ten pianos and tons of rocks

Are you familiar with the Suzuki Method? Brock and I went to the Ten Pianos Suzuki Concert at the Conference Center on Friday night. It was a prelude performance to the big mult-instrument concert that would take place on Saturday.

Here's the Picture for You: 10 Steinway pianos, dozens of piano students from age 3 up to 19, Suzuki-esque Bows to start and end each piece performed, parents and grandparents, teachers and siblings, Brock and I in the audience.

It was actually a really cute and impressive recital. You could close your eyes and forget there were 12-20 hands (6-10 pianists) playing, because they sounded as one! They even played a special number written by Jon Schmidt, All of Me, 10 student (ages 10-19) all in sync! The rest of the concert brought back memories of plunking away on the piano as the family patiently listened to me prepare for lessons and seasonal piano recitals at the Dance's home.

After the concert, we enjoyed some time on beautiful temple square, running into the stellar sister missionaries. Then we joined Ross, Brock's brother, for ice cream at Maggie Moo's. I recommend the chocolate mint with oreos and the red velvet with raspberries!

To put a bandaid on the photo-less night, Joseanne kindly took a few when we returned home. This is Brock's favorite:

Fall is nearing an end and Winter is quick on it's way, SO we combined powers with Connie and Brandon for outdoor adventure, Rock Climbing and Dutch Over Dinner up Provo Canyon.

It was quite busy on all the popular (and simple) climbs, so we found ourselves searching in places were were not too familiar with, looking for a spot. This led to a nice warm up as we scrambled up then slid down some sketchy look mountain. Brandon and Brock are much better and skiing down rocky hills than Conz and I. No injuries.

We soon found a place that opened up... Andrew and Rach might remember this climb. I think it's Rachel's favorite. After doing this route, I only have added amazement at my sister's skillz. Woot woot Rach!

This was Brock's first outdoor climb, and he ROCKED it!

Meet the Dutch Oven Chef, Brockolee.

Meet the delicious chicken enchiladas... they were followed by chocolate cherry dutch oven cake. Yet another first (c. enchiladas in the dutch oven)- Way to go, Brock!

We had a great time with Conz and Brandon (sorry we failed to snap a photo of us all). Beautiful place, excellent company, delicious food.