Monday, September 21, 2009

Labor Day

Labor day wouldn't be complete without fishing, so we did some of that. These halibut slabs ranged from 50-90 lbs. Another good day of fishing...thanks to our friend Ben.
Looks like Mishel's fish might be a bit bigger than mine. I guess if you're going to be out-fished by a girl, it might as well be your wife.

For Labor Day weekend, we stayed at a friends cabin (Dave Mitchel, my deer hunting buddy from an earlier post). At the cabin was this cedar hot tub heated by fire. On the right edge of the picture you can see a metal closed off compartment with a chimney coming out of it. That's a fire place for heating the water. The water temp was right at, if not a little over 104 degrees.


Sharp shootn' Mishel.
One of our days we made a trip out to a remote lake. On our way back to the cabin we shot sporting clays off the back deck of the boat.



Here we are at the remote lake mentioned called Orchard Lake. There was a forest service cabin and skiff there so we rented it for the day and used the boat to motor around the lake to access some nice beaches and fishing holes. We caught some little cuthroat trout.
See if you can find Mishel in the picture.





Sunday, September 13, 2009

Round of Golf at the Snoqualmie Golf Course TPC



It was a beautiful day for golf. Dad and I got some blisters, but it was totally worth it!! here are some shots, if you look close you can see Snoqualmie Falls in the back ground on the one with me and James. (Notice the great shirt thanks to Reid and Mishel!)

Dad's Photo creativity Big Horn 09


Dad took these more artsy Photo's Me fixing my line, and the bar we got stranded at in Reed Point because there was a wild fire that closed the Freeway down. We ate pizza and waited till the road opened up.

Big Horn 09 Labor Day





Here are some pictures of our trip to the Big Horn with James family too. I wanted everyone to see the cute shirt I bought with a gift card from Reid and Mishel THANKS!!! I love my shirt, I look like a real fisher man:) I love you guys!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Our new house

TADAA!!!check out our HUGE yard... some of it's cut off in the picture, but you get the idea...

the Matthews are homeowners!!!

Jordan's man cave (our basementOur living room
Kitchen
More kitchen
Jett's room
Charlee's room
our master bath
my cute his and hers hooks i made

our master bedroom with plenty of room to spare... two walk in closets too:)

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Deer Hunt, August 22, 2009

Here is my first Sitka Black Tailed deer. Not a trophy, but a respectable buck.
Here is my hunting partner, Dave Mitchel and his nice buck. Deer like this are much easier to pack out. The two bodies of water behind us are Margaret Lake and Traitors Cove.


Hunting the ferocious deer

SE Alaska hunting logistics: load 4-wheeler and gear onto boat, boat out to dock and off load, drive to end of logging road, hike ~ 2500 vertical feet into alpine (above tree line), shoot deer, and head back.