Be My Valentine

One of my favorite things about Seattle . . I think that we could find a restaurant for any type of food that you could want.

For Valentine's Day, we went to Mike's Chili Tavern with our friend Warwick. The menu consists of: bowl of chili, chili dog, chili burger, chili steak, chili pasta, chili meater, chili fries . . . The chili was delicious.

SO, tell us what type of food you want and we'll find a place for the next time that you all come to visit!

Catching up . . .

OK, it has been much too long . . . Work has been busier than usual, which means that there are not many exciting pictures or updates for our blog.

BUT now we have some catching up to do.

The first picture is of Brandon and me at a Ryan Adam's concert. You may notice Brandon's black eye - NOT from me ... too much basketball.

The next two pictures are from our Super Bowl party. Madeline is our friends' daughter - she thoroughly enjoyed watching the moving colors on the TV screen, but did NOT enjoy all of the cheering when New York won.

Then, we had to play one of our new favorite past-times - Mexican Dominoes. Come visit us & we'll teach you to play! Hope that everyone had a nice January & Happy Valentine's Day. Stay tuned for our romantic Valentine's events ...

Adventures in Babysitting

Needed an excuse to get this picture off my phone. Here goes.

Over Christmas break I got an email from a friend of mine asking if Karlee and I would be willing to do a little babysitting for them so they could go out for dinner on their anniversary. I told them it would be fine, except Karlee would be working that night. I figured I was the afterthought of the babysitting tandem, but surprising to me I was still their best option.

I got there around 6:30 and my only choir was to keep 4+ month old Madeline happy for an hour and a half, feed her and put her to bed. Shortly after her parents left she realized that I wasn't one of them and started to cry. I tried every trick I could think of (which honestly mostly consists of bouncing around the house and shaking toys that sound cool), but nothing worked. After about 25 minutes of crying I thought at least I could turn on the tv to get some different noise. To my amazement Madeline loved it. For the next hour or so I couldn't stray much farther than 10 feet from the TV or madeline would once again realize that I wasn't her father. Besides that, the night went great. She got to bed on time and her parent got to go on their first date in awhile. BTW, I made it through the night without having to change a diaper :)