RIP 4412 Mt. Vernon
This a tribute to the house in which we lived in Houston for 9 years. It recently burned down to our great sadness. We have so many good memories of that house. Bad ones too of course but the good outweigh the bad I feel. Here are just a few photos from our life in that house. Goodbye old friend. Love Beth, Mike, Sarah and Alex and everyone.
Sarah sitting on the front porch on Thanksgiving 2003 - this is the way I like to remember the house, even in Autumn, lush and green with the vines twining and bamboo swaying in the breeze.
Parties
the dj friendly computer area made party ready, Tilex and Weezle
Ah, memories of the sunporch, this was still in its first yellow and green incarnation
now this is the right quantity of lasagna for a party, it takes a REAL oven to cook this-the stove in the house was a very old one but large capacity and had a fantastic griddle for cooking pancakes etc between the burners. Perfect for cooking large breakfasts when we or the kids had guests over.
Alex's birthday party in 2001, it's a lan party 8 boys, 8 computers, a lot of pizza, no sleep
Sarah's 21st
table set for Mike's 45th birthday dinner
Misha and Season's wedding shower
so many lasagna massives
Insync family Christmas gathering
Jeremy's birthday and Alex's going away party
Grace and Beth Secor hang out in the kitchen
Holidays
table set for Thanksgiving 2001
Christmas dinner with the family 2001singing Christmas carols
Sarah and granny Christmas 2002Mike, Beth and William NYE 2003
Decorating
after redecorating the living room, new furniture and warm colors, the coffee table I built myself. Jason owns it now
The sunporch in it's yellow green decor
later it went into a more Indian style with wicker furniture, arched window frames that I made myself and warm orange and cinnamon paint, I put in columns made of pvc pipe and did murals on the ceiling and one wall
Art Projects and costumes
Jay comes over and I paint his head with uv paint
at the house preparing for Jade's fashion show at Rich's
designing and making costumes for my dance performance at Rich's that included Grace and Sarah
costume for Valentine's Crush dance 2003
additional stuff
in the front yard ready to head to the RenfestAlex models the temporary tattooing that I did on his head
this beautiful male polyphemus moth landed on our porch one summer's eve
Alex and friends head to the high school graduation ceremony
Kiki hides in the garden in the caladiums
Alex strikes a pose before prom 2003 in his zoot suit
Mike and the guys chatting on the couch after Misha and Season's wedding
Alex leaves home for college Sarah arrives to drive Alex to Austin to school with me in tow