A Night Out!

Last week Marty had gotten an invite from his man, Vito (a guy who works at a company that supplies parts to Marty's company) to go to a fancy schmanzy dinner/fundraiser event.  Vito's company sponsored a table or two and apparently has some extra tickets.  Sweet.  However, I quickly exhausted our short list of babysitters and didn't think it was going to happen.

Yesterday, at 3p, I got confirmation from Marty that we indeed had a babysitter and could go to the fancy schmanzy event that started at 5:30p.  Yikes.

House picked up, kids fed, only problem is that I don't really own much for fancy stuff.  As in, I have a black dress I wore on our honeymoon (7 years ago) and I have clothes I used to wear to work prior to being pregnant/having kids (so 5 years ago) and one shirt I recently bought on a whim recognizing that I don't have any dressy clothes.  Well, that will have to work. *Side note is: I. hate. shopping. I need to get over that.* After I was over the obvious fashion crisis (with some help from a dear friend in CO who advised me on current styles), the (new) babysitter was here!

*Quick Elijah story on honesty*
Babysitter walks in and Elijah announces "My mommy's pants are all too tight.  She needs to go to the gym more and not eat so much ice cream."

I chuckled a bit.... he is right and he had been present for the trying to figure out just what I was going to wear.  It's never pretty when it is an event like this.

Elijah then confirms "I'm not joking.  They really are and my mommy needs to go to the gym.  Mommy, why don't you just not eat ice cream anymore?"

I agreed with him - as I said, he is right and I LOVE his honesty.  However, at some point for the sake of others, I think we need to teach that kid to filter stuff. :)
*End of Elijah story.  Love that kid*

At the event, Vito took us around to meet a whole bunch of people whose names I will not remember.  At one point he says something like "oh, have you guys met Mark Rypien?"  This name means nothing to me, but he is a Super Bowl MVP.  Apparently I wasn't paying much attention to football in 1991.  So, we went ahead and chatted it up with Mark for a minute or two.

Mark Rypien - Super Bowl MVP & the only NFL MVP I've ever met.

Drew Bledsoe also happened to be there, but we didn't do any chatting with him.

The event was great.  Food was amazing and the silent auction items they had were also AMAZING.  We bid on a couple things, but didn't end up taking anything home.  The event raised over $100,000 for a local charity.  Having been involved with fundraising events through the non-profit I worked for in CO, I was completely floored.  It was pretty sweet.

Overall a fun night out in the NW, all thanks to Vito.  :)