We had an electrician come to the house today and install a 220v lead in the kitchen in anticipation of replacing our gas stove with a new electric. Beth had a smooth top electric stove in Arkansas and liked it a lot, and hates the stove we have now. It doesn't work very well. Beth always called it an Easy-Bake Oven. That's not far off the truth. So as soon as we can I'm getting Beth a new stove.

Tonight was the annual Valentine's banquet at church. During the festivities, Beth and I actually won our version of the Newlywed Game! We won because we both picked the date we had in Norfolk at the waterfront as our most romantic date ever. Last time we played that, it was a church retreat at Shepard of the Ozarks (see 10-07-2000) and we came in dead last.

We went up to Michigan to see baby Colin this weekend. Beth's niece Stephanie had her second baby a week or so ago. He is just the spitting image of big sister Julia (who is really warming up to me) only very very tiny. Compared to holding Alex he's like nothing at all. Alex was never that small. Sunday we went bowling with our partners for a non-league day practice, and we all stunk. After a bad start I decided to experiment with bowling a curve, which had some success. I find that you get better pin action and greater margin for error bowling that way. The problem is hitting the mark.

Well, Alex's first Super Bowl party didn't work out so well for him. We were at the Bruner's for the game, and left at halftime because he was so fussy the entire time. He went to sleep almost immediately when we got home. And we missed all the goings-on at the halftime show ("show" is sure the right word for it, huh) but I did catch most of the second half at home. Good game. I was rooting for the Panthers, but overall I didn't care that much.