The school year is almost over and my oldest just finished up pre-k. He starts kindergarten in like a month. Sheesh I feel old sometimes. My youngest is starting preschool this year too.

On a good note, last week I got a little drunk and joined the KC beard and Mustache club! Ha!

Also, I decided on being a NASCAR fan this year. It's hilarious and, as it turns out, my wife is a bigger fan than me!

That's all for now.

A year has passed and I think I'm finally getting pretty good at being a stay at home dad. The boys are doing well and growing like crazy. I've got my chores down pat! I've definitely become obsessed with my Miata though. I joined 2 different Miata clubs. I even built a website for one of them. Some days, its all I can think about! I'm really excited about the KC auto show next week too. My sweet lady and I are going.

That's all for now.

-Bean

I did it! I traded straight up for a Miata! This thing is so awesome, totally worth it!

I wonder what would happen if Dan Cathy picked another group of americans so single out and deny rights to? Imagine if he said that he doesn't think blacks should marry? Oh, and Mike Huckabee should be ashamed of himself too!

These days I'm waiting patiently for our mortgage refinance to go through. We're gonna be saving like $320 a month on our payments! This is gonna come in handy because our Mazda6 is nearing 100k miles and my wife is convinced we need a new car. I'm always up for that. I think we've decided to replace her car with his and hers Chevy Volts. There's a $250/month lease deal going on that would let us each get a new car for dirt cheap.

The gas savings alone would cover the monthly payment on one of them.

Do people get his and her cars? Is that weird, or dorky?

The motor is in and the white walls are on! This thing is a riot! All the neighbors keep making faces as I ride by though...

Almost all I can think about doing these days is building a motorized bicycle. They get like 150 mpg! It wouldn't cost anything to run. Since the motor is under 50cc there's no registration, plates, insurance, none of that crap! I needs me a hobby that's cheap and I think that one of these things would be fun.

Dorky, but fun. (I know I'm a dork, been that way my whole life!)

Also, it would be a good way to get in better shape. I'm always trying to find a good way to do that.
I've already bought my new wheels and I can ride it for a mile.
me new bike

I'll post more pics as I progress. The motor kit will be coming in the next few weeks.

Sunday is Father's Day and I already found out what my wife got me. A beginner's home brewing kit! Woo hoo! I've always wanted to brew my own beer. As soon as I find out I'm on the line trying to figure out what the kit comes with and which brew to order with it. It comes with all but 2 things, a wort pot to cook the beer up with, and bottles. I've got bottles, been saving them up for a while. So I started looking for a 6.5gal stainless steel pot. No sooner than I find one my wife tells me that we need to reign in our spending cause we only have one income now. I know where we are financially and I know what our family goals are also. But what good is half of a kit? How can you expect me to be excited about that? Am I just supposed to look at it and think boy, I hope I get a wort pot for Christmas?

Oh wait, it's the thought that counts. That's right.

I'm starting to get really excited now. We are taking a trip to St. Louis next month and it will be the first time we leave town and take the kiddies. The more I lookup stuff to do there, the more cool stuff there is! I can't wait. The thing I want to do most is go to the City Museum. It looks freakin' awesome on their webpage and all of our friends rave about it.

speaking of vacations, my wife is taking a solo one in October to Salt Lake City for a scrapbooking thing. I told her it was cool (of course) if I could go to the Great American Beer Festival. It turns out that they're on the same weekend!

Is it weird that we're gonna take seperate trips without the kids? They're gonna stay at their grandparents' farm.

So it seems like there are a lot of women on this site and I figured this would be a good place to pose a question.

Does anyone have any good ideas for Mothers day? I want to do something special for my lovely wife. Even more so this year because she's really been bustin her ass at work lately.

What kind of special plans do you guys have?