Columbus Visit (cont.)

Relaxin' and gigglin'

A day at the park.

Dottie and Larry's visit

Dottie and Larry arrived by train last Saturday and since then we visited the zoo, the science center, took lots of walks to a couple of different parks, had a great lunch out for Mother's Day, Larry and Mark installed my new dishwasher, they hauled a bunch of someone else's junk out of our crawl space and laid down a plastic vapor barrier (which immediately eliminated the unpleasant crawl space dirt smell we had going on), we worked well into the wee hours scraping wallpaper glue off the dining room and kitchen walls and prepping the kitchen for painting (which somehow or other involved the use of a crow bar (you know how it is--if you're gonna paint, you might as well rip out the backsplashes), Dottie and I spent an entire day figuring out paint colors (which is a miracle because normally it takes me months on my own to make a decision), we spent lots of time eating and laughing and telling stories and playing with the kids and watching Matilda take her first steps. What a wonderful wonderful week!

Zac's Birthday

Zac is 16! and at his birthday party last month Grandpa presented him with chartered halibut trip on the Slammer from Westport. Opening Day was yesterday. After a very long day both men returned home with a plastic bag of fillets and smiles on their faces.

Happy 13th Nolan!

Sunday is Nolan's 13th birthday. Here's a picture of him and his chocolate cake keyboard and vanilla cake "mouse". The second picture is of the "keys" (smashed tootsie rolls) on the cutting board before placement on the cake. The cord is red licorice, of course. The letters are written in silver edible paint. Zoe baked the cake and helped smashed the tootsie rolls.

Small news in my life.

As some of you know I work at Uncles Games in Redmond Town Center. What may be news is I promoted to Assistant Manager recently. Now in my company all employees essentially do assistant manager work to begin with, we all have keys to the store and are responsible for opening and closing, etc. Being the Assistant Manager in title means they are training you to be Manager. Yesterday my Manager, Jodie, found out she is pregnant. This means she will be quitting in about 9 months and I will more than likely be the new Manager of my store. To quote Jodie 'If you aren't nervous about that something's wrong' Yeah, nothings wrong.