Lang Family Update

2011 Thanksgiving

2011-11-29T17:43:00.000-08:00

It was a thankful Thanksgiving this year. It was really great we could all be there to celebrate the holiday. It was a HUGE feast!

Jenny Learns to Fillet a Fish

2011-11-06T11:38:00.000-08:00

If she's going to cook it, she needs to know how to fillet it.

Jenny learned, with the help of Adam and Jeff Goodwin, to fillet a fish while we were in Westport. Dana couldn't stop laughing at the faces she made. In the end it wasn't the pretties fillet, but it still tasted delicious at dinner.

2011 Was The Best Summer Ever!

2011-11-06T11:32:00.000-08:00

We had a great Summer with Linework. Below are some of our favorite fishing memories of 2011. Sekiu and Westport won't know what hit 'em next year!

Meet Linework

2011-11-06T11:21:00.000-08:00

Linework is a 19ft Arima Sea Ranger. She's been a great friend during the summer. We're already planning for halibut season!

Hurray for the weekend!

2011-04-16T08:21:00.000-07:00

Bye Bye Boat

2011-04-03T20:54:00.000-07:00

Good memories, good times, it was a good friend. Our first fishing boat went to a new home today. It was on Craigs List for (maybe) three hours and had two phone calls on it. At 8 p.m. we watched it drive off. We can only hope its new family enjoys as many beers, crabs, laughs, fish and naps as we did. On to a new friend. We test drive our (maybe) new boat on Saturday. Stay tuned...

Quote of the weekend

2011-03-28T11:00:00.000-07:00

Quote of the weekend "the boat is on F*%KING FIRE!"
On the way to the boat mechanic in Port Orchard Adam looked in the rear view mirror and while on the phone with Pat Walker gave us our quote of the weekend. Turned out a couple wires got hot and twisted together. It was more scary that they were glowing red and sitting on top of the gas tank... now we're contemplating, "Is this a sign from God that he wants us to have a new boat?"

Black Berry Pie

2011-02-16T09:05:00.001-08:00

Jenny made her first black berry pie! For valentine's day Adam gets a fabulous dinner and I always ask, "what would you like for dessert?" Usually, it's an apple pie, but he caught me off gaurd with black berry. We'll see how it tastes, but the homemade pie crust sure is pretty!

Awesome day at work

2011-02-15T16:43:00.000-08:00

Adam sent Jenny this photo labled Awesome Day At Work! Sometimes Jenny thinks Adam is crazy!

There's been a murder in Tacoma!

2011-02-10T10:27:00.001-08:00

For this week's family dinner Adam and I hosted a murder mystery dinner. It was fabulous. Everyone had a character and everyone did an amazing job playing the part. It was so much fun. We had brushetta and meatballs as appetizers. For the main Caesar salad, green beans, rolls, loaded mashed potatoes and Paula Deen pot roast. Dessert was grandma's recipe for bread pudding. Our living room on a normal day: Which we transformed for the night into this:

The hosts for the night. Sherlock Holmes and J. Neil Gibson (husband of the murdered) Jenny trying to look tough. Jack E. Jackson a South African cole miner, not very PC, but LOVE that he got into character!

Katy even brought the murder weapon!

It was as good night had by all!

Adam's Cameo

2011-01-26T16:40:00.001-08:00

Check out Adam's fabulous cameo in our friend Scott's blog. He put together an awesome mash-up of this year's epic (as Scott would say) runs. Adam's in the yellow coat.
Enjoy!

Last family dinner of 2010...

2010-12-25T09:33:00.000-08:00

We have a close group of friends (many of which work with Adam) that we bounce from eachother's homes each week. We call it family dinner. The last family dinner of 2010 was our responsibility and we hosted an ugly sweater party to celebrate the season. We feasted on tapenade (chopped up olive spread), caesar salad, flank steak, loaded mashed potatoes and the crowd favorite: caramel apple strussel cheesecake bars.

Santa Came!

2010-12-25T09:32:00.001-08:00

Santa Came! Santa Came! Look what pretty new skis Santa brought Jenny!

Adam's advent calendar

2010-12-25T09:28:00.000-08:00

This year Adam got an advent calendar! Aren't they cute. Jenny made one for every day of the month. Sometimes he got candy, sometimes he got fishing gear, but my favorite item has to be the awesome Rhodesian Ridgeback socks I found at a craft fair! Don't they look just like Bubba?!

Jen's in the local paper too!

2010-12-01T12:43:00.000-08:00

Adam's not the only famous one in the family. Jennifer was hired as the marketing director for Builders of America, a local private builder. Check out her smiling face in the Tacoma News Tribune AND the Business Examiner! haha. Beat that Adam!

