Operation Graduation

Good MORNING VIETNAM or where ever you are in this great world..

On Thursday at 2:00pm Jillian's little sister Savana(of the little sister big sister program) graduated from the 6th grade or grade 6(My deciphering skills are unbelievable).
Savana was looking fantastic and was glowing with pride.
Jillian and I are so proud of Savana and were greatly appreciative that we were given the opportunity to enjoy the experience.

















Peace out
Team Mitchell

Acupuncture Anyone

Four Scores and Seven Minutes Ago,

I finally put the last touches on my latest web project.
It is for a women who lives above us and it is for her new Acupuncture business called "Banyan Acupuncture". Last year I was given the chance to design her logo and it felt good to have a repeat customer this early on in my career.
It is a nice simple clean website and was a joy to work on. The website goes by the same name www.banyanacupuncture.com.
Here is a little taste of the home page.






Thanks Matty

Hot doggity

Hot diggity dog Batman,

Here is a sample of a project I am working on for the movie theater I work at. It just for a hotdog sign but it was a lot of fun.


















--Matty3stars--

WOW!! WHAT A WEEKEND....

To Whom it may concern,

Well where do I begin...
What about where we left off last time.
That was Thursday night basketball with friends, work and an early b'day present from Jillian.
Well Friday started like most others, though it did not end up that way at all.
I got to get some work done, have a great skate with my new gear and hang out with My Sister and mother in law and my nephew at the park. oh and the to most beautiful pooches in the world Mango and Juice. OH OH My nephew even said Juices name. Very exciting...

In the evening Jillian and I were heading out to
what I thought was going to be a low key dinner in a really cool suburb of Seattle.
So we had a lovely time getting ready, then a lovely drive in chatting, laughing and enjoying each others company. We are very Dorky.









So we finally walk into the restaurant ONLY for me to find there is two tables full of people
waiting to surprise me. Okay this is going to sound strange, but I was actually speechless. I know I know..crazy huh?
I was filled with so much joy I didn't know how to express it.












After some dinner and desert. We headed out to an irish bar were there was many laughs, a few drinks and this picture was in the urinal for the Ozzies.












Once again Jillian out done herself. I felt so special that my friends and family made such an effort. even my friend with the broken leg came out to the dinner.
Wow..I am a very lucky man...

The fun doesn't stop there though. Neither did Jillian who helped mastermind another surprise party for My sister in-law Natalie 30th on Saturday (actual b'day not til the 24th of June). This party had a twist to it, we all had to wear wigs. So being a person who likes to get into character. I thought I would take it to the next level. I got my wig at 2 in the afternoon and did not break until I went to bed that night. Even though I went the grocery store twice, the skate park and played a good twenty rounds of table tennis.
In saying that I am now going to introduce
"Ol'e Boy Matty Jo".
He is the evil twin of mine with the reddest of necks.








Here are few more characters that were at the party.

Jillian with Rastafarian dreads and Big poppa rocking out with a
Mo hawk.
Sister in-law Christy in the background with showgirl head peice or the docter zuess head peice. depending who you were speaking to at the time...




The Birthday girl with Fro Fo Sho(inside joke for the party people)
and Grandma a lovely set of curls for her fringe..
A family friead Sarah in the background who kinda looks like mickey mouse in this photo.





Here is "Ol'e Boy matty Jo" showing my nephew how to smack a few ping pong balls around.







The party was a success, Natalie was surprised like no other. As she actually had words coming out of her mouth unlike someone I know. After a few drinks, Mexican food, cupcakes and a bucket load of table tennis or ping pong (again depending on which Providence you are from).
we finished up at 11 with everyone with grins from ear to ear.

Okay I know this is long, but bare with me for just a little longer..
Every Sunday we have a family dinner.
So this is a time when we hold birthday dinners for family members. June is a very busy month for our family.We have a birthday dinner every Sunday for the month of June.
So Sunday June 14th 2009 was my b'day dinner for the family.
With family b'day dinners you get to choose your own menu.
I chose burger with fries. Nothing surprising there!
but for desert!! insert drum roll here.....
I chose Ice cream with real home made cookie dough and Ice magic (or for the Yanks magic shell) on top. Yummers. Even I don't need a suger fix for a week...well 3 days atleast.
I got swamped with mad presents...
Gift cards to a skate store, so I can keep my skateboarding addiction going strong.
Two magazine subscritions "wired" and "communication arts".
A great laptop table I can use in bed. Using it now.
A new stereo for my car so I can play my ipod directly through it. No more FM.
And a scrabble card game. The geek is strong in this one!!
After my bday dinner Jillian and I headed home, watched one of our favourite shows, played a game of scrabble cards and reminenced over what a great weekend we had...

Ending up with these to great big smiles on our faces as we went to bed!!

First b'day present

Dear diary
Today was great I got do some work on the computer. At lunch Jillian took me shopping for an early b'day present. and I was lucky enough that she was willing to support my addiction. I received a skateboard deck, wheels and bearings.

Later on in the day I hung out with my friend Nick, Cody, Trevor, Tegan and Laura. We watched game four of the NBA finals, which was disapponting as the lakers. Though there was many many laughs had. So all in all a good day.

I must give props out to Jillian as she has been working her little behind off lately.
She is an ispiration everyday.
Here is a pic of me showing my enjoyment after putting my board together.


--Matty3stars--

258 concrete bl0cks

Captains log June 9th 2009....
Today was full on. Packed with fun, work and even harder work.
but let's start from the beginning.
I woke up at 8:30, yes people I am trying to make the conversion from night owl to early bird.
I had breakfast then took the dogs out to the park.
While the pooches were running around I shot some hoops. The only reason I am mentioning
this is so I can boast about the 2 half court shots I made consecutively. I think the NBA playoffs have inspired me a bit.

So after putting my mad ball skills to the test against my four legged friends, I got some house work done.
I then headed to the skate park before I started work at 1:00pm.
The skate was good, I landed a few tricks I was stoked on. The main trick was a switch blunt stall to disaster on a half pipe.
I worked the cashier position at the movie theater. Which gives me the opportunity to work on personal projects. Today I was able to put a few hours into a website I am currently working on (I will let you all know when it goes live).

I finished work at 5:00 and headed straight to My inlaws house to move a few bricks. I knew there would be a few. But I had no Idea there was 258 of them weighing 30 pounds or 14 kilos. depending if you cool enough to rocking out with the metric system. Adding to the fun there was a 2 foot wall of crumbling land fill we had to put them on top of. With Jillian and her brother Kevin helping out it went quite quickly. As a thank you Jillian's mother cooked us delicious dinner and we watched the Magic win game three of the finals..













end of captians log..

Friend in recovery

Here is my friend nick in recovery. I kicked it with him on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. He is in high spirits, though his leg is still twice the size of his other one.






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