Date Night

Scott and I thought we'd make this Saturday night's date extra special. We got all dressed up, and I wore my new dress (from Anthropolgie) with black pattern tights and silver heels (from mormon prom).

We went to bin on the lake (thanks to the awesome family I work for) and ate incredible food. Every single bite was amazing. 

We started out with all 3 types of Charcuterie, the country pate with quince was both of our favorites. I got the seared scallops (my first time ever having scallops) and they just melted in my mouth. Scott got the hanger steak, and it to was cooked to perfection. We got the Brussels sprouts to share on the side and were both amazed (I usually hate Brussels sprouts). And we finished off with a apple galette with ginger ice cream and cognac caramel. 

Scott really wanted to go to a casino after dinner, so we drove to Snoqualmie casino 

got $5 each, played until we ran out (didn't take me long at all) and our eyes started stinging from all the people smoking then headed home. It was such a fun night and the latest night we've had in a long time (we've been in bed by 9:30 lately and we didn't get home till midnight!) . I love dating my husband.

Oh ya, and Scott took me to a few stores to look for a piano. Unfortunately they are on back order everywhere, so I don't know when I'll get it, but I'm pretty thrilled for it to get here!

(I do still need to buy a bench and some good head phones)

Piano Obsession

Life has been wonderful. I have started playing piano again. A friend in the ward is giving me piano lessons, to fill in the many gaps I have in my piano knowledge, in exchange for babysitting her awesome kids...total win-win! Now I'm just dying to get a piano in our little apartment so I'm not driving to the church almost every day of the week and hanging out in a dark empty church building for 3+ hours a week.

This is the one I wish I could get:

It's a Yamaha NU1 Hybrid, it works just like an acoustic piano mechanically. It has the same keys used in Yamaha's acoustic pianos but the sound is from digital samples taken from their concert grands. Unfortunately, it weighs 240lbs, making all our future moves much more complicated, and it costs well over $5,000. So....

This is the realistic one I'm looking at for the moment. 

It's a Casio PX-750, an 8th of the price, easily moveable, and still feels much more like an acoustic piano than most "digital" pianos (at least at this price-point). 

I'm also going to need to get a good set of headphones so Scott is still able to do homework in our home after I get it. And so he doesn't realize how long I practice the same thing before it sounds the way it does when I play it for him.

Anyone want to buy these for me as an early birthday present??