Austin is 17. He was our "mid-life crisis," and a complete, total kick to have around. Smart as a whip, he was talking like an adult at one year old. Pretty scary, really. He loves Trey Parker humor, Queen, his guitars, and his MacBook.

Austin is a senior at Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie, but taking all his classes at  Bellevue Community College through Running Start. He works as a pharmacy assistant at Village Pharmacy in the Snoqualmie Ridge Neighborhood Center, and has a second job at Snoqualmie Ridge Music. He spends pretty much all of this earnings on guitars, which include a Fender, a Shechter, an Ovation and a Martin.  He plays quite well, and one of these days, he will learn an entire song all the way through. Just kidding, Bub. He does a mean version of Folsom Prison Blues, and his Bob Dylan impressions are a kick.

He took a month long tour of Europe this summer, traveling through Spain, France and Italy. He is most likely headed to The Evergreen State College or Fairhaven College at Western Washington University.