Fun Stuff all over the Show

Over the last couple of weeks Jillian and I have been having a great time.
With activities including Car camping, birthday dinners, game nights, baking cookies, work party and another rolled ankle.

So I will break all these events down quickly..

Car Camping:
On Tuesday ten of us of decided that we would go camping Friday night. It was a great night we had a camp fire, smores, hot dogs, a few drinks and a great night filled with laughs.














Birthday dinners:
My Sister in law had a birthday dinner the other Sunday which was very fun. It was a completely vegan dinner.
The night before that the whole family went to dinner at a family friends to celebrate their son's 18th birthday. And we celebrated by having a games night.

Baking cookies:
Jillian and I had Savanna over a couple of weeks ago. We made cookies and had a great time with a delicious dinner to top it off.














Rolling my ankle:
Once again my left ankle rolled while skating. It was not doing anything fancy at all, it was doing a switch ollie on flat. And every other skater out there is asking if it was down a large set of stairs or something impressive. Nope this guy can do that on the flat with no obstacles or anything. I am that impressive. As I write this my ankle is getting back to normal and I can not complain it could of been worse.

Work Party:
The Other Wednesday the movie theater I work at held a work party for us to say thank you for a cleaning party we had the week before. It was held at a bowling club and we all had a blast . I think my highest was 135.

















Logo work:
Yesterday I helped finish up my friends logo for her photography business.
Here is a sample of it...











I hope you are having as great couple weeks like Jillian and I..

Peace out Matty

September 11 2009

Lets jump into this straight away,

Jillian is loving her job and regarding her coffee shop job. The boss there didn't want to lose her completely and ask her to work twice a month. Jillian was excited about this as she loves it there as well. Jillian finished her Chemistry class, which she finished with an A. Jillian didn't even study for the last exam. Being married to a genius is very humbling. Jillian is looking at this new job as a career and has put the idea of school teaching on a very extended hold.

Me personally I have had a project come to an end. I was ask to create a four posters to put into napkin dispensers for the movie theater I work at. I was given real freedom with the project and and was very happy with the out come.
Over the last year I have been skating this local skate park and have been a few rad little kindships. Which leads me into a two stories.
1.
I have tried to get skateboard lesson's happening at the skatepark before. But to no avail.
But over the last six months there has been a 4 year kid there Braydon rolling around on a scooter.
Well early on Braydon asked me to borrow my skate board and as I am usually carrying a spare or two for this exact reason. I let him borrow the spare one. Braydon and his Mum were always grateful.
Braydon's Mom Deanna and I were talking a couple of weeks ago about kids needing lesson's and I told her the story of me trying to get free lessons started there and how it came to no avail.
And Braydon's Mom quickly said that she would love to have me teach Braydon skating. So yesterday we meet up for a half an hour skate lesson. It was so much fun. Braydon learned how to push and put his feet back on. do many kick turns. He has a natural ability.
Braydon and his Mum Deanna were very grateful and I was very stoked to be able to teach skateboarding again.

2.
So I spoke about this in past blogs that I am trying to get skateboards together for underprivileged children Skateboards for Christmas.
Well I have had a huge response from a fair few people. It is looking like I am going to have over ten boards to give away. I am mad excited about this and I am a very grateful for everyone that is helping out. I just wanna give a big shout out to the local kirkland skaters who jumped on board without hesitation. thanks guys and girls.
I finished my flash class. That program still blows me away. I have two weeks off and start back up TAing on the 30th of Sept and a 10 week typography class on the starting on the 1st of october.

Jillian and I are lucky enough to have surrounded ourselves with great friends over here. And in the last post I spoke about going to hang out with a bunch of them on Camano Island. It was a very windy and wet weekend. though that didn't stop the fun. There was crabbing, movies, games, drinks, food and more food. Our friend Laura's parents hosted us all weekend. A big shout out to Nancy and Bob woot woot!!!!
We also got to catch up with friends for coffee and Another set of friends for a beer in the last week. These interactions make me feel more at home as time goes on....

We have had little news on the house, but what we have had was all good son....

here are some pics of the movie theater project I was working on....




































I hope you all are doing well and I can not wait to hear from you cats, you dig!!
Matty

Here's to new beginnings

I know it has been a while since I put finger to key..
So here is a quick overview over the last week or so..

The big news is Jillian started her new job on the 24th of August. I think I forgot to tell you all what the company was called "Liberty Dialysis". Jillian loves it. Jillian has also cut her hours back at the coffee shop. So Jillian is feeling freer and happier than ever. It is not as close as her other job but it is only a twenty minute commute and the traffic is not that bad.

I have just taken on a new web job. I am very excited to pick up another one. I am also taking a class on the application Adobe Flash. That stuff is crazy..
Skating as much as I can and for those playing at home I landed a few new tricks. Frontside and backside noseblunt stalls on the quarter pipe. I was super excited to get these as I never thought I would be able to. Other than a few drunken escapades I don't have any other solo stories.

Jillian and I heard a bit more on the house and it is looking good, we still go to bed talking about it very often and have fingers crossed twice over. Jillian and I have been hanging out with our friends quite often lately and are going away this weekend to a place called Camano Island. Where our friend Laura's Parents live.
We also got to take Jillian's Grandma out for her b'day gift tonight. Grandma turned 81 the other week and has been hunting for a good Chinese place for the last year or so. So we took her to one that we knew she would love. It was a great night.

here is a pic of my new hair cut,
Well that is about it.
peace out ya'll
Matty