Last week, Dan and I had our dancing shoes polished and prepped to see Raphael Saadiq in Portland. It was a big deal, tickets weren't that cheap, it was a school night, but it was going to be so worth it.... Canceled! So disappointed, but because I had already planned to take the night off we had a special little date night. So what did we do instead?

Rollerskating in Springfield...the rink hasn't changed since the 70s, and it happened to be 2$ Christian Rock music night! Didn't quite make up for our loss, but definitely helped ease the pain.

busy weeks make for great weekends

We had a great weekend after a very busy week. Dan served on the jury for a two-week murder trial and I had midterms. Here's the weekend run down:

We had our studio review in Portland,




After which Dan drove up to meet me, we rented a room at a super cool hotel.



We then got to spend the evening with lovely Anna and Daniel


Top it off with terrific vegan breakfast, temple trip, and Saturday night bowling with the Cahoons

Halloween

As you can see from my previous post, I have been keeping busy, which means I have had no time to anticipate the great holiday that is Halloween. It is the waiting that makes holidays so special, and this year Halloween just snuck up on us.

Dan and I were in the studio Saturday night, when at 9:30pm I said, enough, let's go celebrate. Obviously we hadn't prepared, so we were costumeless, and we really didn't feel like going to party. So we decided to go home, put on a homemade outfit, and walk to the grocery store to buy ingredients for pumpkin cookies.

We very well could have pulled a fast one and worn our outfits from last year, but what's the fun in that? So Dan came up with a brilliant idea....to put on your clothes of one color and say you are that color!

Behold...mustard yellow and purple.

The best part is that these could potentially be real outfits, and we could potentially be a weird couple that likes to coordinate, so our response to the several, "what the hell are you supposed to be" comments was...nothing, we don't dress up for Halloween. Hahaha. Oh i love being married to Dan, I have learned the fine art of doing things just for sheer self amusement.