Shopping

Liberty and I took a quick trip to Utah the first weekend in February to shop for some shelving at IKEA to go over her desk. She recently moved into Cade’s old room and needs more desk space. We drove down on Friday and picked up some yummy Brazilian fast food that we love and took some to Reagan at work. We surprised him cause he thought we would arrive later. Liberty has changed enough over the last year that when she walked into the dealership he didn’t immediately recognize her. lol. We hung out the rest of the night with my sisters, Cam and Reagan. Libby was looking for a fancy dress to wear to our youth Etiquette dinner and Alli loaned her the perfect dress! She was sooo excited it to wear it. And in my unbiased opinion she had the prettiest dress at the dinner. Thank you, Allie!

The next morning we played some pickleball with Cam and Allie. I love that game and need to play it more! Next, we went to BYU to do some returns and of course, eat at the Creamery. Libby loves going to BYU and dreaming of her chance to go there someday. We also stopped at the Richards Building so she could find a ballet studio. We never found a ballet studio, but we did find these:

She’s now even more excited to go to the Y and wants to major in Elementary Ed and minor in dance.

Next was IKEA. I thought she’d enjoy it, but it was a little too much for her. LOL! She was wiped out by the end. But we found her some shelves she was excited about. My sisters came along and were very patient with us.

That night Cam and Allie made us some yummy tacos and we hung out with Sarin and Reagan some more. The next day after church we had some lunch, played some games with everyone and then headed home. I wish we could have spent more time with Reagan, but he was busy making money! Which is a good thing.

The Symphony

For our Valentine’s date this year, Rock and I went to the Symphony. The Boise Philharmonic performed a Night of the Cinematic Music of John Williams. I absolutely loved this concert. The conductor gave a little background before each song and not only did I learn a lot about John William’s amazing talent, but I realized that the movies and music of Steven Spielberg and John Williams have shaped my life in a HUGE way. It was basically the soundtrack to my life in movies. It was such a treat! They opened with the Star Wars theme which needed no introduction. They played the theme from Jaws and the conductor told us that when John Williams first played it for Spielberg he couldn’t believe how much fear two little notes played over and over again could instill and- how much that fear still haunts all of us in this generation when we swim in the ocean. lol.

They played music from Hook and Harry Potter (the conductor switched out his baton for a wand when they played Hedwig’s theme). They played the theme from E.T. and he told us that the music was so moving and so perfect that Steven Spielberg actually did something very rarely done-he edited his movie to match the music instead of the other way around as is usually done. I love that! They played the NBC music theme which I’ve heard my whole life but never all the way through. The conductor told us that Williams tried to incorporate the telegraph or ticker tape sound into it and I’d never noticed it before.

When they played the Olympic Fanfare and theme I was transported back to 1984 when Mary Lou Retton and Whitney Houston were my heroes. Before they played the theme to Schindler’s List the conductor told us that when Spielberg showed Williams the first rough cuts of the movie, he said, “You need someone better than me to write music for this.” To which Spielberg replied, “I know, but everyone better than you is dead.” Best compliment EVER.

Before they ended the concert with the theme from Superman, the conductor told us what Steven Spielberg said last year when he presented John Williams with a special award. This really summed up the beauty, magic and talent of this amazing composer: “Without John Williams, bikes don’t really fly. Nor do brooms and Quidditch matches. Nor do men in red capes. There is no force.” The amazing stories of my-our life time told through movies etc would not have the power to move us without the work of these two men. What a wonderful night! Thank you, Rock! And just in case you are wondering as I was that whole night, “When are they going to play Indiana Jones?!”, they played it as their encore. lol.

At church last week Libby was inspired to create something amazing so she came home and designed and baked this very cool cake! She named it the Fire Lemon cake.

Sweethearts

Levi went to his first formal dance this last weekend-the Sweethearts Dance. He had a great time and looked so handsome!