Merry Christmas and...

Happy Anniversary to Alyson! Here is my early Christmas and Anniversary present-

We have been storing Jeff's mom's/ sister's piano at our home, for the past year. Nicole moved back to the Boise area this summer, and 3 weeks ago, moved her piano to her place in Kuna. Ashton and I were sad. I have been teaching Ashton how to play. He has loved playing. I have loved having music as a release. We heard about the Piano Gallery having a liquidation sale here in Boise. We figured we would go look, just to see if it was really a sale. We fell in love with this piano. It was the color we had talked about. The sale price was the price we had talked about. It looks really nice. We took four hours to look up the brand, talk about it with Jeff's mom, my mom, my sister, each other, call other music stores in town, look up customer reviews, etc. And FINALLY we decided to buy it. They delivered it at 10pm that very night! I have a piano, a nice piano, that I can play anytime I want! It is a Pramberger Signature Series 110t in Mahogany Satin Finish. Here is a link to their website http://www.prambergerpianoco.com/products/pv110t/index.htm

Here are more photos of us playing the piano in our home! With this new piano AJ has decided he like to play as well. With this excitement, I have started teaching AJ to play!

I am so thankful to my parents who encouraged me to explore my musical talents. I am thankful to my Grandma Holbrook for being my first piano teacher. I remember going to her house on Tuesday nights eating Ramen Noodles for dinner and sitting at the piano with her. I am thankful to Carol Peck for being my piano teacher until I was 16 when I decided I was too old, too busy, and too cool to keep taking piano lessons. I know these are all after the fact, now that I am grown... but I was thankful then too!

I am thankful for Jeff's parents also. They encouraged music appreciation too. Jeff actually took piano lessons for a little while. Can't remember a lick of it now, but he does have an appreciation for those who have the talent to play the piano.