Family – Bobby Magnusen

March 19, 2011

Play ball!

Okay so here’s the skinny (and I say skinny because there aren’t a lot of details yet). We’re looking at the Mariners playing the Tampa Bay Rays on either June 4th or June 5th at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA. I’ve told everyone I’ve talked to by either phone or Facebook Sunday, June 4th. The thing that’s wrong about that is that June 4th is a Saturday. If you’ve made plans or said “Okay, I can do Sunday the 4th“, I need to know if you prefer Saturday or Sunday (which ever works best for your families or travel plans). So far I have the following:

Commitments from:

Charlie & Cathy (2)
Bobby + family (4)
Melanie + kids (4)
Bryan + family (4)
Cheryl + family (4)

If my numbers are right, we’re looking at 18+ people. I’m waiting to hear about June + family, Janie + family and Lori + family (I’m hearing rumors of Tara + family joining as well?!).

If you have an update that isn’t posted here, I need to know about it so I can coordinate tickets. I’d like to get the tickets nailed down no later than May 1st so we can be sure to get the tickets. April 15th would be much better but I also know that people need time to make sure they can commit.

Open up discussion in the comments! Can’t wait to see you all!

April 4, 2010April 5, 2010

Disney!

So who doesn’t love Disney? I can actually think of someone. Odd, but true. The absolute happiest place on Earth! I could go on and on for pages upon pages about the reasons I’m one of those “weird Disney nuts”.

We recently took a trip to Walt Disney World (see picture on right) with a pretty massive group of family. I’m looking for a way to get a gallery going here in my blog (NextGEN Gallery is being a complete pill) so that I can share pictures. Once that is up and going, I’ll have much more to talk about. For now, I’ll just mention that we visited five parks (Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon (which ended up being my favorite), Epcot Center and Hollywood Studios (which has a really cool rollercoaster and an awesome 50’s-style restaurant which I will need to mention post-pictures because of some of the things they did to customers)).

Okay, I need to quit posting and I need to get the danged gallery up and running again. First, I need some sleep! Good night!

April 4, 2010February 20, 2022

Happy Easter!

I’m not sure that the image on the left really has anything to do with Easter (as a matter of fact, I’m about 110% sure it doesn’t!) but it’s a picture I like and since I’m the author here, I get to choose. Don’t get me going about pictures (see previous post) and we’ll all be happier!

I didn’t get to spend today with Sarah, Isabelle and Violet which was definitely a bummer because from what I hear, they had quite the time at Sarah’s parents’ house, surrounded by family. I can’t really complain, though, as I’ve had pretty much every other holiday off since I’ve been working on the north slope. Speaking of work and Easter, I find it odd that Easter is seldom a paid holiday whereas Christmas is. If you think about what each means, and I was talking to a coworker today about this, they’re definitely similar yet one is very seldom a “paid holiday” whereas the other one nearly always is. Just kind of odd, if you ask me (which you did, because you’re reading this).

For me, Easter is the reason we have the chance for eternal life. To live in Heaven with God. Jesus was resurrected after dieing and, because of that, God grants those of us who believe in Him eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven.

I’m curious to hear what Easter means to anyone else who reads this.

January 27, 2010January 20, 2024

Watch out, Seattle, here we come!

That’s right, you read it correctly. Erik talked to me via Facebook about putting together a reunion. Naturally, I was wondering what he had in mind but it turns out, he had a pretty good grip on things and had some pretty good ideas on how to put this thing together. I think all we have left to do is to come up with dates and a venue (probably a park somewhere?).

I put together a list of people out there and, off the top of my head, this is what I came up with (in no real particular order except to say that I THINK I have the 7 kids in the right order):

June, Ross, Darren, Michael, Ian and Natalie
Chris, Marlys, Troy and Cheryl
Charlie, Cathy and Christy
Margie, Pat, Aaron and Amber
Janie, Ed, Erik, Heather and Dori
Bob, Ali, Bobby, Chris and Grace
Lori, Alan, Tara and Bryan

Two things. Sorry Alan if I misspelled your name. There are about 37 ways to spell it. Secondly, these are “us plus kids” meaning that I could guess my way through everyone’s kids’ names but I wouldn’t be 100% positive. Some I know, some I don’t. What a perfect opportunity to meet all of the little ankle biters, no?

What have Erik and I come up with besides a list of relatives? We’ve got a state! We’ve got a month! We need your help in deciding the rest!

How does the Seattle area in July sound? We figured Seattle because it’s pretty central for everyone and the most realistic destination. As much as we’d love to do this in Kodiak, Seattle makes way more sense. We’ll figure out WHERE in Seattle at a later time (open to suggestions!!). I’m thinking the weekend of the 10th and 11th (to throw a suggestion out there). I don’t know much about Magnuson Park but hey, what the heck?

So that’s what I’ve got. I’ll be getting with as many of you individually as I possibly can whether it be via email, Facebook or telephone. Please use the “Comments” to post whether you can or can’t make it. Once we’ve got something hammered out, we can do something more in the way of a formal announcement / invite type of a thing.

December 23, 2008December 23, 2008

Snow! At least for now. (-:

There’s this phenom going on right now here in Seattle. I heard from someone that it hasn’t snowed like this here in something like twenty or thirty years. Wow. That’s a bummer. We’ve gotten a pretty decent little amount of snow where we’re at, nothing like the north end of town (Everett, Marysville, Arlington, etc) but certainly enough to throw the city into a spiral of chaos. I used to think it was funny when the entire area went into this lock-down mode when a flake fell from the Heavens. Yeah, not so funny. Everyone gets overly tense. There are cars seemingly flipping themselves over on the major freeways. People drive 10 MPH everywhere they go. It’s more frustrating than funny.

For now I’ll sit back and enjoy the heck out of it with Isabelle because she enjoys it when I pull her up and down the ice-covered-with-snow-on-top street and when I push her down our driveway on her sled. From what I hear, it’s not going to last much longer. Hopefully it sticks around for a white, if not semi-white, Christmas.

-Bobby

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December 23, 2008

A large change in scenery, half the time.

How does that even make sense? Pretty easily, I ‘spose. I’m currently living with my family in Seattle and was just awarded a job working on the North Slope of Alaska (Prudhoe Bay). What this means is that I’ll be spending 6 months out of the year here and 6 months out of the year there. 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off. Not a bad deal although the time away from home and family and all that goes with that. On the other hand (henceforth: OTOH), there’s that whole “job security” thing. Who’s to argue with that?

So for two weeks out of the month (I think a Friday to Friday rotation, or “hitch” as they call them) I’m up in the Great White North (GWN!). Quite the adjustment to make. My commute, which I love to complain about, goes from 90 miles a day to about 5000 miles a month. Oddly enough, I’ll spend FAR less time commuting. I’m looking forward to the challenge of working in the conditions, just not looking forward to being away from my family for two weeks at a time. I worry about the girls (especially Isabelle). Sarah sat next to a guy who’s working up there who has a family and he described it as “the best thing that has ever happened to his family, after the transition period is over.” Well how long does THAT last?!

To sum it up? Anxious. Nervous. Happy and confident in the decision. Can’t wait.