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

Up and Up and Up

Life is like a roller-coaster baby......
If life was a roller-coaster Jillian and I would be inthe part that's up down and side side. The part where you feel like you may be sick, but it is so good you don't want it to stop.

So as you all know Jillian and I are in the process of buying a house. And you all know that Jillian lost her job. We have not heard anything on the house but that was expected.
What was not expected was Jillian to receive two jobs in one week. One was with the company she currently worked for. They were very very nice and kind of made a position for Jillian. Which she was super excited about. Then on the day Jillian accepted the job her sister Natalie called her to tell her a position at her company had opened up and that Jillian would be a perfect fit for it. Jillian was over the moon and also torn. Long story short, Jillian had a few meetings the next day at Natalie's work and took the job. It pays well, it has great people to work with and the company treats its employees very very well.
Jillian finishes at current job on Friday the 21st and starts her new job on Monday the 24th.
all very exciting.

Jillian and I had Thomas (Jillian's cousin) down for a few days. It was mad fun, Thomas and I got to go skating a bunch(Thomas learned 4 new tricks), play video games and create some art.
here is a sample of Thomas's skateboarding...



Matty

Here is a couple of sketches I pumped out while I was working the other day.... See a theme?

Matty3stars.com

Well Well well...
It has been a very long couple of months or so (more on the so side I would say)with all the ups and downs Team Mitchell has faced.
And to add to the pressure I have been working on my website www.matty3stars.com . It has been a long tedious road, Though I am happy with end product and the many learning experiences I have en-counted. But those who know me best know that I am usually ready for the next personal project before my last personal one is over. I have already been planning my next creative piece and my next project.
Speaking of my next project I am trying to get to a bunch of second hand skateboards together. So I can give them away at Christmas to kids that more than likely wont have access to getting one. I don't know exactly what kids yet, but I have been speaking to a guy that works for a boys and girls club who also works closely with some kids who are really in poverty.
Locals at the skate park have already said they would love to donate their second hand gear. I am going to approach a few skate shops to see if they will donate anything. or if their sponsors will.
I have also approached a newspaper about doing an article on the process, so the local skaters and the shops will get a little shout out will shedding a little bit of good light on skateboarding.
If anyone want to help in this process please email me or call me or what you would like to do to help is alright be this cat.
Well that is it for now,

UM Wow...

Home Sweet Home…Next Door to the In-Laws

So it just so happens that the little house next door to Mama Bill's and Big Poppa's (Jillian's parents) house came up for sale. However, it was even more of a special opportunity because it is on the market for a significant amount less than what it is worth.This is because the people who currently live there can no longer afford the house, and would go into foreclosure if they didn’t sell it for less than what they owe to the bank. This is called a “short sale” in the real estate lingo we have come to find out.

Jillian and I were astounded on how cheap this was, but new that it was still unrealistic for us at this point. So we let the dream go.
Big Poppa and Momma Bill had other something else in mind.
We received a phone call from Big Poppa at 10pm one night last week asking us to come straight over. After a nervous car ride over going over what this could be about, Jillian and I get there and are almost immediately asked to sit down.
Big Poppa and Momma Bill talk about what they would like to do and it just happens to be that they want to help us get into this great deal.
Jillian and I were blown away by this generosity(and still are). We had to make a quick decision due to the circumstances. So Jillian and I went for a walk and voiced the pro's and con's of the situation. Verdict... the pro's had it.
We decided to take advantage of the deal. We put an offer on the house the next day (along with 10 other people, one who put quite a larger some than we did), but the sellers chose us! Now don’t get too excited because now comes the hard part.

The bank has to approve the sale of the house for less than what the sellers owe on the house. This process takes about 6 months, however banks prefer this to foreclosures usually because that is such an expensive process. So, now we are just waiting to find out if it is a go-ahead. The Realtor who was working on the house said that there will be a bit of dinking back and forth with the bank, but it looks good.









I would Just like to thank a few people who made this possible and who put a lot of effort into it.
Big Poppa, Momma Bill, Grandma Price and Kevin Price. Thank you for everything you all have done....

I will keep you all up to date on the happening's.

Matty aka soon to be double house owner..