Painting out 2014 - Kitchen time

Nothing says "friend" like coming over to help paint

So, we impulse painted our kitchen... yeah.. didn't decided to paint until about 11a and then put a call out on Facebook inviting anyone who wanted to join us to paint... well.. three fantastic friends came around and we painted the entire kitchen in 7 hours. Rock on. Thanks Layne, Kevin and Chelsea...

Merry Christmas - Santa Prays

Santa Claus pauses to pray.

(I took this photo in November when Santa Claus visited Kyle United Methodist Church for a canned food drive event. It's one of my favorite shots I took this year.)

Cookies and Snacks - Ready for Santa

Cookies and snacks for Santa & the Reindeer

Big Chew - By Eric Fan at Evo Entertainment in Kyle

This one is called 'Big Chew" and it's by Eric Fan

Finally made it to Evo Entertainment, the new Movies/bowling/arcade/bar in town. Neat place. What I really liked was the posters leading to the movies... they were all movie posters...but slightly askew... like this one I took a photo of... which later I found out was called "Big Chew"

Buy this print - here

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party - Kyle Chamber

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party - Winning!

The Kyle Chamber of Commerce held a Holiday Social, Open House and Ugly Sweater party on December 18 at their new office... which is an older home in Kyle at 401 W. Center Street. Their new home is pretty awesome.. as was the party. This photo is Myself with Amy Dolan from Sage Hill Inn Above Onion Creek and Mary Kay Cosmetics consultant Cindy Van Wart.

Old Home Needs Facelift - Plum Creek

Looks like they're getting ready to overhaul the house in front of my neighborhood - Plum Creek in Kyle. Neat.

Negley Elementary 2nd Annual Expo - TEAM AWESOME

(L-R) Sharpy, Hammerpants, B-Mar, G-Money and Delirian
Back Row... Urkel

This is Team Awesome... it's a group of 5th graders whom I was responsible for taking around the school during Negley Elementary's 2nd Annual Expo. I'm really bad at names so I gave everyone nicknames. :)

There was volunteers from a lot of departments, businesses and community-types.... including:

YMCA
Texas Dept. Motor Vehicle-
Austin Police Dept.-
Cross Plants and Produce-
Breadcrumbs ID Service
Hays Emerg. Preparedness
GBRA
Plum Creek Watershed
Hays County Extension Office/ AgriLife
Liittle America Miniatures
Colin's Hope
Kyle Fire Dept.
Kyle Police Dept
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Hays County Sheriff, SWAT, Animal Control
Southwest Dairy Farmers
Power Alley Baseball
Chick fil A
HEB
Brown/Blue Santa Drop off

Happy Birthday Jodie!

Happy Birthday to my wife Jodie. Celebrating at Casa Garcias in Kyle

Santa's Arrival & Tree Lighting Ceremony

KylePARD celebrates the Christmas Season with the Tree Lighting Ceremony in  City Square park in Kyle each year.

The Kyle, Texas Movember group, The Simply Charming Mo's of Kyle, Texas did their part to donate their face to Men's Health in Movember 2014. Here are 2 photos of the Shave-Off, which Sport Clips of Kyle donated.

As a team of 26 members, the Simply Charming Mo's raised $1,475 for Movember. If you'd like to see the entire month's journey of Movember for our team, visit our album on Flickr - here

Pre-Shave - Three Men of Movember 

Post-shave - Fine upstanding citizens

Learn more about Movember here - www.movember.com

See the Simply Charming Mo's mospace - Here