New Painting For The House

A few weeks ago I came across this painting on the internet and thought that it would be cool to have for the house. I love any and all pictures of VW buses. I contacted the local Austin artist to inquire about the painting and ended up purchasing the original painting yesterday. It is 24 x 24 on a canvas frame and looks even better in person. Kim Edge is the Austin artist and she has some really cool paintings on her blog.

Working In the Garage

Maya decided that it would be fun to work on painting in the garage yesterday afternoon. She painted and I worked on cleaning the garage. We pulled out the old space heater to make it warm and cranked up the tunes on the radio and had a great. We both agreed that it would be cool to convert the garage into an art studio.

Just Like the Old Days

The ski run

The jump

and the not-so-perfect landiing!

I had the chance to go sking last week during our visit to Salt Lake City and here are a few pictures to document how it all went down. The one think I learned was that I can't jump like I use to!

Maya & Maya

For Christmas Maya got a tire horse and decided to also name her Maya. She loves to ride Maya and would spend every minute of everyday swinging on her if she could. On Saturday the weather finally warmed up enough to go outside and play, so the first thing Maya wanted to do was swing on Maya. I spend 2 hours outside pushing her on her horse. That girl loves to be outside!

A New Band?

I just bought the "Everything All the Time" album from Band of Horses and I'm digging it a lot. A few months ago Natalie downloaded their newest album Cease to Exist and I liked it so much I thought I would try their older stuff. I highly recommend both albums.

My Car Turns 100k

During my morning commute today, my car finally hit 100k miles. I have been watching the odometer for the last week in anticipation of the big moment only to be disappointed when I noticed that I missed it due to me singing along to some random song on the radio while trying to make the morning commute more bearable. When I looked down the odometer read 100,002. I guess I will just have to wait another 100k!

Here are some of the car highlights over the years:

• Bought the car in 2002 with 29k miles for $7k


• Put 3,381 gallons of gas in the tank for a total cost of $8,452 over the last 6 years


• Spent over $7,200 on car insurance


• Spent a total of 1,578 hours or 66 days driving in the car


• Natalie was rear-ended only once in the car when maya was 6 weeks old


• I only rear-ended someone once in the car


• Brought Maya home from hospital in the car


• Took many road trips in the car


• Drove for 2 long weeks one winter with the moon roof stuck open which was very cold. I had to pay a sketchy chop shop in North Austin cash to close it. The option was $50 to close it or $800 to fix it. I chose the $50 option.


• Paid a chop-shop cash for a very interesting tint job in North Las Vegas. I wanted a light tint and came a way with dark limo tint. At least it keeps the car cool in the summer.

For the most part the Malibu has been a good reliable car without many problems. I can only hope for another 100k miles!

Wilco on Tour!

Anyone one who knows me well, knows that I love to listen to Wilco. I have been know to listen to them for months and months at a time. It looks like they are on tour again, but so far no tour date has been set for Austin. It looks like Houston is the closest they will come on March 7th. Man I would love to see them again!