Dad, can I please borrow the car?

OK, here we are in Sneedville, Tennessee spending time with grandma and grandpa. One bummer about this post is that I bet grandma and grandpa would like to view it. Well I guess they'll have to wait until they're at the local library since the 28.8 modem dial up connection they have at home would take about a month to download this little video. No YouTube or Netflix for grandma and grandpa.

I flew into Nashville, rented a car (a new Dodge Charger) and drove five hours to the other end of the state. Now we're out in the country. Pasture and farm land. What a perfect opportunity to put Liam behind the wheel.

OK, that was fun! One more life experience impinted on the mind of the child! Stay tuned, next we go for firearms training.

The 1964 Thunderbird - Liam's first car

Where do I even begin on this one? Liam has been a car nut forever. He is especially crazy about classic American steel, chrome and muscle. For the six years that we have lived in this house we have been walking by and driving by this 1964 Ford Thunderbird hardtop a couple of blocks from our house. This car has just been rotting away. We talk about how great it would be to buy it and restore it. Eventually I suggest that Liam needs to go knock on the door and find out about the car and the owner. The guy is willing to sell it but we don't have the money just yet, so we save for a few months and come back and buy the car!

Liam closing the deal with our neighbor Brandon

So now we have the car at home. We plan to spend the next five years restoring it and then it will be Liam's first car. What a kick. Once he's old enough to drive it, it will already be over 50 years old. Grand plans. I can't wait to post updates.

There is nothing quite like a boy's first love. Here is Liam in our driveway the day after the Thunderbird made it home.

Welcome to the Moore family blog!

I have been trying to figure out how to keep friends and family up to date on all that is going on with us and finally decided that the answer was to start a family blog. With any luck it will be a good solution. You'll have to let me know what you think.

Daniel, Marlaina, Liam and Summer at Deception Pass