Pasta, Passion, and Pistols

Meet Mr. Rocco Scarfazzi...a "legitimate" money launderer and outstanding businessman, twin brother to the murdered Pepi. 

 Not only that, but he was the fiance to yours truly...the equally amazing Tara Misu, caretaker of ALL of Rocco's assets, and the mother of his twin brother's baby (apparently all the characters were pretty scandalous...glad we weren't sitting at the Bishop's table...awkward :).  

Dale and I went to our ward Murder Mystery Dinner Saturday night, where we were pleased to find out, after much debate and accusations, that neither of us were the murderers.  

A"MAZE"ING Corn Maze

Last week we spent our FHE with the Millers at the oh so wonderful West Jordan Corn Maze.  This corn maze was pretty fancy, let me tell you- it was NOT your average corn maze.  For starters, it was in the shape of a dragon...and it had 10 posts where you could answer a question, and depending on if you got it right or wrong, it would help guide you to the end.  AND, not only that, but you could also win a grand prize if you got your card punched at every post.  That's what we were going for.  We were pretty excited about the prize...apparently our group is very competitive.  We treked through the corn without too much trouble, and with the help of our good friend Google, answered most of the questions correctly too.  When we made it out we took our ticket to the Prize Station, and they gave us our grade...70 percent.  I guess that's not too bad considering all the questions consisted of random facts about Halloween.  I must admit I was pretty impressed with Jessi's Halloween knowledge.  I think she got most of the questions right :).

A few pics from our fabulous Corn Maze Extravaganza:

Apparently it was pretty dusty...

And the Grand Prize is???????

You got it, 2 bowling passes to Fat Cats...not to be used on weekends, and doesn't include shoe rentals.  Gotta love it :)  That's our next date night...of course, the Hymers will have to join us this time :)  

New Baby!

Farewell Clavinova...Dale said goodbye to his beloved Clavinova CLP 311 on Thursday, September 30, 2010.  This piano has been one of his best friends for the last 15 years.  During this time it has been on the receiving end of many scratches and dings, each witnessing to the magnitude of its use.  It was on this piano he composed "Best Friend" (no, this is NOT a song about me :), "Cannon in C" and "Jen's Song," just to name a few.  He probably even spent more hours playing on this piano than he's spent eating, which is saying something :).  But, let's face it, it was definetly time to move onto greener pastures.
So, I'd like to introduce Dale's NEW best friend, Yamaha P95B!  Dale says of his new friend, "I didn't buy it for the sound...I bought it for the feel."  He bought a program to go with it that makes the sound ROCK!  He says he finally has his $300,000 piano :).  Wahoo!

Old Baby:

New Baby: