Another step towards green living

Did you know that you can get 100% of your electricity in Texas (Houston anyway) from renewable sources...?

Due to laziness and a lack of motivation, we had not shopped around for electricity providers.... until now. Aparently this makes me a gullible fool. First off, when I started looking around for alternatives, I was having a hard time finding a provider that was as expensive as the one that we currently had! We had Reliant Energy, which had a variable rate that averaged $0.16 per KW. One can blow this rate out of the water, just by doing some simple looking around. Anyway, instead of just going with the cheapest rate, we decided to go green. We choose as an electricity provider, Green Mountain Energy Company. They provide 100% of their energy by means of renewable resources (wind and water). Oh, and by the way, they do it for a fixed rate of $0.14 per KW. A full 2 cents cheaper than our previous coal and gas based provider.

Here is a great website to compare prices and find a new provider: Power to choose. Good luck!

Ignorance Perfected

A friend of ours was recently confronted with a very shameful display of ignorance. I find overt displays of intolerance like this extremely disturbing. I'm hopeful that his video surveillance may have caught the culprit in the act... Happy Valentines Day, Tarik.

See it for your self.

Maddie Post Run

Here is a picture of Maddie after a 2.2 mile run.  She really enjoys the jogging stroller.  She even slept for a good portion of the run!

Indiana and the Houston Zoo

Last week, Molly and Madeleine traveled up to Indiana to visit the newest edition to the family - John Logan Meyer. Molly's brother's family had their first baby!


Yesterday, Molly, Madeleine, and I went to the Houston Zoo. It was Maddie's first trip there. The weather was absolutely perfect. Here is Molly and Maddie watching the Sea Lion show. Maddie seemed interested, but probably not any more than she is with Ginger and Vaska!


Here Maddie poses in front of a male baboon.


And on the way home. We like to think Maddie had a good, but Molly and I defintely enjoyed the day out.


Oh, and I have to throw in a video... this one especially because it's a revisit from a popular video I posted quite a long time ago.

Some Videos

Maddie learns how to pay peek-a-boo.


Maddie and her little piano.


Maddie demonstrates how to insert the nuk...


Getting Maddie rolling