Sunday, 1/2/2011

Jennifer sent us home with left overs from our Christmas dinner.  Thanks Jennifer!  We reheated turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes and added sugar snap peas.  I boiled the peas for three minutes and then put them into a cold water and ice bath to stop the cooking.  All three of us enjoyed the peas.  Katie and Ben dipped their pea pods in ranch dressing.  I dipped mine in roasted red pepper hummus.  I really hoped it would be a good way to consume hummus without bread or chips.  But, I didn't like how the flavor of the peas and hummus went together. 

Ben and I spent yesterday and today cleaning and re-arranging our bedroom to make room for a treadmill.  I've been wanting one for at least a year and can't wait to get it!  I hope my excitement to get it transfers into an excitement to use it:)

Friday, 7/23/2010

We attended the wedding rehearsal for our friends Laura and David this afternoon. We are going to be their photographers tomorrow. They were kind enough to invite us to their post-rehearsal reception downtown Seattle at the Red Lion Hotel. They reserved half of the lounge and patio for their guests. We were lucky to find a table to sit down at. We enjoyed pulled pork sliders, egg rolls, hummus, potato wedges, fried shrimp, and plenty of cookies and tasty desserts. It was a very nice evening until...Katie puked. Yes, that's right...she puked at the reception. (Just warning you now that I am going to get a bit graphic in the rest of this post.)

We think that the puking was triggered when she choked/gagged on a small piece of chocolate truffle. She had been drinking a ton of water and eating cheese just prior to the incident, so it was like a small, yet foul, geiser that mainly landed directly on my sandal covered foot. YUCK!!! She seemed fine and was only concerned about the puke which was running down her leg. Ben ran to go get some help from the hotel staff. The nicest waitress name Monica came to our rescue. She brought us wet towels to clean up with and even took our soiled shoes into the back to wash them for us. We stripped Katie down to her diaper cover and clothed her in a very large tie-died shirt. It was a youth size small:) Anyway, we got cleaned up enough to leave, said our goodbyes and went home.