October 2009

What is going on in life:

Halloween was fun. Mikkel played in the Halloween concert, so we didn't get to go to any parties. And we didn't even get any trick or treaters. :-( But we wat

ched a really scary movie

called Orphan (edited) with our good friends the Kings, and we carved really sweet pumpkins.

Benji strained his LCL in his right knee and has been hobbling around on crutches for a week and a half. Hopefully it'll be better in a few days!

Mikkel's Senior Recital is two weeks from Wednesday, and graduation is getting closer and closer! We can't believe it!

Also, Mikkel will be in Salt Lake with the orchestra on tour, playing this year's Sacred Music Series - with text by Elder Bednar. There is a performance on the 14th in the tabernacle that will be awesome! Tickets are still available by calling (801) 570-0080.

Oh Rexburg . . .

I've already complained about this on my facebook, but I just think it's so ridiculous and that the sign they put up is so hilarious, I had to post it here as well.Rexburg has decided to change parking stalls on the street to that crazy "reverse angle parking" thing that's apparently "sweeping the nation" (according to whoever on the city council thought it was a good idea). Sure, it would work someplace where people actually know how to drive . . . and someplace where there's not huge throngs of cars for 15 minutes every hour (between classes).

It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but the sign says

"Back-in angle parking

It's as easy as 1-2-3

1. Signal

2. Stop

3. Reverse"

Just out of curiosity, has anyone else ever seen a street sign say "it's as easy as 1-2-3!" hahahahaha.

And guess how many people are actually going to back in? On the day I took this picture, there were 5 cars parked and only 1 had backed in. We'll see what happens when Fall semester starts and all the people come back . . .

It kinda reminds me of the time Rexburg put flashing lights in the road by the crosswalk (incidentally on this same street), and apparently forgot that it snows in Rexburg. 3 guesses what happened after the first big snow when the snow plows came . . .

Our New Place!

We moved in about 3 weeks ago now, but we were out of town for a while, so it's taken us a long time to finally get stuff together. We live in Stonebrook Apartments now, and we really like them. Here are some pics.

It's pretty much just a regular place. We were most excited about the size of the bathroom (unlike our last one where your knees hit the counter while sitting on the toilet . . . ). Our apartment is the handicap accessible apartment so it's even bigger than normal. I'm way excited about the kitchen too - now we have a dishwasher and disposal! :-) Oh the simple joys in life.

Rhythmic Caprice

Due to "popular demand," here is the recording of Rhythmic Caprice

from my Junior Recital (the fast crazy one at the end). :-)

Life update . . .

It's been awhile, so here's an update . . .

To the left is a picture of our house for those of you who have not seen it. We love how much more space it has than an apartment, and that we're not surrounded by other people. There are 5 guys that live beneath us, and sometimes we hear them, but we probably bug them more, honestly, with our loud speakers . . . Then there are two houses next to us, one with 13 guys and one with 12 girls, giving us 30 students total that we manage. We have to deal with all the complaints about everything that goes wrong, but it's definately worth free rent. :-)

Benji and I were called to be nursery leaders in our new ward. That makes for fun Sundays. On average we have about 18 kids, and there are only us, one other couple, and one Sister. But it's normally only hard when there are a lot of "cryers." (which actually happens a lot, because we have a lot of brand new kids that still can't say bye to their parents).

The semester has been really busy for us, but a lot of fun too. We're super excited for warm weather (p.s. it snowed yesterday in Rexburg), and I'm starting to get super excited for graduation! (December)

Junior Recital Clip: Tambourin Paraphrase