Stella the new kitty!

Here she is! I was totally against haning a pet and still am kinda but this felion is pretty damn cute! alroght she has terrible gas and stinks! but o well i never have to clean up after it cause its not mine! yes happy holidays everyone!

oh geez!

oh man so i haven't posted in forever! ah! its cause i have been busy with work and school liek no bodies business! so i'm here to say that there will be posts up soon (when the quarters projects and papers are due next week!) So the only thingnew to the house is wes getting a damn kitten ! pics shortly. hoep all is well with everyone! take care
cole!

a quick weekend getaway!

leavin Fran fri evening. golgen gate

Nick in front of Caymus

me nick kellen and his roommate bobby

Hello!!! I'm back for a lil post here. So i have been busy with work ans school but luckily planned for this trip with the loveless family to napa valley for some wine tasting this past weekend! it was very fun and we got to hang out in san fran on friday after noon and sunday afternoon before we flew out. It was very nice. I have never been to san francisico and i'll tell ya, i love it there. It is a very laid back city that is very pretty and lots of water around. If i were to move from here theres a great poosibility i would be in the san fran! But no worries i'm not heading anywhere! On saturday we began our journey to see 3 wineries and get some tasting in. We went to caymus first then to far niente, and lastly went to a small vineyard owned by a man who let us into his home to get some tasting done. His winery was called adastra which my favorite because he had the best pinor noir ever! It was pretty cool becasue his vineyards are all certified organic and it was interesting to hear how he manages the vineyard to be organic. i in fact bought some that will be shipped to me in november! yum! On that saturday i had the best tasting chardonay and sauvighon blanc (sp) that i have ever had. It was amazing. we got to eat at some neat restaurants and one especially in napan which was called "kelly's no bad days" which is a place that has a cabo theme becasue the owner kelly use to visit there frequently. We got to chat with her a bit and really enjoyed her restaurant. She is miss anti hummer (the vehicle) and she says that she won't go back to cabo until they get rid of their new hummer dealership haha. She is quite serious about hating on hummers. It was pretty funny. She even has a bunch of signs in her restaurant that depict the hate on hummers. Pretty cool.

So none the les it was a fun trip and i'll show ya some pretty photos from the weekend and beautiful pictures of Far Nientes estate. It was gorgeous plus a garage full of kick ass cars. Miss ya all, i think i want to try and plan a night that everyione shold come over to our house and have a bottle or two of teh wine i vbought and chill out out! especailly since i missed the kick ass engagement party for joc and B.

me with a cool reflection on my shades

who doesn't love roads lined with trees!

would be a perfect picnic location

so my name was left off this board but of course the bry man took care of it and got me on there

barrels underneath the building in caves at far niente it goes on forever many many barrels

in the caves, a little nook area with bottles resting.

a kick ass ferrari that was a race car when the owner of far niente race back when alive

a dope 54 bentley. to its left was a 94 bentley

a very pretty church at washington square in san fran. it was right off a park that we hung out at on fri and sun.

this was a cool shot of two neat buildings in town. the smaller one is awesome with the copper turned turqouise look. and the triangle one is famous i think.....

i know i'm being lazy i guess

Hello all, i have been a bit lazy and busy with school in full blow these days. So i don't get to post as much as i like. But the main deal is i don't have a whole lot to post about whner i just work and do school. So sorry im gonna be lame for a few months and hopefully get some good stuff up on here soon! Take care all!

madisen playing JV for LAKE

Well it was last week that i took a day off from work and decided to travel up north to lake stevens to check out madisen playing on the JV team at Lake Stevens High School. I love the game of course so i had to catch at least one game before school starts in 6 days and i won't have any nights off. (LAME) So last thursday went up to amby's and rode with her and mads to her game and had a nice time hanging with my sis and checking out lake stevens high which i have never been to. It was a grerat game and madisen got the start which was dope! Also i love the fact that mads had the jersey number 4 which is what her big uncle Cole!!! had when he played in high school for the Vikings as well. (lake stevens' mascot is the vikings as well) the result was 4-0 and it was great to see a victory for the home team! Love you mads and i'm so proud your playing soccer in high school KICK ASS! also thanks amby for dinner after with you and clay. It was always quite tasty and a good time. I really wish i could make it up more often! check ya later ya'll

a couple of dave matthews pics

Hola! i just wanted to throw on two photos of marnae and bennett from dave matthews. I snuck my camera in after being rejected the second time at the gate. Apparently your really not suppose to bring cameras to the show but i did!!!! Funny story though, i had to stash the camera down my pants in the groin region and once i made it through finally, the camera came flying out the bottom of my pants only 20 yards from the gate. oh man i grabbed it quick and threw it back down there haha. always good times at dave!!!! ps sorry jared for booting your camera on the concrete haha.

the past two weekends have been gun crazy fun!

