Duly Noted

Corey and I went down to BYU for our date tonight. We went to see Joseph sing in his debut performance at a concert with his acapella group Duly Noted. Full videos thanks to the BYU Acapella Club youtube channel. Joseph's group did two songs - Courage & Believer, He was most excited for Believer cause he had a solo part in it!

It was fun to see him. He said that it was nice for us to finally come see him perform in something, teasingly hinting that we never came to any of his performances in jr. high or high school. Corey and I took issue with that. We've supported him plenty, although I do admit that it might be true that this was the first time we both came and were able to focus and be fully present, without any distracting siblings and without Corey working on his laptop. Joseph said he was leaving at intermission for a date, so we went to take a photo during the intermission to document this once in a lifetime event of us supporting him. And since he was leaving, we said we were leaving too.

We went to Aubergine for dinner. It was really good - Corey got some chicken pesto tortilla thing that was really tasty, and I ordered a curry and rice dish that was excellent. We shared our meals with each other and then I finished off his sandwhich and he enjoyed my curry. I ordered some nice cream and we paid for it and but then they came and said their machine was broken and so they gave us a large cashew shake. Corey was like "I can tell this isn't real ice cream." I could too, but it was ok. 

One pic from yesterday that shows a typical teaser to scriptures... These days we'll often draw all the kids in with a fun Daily Dose of Internet or Mark Rober video, but Corey also keeps a list of videos he wants to show the kids, like 90 Day Fiancé clips. Tonight he shared this one of a man who is a grown up baby. We talked about how it's important to grow up. Growing up is better than staying the same. We want to progress. The kids were thoroughly un-impressed and agreed with us that they all want to grow up and leave our house someday and make their own life. :) So that was a good and important lesson for their futures, and ours.