Pismo Beach

We recently had the opportunity to go to pismo beach, it was supposed to be just stef and I for our ten year anniversary, but we were unable to find anyone to watch the kids so we took them with us. It was Lukes first time visiting the beach so it was alot of fun to watch him. The first thing he did was run to the ocean and get all wet. I thought he would run away once he felt the water hit him, but instead he just wanted to go in farther.

We didn't waste anytime and went sleight to splash cafe and had the world greatest bowl of clam chowder. Later we went to F. McLintocks and had dinner where evan and I enjoyed a nice glass of water... Luke just made his regular mess on the ground.

Instead of staying in a cheap grungy hotel we rented a nice little condo that had a kitchen and was close to the beach. We had a lot of fun.

Luke making a run for it!

Evan gets a drink of water.

Evan chasing this pelican.

Mustang Update

Well today i went and checked out how the mustang was doing and it seems that not much has changed since the last time I went and saw it, but I do have to admit some of that is my fault, since I am the one who let the truck roll into the jeep. But the truck is repaired and now stef's car is broken and I am stuck driving the jeep until the Mustang is done. I was told hopefully two weeks, I have my fingers crossed.

On another note I have been debating on what color to paint the mustang and I believe I have finnaly made a decision. My first idea was to go midnight blue and add some ghost stripes or flames. I was never 100% on this color selection, so I began buying every magazine that featured older mustangs trying to find a color scheme that caught my eye. I began leaning toward a midnight blue with silver stripes or two toned. I then thought Silver with midnight blue stripes or two toned.

Not too long ago I was driving somewhere when I saw a nice blue mustang all one solid color it resembeled the truck, but not as dark. A couple of weeks ago I saw a magazine and on the cover it had a mustang painted in the same color with nice white stripes. I read the article and found out it was Britney Blue with a Wimbleton White stripes.

I hope that it looks great when done, I can't wait to see it. It has been some time since I have driven it and evan can't wait to go for more rides in the "Hot Rod".

Most recent picture of the Mustang AKA "Hot Rod"

Car troubles

I'm sure we all have been there at leat once, I unfortunately have been lucky enough to have another car die. I can say this, never again will I buy a burgandy colored car they seemed to be jinxed. First it was the thunderbird, thanks to my brother nick who was using it at he time he drove the car low on radiator fluid and I believe the cap was also off, it blew a head gastket. So we sold it to some migrant workers who had plans for it, I think we got $500. Then there was Hey Baby (our Expedition) after a nice trip to lake tahoe where it was giving us a little trouble on the way home, we tried to diagnose the problem replaced sensors and finally fixed one problem then one day I was driving to lunch with some co-workers and we heard a big pop. I blew a spark plug right out of the engine. I took it to our mechanic since I knew I wouldn't be able to do the repair, $600 later he fixed it, but less than two months later I blew the same plug out this time it was $4000. I took it to ford this time let them replace the head. The day I got the expedition from ford I drove it off the lot and something seemed wrong so i turned around took it back, we later were told the transmission was bad another $4000 to get a new one. So we drove across the street and bought a new toyota tundra. Which brings me to our most recent failure, stef's pontiac has slowly been wanting to leave this world. About 9months ago the car was having symptoms of aver heating, i couldn't figure it out so we sent it to the mechanic. The mechanic flushed the radiator and told us that when a dexcool antifreeze is mixed with green regular antifreeze it becomes sludge. Now why would GM create a coolant that does this? Anyways somewhere down the road someone put regular antifreeze in the radiator and it became sludge, hence the reason it was getting hot. 7 months later we had the same problem, so i called the mechanic and he told me to reflush the radiator and I might have to do this every 6 months. Si I flushed the radiator and actually replace the radiator a few weeks lator because it started to leak. Two weeks after replacing the radiator stef is telling me the low coolant light was comming on, i checked fluid levels added water a few times. Well last friday stef called me telling me the car was overheating on her three mile drive home from school. I checked it out kept adding water and finally I noticed it was leaking out of the engine block somewhere. I checked the oil it was ok except for it seemed like it had way too much oil in it. I called a friend and he told me to bring it by his shop on saturday morning and he would check it out. So I went and visited him saturday and my suspecion was correct another car with a blown head gasket and a leaky intake and shot crankshaft bearings.

Stef wants to sell it or give it to pick-a-part for a little cash. I would like to call up MYTHBUSTERS and see if they would like to blow it up. I just don't think its worth putting any money into fixing it.

For now I am stuck driving the jeep until the mustang is out of the body shop. I don't think we will be buying a new car anytime soon.

The One and Only Hey Baby....

RIP Pontiac