bacon nirvana

My friend Heidi sent this to me and we have decided that we must do it. I can feel my arteries clogging right now...I can't wait! The NY Times also has a great article about this bacony goodness. My eyes are watering just thinking about it!

15 years!

Joel and I had our 1st date 15 years ago today. 15 years seems like a lifetime! Let's see...in the past 15 years we have:
Traveled to 7 different countries together
Lived in 10 different apartments or homes
Worked at a combined 18 different jobs (Joel's job at KFC still has to be my favorite - free chicken!)
Had 3 kids, 2 dogs and 1 fish
Argued a lot - but laughed even more

There's gotta be more but I'm drawing a blank. I think my brain cells are being depleted daily. Anyway, we're going to celebrate tonight by watching Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" just like we did 15 years ago.

Oh - the picture was taken on Valentine's Day in 1994. Check out his hair!

change

President Barack Obama. Wow. What a day. My friend Heidi and I saw him speak here two years ago. I feel so proud to have been there from the beginning. We kept Annie home from school today to watch the inauguration. I love that my kids got to see history being made today. I'm still feeling so overwhelmed by it all that I can't seem to find the words. Maybe his words will do. The Seattle Times made this cool image of his speech using Wordle...

happy list 5

Jonah starts preschool next week.
Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes.
Joel's new boss really, really likes him. A lot.
Zeke is happy and sleepy.
5 days until the inauguration.
Neighbors.
The new nephew is almost here.
Zeke's laugh.
Wii Star Wars Legos.
New friends.
Sleep.
The laundry is folded.

12 birds of christmas

And now we'd like to present Annie and her fellow 1st graders singing the 12 Birds of Christmas at her school's holiday program. Technically, it was her post-holiday holiday program since she had 2 snow days in December and they had to postpone it until last week. Annie is sitting in the front row in the short sleeve white shirt. I'll pay $100 to anyone who can actually figure out what they are singing.



(Just kidding about the $100, Jason.)

baby babble

We'd just like to warn you that this is oozing in cuteness as well as boringness and is intended for the viewing delight of grandparents, aunts and uncles.