we finally had a brake from all this rain so i decided to give the blue a bath and she looked so good that i snapped a few picturesof her. i love working on my cars. acouple of years ago a girl in a minivan pushed me into the wall on the freeway and i ended up doing most of the repairs by myself. i got such a good deal on parts that i ended up only spending about 1/3 of the money the insurance company gave me, dad said i should do that for a living. unfortunately i just don't like working on other peoples cars as much as i like working on mine.

i've been getting very tired of my carpet. it is very uncomfortable, it doesn't look good, and it soaks up stains like a sponge, and with 2 dogs there are many spots. well, i finally pulled up the carpet in the hallway (i thought i'd start small) and lo and behold, i have hard wood floors. they are actually not in that bad of shape either. as soon as there's a nice sunny day and i can open the windows i'm going to try my hand at refinishing hard wood floors.

last halloween rebekah and the kids and i went to "boo on the boardwalk" on kemah. while we were there the girls wanted to go through the haunted house. elijah is way to young for that so i volunteered to watch him while rebekah took them. while we waited we got our caricature done. elijah had a great time and i think it came out pretty good. btw the girls ran out of the haunted house after the first room after waiting in line for an hour.

these are my buddies, butch and spike. butch is the best dog ever! any one who's been around him for more than a few minutes will agree. i brought him home with me from idaho where i was a missionary. if it weren't for him being such a good dog we wouldn't have 5 dogs between the family now. spike is a little more rambunctious than butch to put it mildly. he's just lucky he's cute. he's really friendly and kids love him. he's my wing man at the car shows. people always think he's a girl though, when someone askes "what's her name?" i always say "HIS name is spike, and he's a badass". don't let him catch you touching my car. i put a spiked collar on him to help him look tuff, but you can't really see it through all his hair.

that's right ladies, he's single!

with family and friends spread out so far i thought this would be a fun way to keep up with each other.