Piano Lessons

Come one come all! We are taking two to three new piano students for winter semester 2012. Piano lessons not only include weekly private instruction but music tech time and monthly master classes. Lessons are given in our home in Rexburg, Idaho. Visit RexburgMusic.com to learn more and like us on facebook

Thanksgiving and Concerts

David and I went to Utah for Thanksgiving and even did the whole Black Friday thing.  We started shopping at 11:30 PM and finally came home at 10:00 AM!  All of our Christmas shopping done in one night.  It was one of the best dates we've ever had.  It even included a 6:00 AM breakfast at McDonald's.

Thanksgiving day was fun to spend with Dana and Robert and a few other family members and friends.

Andrew and his friend, TC, Rick and Sandy (Dana's friends from the ward), Garet, Robert and Dana, Me and David, Grandpa Chambers, Grandpa Love

In December, David had concerts and recitals galore.  His composer's recital was awesome.  He composed a men's choral piece that is truly amazing.  I still am floored when I think of his dynamic personality and genuine goodness that committed more than 20 guys to come to three rehearsals a week for more than a month.  He fed them a big dutch oven dinner to thank them.  

Then, a few days later, he sang in one of the biggest concerts BYU-Idaho has done to date with guest singer, Brian Stokes Mitchell.  It was a fantastic event!  My favorite parts were The Little Drummer Boy, and Oh Come, All Ye Faithful.  Amy came to the composer's recital (We love her!) and Dana and Robert came up for both events even though they were only three days apart.  What a support team they are to us!  They even took us out to Costa Vida one night Chinese and ice cream the other.  Wahoo! 

Laundry

R.I.P. dryer numero uno

Sometimes I wonder about people who lived in the olden days.  How did they find each other in crowds without cell phones?  How did they eat without microwaves?  How did they learn anything without Google?  The question I have been wondering most of all is how they did laundry without dryers.  While I am actually well aware and very familiar with the answer to these questions, especially the latter, I am especially grateful for my new (to me) washer and dryer!  Our dryer broke right around Thanksgiving and it has been obnoxious taking loads to the laundromat or pestering our nice neighbor across the hall to dry just one more load.  She really was so kind to help us out.  I remember having to dry everything on lines or drying racks in Spain.  Our clothes were always nice and crunchy.  It was a colorful sight, but obnoxious.

The DR was even worse, we didn't even have a washer, so we either had to wash everything by hand, drag it a mile to the laundromat (which was run by one crazy Slovakian man who had one washer and dryer), or take our suitcase full of dirty clothes to church and pay one of the ladies to do it for us.  What a mess!

Hilary Weeks understands my frustrations with laundry.  It was super fun to see her at Time Out for Women this year with the girls.  This is her take on laundry:

Here are our new washer and dryer that we are so excited about:

My very favorite part is that it only takes one cycle to dry the clothes now!  Before it took three.  Wahoo!