John won Best In Show at the Sugar Creek Arts Festival in 2008.

Robin won an award of merit at the Omaha Summer Festival of the Arts in 2009 along with Mary Rork-Watson, of Ankeny, Iowa

John was second place, 2D at the St. James Court/Belgravia section in 2008.

Robin won first place, 3D, at the Lake View East Art Show in Chicago in 2008.

Robin won first place, 3D, at the Lake View East Art Show in Chicago in 2008.

Robin won an award of excellence at ArtSplash in Sioux City, Iowa in 2008..

90 MPH winds in Omaha (above) in 2008 and also heavy hail at 50th and France in Edina, Minnesota the same year. (below)

Robin painted with Christmas lights in the dark to make us an abstract tree in 2007.

At Ann Arbor in 2008.

Community painting project at the 2009 Covered Bridges Festival in Winterset, Iowa.

Robin in her shop, 2007.

Life’s just one big rainbow when you’re with the love of your life.

Robin wins again at ArtSplash in 2009.

Robin in abstraction.

Robin with her father George Paul, in Cody, Wyoming, July of 2008.

In 2006 we lost our dear friend, Des Moines Register columnist Rob Borsellino.