Adam's in the local paper.

2010-11-14T15:20:00.000-08:00

It was a normal day of climbing school until the local Tacoma News Tribune writer drove by. He had seen the men climbing and stoped to investigate. I guess he thought it was intriguing enough to put them on the FRONT PAGE! Click here to see the photo. Adam is the one throwing the football.

The most common question answered: If the person throwing the ball makes a bad throw, then the person throwing has to go down and fetch it.

Hurray! Adam graduates climbing school!

2010-11-14T15:10:00.000-08:00

Even after his five day hospital stint with Rhabdomyolysis (click here for a definition) Adam graduated from climbing school. Glad he's not afraid of heights!

Our condo on wheels!

2010-11-14T14:56:00.000-08:00

Welcome to our new camper, or the rolling condo as we call it. It's pure luxury in our world (more storage than my whole house!). We love it and can't wait to take it up skiing. It's perfect for camping, or just relaxing after a long day, having a beer in the driveway, pretending to be somewhere else.

It looks a little tight by the photos, but it's amazingly spacious. The bed is a true queen and is the perfect size for us. Now if only Kona would stay in his OWN bed.

The kitchen has plenty of storage and counterspace. The dinette seats four adults comfortably. Can't really say the same for sleeping. It sleeps one adult easily.

It's a shower and bathroom in one!

Since the last time we spoke!

2010-07-15T19:43:00.000-07:00

Hello family and friends! A lot has happened since the last time we blogged. I'm really sorry it's been so long! To keep you a little more in the loop Adam is now an offical lineman apprentice, which he beat out 542 people for the position! Otherwise here are a few of the fun things we've been up to:

Big Wal and Gina bought a fabulous new Motorhome!

Adam ran a marathon and I ran/walked a 1/2. Can you believe it? How crazy are we?

Amy graduated from Gonzaga Law! Hurray, she's finally done. Just has to pass a little thing called the bar...

Adam caught some Lingcods

2010-07-15T19:35:00.001-07:00

Adam caught some Lingcods while he was out fishing with Jeff and Joel!

We Get a Pole in the Backyard

2009-08-12T14:49:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I last updated, sorry. Adam got a new job as an Electrical Trainee for the City of Tacoma. What that means is he's training for the Apprenticeship test in a few months and his goal is to be accepted into the Lineman position for the City. Adam, the Walker Boys and Ivan (another trainee) set a 40 foot pole to practice climbing. Random!

Oh! And we got a new truck. LOVE IT!!! It has not been named, yet.

They backed the trailer up to the retaining wall. Put the excavator on the trailer and Nathan beautifully got the excavator in the backyard.

And they began to dig. There was also many shovels, beers and a jumping jack compacter.

AWESOME!

The King Catches a King

2009-08-12T14:44:00.000-07:00

Holy Moly! Adam caught an 18 pound King salmon in Commencement Bay. This is the largest salmon he's ever caught! It was mighty tasty!

Again, not so blessed with great fish photography.

Sekiu

2009-08-12T14:39:00.000-07:00

The fourth of July was a relaxing one. Adam of course proved himself "King Fisherman" of the group by catching the largest fish of the weekend. It was a great time, even Ryan (Adam's brother, yes biological), despite getting seasick for the first time, caught a good amount!

I'm getting a little better taking fish pictures, sorry it's blurry.

Look What WE Caught!

2009-08-11T18:43:00.000-07:00

It's definitly fishing season and Adam has been spending a lot of his free time on the water! He caught this really ugly Lingcod, but it made great beer-battered fish. I'm not a very good fish photographer, yet.

Look at these beautiful Dungess Crab we caught out at the mouth of the Nisqually river. They made an awesome fest!

Mexico was great!

2009-05-26T12:35:00.000-07:00

We're back and we had a great time! Our adventures included parasailing, surfing, snorkeling, fishing and lots of booze. The weather was beautiful and almost 90 degrees the whole trip.

My view from the pool, right next to the bar.

Our resort from the beach!

Parasailing was pretty. They launched you from the beach and landed you on the beach. Pat did just fine in the air. Adam was not so lucky. While in the air the boat engine died. Adam got dunked. He lost his new sunglasses and new hat. Luckily hats float!

Adam and Pat went fishing one morning. They saw sea turtles, stingrays and a huge pod of dolphins. Adam said there must have been hundreds. They got right up to the boat. He said you could feel them bumping into the sides and the bottom of their fishing boat.

Click on the photo for a better view of the dolphins.

