Night Visitors

Last night we woke up around 12:30 to knocking on our front door. At first I thought I was dreaming, but then we heard it again! It totally freaked us out, but Alan went to check things out.

Here was my first thought: Oh, no, Jared called 911 and the fire department showed up to make sure things are all right. (By the way, Jared actually did call 911 a couple of Saturdays ago, and we didn't know it until we got two phone calls--one from the fire department and one from the police--to make sure everything was all right. I guess the thought didn't occur to me that Jared went to bed 5 hours before this knocking, and it would have been too long of a delay to actually be the fire department.)

My second thought that it was my brother or sister-in-law, who live fairly close to us. But then, wouldn't they have just called if they needed something?

The mysterious knocking ended up being a couple in our neighborhood, telling us that we left our garage door open. They didn't know our phone number, so they couldn't call us.

Hmm...was closing our garage really important enough to wake us up in the middle of the night? And was it worth scaring us to death?

A Wedding and Two Handsome Boys in Tuxes

Last week Alan's brother Paul was married to his sweetheart, Courtney. The entire day was wonderful, and we are so excited for them to start their new lives together!

The two men in my life

I don't usually like to post pictures of myself, but someone told me that I looked "stunning" that evening.

Finding time to be silly

More Domesticity

Sorry that I have been neglecting my blog. Our computer is not in the most convenient place right now (until we get wireless someday), so I have hardly been spending any time on it. It's probably a good thing. :)

I am so horrible at taking pictures, but here are a few things I've been up to lately:

bread making (my first time from scratch!). . .


flower arranging (we have our own rose bushes!). . .

and fort building.

Organ Shoes

So, I just got called to be one of the ward organists. I don't really play the organ, but I did take a beginning organ class at college five years ago where I learned proper techniques for both hands and feet. Luckily I saved all of my books of hymns from that class. I'm excited to expand my talents and really learn a new skill!

I decided today that I would be more serious about learning to play better if I bit the bullet and bought some organ shoes. My organ class five years ago recommended buying shoes from this website, but they are like 50 bucks! Thank goodness for the internet, because I found this other website, where you can buy dance shoes that look and feel just like organ shoes for 20 bucks! (I think the heel is just 1/4 inch higher than what is recommended, but I think it will definitely work!) I thought I would just spread the good deal around, since I have many piano-playing friends who may also get this opportunity some day. . .