Way back in my BYU days, I had a couple of really good harp friends - Shelley and Tiraje. We loved the harp, but didn't really take music majoring stuff too seriously. Before I left on my mission, we decided to have a sleepover, and what better place to have it than in the practice rooms at the HFAC? It's where we spent most of our time, the rooms had special codes to lock them, and it would be a great adventure! Well... it was a fun night but we were rudely awakened and "arrested" the next morning. The campus police were even nice enough to drive us in a cop car all the way from the HFAC to the ASB (note the sarcasm, these buildings were right next to each other). It was a great adventure and I would never do it again, though I reserve the right to scorn the fact that the music practice rooms aren't open 24 hours a day like at most music schools. That's the short story - if you want the funny version, you'll have to wait until I can find the photo of Shelley, Tiraje, and me posing behind the harp strings as if they are little jail bars. Our teacher told the school that she would punish us, but really she was extremely pleased that we had done some harpist bonding. I think she assigned us to reorganize the string bags or something.
Shelley and her husband are in Houston for the summer!! Huzzah! We haven't seen each other for six years, but it was easy to pick up right where we left off. They got a sitter for their FOUR kids and we got a sitter for Willa and decided to have a night out. It was so nice to get out!
I think that I am in love with getting a babysitter. They come to your house and your baby doesn't have to get off schedule at all. We planned just to go out for dessert so that the kids could all be in bed/ready for bed before we even left our apartments.
I ask this adorable little Beehive in my ward to babysit. Her name is Breeze and she is probably the cutest Beehive in the world. She's a little young, but since Willa was already going to be in bed and asleep, all she needed to do was kick back and watch t.v.
Here is a photo of me, Breeze, and Willa at church this past Sunday. I am in the YWs and Breeze is my favorite girl (shhhh)! Breeze is very sweet, very cheerful, and a cheerleader at the middle school! For a YW activity we asked someone to show us how to change the oil in a car. During the instruction, the boy showing us managed to punch himself in the eye and spill the oil in his face. Breeze helped urge him along by doing some cheers from school with his name inserted.
Breeze showed up at our apartment 15 minutes before we needed to go. Ryan showed her around and instructed her on important details like how to search for movies using the Roku and what buttons to push on the remote control.
We had a fabulous time and came home to a quietly sleeping baby and a cute little Breeze watching Wizards of Waverley Place, which for some reason just really pleased Ryan and me (maybe that she felt comfortable to actually search for something SHE wanted to watch). Here's the kicker, though, Willa wasn't our little angel that night! She cried and SCREAMED. Breeze was a champ, got her up and bounced her in the bouncy chair for a few minutes until she quieted down and let Breeze lay her back down. Breeze was a pro and we've already scheduled her for this coming Friday.
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