Happy Belated Birthday!

I'm 16 months old now!

My hectic schedule sometimes requires me to do my photoshoot away from my studio (aka my crib). If you look closely, you'll notice I have a sweater and a stuffed cat now. The east coast is cold! Well actually just my grandparent's house. They like to keep it cold.

Never getting lost again.....priced under $100

GPS navigation units are finally becoming commoditized goods. The nuvi 200 seen here is the entry level Garmin Nuvi GPS. OfficeMax has it on sale for $130 this week and I had a $50 Bestbuy coupon that they accepted bringing the price to $86 OTD. The Nuvi 205 is the update to the 200 and features a faster processor, slightly different screen layout, MSN direct capability, and a few other differences. However, the 205 hasn't been on sale recently at Bestbuy or another place that will accept their coupon. I happened to try OfficeMax and sure enough they said they'll accept the coupon. So if you are in the market for a good inexpensive GPS, I'd take advantage of the coupon which expires at the end of the year.

Personal shout out

My blog shout out to Wyatt! Are you going to be in Vegas for the holidays?

New car....well sort of

After months of test driving SUVs, we finally bought a used car or as the dealers like to call them pre-owned vehicles. We bought a 2007 RX350 AWD with navigation from a private party which means we didn't pay sales tax. If you buy anything from the dealer you have to pay tax. The only way to get any backup sensor or camera was to get the navigation otherwise we would have skipped it. The original owners put on some aftermarket wheels which at first I didn't really need but now I like them just for the fact that we can tell our RX apart from the million others on the road. You don't notice how many others there are until you actually own one.

Other cars that we test drove; CRV, Rav4, Highlander, Murano, Rogue, RDX, Santa Fe, Veracruz, XC90, EX35, and FX35.


Here you can see the navigation system which also has bluetooth. If you look closely, you can also see that the CD player has WMA and MP3 playback. If you look closely again, you'll see the tape player! That's right a tape player. I'm sure they would have put in an 8 track player too if they still made them. Lexus must think that their customers still have a strong desire to play tapes where as most vehicles these days have an aux in as standard equipment. Lexus instead charges $300 to enable an Ipod adapter. But hey they have a tape deck. On the bright side, I can now play all my new wave mix tapes from high school and college. Now where did I put those....

Baby Poang

How does this go again? Maybe I have it upside down.



Good thing these instructions don't have any words. I can't read yet!



That was too easy!



Finally I have something comfortable. This chair is going to help my back soooo much. I swear this baby just eats, sleeps, and poops.