Christinas First Salmon

Christina and Matt went fishing Monday and Tuesday. Matt's sister lives right on the Puget Sound right infront of a salmon hot spot. There were two ways we fished, one was wearing waders and fishing from shore and the other was fishing off a pier. Our preferred method was fishing from shore. We hooked a lot of salmon, but were unfortunate to only land a small percentage of those. The cool thing is that you can fish for four different types of salmon in that one spot, which are pinks, silvers, humpies, and even Kings. Christina wanted to make sure that everyone knew that she caught the biggest fish. GO CHRISTINA! Christinas is the first one and the bottom of the picture.

We had a great time and will heading back to do some more when Matt gets back in town. Christina will probably sneak back down next week to catch some more while Matts gone.

The next day we took the salmon over to Christinas parents house and BBQ the salmon. Yummy. Heres a picture of Quinn and Ava swinging with their Papa at the salmon BBQ.

Point Defiance Zoo

Christina has been slacken on the blog. Last week Christina, the kids and our good friends went to the point defiance zoo. Since I wasn't there it makes it hard to say how exciting it was and what all went on, but I'll have to make it up as I go from the pictures that were taken from the trip. This is how I think the zoo trip went. When everyone got to the zoo and met up, there seemed to be some confusion. Rob was wondering what he got himself into being the only guy in the group. while Kim, who is a trained teacher and I'm sure has been on many of field trips, was trying to figure out how they were going to handle all those kids in such a big place. Quinn was climbing around pretending to be a monkey.

Kim came up with the solution to put all the kids in strollers and strap them down.

Ava loved cruising around in her sweet ride, while she got to check out the wildlife.

The kids were amazed that they were under the ocean playing with ocean mammals. Or maybe Evan was just wishing upon a star. I bet he was wishing that he could be up close and personnel with the Ocean animals.

Evan was thinking that maybe this was closer than he wanted, as Evan and his friends were being eaten. Quinn of course was trying to open his mouth big enough to bite back.

Peter sat shocked and scared that his brother Andrew was being eaten by this massive shark.


Wait! That all must have been a dream. As you can tell everyone was happy to have been there and they all had a great time. But to know the truth you must ask someone who was actually there.

Tagged!

tagged by Sarah Anderson

Jobs I've held:
1. Insurance agent
2. Baskin Robbins
3. Quality control at Ho Sports/Hyperlite
4. Laser assembly

Places to go for a weekend getaway:
1. When we lived in Utah, Park City
2. When in Seattle: Oregon Coast, or San Jun Islands, or Vancouver, BC, or George, Wa

Movies I can watch over and over:
1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2. Pride and Prejudice (the new one)
3. Zoolander
4. Napoleon Dynamite

My Guilty Pleasures:
1. Butterfingers
2. Hello, shopping for sure
3. I love eating out, sometimes I do it more then I should

Places I have lived:
1. Carnation, Wa
2. Bellevue, Wa
3. Provo, Ut
4. Woodinville, Wa

What were most likely the first things you thought of when you saw your significant other for the first time?
1. Why does Laura keep introducing me to these jerks (its a long story, basically the first words he ever said to me are "Are you Gothic?", because I was wearing all black.)
2. Nice butt
3. I hope he asks me to dance
4. I wonder if he thinks I'm cute

Places I have been on vacation:
1. California (Disneyland, Sea World)
2. San Juan Islands
3. Hawaii
4. Galveston

Favorite Foods:
1. Italian
2. Butternut Squash soup
3. Popcorn and chocolate milk
4. Seafood

If in a "jam" with your spouse, what tactics do you use to get out of the dog house?
1. Make him a really good meal
2. Ice cream
3. ?

Websites I visit (Almost Daily):
1. Hotmail
2. Blogs
3. Gmail

Best first kisses landmarks:
1. On the red vinyl couch in my apartment
2. There are no others

Places I'd rather be right now:
1. With Matt
2. With Matt in Hawaii
3. With Matt in Hawaii getting massages
4. With Matt and the kids in Disneyworld

Now I get to pick 4 other blog buddies to do this!
1. Ali
2. Nicci
3. Tawsha
4. Rosie

High School Reunion

Andrew and Quinn at the family picnic
(Left to right)The Anderson's, Routsongs, Stevulaks, Wakes, and Garrett and Marceliea (I know I slaughtered her name)
The Boys Jake, Jeff, Matt, Rob, and Garrett (and Sarah's elbow)

The wives Sarah, Christina, and Kim The whole gang together!

We had so much fun last weekend at Matt's 10 year high school reunion. The whole gang got together. It was great seeing everyone, we wish we could get together more often.

More fun photos from Roche Harbor

Quinn and Ava found the sprinklers. They both have turned into little fish, it's so fun.

Our vacation

We spent the 2nd to the 10th out on Matt's parents boat. It was a lot of fun. We spent the Fourth of July at Friday Harbor, and then after that went over to Canada. The above are some pics from Roche Harbor, it is my favorite harbor to visit. They have beautiful gardens. It was so fun to have Matt with us again. He had two weeks off which of course went by way to fast. He flew back to Houston today, but if all goes well we will see him this weekend.

First Day On The Job

For the past seven weeks I've been flying with this company called Aerial Survey that does oil platform surveys and pipeline surveys. I was not a paid employee, but part of a program that they have that allows me to build my flight time and experience. Last Monday I was asked by the company if I would be interested in flying for them as a paid employee. I jumped on the opportunity, which will allow me to continue to build my flight time and experience while I try to get a job with a regional airline. I don't have any flight benefits, but its a job and it will be one more thing I can add to my resume. Christina and the kids will stay in Seattle, while I work which is two weeks on and two weeks off. I'll just fly to Seattle every two weeks until we figure out what happens in the next couple of months.

Today was my first flight as a paid pilot. Instead of flying strictly over the Gulf of Mexico doing platform patrol I'm mainly flying over land doing pipeline patrol.
The way my job works is on Monday I fly out of Galveston, Tx. Fly certain oil lines and overnight in Houma, La.(which is about 60 miles SW of New Orleans) Monday-Friday while flying various piplines during the week. I get the weekend off and do the same thing the next week usually ending on thursday the second week and then don't work for two more weeks. The nice thing is that I'm salaried so for 9 days of work I get paid pretty good plus I get some money each night I'm away from Galveston and I get free place to stay during the week.

Me and Robert Oler

My Room In Houma