Valentines Date - and 6 months down!

Will and I celebrated our 5th Valentine's Day together last night! Can you believe it?

We've kept the tradition of making each other homemade cards - can you guess who's is who? LOL

Okay I'll just tell you that Will's actually looked way better than mine. He even went to a paper store and bought the velum cover (his is on the right in case you didn't guess by now). All the sparkly beads started falling off the glue on mine. LOL I think mine looks like it was made by a child. Haha.

Here is us before heading off to Piatti's Italian Restaurant. Man - I just want to say this angle is not good on me. LOL I look 9 months pregnant instead of 6. So see next picture to get correct perspective.

And then last but not least - today I am officially 6 months pregnant!

Crazy huh? Here are the belly shots. The one in the dress is obviously from last night, and then the other one is from today to give a better idea (I thought the dress made me look bigger, but now that I'm looking at them side by side, I take that back).

Just about 3 months and 3 weeks to go and we'll have a son. Little baby Preston Thomas. :)

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Musical Mayhem

You would think that as a professional musician AND a teacher, I would be more organized. Nope!

For the past who-even-knows how many years, my music collection has slowly turned into one huge chaotic mess!

AND I married a man who also plays the piano, and so the music library practically doubled. Our music books have been spread out from the piano bench, underneath my digital keyboards, in a sachel box by the piano, to a storage bin in the storage room. I've have no idea what is where, and its been frustrating (and embarrassing) when trying to go look for something when a piano student is here.

So this was my Saturday's project this past weekend. And the picture (above) is even after I got organized. That is what is left for me to work on this week - which is going through all that copied music, seperating it into genres and putting them in protective sheets and binders(don't worry, the originals are somewhere so I'm not a pirate, and besides you can copy music for the purpose of teaching just fyi).

Since we don't have a bookshelf yet, here (above) is my proud display of my somewhat finished project - all along the floor along the wall next to the piano. :)

Notice the fabulous categorization by genre, and even the Classical composers got alphabetized. Yes, I am good.

I was surprised (or maybe shocked is a better word) that Will's collection of pianobooks mostly consisted of late 80/early 90 rock music. He even had a song in there from Meatloaf? And Bette Midler "The Wind Beneath My Wings"? LOL I remember singing that for my 7th grade choir concert. I was almost embarrassed to merge our collections. lol. (Don't worry I still love you, honey!)

The piano - still a mess, but improving.

And the music studio has recently turned into a place to store bills-to-be-paid and other random papers LOL

For Will

I know it's a few days early, but...

I love you!

XOXO, Jenni

(Just a short collage of memories from the past few years)

Music - "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds Five

Fun-in-law

We had a fun weekend with Sandy in town (Will's mom - if he were writing this blog then perhaps it would be titled "mother" lol). She was in town for a speech pathology conference and stayed with us for part of the weekend.

Friday night I decided to paint my nails, and Will willingly tried on colors for me. I think he had too much fun.
Don't worry - any said nail polish applied upon Will's fingers was successfully removed later that night.

I ended up painting little flowers on my thumbs - which is the first time I'd ever done that. I thought they turned out pretty good for the first time.

Saturday we went for a leisurly walk around our humble neighborhood. (Recap: We live in the guesthouse of a million dollar estate, and the street next to our's was at one time the 'Street of Dreams'. Yeah. We definitely could never afford one of these homes but nevertheless, these are our neighbors).

Here is us drawing mucho attention to our backsides by smacking them for the camera. Just nevermind the huge butt I have right now. I keep telling myself that my backside is actually shrinking, but actually its just because my belly is getting bigger - thus making my butt only appear smaller. Dangitt!

This is the pond next to our place, and then our driveway. Gotta love the NW with all its greenery.