I am a Champion!

I am proud to announce my affiliation with RE/MAX Champions in Washington! It is official - I am now able to practice real estate here. :-)

This was an incredibly tough decision as I met with several different brokers, who all had wonderful things to offer.

Wallace Falls

This past weekend we spent Saturday, you guessed it, working on the house/yard. Sunday we went to Wallace Falls State Park. It was BEAUTIFUL! We took the 5+ mile (round-trip) hike to the middle falls. On the way up we passed small falls and lower falls. We did not press on to the upper falls, but that is on the list to do another day! The middle falls is the showcase of the area, measuring in over 260 feet!

This is a small bridge on the trail which crosses a stream
Small Falls - it's the first waterfall on the trail and you have to take a small quick sidetrail to get here.
Another view of the small falls
Mid Falls was breathtaking. The mist from the falls reached to the viewing area, which was a welcome relief after the hike!

Look who stopped by!

We saw this family (there are 5 of them) while we were looking at the house before purchasing, but not since moving in. Well, they made a grand appearance and stuck around for quite a while! They like to hang out and eat in the cul-de-sac right across the street from our house. I may have to come up with names for them! :-)

Wanna see where I work?

This is my first blog here, I guess I finally have something too say!

The Today show spent a lot of time at the Everett plant the other day and did a pretty good job of showing how amazing this place is.

To take you back a bit, my first few weeks I worked out of a plant in Frederickson. Granted it is a huge machine shop with CNC machines that mill out 80 foot long wing skins, chords and stringers, it's not THAT impressive compared to places I've worked at or toured in the past. However, the first time I stepped into the Everett plant I was truly amazed. I was like a kid arriving at Disneyland for the first time, which is fitting because Disneyland would actually fit in the Everett production building, with room to spare! I spend about half my day at the plant each day. The rest of the day I sit with the 747-8 (which is going to beat the pants off that A380 Airbus is trying to sell!) engineers where my desk is. My job is pretty unique in that I work with Engineering and Production on every commercial plane Boeing makes. A lot of my time is spent driving to one place or the other, or just keeping up with all the people I support, but I do actually work too. I help resolve production problems and I help the design engineers design the parts within manufacturing's capabilities.

Anyway, enough of my babble, here is a link to the segments the Today show did. There are a couple different segments, some more interesting then others, click on the little dot by Seattle to get to the videos:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18273418/