The boys caught an Albacore and a black tuna. They picked us up and we headed across the bay to Las Gatas where they prepared our fish for lunch. We sat on the beach with our toes in the sand. After lunch we went snorkeling at Las Gatas.

We had a great time. The food was fantastic, the weather was great, the people were friendly and we never got swine flu. Although we had a great time, it's good to be home.

We're off to Mexico

2009-05-12T15:18:00.000-07:00

We're leaving for Mexico this Friday, May 15! We'll be back with photos and new stories.

Bubba's first boat ride

2009-05-12T15:12:00.001-07:00

Bubba's a boater doggie! He likes the new boat.

He loves his life jacket. Kona wanted to see over the side.

The Narrows looks so big from underneath it.

It's fishing season

2009-05-12T15:03:00.001-07:00

We bought a fishing boat! Adam's definitely got his money worth. More photos of salmon to come in the future!

Talk about an ugly fish!

Meet Artie

2009-05-12T14:58:00.000-07:00

Get excited we planted artichokes! We should get about 10 from this one plant!!

Portland

2009-01-27T09:53:00.000-08:00

We headed to Portland this weekend thanks to Nicco. Thanks Tweezie! We had a great time hanging out with Courtney. She was an amazing tour guide! We saw all of downtown Portland, the waterfront, Purl district and more. We checked out Kennedy School, which I'm sure Adam was thinking he would rather have gotten married there, it was the coolest thing we'd ever seen.

No trip is complete without checking out Voodoo doughnuts. They have everything from normal doughnuts, ones filled with pixi dust, regular doughnuts covered with oreos, peanut butter, or fruitloop, or coco puffs, or fruity pebbles. I had to get the maple bar bacon doughnut. Yes, I said bacon doughnut! It was fantastic!

Christmas Dinner with the Mitchells

2008-12-26T10:35:00.000-08:00

This Christmas Big Wal decided to venture out of the norm. He cooked up a huge Turducken (Tur - Duck - en). Yes that's right. It's a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck then stuffed into a debone turkey. Our stuffing was a creole jambalaya with craw fish and sausage. It was delicious! I forgot our camera, so these aren't our photos, but you get the point. (p.s. he ordered it)

Wikipedia says there are claims that Cajun-creole fusion chef Paul Prudhomme created this dish as part of the festival Duvall Days in Duvall, Wa in 1983, but this is unverified. A November 2005 National Geographic article by Calvin Trillin traced the American origins of the dish to "Hebert's Specialty Meats" in Maurice, Louisiana. They have been commercially producing turduckens since 1985, when an unknown local farmer brought in his own birds and asked Hebert's to prepare them in the now-familiar style. The company prepares around 5,000 turduckens per week around Thanksgiving time.

As the turducken's popularity has spread from Louisiana to the rest of the Deep South and beyond, they have become available through specialty stores in urban areas or by mail order.

The popularity of turducken is mostly limited to the United States.

Cassie & Toby

2008-12-16T15:20:00.000-08:00

For those of you who know who they are, Cassie and Toby have their wedding website up and running. Check them out: www.cassieandtoby.com

Lake Quinault Resort

2008-12-08T10:31:00.000-08:00

Adam and I are lucky to have such wonderful friends! Katy was kind enough to give us a free night stay at the Lake Quinault Resort. They are in the middle of construction right now for a new restaurant. It was great to get away. In the morning we had a fantastic view!

We hiked a short ways to see the Big Cedar. And man was it big! That was fun. The roots were so large and above ground we could walk INTO the tree!

New addition

2008-12-08T10:26:00.001-08:00

With the economy hitting the lumber industry the way it is who knows what the future holds. Adam doesn't have a vehicle of his own. He drives the company truck every day. So meet the newest member of our family, Hans.

some wedding photos

2008-12-03T16:15:00.001-08:00

I know ya'll have been upset by the wedding photos. I still don't have the website from the photographer, but here are some photos a friend took to keep you tied over. Sorry!

Halloween Party!

2008-11-02T16:49:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween! We're so glad our friends were able to join us for Halloween. Everyone dressed up and had a great time. The costumes were fantastic. There were religious characters, pirates, bunnies, cartoon characters, a side of chips and salsa and everyting in between.

What party would be complete without BEER PONG!?!

Kitchen Remodel

2008-10-10T15:48:00.000-07:00

We finally did it! Or, Adam finally did it. The house is complete with a new kitchen. Just in time for the wedding. Adam, with help from our good friend Kirk, spent three months gutting, replacing walls, building walls, putting in cabinets, counter tops, back splash and more! It looks great. They also gave me a larger laundry room with custom cabinets. The house is beautiful and we couldn't be happier.

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