Ah hello there! long time no talk! well i have been enjoying the last of my summer before school starts with the excitment of shooting guns. My friend Drew has a gun of his own and his family owns the rest. I got to go shooting with him two weekends ago and this past weekend had wes and nick join me. we got to shoot a total of six differnet guns which was awesome. I have only shot a gun once before and it was only a few shots. This time drew and i went through around 1000 rounds two weeks ago and even more this past weekend! It was dope. Of course proper gun safety was practiced at all times!!! Down range!!!!!! it was it yeld out when noone is allowed to shoot. see even with beer in the mix we can be safe! The best part of going shooting though for me was being able to be in the middle of no where up on a mountain up some logging road. we were up on the hills above Plain washington and over looking lake wenatchee some 8 to 10 miles away. Pretty cool if ya ask me!

So i have never been too fond of guns as the are scary but with my boy drew around, there is more of an easy feeling towards them because i have someone with me who is smart and familiar with them. So shooting guns can be fun and not just terrifying! And by the way its def. not like the movies show! haha hitting a moving target is way harder than it looks haha. I had a hard time hittin a phone book with a shotgun only 10-15 yards away up about 15 feet in the air. So don't let the damn movies fool ya!

At night it was nice to relax out by the campfire on the wenatchee river where Drew's family has property over there on the river. It is some 10 mins away i think from matt lords property on the river.

So i had a dandy time shootin! AS well did nick and wes. This experience was nicks first time shooting a gun and it was hilarious to see because io loaded up a clip of 9mm and handed it to nick and on purpose didn't tell him he should have worn ear plugs and after the first to rounds he turns going nuts that it was so loud and his ears were ringing! haha then Drew yelled that he had to finish the clip before gettin plugs in haha. Always a good time. There was your initiation nick to the gun club with drew haha. I had experienced the same thing the weekend before.

Well all another post tomotrrow! talk to ya then. Peace and love

This would be when nick took his first shots! the pic. is small but haha no ear plugs(ps i think he said last night his right ear still is not the same.)

This is the view from the first weekend looking at lake wenatchee. It is further away than that as i was zoomed in as far as i far as it could.

A sunset shot from saturday night. lovely!

staying busy and enjoying the rest my summer!

Well, well, it has been an exciting summer so far filled with good times out playing and staying on track with a stint at summer school. The trips to weddings with most importantly my sister getting knotted up with her true love. To working very little at indoor, to caching little kids some good soccer and assiting in the sweet remodel of my parents house. I have been mainly on track with this eventful summer and have enjoyed every bit of it. I had some fun by joining a coed outdoor team that i had my bros and friends nick and nolan play while i sat on the sidelines with my minor knee injury. It is better in a few weeks so i did get to play 2 games of goalie. Good times also when i did get a goal at our last game.

I have always appreciated the summer we have here. I think this place we live at is just beautiful even when it rains but when that sun is out man, gorgeous i tell ya! So none the less i have had many good memories created this summer that i won't forget for the rest of my life and im just too please that i was with all my family and loved ones at my sisters wedding last weekend. It just tickles me to the max that she is fianlly married and as happy as can be!

So while i ride the highs of this summer i will do the best i can to have a blast til i start school at teh end of sept. I will head off to dave matthews this coming weeknd at the gorge with my bros and good friends and will have a great time. It shall be interesting though to see how the shows play out as the lead saxophonist passed away this past week. A true tragedy but i think the show shall go on in the memory of Leroi Moore! Well i hope that everyone has had a great time this summer wand continue to end it on a high and be ready for the fall!

Love u all and i'll get back to another post hopefully in a couple of weeks!

I leave with a few photos from the great jocelyn and amby of myself and marnae! oh one of just me too! congrats sisiter i love you! And i hope you are enjoying cabo!!!!

i have been a ghost!!!!

Hello! i have been nonexistent lately on here and man i'm sorry but i have been staying pretty busy! I took summer school this year and was busy with that and working as well. So none the less i will get back here soon with some exciting stuff hopefully! 1 week until the wedding!! i'm so damn excited! Love you all , congrats jocelyn and bennett and take care now everyone!

the past weekend on the other side of the mountains

Hello! this past weekend, myself, brothers, marnae, Matt, Michael, Janna, Steve McCrae, and my folks went over friday morning to M.Lords cabin near Plain and 17 miles out from leavenworth. Its a nice little house type cabin that is on the wenatchee river. We all went over for a weeding in wenatchee on saturday evening. It was for LeAnne Maguhey (Sp?) She is the daughter of Don and Linda, my dads side of the family's childhood friends.

