SNEAK PEEK - LONGBOARDLARRY BENCH

This is the COOLEST bench.  It's coming soon to the LongBoardLarry website.  AND, the best part is that Larry will be doing custom colors.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO YOU

We started off our Independence Day celebrations with a parade in Independence.

It is the cutest parade with SO MUCH small town enthusiasm, spirit and excitement.  We are usually at the beach to celebrate the 4th, so this was our first time at this parade.
Larry, Laird and a few other longboarders decided to participate in the parade and of course the infamous couch was in it too.
Needless to say, it was a super fun morning and now my man clan have only one thing on their minds - fireworks!

THERE WAS A LONGBOARD RACE ON SUNDAY

as part of the weekend festivities at the Hop and Heritage Festival in Independence.  It was so fun!
The race started downtown and ended at the award winning Rogue Farms, where there was an awards ceremony for the riders and Rogue provided their amazingly delicious rootbeer for the volunteers and riders.

PS - Do you roll with Larry?

COUCH RACE

We had two couches in the 2nd Annual Capital City Couch Race.  We named them LongBoardLarry Pro (our new couch) and LongBoardLarry Amateur (last year's winning couch)

Here is 'Amateur' crossing the finish line in one of the races.

Both couches ended up in the finals and had to race each other!

'Pro' won!

Here is Larry and the other two riders, Brian and Anthony, showing his guns.

One of the fun things 'Pro' had was a parachute that got deployed after the finish line. (I made it!)

Look at that beauty.  It didn't help them slow down though, not one little bit.

There were so many creative couches - check out this pirate ship and whale that squirted water.

And seriously, how much fun do they look like they are having?  This was the atmosphere of the couch race - so much fun!!

GO SKATEBOARDING DAY

My man clan ride almost everyday, but since it was officially GO SKATEBOARDING DAY, Larry got off work early and we met a bunch of riders at the park for a few hours of fun.

A BOY AND HIS ONE OF A KIND SCOOTER

Lach isn't confident standing on his longboard yet, but is a machine on a scooter, so Larry modified his longboard into a scooter and we have one happy, happy camper.

He has stars in his eyes for his daddy.

PS - He also has no fear, which is unfortunate for my heart and the pit of my stomach.

IMAGINE DRAGONS AND LONGBOARDLARRY

Larry made a custom 56" Cruiser for Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Imagine Dragons.  You know us well, if you know Imagine Dragons is one of our FAVORITE bands.  We were beyond excited to make this longboard!

We had tickets to see them in concert Friday night, as part of a Portland weekend for Larry's birthday, so this beauty was packaged up and we took it with us Friday morning.

There was a special private acoustic performance at Kink FM in the afternoon, in the Bing Lounge, that we were invited to, to do the hand off.  To be honest, we were giddy!

Of course, they were amazing and it was super fun to watch.  After the meet and greet, we unveiled the custom longboard.

photo taken by Ryan 

photo taken by a cute and super nice Kink FM gal

photo taken by the same cute and super nice Kink FM gal

you guessed it, taken by the cute and super nice Kink FM gal

They are really nice, super friendly and down to earth.  Larry and I smiled the rest of the afternoon and were even MORE excited to see them in concert that night.  Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of summer we're still smiling.

PS - We had another "highlight" at this performance.  Kink FM gave everyone at the performance tickets to see Imagine Dragons, on May 27th, at the Rose Festival RoZone Concert at Waterfront Park.

Local friends, you must, and I mean MUST, get tickets to see them on the 27th.  If you don't, you're insane in the membrane.

DETENTION OF THE DEAD

The first teaser trailer from Detention of the Dead was released today! There are a few glimpses of our board in these 30 seconds. We are so excited to see more, more, more!

No doubt, I will keep you posted...

I don't know why I can't figure out how to have the video clips I post fit the sceen, so click here to see it.

DETENTION OF THE DEAD

Look at the left hand side of the photo and what do you see? A LongBoardLarry board IN A MOVIE!

Do you remember when I posted about Zombies and LongBoardLarry having something in common? This is it!!

Detention of the Dead is when "Comedy and Horror unite in this “The Breakfast Club” meets “Shaun of the Dead” tale about a group of oddball high school students who find themselves trapped in detention during a Zombie Apocalypse."

Ash (Justin Chon who plays Eric in the Twlight movies) will be riding our board. If you click "LINKS" on the Detention of the Dead webpage, Ash rides across the screen.

We will keep you posted as we learn new information and the movie release date. Needless to say, WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!

READERS' CHOICE AWARDS

LongBoardLarry made Concrete Wave Readers' Choice Awards this year and he's in four categories!

FAVORITE LONG DISTANCE DECK - #4

FAVORITE CARVING/CRUISING DECK - #9

FAVORITE SLALOM DECK - #14

FAVORITE FREERIDING DECK - #14

Woo Hoo!!

ZOMBIES AND LONGBOARDLARRY

have something in common. I'll tell you about it soon.
I'll give you three hints - school, twilight, glee.

TONIGHT WE HAD AN

employee Christmas dinner at our lair. The menu included:

Main - Deverick's ribs, tilapia, vegan garlic tomato Parmesan focaccia

Side -Pesto mashed potatoes, edamame corn mixture, salad

Dessert - Vegan coconut cake with coconut buttercream.

Delicious.

We have awesome employees!

WE'RE SEEING AN END IN SIGHT

Moving the business is almost finished - almost....

PS - While we were moving things outside the barn, we discovered our race tent had been chewed through and underneath was a mice nest.

Mama mice was moving her wee ones quickly.

Every time we would take a peek, a few of them would be gone.

Totally nasty but kind of cute....