I’m so excited to share this video I created for Yvette’s very first Mother’s Day. It’s about 13 minutes long, so buckle up if you’re thinking of watching!
Yvette was made to be a mom, and she shows it on a daily basis. Happy Mother’s Day from your boys.
My Odessa/Midland friends should get a kick out of this one. I have a fascination with abandoned things…whether it’s buildings, furniture, cut-down trees, etc. Thankfully my wife shares my preoccupation with the forgotten. In fact, if she wasn’t afraid of someone knifing us in an empty building, she’d probably be even more enthused than I.
At any rate, we recently took a trip to my “hometown” (whatever that means) of Odessa/Midland, to spend some time with family for Easter. As I meandered around the old hotspots and hangouts from years gone by, I became more and more intrigued by one of my favorite childhood spots. Water Wonderland, whose name was changed to Hero’s Water World at some point when I was a kid and was finally abandoned in 2007, stood as one of my favorite places to go in the summer. I joke with Yvette that it’s the place I discovered that I really did like girls. I can remember vividly the zip line, the wave pool, trekking up the stairs with those God-awfully heavy raft things for the slide I actually was terrified of in the first place; I remember the tube ride, and purposefully ditching/pretending to lose track of our tubes for the last big slide (knowing we were going to get yelled at by the lifeguards).
All of these memories were a flood of nostalgia, marred by a tinge of loss when I looked at the park beyond hope or repair. We crept through the fences and traipsed around the grounds of the forgotten wonderland. And the pictures here are what we saw, taken with only our iPhones. We also did no color correction or Photoshopping of any kind…so you’re seeing them pure and untouched. Enjoy.
(Also…I happened upon this cool video that shows off even more photos of the park. It’s funny, because the photographer went there at least two years prior to us…and many of the graffiti tags and abandoned items are in the exact same place as when we were there.)
Yesterday marked the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the infamous Titanic. We celebrated by going to the re-release of the 1997 film Titanic in 3D. Epic. Who doesn’t love that movie?
We had the pleasure of traveling to Austin this week to be a part of Billy Gibbons’ BFG Brand launch party. We don’t often get to hang out with celebrities, so there was no way we were missing this opportunity. It was also so nice to see products we helped design make their way to the real world.
We had a great time meeting Billy and getting serenaded by the legendary Jimmy Vaughn. We even got to see an extremely rare performance by Billy and Jimmy together on the same stage.
Pictures below! If you can’t see the images, click here…
Went out today to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge opening today…such a beautiful day spent with friends! Thanks for inviting us Ticho and Michelle!
Photos below!
Here are a couple more videos of Baron doing adorable and mind-blowing things. He’s kind of awesome. Just saying.
Hey, we're the Bowlings, and this is our blog. That's me, Harlan, on the right, standing next to my beautiful wife, Yvette, on the left. We just welcomed our first child into the world on June 14th, a beautiful baby boy named Baron. We own a little design shop called Paradigm, and keep up a creative blog called The Paradigm Exchange. We live life as abundantly as possible, and we're hoping this blog allows us to share our life with you.
