Shawn Alstad

Hi all. I'm sorry that Erin and I won't make it up this weekend.

I met and married the love of my life 4 years ago. Erin was born in CA, but raised in AZ. She works for a reverse auction internet company serving manly the grocery industry.

I moved here to Arizona over 10 years ago. I have remained in the Aerospace industry where I work for Honeywell. I design various parts and systems for jet engines.

We live in Peoria, AZ, and we enjoy going to the Imperial Sand Dunes in Glamis, CA. We have fast quads and ride out there between Oct-Apr. Then the temp. gets too hot. It was 113 today when I came home from work and it's probably about 108 now at 7:00 p.m.

We have 2 pets that Erin is very fond of, I am not!

We do make it up the Sunburst every year around X-mas/New Years. It is usually a lot of fun because we get to see both of my sisters and their families, and also my parents. Then we go up to Glacier Park for snowmobiling. I look forward to that X-mas break all year.

We also try to make it down to absarokee to see my Grandma when we can. It's usually only once every few years, but we really enjoy doing that too.

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After I graduated, I went to college at MSU in Bozeman. I had a lot of fun there and I don't think I could scratch the surface of all the neat things I did and all the amazing people I met with the 6600 characters I have left. Anyway, I graduated from there in 1997 in Mechanical Engineering Technology.

I then moved to Mukilteo, WA and worked for Boeing for about 2 years.

I then moved to Clearfield, UT and worked for ATK (Alliant Techsystems, now Alliant Aerospace) where I worked on the X-33 Space Shuttle, and the AAD (Early Version of the Joint Strike Fighter).

I then moved here to Phoenix, AZ where I worked for CDI Aerospace.

A few years ago I switched over to Honeywell and am still working there today...Literally.

I rode bareback horses in the rodeo for about 10 year, 4 of which I was Professional (PRCA).

I started to play the fiddle while living in Seattle nearly 13 years ago.

It's hard to pick just one, but all the different sports and all of my friends were all part of one big story. All the good times in Football, Baseball, Track, riding motorcycles, ski trips, going to the lake in the summer to waterski, etc.