It was a nice weekend getaway with tons of relaxing and good socailization. We hung out friday and chilled then my bros, dad, mike, and I all drove up upstream and dropped in two rafts adn floated down the wenatchee river. It was soo much fun. Unfortuantley we got zero photos of it. The river was quite high and the women all thought it was too dangerous but in the end it was an easy ride that was perfect.

friday night was cool. We all had taco dinners and just chilled and crashed early. Saturday morning the men got up at 7 had breakfast and then went to Kahler Glen golf course and shot 18 beautiful holes. it was sweet but i suck at golf so it was a rough day on that note.

We had to rush back to the cabin and shower and get cleaned up fast so we wouldn't make us all late to the wedding. We made it to the church in time and witnessed and short n sweet wedding. Love was in the air and it was gorgeous. Then off to the wenatchee convention center where the party began. free wine and beer equals righteous times. We had soo much fun.

Just want to throw it out there that myself mom marnae and wes got the whole party started by hittin the dance floor to mr bon jovi and getting things rowdy! from then on we were a hit on the floor. all ten of us at some point were on the dace floor gettin it doen. It was awesome. Even Mr steve McCrae hit the dance floor whcih was a first for me to witness. None the less if ya want a lively bunch at a wedding, invite the harrison's,, MacCrae's and Soon to be Lord's. all have a great week in the sunshine! buhbi now

p.s. this is too long to edit so don't mind the typos haha

my sisters' boys

Hello, got this photo sent to me by email from sister. Its her boys on saturday mornings on the weekly ride to the coffee stand. Damn cute! throw it on a hallmark card!

4th of july

So the 4th of july this year was pretty entertaining. It started out with me waking up way to hung over to cope with what the day was going to hold for me. I was persuaded to hit up the bars down in kirkland the mnight before and had fun i and saw some people i haven't seen in a while but that always results in rounds of drinks so i had to much and paid for it in the morning. Woke up on the fourth in a haze and what not to do on the 4th than to cure a head ache with a bunch of fireworks! So sat in the driveway and lit off firecrackers and bottle rockets, talked to neighbors and did whatever i could to hide my pounding headache. Then it was BBQ time with 17 friends whom were attending the firework show on lake union that evening. I soon felt somewhat better when i was on the boat but decided not to drink but 2 beers after seeing the shit show the folk that i was with perform. So once again i showed pieces of responsibilty and was the sober one of the event. I assited in spending 45mins trying to anchor the boat down.(apparently its all sand at the bottom of l.union) I ended up having to catch a girl who tripped trying to hop from one boat to another, then had to clean up a bloody foot and throw a band aid on antoher ladies foot. I was kept busy but had fun in the meantime. Sober fun who knew...? Secretly my reason for not drinking besides a rough night before was to be completely aware and awake for the spectacular firework show that went on display at 10:20pm. (last year i drank to much i missed the majority of the firework show). I just loved seeing the show from the water. It was amazing and jamming to 102.5 which had a playlist going to the tempo of the firework show. It was dope. So in all a good trip minus a few pieces here and there. Jared's camera sucks becasue the owner doesn't take nearly enough pictures and it won't produce a shot at night so i will show a few i liked and one of how terrible his camera is haha. All i wanted was a gorgeous shot of the night light of the seattle skyline.

a little game called a-z (come-on play with me)

A.Available?
YES!

B.Best friend:
i have quite a few but i guess my brothers even though i hate to say it sometimes but Nicky no love, his bro and joey

C.Cake or Pie?
Pie

Drink of Choice
Ice Water

E.Essential thing used everyday:
TV

F.Favorite Color
Green

G.Gummie Bears or worms
Gummie bears

H.hometown
Kenmore Wa

I.Indulgence
shit food not good for me

J.January or February
neither

K.Kids & names
none

L.Life
is way too short, so love the life you live!

M.Marriage date
N/A

N.Number of siblings
4

O.Oranges or apples
oranges preferably satumas

P.Phobias
death

Q.Quote
"george bush hates black people"- kayne west

R.Reason to smile
i'm digging a girl i just starting hanging out with

S.Season
summer!!!

T.Tag three people
marnae haha, sundi, brittany

U.Unknown fact about me
i'm shy at awkward moments and am terrible at communicating with whom i'm close with at times

V.Vegetables you do not like
i'll agree with amby, squash becasue i had it way too often when i was young also celery is no good

W.Worst habits
eatting shitting food becasue i'm too lazy to cook for myself and being lazy

X.X-Rays you have had
knee most recent, ankles

Y.Your favorite food
these days anything home cooked.

Z.Zodiak
gemini

I love that it is summer time!

The weather has been great and I love that it is summer time because it gives me all the reason to go out on the loveless's boat. I was able to gets some solid sun and hours of good times this past weekend. So why not throw a few pics in. Nothing great but hey why not see how the brothers are doing.

Jared just soaking it in.

and Wesley. I think I just took that of him when he wasn't really paying attention.