Matt and Ashley Faus

I wanted to take a post to brag on my friends and family. I have been catching up with everyone since I got home from China, and I’ve heard some exciting news!!
One of my girlfriends announced her pregnancy!! She and her husband have been trying for a while, and they were able to hear the [...]

I haven’t ridden my motorcycle since I started the maintenance that I talked about nearly 3 weeks ago and it is really starting to agitate me.  I still need to do an oil change and possibly change the battery, but I’m ready to get back on it this weekend!
One difficult thing about having a motorcyle [...]

Aural skills ARE valuable!! Matt and I recently began attending Berryessa Valley Church. It’s a small church, with a laid-back feel and theologically sound preaching. We were excited to find this place, since several of the other churches we visited seemed to be putting on a show. Matt and I are excited to get involved [...]

We attended some cool, and often under-publicized events at the Beijing Olympics. A few highlights from the Games:
- Watching Mongolia win their first medal in the history of the Olympics! They took Gold in one of the Men’s Judo Events.
- Hanging out in the suite at Trampoline Gymnastics with my mom and sister! Those athletes [...]

The past 10 days have been a whirlwind of incredible events, and now it’s time to head back home.  China was a lot of fun, but traveling this much is always very tiring.  We filled our last day, yesterday, up to the brim.  We started off the morning attempting to find our way to the [...]

We landed in Beijing, where we met our RoadTrips guides. They picked us up in a charter bus… and we had the whole bus to ourselves!
We went up to the Great Wall one day, and it was a workout! The Great Wall is MASSIVE, and it has really steep steps at several different spots. Two [...]

I know you have all been anxiously awaiting my thoughts on the Beijing trip, so I figured I needed to hurry up and blog!
My family had a lay-over in San Francisco before the flight, so we took them out to dinner. After dinner, they came back to check out our place! It’s really nice to [...]

Hey everyone, I just uploaded 20 pictures from our first day in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic games.  Check them out!  I will be sure to fill in more detail in the blog later.  Needless to say, it’s awesome!

After asking Ashley to marry me, I was invited to go on the Howard family vacation this summer.  Lucky me, it was slated for the 2008 Beijing Olympics!  As Hiro Nakamura (from Heroes) would say Yatta!!!
Frank (my father-in-law) does business as a woven-basket manufacturer in Hong Kong, so on our way to Beijing we stopped [...]

I just finished installing 4 new spark plugs and a new air filter in my motorcycle. This was the deepest I’ve gotten into the engine. Both the air box and the spark plugs are right outside of the combustion chamber. The one thing that makes working on a motorcycle difficult is that [...]