The Betrothed

On Friday night we had some of our good friends over for dinner.  It was a special dinner because we were celebrating Groundhog Day, yes two days late, but it was when we had time to do it justice.  We had our tradtional Groundhog pancakes.


Reuben really was happy, he just forgot to show it.

They aren't fancy, but they are homemade.  I mean really and truly homemade, not some nasty mix with quick in the name.  Ew! Gross.  And I know that ew isn't really a word, but I always want it to be a word in Scrabble, so it's a word to me.  I made 8 recipes, 8 cups of flour, 8 eggs, 8 cups of milk, for 14 people, many of them very small, and they were all gone. I felt bad that I hadn't made more, but we also had fruit salad and orange juice, not to mention whipped cream and chocolate chips and syrup.  Judd made up for my error in food judgement later by stuffing them all with twinkies, ding dongs, zingers, and ho hos from the Outlet store. 
Anyway, we've been friends with Matt and Brooke for a long time.  Judd and Matt go back to high school at least and our families have been friends since they were formed.  We had a child first, a boy, followed a year later by a girl for them. Then we had another boy and a year later they had another girl.  We had a girl and they had a boy. We had another girl and they had another boy.  It was too good to be true and so we joke with these kids that they are betrothed to each other. After all, it would make holidays much easier.  It's only a joke, mostly.  But, Clara and Audrey didn't quite understand, especially Audrey since both families had girls for babies #5 and #6.  While waiting for our friends to arrive they went around the house yelling, "When are the betrothed coming? Are the betrothed here yet?"  And when they finally came, "The betrothed are here!" with squeals of utter delight! We tried pretty hard not to laugh, but it was just too funny.  Our kids are so weird.  We all had a good laugh and a great time together, especially when the dads played Battle Beasts Zip Line.  Yes, there is a reason why we like each other so much.  It's hard to find two 35 year old men who 1. Want to play Battle Beasts and 2. Still have their Battle Beasts. 

Here's a little video of them having fun.  Sorry, it's probably pretty dark.  I don't have a real video camera and just took this with my regular camera.
It was a great night.  We love being friends with people like us.  We are still a little jealous of the slide they have into their basement.  Perhaps we need to bring Judd's Battle Beasts to visit.