TheMattSign

I'm a dad and more

2010-04-13T20:15:00.003-04:00

It's been forever and a day since I updated, partially b/c of the big news I have, I'm a dad!! That's right, my daughter is sitting next to me as I type. Fatherhood is amazing, and sometimes trying, but I wouldn't give it up for anything.

As you can see my daughter is gorgeous (she gets that from her mom) and is so much fun :). Other than that, my best friend for almost half my life is moving away soon, him and his fiance are shipping off to boston (insert song clip here) b/c of her job, so my wife and I have been trying to spend as much time w/them as we can. Fishing has been awesome this year, I went ice fishing for the first time for as long as I can remember and caught the biggest fish of my life. Getting to cook a nice dinner for my wife that I caught was something that was really special to me. Herping has been great so far this year, I found a new spot that's yielded 3 lifers for me (first time seeing that species in my life). And lastly I started a book that will be my gift to my daughter, here very own story we can read to her when she's older. Once it's done I'm sure I'll put details up here to buy it if anyone is interested. That's it for now, hope this finds everybody well.

-TheMattSign

A Short Update

2009-08-11T13:41:00.002-04:00

So after so many times trying to figure out what to do w/this blog I'm just going to use it as a standard blog, I know boring right? Last night was mostly spent playing w/ideas for the bands I'm in. Writing some on guitar and playing w/my drumset to try to get some interesting sounds out of it. I like the direction we are going in, it's giving all of a lot of room to have fun and experiment without stepping on each others toes. We have one song roughed out and will be working on a second this Wednesday, then we are going to move to demoing for those two with the thought in mind that we want to spend more time in this step to really have fun w/the songs and try out everything we want to, even if it turns out not working. On a more personal note, this weekend was tons of fun. Saturday was the family reunion, the first that our group took and I think it went really well, everyone seemed to have a great time even though it was cut short by a wedding in the family. Sunday I spent the afternoon with friends at Canoe Creek which is always a really great time. I'll finish up with a baby update, as of the last visit everything looks great. She's the right size and moving around a lot. For those who don't know, we are pretty sure we are having a girl with means that her name will be Adeline Marie and she's due on December 11th. That's it for now, more later on. God Bless!

Fishing on a Friday night

2009-06-21T11:14:00.003-04:00

So this past Friday night, my good friend Scott, my Wife and I all went out to Canoe Creek to get a little night fishing in. This was only the second time that my Wife has gone and her first time using live bait and a bobber. Scott started the day off catching a decent Bass on a Rostertail while I was buying the Red Worms we were going to use. After I got back we all threw on some lighted bobber and some red worms and put our lines in the water. It was either beginners luck, or my wife is a natural fisherman b/c she was the only one to catch anything for the rest of the night. In my defense most of my time was spent putting worms on and taking fish off for my Wife so I missed several bites, but it was all good b/c it was awesome to see Theresa catch her first fish and really start to love fishing. It's been a rainy weekend so far, although I'm hoping to get some fishing in today.