It's been a while since I've posted, and there have been a couple reasons for that. One of those reasons was our laundry room. On MLK day, Scott and I came back from a service project at a school in Oakland and, after he went off to work, I decided to try to figure out what was going on with our clothes dryer. The dryer came with our house when we bought it, and it has never worked really well. I started by cleaning out the vent and quickly realized that the vent was too small and poorly (aka, not really) connected, so the steamy air from our dryer was escaping into the wall (and our dryer was producing a lot of steam). It was at this point we decided it was time to tackle our next home improvement project. This is what our laundry room looked like before: Notice the peel 'n stick vinyl tile that wasn't quite sticking anymore: As we tore up the flooring, we realized that there was a bit of a hole in the wall: Then we decided, why not paint it while we have the room empty: We picked a gray-blue that we ended up loving: We now have the washer and new dryer in there, and it's mostly done. Just a few lingering items to cross off the list, and then I'll post an update. Now on to the really fun topic: MATTHEW! He is learning a lot of new tricks that keep us entertained. Just this last week, he started waving back to us, as demonstrated in the following video:


We went into San Francisco to Lucy Packer's 1st birthday celebration and stopped by the Golden Gate Bridge on the way: Then Matthew and I slept over at my sister's house one night when Scott had to go out of town for business. Matthew was very cozy in this cradle: Last week, Matthew really enjoyed receiving valentines: And this past Friday, we went to LDS night at the Oracle Arena. The Golden State Warriors played the Utah Jazz.