Happy Anniversary and Birthday

This July 2nd was our 9 year anniversary. Things I remember about our wedding day was Nikki bouncing up and down, how beautiful she was in her dress, all the friends and family we talked to that day. I remember when we both drank from the wine glass, how funny it was when Nikki took a little sip and handed me a full glass of wine to down in front of everyone. It was a day full of excitement and happiness. Nikki and I have done a lot of amazing things, been a lot of places and had a lot of wonderful experiences in the past 9 years, and I’m looking forward to the next 9 as well. I can say that the 3 best experiences of my life have been the day I married Nikki, and watching my 2 daughters be born.

We went to an early dinner at Mothers Vegetarian Restaurant to celebrate.

On July 3rd we had another big celebration, Zoe turned 3! We let Zoe pick out where she wanted to go for lunch, and it was no surprise, she said, "I want to go to Chuys". Chuys is a great Tex-Mex place here in Austin, and its Zoes favorite place to eat. Zoe opened up some presents and had some cupcakes from Wholefoods. We are extremely proud of our little rock star Zoe.

Its about 7:30 am as I write this blog. I was up at 5 this morning and took a sleeping Paige (in her car seat) to Barton Springs to swim. It was great. There was only about 5 people swimming (Barton Springs is really large swimming area). It was still night, the stars were still in the sky, the sun was turning the horizon a lighter shade of blue, the cold water straight from inside the Earth was very cold, and bats were flying overhead. Paige slept in her car seat while I swam around for a while. Im going to try to do that more often, it was a great way to start the day.

Paige is doing great. She is getting bigger, smiling, talking to us, and taking everything in. She has the sweetest voice and very deep, beautiful eyes.

This morning we have a tricycle parade to go to, should be fun. We are going to try and keep the kiddos up to see fireworks tonight, we will see how that goes. And tomorrow is Zoe's birthday party! Tomorrow night we are going on a bat cruise.

Sophie is fitting right in with the other cats. I have seen her playing with Miro many times now, and laying close to Napoleon on the couch. She is a funny girl with lots of energy, and I love the way she makes Zoe giggle.

I'll be in Dallas next weekend to pick up my artwork from my solo show at Northlake, and I have an opening reception to attend at Dahlia Woods, its a group show with 11 other artists.

In a couple of weeks I will be heading up to my old stomping grounds of NYC for the weekend. Im trying out for a reality TV show. Should be an interesting experience! Hopefully while Im up there I can meet up with some friends I haven’t seen in a while.