autumn in spokane

aaron and i decided we would send out a christmas card this year...we didn't last year for some reason. having a good christmas card involves having a GOOD picture to put on it...so we attempted to take our christmas picture this year using a gorillapod and our camera. we walked to franklin park, which is 2 houses down from our house, hooked our gorillapod to the tree branch and set the 10 sec timer on the camera...here are a couple pics that we didn't choose for the card :)


it is SO hard to take a cute picture playing with leaves...as you can see, we tried and failed plenty of times. i was determined to try to get a good one though :)




by the end of our "photo shoot," our hands were frozen and i was DONE with taking pictures...where is ryan when we need him!

tuba man

if you are a seattle sports fan, then you have at one sporting event or another crossed paths with seattle's iconic tuba man. his sudden and tragic death puts a stamp on this year in sports for the pacific northwest...
seattle times article

Toilet Bowl 2008

its been a tough year for washington sports. with the start of the nba season i had a hard time trying to pick out the players on the oklahoma city thunder... for those of you who dont recognize that name or know what the heck im talking about, no, that is not a wnba franchise... even though it sounds like one. no, that is in fact the new name of the once and former seattle suuuuuper sonics. sad i know. even sadder is the idea of now turning south on i-5 to the portland trailblazers to get my thug on. actually having b-roy on the squad helps a lot, but i think im going to check out those underachieving zags now that i am on this side of the mountains. a team who sleeps through a weak a** conference year after year and tanks the big hype in the big dance, year after year. but home games are like getting into lambeau field, your not getting in unless you know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.... so... yeah. im still working on a solution.

now where as the disappointing seasons from the mariners and hawks are tough to stomach, they are edged out by this years toilet bowl for 2008. im actually taking deep consideration about packing down for this record setting season... take a look. this is truly an historic event.

cabo wabo

hi, this is megan. just this last week, my good friend sarah and i just got back from a week vacation in the sun in cabo, mexico. aaron graciously allowed me to use a companion pass to take sarah with me for my birthday (aaron didn't go because he had school...and because he would have hated the HOT weather in mexico). we had been planning for over a month to go to mazatlan...we had our hotel booked and everything. well the joy of flying standby...when we got to LAX to catch our flight to mazatlan, the flight was oversold and we didn't make it on. there is only one flight out of LAX to mazatlan a day, and the flight the following day was oversold also. so sarah and i were sitting in the LA airport trying to decide what we were going to do when these two women approached us and said that they overheard us talking about our dilemma. to make a longer story shorter...they had a timeshare in cabo that they had already paid for and were not using. they offered the timeshare to us for a great price and there was a flight leaving for cabo in an hour. SO we hopped on the plane and landed in cabo 2 hour later! it seriously felt like we were on the amazing race!

who's on first?

so funny.

Autumn

Autumn is on it's way, and I am ready for it. We had a nice bit of
rain the last couple of days which was refreshing and reminded me of
the pacific northwest again... I am proud to admit that I am one of
those who embraces the Seattle weather and the rains that come with
it. (megan is already showing signs of seasonal affective disorder)
and as you can see, the leaves have already begun to fall and minutes
after this picture was taken we had a bit of hail as well.

School is well under way as I am entering my fifth week. So far so good, I am really enjoying it even though life has become more and more busy. For megan and I, we are learning to embrace the time that we get to spend with eachother as we often can go several days when all we can have time for is a high five or a quick bite to eat as one is coming and the other is going... But we do have each other and I know I couldn't be happier.

appendicitis?

my younger brother jake was taken to the er this afternoon and they discovered that he has an Appendicitis... he is having surgery some time tonight... please pray for him and my family. thanks

horse

i guess you cant be the best at everything...

trippple play

all of that junk mail from comcast finally paid its toll on us and we signed up for a home phone. we have officially joined the 509... we are cutting back on the cell phone minutes so try us at home first.

509.443.5764

thanks.

busy summer

our summer has been jammed pack. megan and i are both looking forward to fall... well, i know i am :) megan would probably prefer that summer lasted a couple more months... school starts up for me next week and with that comes stability to our schedule. here are a few highlights from this last month. we had some good times, lots of time on planes and the rare occasion that found us in the automobile.

this week i flew on four consecutive days. megan and i flew to seattle on monday to hang out with ryan and emily (emily it was great to meet you, even if you did try to give us mono), then flew back to spokane on tuesday so that i could work that night. wednesday i flew to seattle and picked up my friend chappy and we headed down to san fran for some quality time before he and his family moved down to nola. we stayed the night and headed back on thursday. good times with great friends!

i would tell you the name of the pizza we had, but i would need you to fill out a disclosure stating you where 18 years or older... you can only find a place like this in san francisco.

next i had the pleasure to once again make my way to daroga state park for summer safari. megan was camp nurse and i was the MC and one of the speakers. it was a great week, probably one of the best all around camps that i have been apart of. It was great to see a lot of familiar faces and some new ones. this is me and jay making up a bunch of rubbish as we attempt to explain the rules to dye wars.

the last day of camp a couple of us staff people hijacked one of the boats and got in some tube time... patrick got the short straw. on the outside of the patrick sandwich was, big bear... and bigger bear... phil is a little creatively challenged at times.

family reunion in moses lake for megan's mom side of the family. megan with cousins paige, aka "pp" and ashley, aka "munchkin".

check out the form... bowling is cheap in moses lake, we payed $1.25 each.

megan and i spent sunday afternoon at fost falls food fest to watch our good friend austin jam away with his band. it was over 100 degrees, even the shade could not keep the sweet from running off the tip of my nose. does anyone notice something different about megan...?