what a day

first, last night we went to a wedding preception. the couple had a big party before getting married. good fun, and the beers were flowing nicely.
this morning eric got up early and headed out to meet some of his friends to go trail running. feather and dave were going to pick me and the kids up at 8 to head out to that same trail so that eric and i could do a kiddo hand off.

we got to the trail head to see eric and his friends standing around and eric on the phone. he wasn't talking to me, so who could he have been on the phone with? the police of course! someone had broken into the car and stolen his wallet. disturbingly they did it by somehow pulling down the front passenger window. its not broken though. they took only his wallet and decided to not take his $250 oakley sunglasses. the last time a car of ours was broken into and a wallet stolen, they took my totally awesome 1998 oakley irridium lens razor blades. this time, they weren't interested in optics. as soon as eric was off the phone we called and cancelled the credit card and his debit card. they had already tried to use the card at the gas station.

eric and the kids hung out and the feather and dave and gumball and i went on the run. it was tough. gumball loved the mud, the 8inch mud. she would jump in and just hang out. then there was the super soupy mess she totally immersed herself in. it took us 49 minutes to get to the top which included the regroupings and the walking through the bogs. it took 10 minutes less to get to the bottom, but boy the return trip felt much longer then the trip out.

when we got back, eric told us all about how when the people broke into the car it somehow activated the tail lights. he called the dealer and some local shops and no one knew how to fix it so he just pulled the spark plugs. during all this messing around the battery managed to go dead. so he had to call AAA who came out pretty quickly and gave him a jump.

what a morning.

we headed to my work where we took showers and had some lunch.

then we went and did something that could turn into something that will change our lives forever. we put an offer on a house. in the suburbs. like the most suburb of all suburbs. on the east side. like, about as east as you can go with still be considered western washington. ok ok, so not that far east, but its pretty darn east - east of two major lakes, and its pretty darn suburban. but we are very excited!