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!!!!