Wedding Cakes and Football

Being married is definitely hard work. Celia (The girl from my previous posts) and I have gone through a lot of ups and downs in our first year as a happily married couple, but thankfully, we are still happily married. I credit our marital happiness to our beloved Seattle Seahawks. There are plenty of things that we do not see eye to eye on. I'm progressive, she's more traditionalist. I am impulsive, she likes to plan things. I LOVE sports, and she loves reality television. However, one thing that helped us through was a tradition that we started when we were dating, about a week before the proposal, in August of 2011. We got tickets to the Seahawks training camp at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC) and we enjoyed the entire day watching the team practice.

A year later, we returned to the VMAC, where we first noticed a rather short quarterback slinging the ball all over the field. Of course, this was not the first time that we'd seen Russell Wilson. We did see him at the Mariners/Giants game a few months earlier, and he is every bit as short as advertised. His diminutive stature aside, Wilson turned out to be a fantastic leader and field general for the team this year, taking the Hawks to a 12-6 record and a divisional playoff run for the second time in Pete Carroll's three year tenure. My wife and I bonded over this team in a way we hadn't before, and Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch and company became a fixture on our television. They grow on you, and a love of the town, and the team, has helped us to greater appreciate our own love for each other. Go Hawks!