Drawing with Bradley

Feb 18, 2022 | KennyLeeHolmes | 1 comment

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Dinner… Oh So Good! Then Drawing!

Last night my oldest son went to one of his friend’s houses to spend the night. EVEN though I wasn’t certain that should happen because of the snowstorm that we got and the ice on the road and all that. AND that I was making a new recipe for me to make, chicken marsala! Holy crap it was so good! So good! I felt a little down because Kenny was not able to try some of it, I made two versions of it: one that was dairy-free and the other that was not… Both of them were delicious – I will be making that meal again. Sarah made green beans and I made broasted potatoes as our sides! Oh my goodness it was so freaking good! Kenny missed out!!

Drawing with Bradley

Last night was fun! We had a blast here at my house and I got to do something last night that was out of character for what I normally do. Most of the time, after dinner,  I settle in for the night. Last night I didn’t. Last night we did our chores right after supper, well Bradley and Addison did, then we played dice. Sarah kicked our butts and was showing her dice skills. Bradley and Addi were quickly down to be done with the dice! During the game, I had turned on the JBL4 . We were listening to music and playing dice and then just jamming out!

Bradley and I started “Dancing” with our hoodies on our heads and just jamming out to music. Bradley was looking very innocent and fun. I decided to draw a few doodles of Bradley and that was fun. Bradley decided to teach me a game. He asked me to draw something – anything – and I went to the old standby of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! I decided to make Bradley his own turtle. And we had fun with that. He drew Pizza Guy. It was a ton of fun and we got to draw cartoons together.

Pizza Man

Pizza Man by Bradley Holmes

Bradley Turtle

Teenage Mutant Ninja Bradley. As imagined by me and Bradley!

Bradley stated that we need to switch papers and add the backgrounds to the images. Oh man, we had a blast! We drew and colored for almost three hours! Take a look at these images we drew I imagine that you too would have fun with them too!

So Much Fun

Bradley and I had fun by creating each other’s backgrounds and then just hanging out! It was a lot of fun just to play and draw and have fun! I think we will end up doing this more often and then we will post these images on here for everyone to see! If anyone has any requests then hit me up here or call me, you know how to do it!

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  1. Bradley Holmes

    hi I am Bradley and it was very very fun =)

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