Other Friends Rock Too

We first met Dave and Kaylin about eight years ago. Sabrina was about a year old and Linda had an opportunity to go back to work for a few months to help her old boss through a software transition. Our wonderful daycare provider Marian, who had watched Jack in her home, needed to focus more time on her kids, so we were ,without a source of daycare. While Linda had been away from her old job, a new woman, Kaylin, had been hired. When Linda was negotiating how she could come back, she met Kaylin and became instantaneous friends. Within minutes of meeting each other Kaylin had offered her husband (who himself was staying home as the primary care giver) as daycare for our two kids. I was a bit skeptical at first. Some unknown guy watching my two childeren. Who were these people? Were we sending our childeren to the wolves? I hardly could even guess at what a blessing that offer would turn out to be. Dave is a quiet and very wonderful father and treated our kids with such gentleness and care, one would think our kids were his. Kaylin, wicked smart and extremely wise, also would watch over our two from time to time. Since then, even though we have moved from Washington to Alaska, Dave and Kaylin remain our good friends and some of the few that have remained dedicated to maintaining our friendship despite the miles. Kaylin, while we were visisting last summer, made a king salmon cake (It looked just like a king salmon) for my birthday. Kaylin is very busy, and the fact that she took so much time to create this awesome treat, is just another example of how loyal she is to her friends. Dave has an awesome talent at video production. While our kids were staying with them, he shot some movies of Sabrina's first steps and other great moments in a movie he entitled Jacks and Tyler's Dance Party. They sent us the link to it off of YouTube the other night. It came to us as we are just coming down from some of the more stressfull few weeks of our life (windstorm damage, kitchen floor being tiled, washer and dryer going out, my surgery, etc.). They has just found the old tapes, digitized them, and created a wonderfull picture of our kid's adventures that we have never seen before. It was a wondefull treat to bring a smile to us for some relief from a stressfull time. Thanks Dave and Kaylin, you indeed Rock!!!