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Sunlight in Zoe's hair

Blanton Art Museum

Zoe and I went to the Blanton Museum of Art at UT, here are some photos.

Cathedral of Junk

We visited the Cathedral of Junk today in Austin with Angie, Jeff and James. A guy built a 3 story cathedral in his back yard made out of junk and found objects. We met him, he was a nice guy, he said it took him 20 years to build it.

A quick look back at 2008

Here are some things that happened over the past year for us.

• We moved from Plano to Austin
• We spent Nikki's 30th birthday at her 2nd favorite place to eat, Gobos in NYC with friends (her favorite place-Zen Palate in Union Square had closed down).
• We traveled to West Virginia to visit Skip's grandmother
• 2 of Skip's 3 remaining grandparents passed away.  Nadine on his dad's side and Paxton on his mom's side. Skip did get a chance to have a good, long talk with his grandfather in the hospital before hand, which meant alot to him.
• We went to Boulder and the Rocky Mountains for a nice mountain holiday in the spring.
• Nikki started a new part time job at home.
• Skip picked up artist representation at a gallery in Dallas
• Zoe turned 2!
• We learned that we will have a new addition to the family next year!

Zilker Park with James

Our friends Angie, Jeff and James are in town. We had fun hanging out with them at Zilker Park this afternoon.

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Breakfast With Grackles

Zoe and I had breakfast while Nikki went swimming on Friday morning. Some grackles showed up and we shared our muffin (poppy seed, carrot, golden raisin, walnut).

Zoe's Sketch

I'm very impressed with Zoe's sketch, she did this completely on her own!

Busy Weekend

Some photos we took this weekend. We fed some peacocks, kayaked and checked out the Trail of Lights.

Barton Creek Greenbelt

We hiked around the Barton Creek Greenbelt this morning. I think this is part of the hill country of Texas, not sure, but we definitely were up on some hills.

Its a girl!!!!!

Here are ultrasound photos of our new daughter. Zoe says she wants to have a tea party with her little sister. We are thinking of names right now. Yea!

Rick Steeves

I went to see Rick Steves speak at a local bookstore. He host a travel show on PBS that Ive watched for years. It was great to watch him speak, he is very political when he is off camera.

He just finished a show about Iran. He said the reason he did this show is to try and show the west what the people of Iran are really like. The corporate media has been so busy dehumanizing Iran, that he wanted a chance to show how they (the people of Iran) are just people, like us, just trying to live their life. We shouldn't confuse the people with the policies of their government.

Peacocks in the Park

We went to Mayfield park here in Austin to check out the wild peacocks that roam around. They have lived there since the early 1900s.

Big Smile!!!!!