Sounders!

As a totally awesome side perk to my job, I skipped a good portion of the work day today and took everyone to hang out with the Sounders instead! What did this entail you ask? Well, here's Clint Dempsey playing a game of keep-away:


Here's Vivian, totally unimpressed:


Here's Theo and Vivian with Clint Dempsey (#2), Marco Pappa (#10), Chad Marshall (#14), and Osvaldo Alonso (#6):


Here's Theo with a Clint Dempsey autograph on his soccer ball (conveniently, Red Apple gave both kids soccer balls four days ago!):


Here they are with Obafemi Martins (#9):




Here's Gonzalo Pineda (#31), Lamar Neagle (#27), Marcus Hahnemann (#1), Josh Ford (#29), and Kenny Cooper (#33):


And of course Stefan Frei (#24):


Near at the end, Theo did a little "kick-around" and got some 1-on-1 time with Damion Lowe (#31):


And he scored a goal on Dylan Remick (#15):


Finally, since this was made possible by my job, I should mention we are hiring software engineers (and related fields). Get in touch.

Blueberry Farm and Jonah's Birthday

Last weekend we went blueberry picking at the Bellevue Blueberry Farm. We picked for an hour and gathered 6 pounds -- although the kids pretty much ate blueberries at a constant rate of about 1 per second, so probably 3,600 berries apiece.





After they had their fill of blueberries, we snuck out the back onto some trails, one of which led to a river with a dock.


Birthday fun!


Finally, here's a brief clip of Theo assembling a cake out of the sticky foam. He was surprisingly diligent about it.