to finish his last year at the Air Force Academy and I eventually went back to Austin. We kept in touch via email, phone calls and Skype. Eleven months later we were married. Six months into our relationship, Christmas was coming up and we were going to celebrate with both families. Inspired by the film The Family Stone, I decided to do a drawing for his family that I could make prints of to give to each of them. But what to draw?

I eventually decided on a portrait of Brian's nephews, Titus and Micah. They were the only grandkids on his side at that time, and of all the members of the family, they were the ones that I could see everyone enjoying a drawing of. So one night I whipped out my pencils, chose a photo off Facebook, and drew until I was finished–it was a long night.

At the time I had a very lovely (and equally as expensive), professional printer and was able to make a quality print for each member of the family–the boys' parents were given the original. [I say "at the time" because as I was moving out and preparing to move overseas, I accidentally dropped a thumb tack into the printer while I was taking down a poster. Aarg!? It has never worked since. (sad face) I have taken it to multiple places to see if they can find the tack/fix it, but no one was able to help. To compound the sadness...I had already purchased (and could no longer return) a year's worth of ink cartridges for this 6 cartridge printer...ouch.]

So here it is, the pencil drawing of Titus (older) and Micah (younger):

And just like in the movie, everyone seemed to like the drawing. Unlike the movie, the weekend with his family wasn't an incredible disaster of drama and unfortunate circumstances. We did get engaged though!!