A night at the symphony

Tonight we got free tickets from our friend Laurette Martin to the Utah Valley Symphony concert. It was so great! I've forgotten how much I love music! It was so refreshing to hear some good classical music. Our favorite piece was The Sorcerer's Apprentice. It was awesome. Made me miss playing piano. I should probably play our piano more than I do, but I've gotten lazy. What's that? I haven't mentioned that we bought a piano? Well, we did. Back in the beginning of November. And it's beautiful. A Yamaha digital. Fully weighted keys, full size Clavinova. Great addition to the family, but needs to be used more! I'm sure it will in due time.

Dustin was in a racquetball tournament at BYU last week and did okay. His singles matches weren't his best, but he made it to the semi finals in doubles! Nationals are coming quickly so he's trying to get in as much practice as he can!

Dustin has ordered his cap and gown so we are also nearing graduation! Don't you find it funny that you have to pay and fee and apply to get into school and then pay and fee and apply to get out of school? April 29th is the big day!

Our 2nd anniversary is on Monday!! Can't believe how fast it's gone by. I think that occasion is honorary of a post about our love story. i know that some people asked for it ages ago (meaning you Brittany Hoffman), so look for it soon! :) To celebrate our anniversary, we're going to Vegas and staying in the fabulous 5 star Trump Towers and seeing Phantom! So excited! The weather should be wonderful and it will be a great getaway! Only one week away! UVU, I love you for having a Spring Break!

Remember my recent posts about my love/hate relationship with my job? Well, I got the Accounting Employee of the month! Woot Woot! Maybe my hard work is paying off after all and getting some recognition! :)

Autumn Cruise Vacation Part 1: Let's Start at the Very Beginning

So… we’ve been back from our trip for a week now and it was wonderful! I’m breaking the trip story up into smaller parts so that I can find time to just do a little at time :) So if you’re reading these all, you’ll have to start here and work your way back up.

We left Saturday October 10th and headed off to Vegas. We checked into our hotel, which was the South Pointe Hotel and Casino, which is a ways off the strip, which was kinda nice… Except the lady trying to check us in couldn’t pull up our reservation. Good thing Expedia sends hotel confirmation numbers. After checking into our room and finding that we had the best view in the hotel (please see pic. below), we changed into BYU garb and headed off for the game!

Traffic was a little crazy, but not too bad. We took some “secret” back roads (they had signs that led us that way) and ended up getting into the parking lot from the backside… and no one was there to take money or anything, so parking was free! Which we thought was great. We got our Rebel dogs for dinner and found our seats… which were RIGHT BEHIND two rows of Max Hall’s family… seriously, his mom was right in front of us. Max looks a lot like his mom… and his little brother looks just like him too, sticking out ears and everything. The game was SO MUCH FUN. Like seriously, I think that was the most fun I’ve ever had at a game! I don’t know if it was the fact that there were more BYU fans there than Rebels fans, or if it was that UNLV returned a kickoff for a touchdown which meant that EVERYONE in the stadium got free chicken, the fantastic win we had, or maybe it was just that we were on vacation, but it was SO FUN. Loved it.
We went back to our hotel and got some real dinner food at the Coronado Café where BYU fans trickled in, which was fun to see. The next day we checked out and went to a single’s ward with Curtis Millette, Dustin’s mission buddy. It was weird being in a singles ward…even just to visit. And you know what, I was able to go to Relief Society for the first time in a WHILE since I’m in Primary all the time now… and I got BOO’d. That’s right. I said I went to the BYU UNLV game and I was boo’d by one girl and told to go back to Utah. Such a poor sport… just because we kicked their trash. Meh.
After church, we went to Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers to get our FREE CHICKEN from the game. It was just a kid’s meal, but it was pretty dang good...and it was FREE, which made it even better. Then we went down to the strip with Millette to check out the Bellagio gardens (I’ve never been there in the fall, I really liked it), watch a couple fountain shows, and get some divine dessert crepes inside Paris.
That was the end of our Vegas stay, so we headed down to Primm. Oh yes, we stayed at Buffalo Bills. They were able to easily find our reservation, gave us our room keys… we went up the 6 floors… and found someone else’s stuff there… Seriously, I was tired and knew we were waking up early the next morning so I was a little upset. We went back to the front desk, explained our dilemma, and was given a new room. This one was safe… yes, we walked in and found our 2 queen beds. Ha ha ha. I showed Dustin which one was his. Ha ha ha. Definitely not our favorite hotel we’ve ever stayed at, but hey, for $18, you too could have 2 queen beds and a moldy bathroom. :)