We haven't written in two weeks so we got lots to talk about. My parents were in town for about a week and a half starting March 1ish. Two Mondays ago we had family night with them. We got some delicious pizza from Papa Murphy's and got help from my dad to finish our taxes and we played games together. It was very fun to see them again. We loved hanging out.
The Friday after that we went to an "experimental music" recital that was put on by a guest artist, Keith Kirchoff. He was a fantastic pianist. We only stayed for the first half because Brittany started to get a headache. The first half consisted of a piece for piano and electronics, a piece for piano and sampler (pressing a key on a synthesizer plays a pre-recorded sound), and a piece for piano, electronics and Wii remote. Yes, that's "wii remote". It was all very modern and all that, but very interesting to listen to. You can see the Wii remote piece, called "In Vitro Oink", by CLICKING HERE. A background on the piece and name is included below the video on that page. If you start at about 5 minutes in is where it gets really interesting with the Wii remote. It was pretty fun. The piece for piano and sampler was by a lady named Annie Gosfield who believes everything you hear is music, including people talking, industrial machinery noises, etc. So she composed a piece for piano and sampler using a bunch of cool electronic industrial sounds for the sampler, called "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers". It was really interesting. You can see it played by Keith Kirchoff (same guy we saw) if you click HERE.
Saturday, we went to the temple for the first time in a while. It was wonderful to go to the temple again. Afterwards, we drove up and met my parents, and my mom's side of the family for an awesome dinner at Maddox's in Brigham City. Brittany and I tried ourselves some bison burgers for the first time. I thought it was really good. Brittany decided it wasn't really for her. It was great seeing all my uncles and aunts from my mom's side and catching up. We drove up to Logan and spent the rest of the weekend at my aunt Karla's. Went to church and ate dinner and all that. We loved spending time up there and being with family.
We drove back Sunday night so that we could be at school on Monday (LAME!). lol and Brittany will write about the rest of this week and our awesome recipe too. Love yall.
On Monday we had family night with the Pypers. We ate dinner and watched Up. We really like that movie, and we have been quoting it all the time ever since we first saw it when it came out. It is one of the only two movies that have ever made me cry. For the benefit of those of you who haven't seen it, I won't tell you at which part I cry, but I'm sure you'll be able to guess when you see it. Not many people probably would cry at that part, but just because of our relatively recent marriage, it was especially heart-wrenching for me. The rest of the movie is super cute, too. Every time a new Disney/Pixar movie comes out, I think "Well, this one is cute, but I don't know what more stories they could possibly come up with to top this one." And then they always astound me.
We have also been officially married for nine months as of yesterday! Crazy. That's long enough to have a baby! (No, we aren't pregnant.) Just thought I'd throw that in there.
Nothing else super eventful has happened this week, so I guess I will just leave you with the recipe. We found it online and it's called "Favorite Barbecue Chicken". I thought it was all right, but Christian LOVED it and said it was the best barbecue chicken he'd ever had. So here is the link to the recipe. http://family.go.com/food/recipe-ar-15537-favorite-barbecue-chicken-t/
Loves to everyone!
Brittany and Christian
Adam and I watched Finding Nemo on our honeymoon and I cried in the first 4 minutes for slightly the same reason. :)
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