New blog of awesomeness

I've decided to start a blog dedicated to my teaching. Things are changing all the time with my studio so I thought I would start documenting. So do me a favor and put me on your blogroll!

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The longer you wait...

..The harder it is to play catch up on the blog. Here is a quick rundown of the last month:
1) Had a final concert with my cute OLLI folks-8 are now my private students. (8/17 ain't bad)
2) Went to Utah for my Suzuki teacher training and it was AMAZING! I am such a better teacher. Got to see some family and spend some serious time with my mama, which is what I needed.
3) Got back and the next day came down with the flu-not the swine kind-but I don't think I've been that sick in a long time. Missed 3 days of work (on top of missing 5 days the previous week because of being in Utah.)
4) Came back to work-got all caught up-and now I just want the three day weekend to be here.
5) I'm going to get better at blogging with cute pictures and clever things to say.

A post with a table of contents

We had quite a weekend and I know I don’t like to read long posts so I’m devising a way for you to only read the news you want to. I will number the paragraphs and put the table of contents at the top.

1. I played two weddings in Omaha on Saturday
2. We ate at a restaurant famous for its “Testical Festival”
3. Scott’s new calling in church
4. I didn’t get puked on in nursery
5. Scott’s birthday on Sunday
6. Fun pictures


1) On Saturday I played in two weddings in Omaha with the quartet from my studio. We didn’t get lost, the weddings were nice and I visited the only castle in Nebraska. Scott was very nice and came along because on the way home…

2) We ate at a steak restaurant for his birthday. This restaurant has what is called “The Testical Festival” it is exactly what it sounds like. We got steak instead of testicals and left very full. It’s the best steak we’ve found in Nebraska so far.

3) On the way home a member of the High Council called for Scott and asked us to come in early for church. When we went to the meeting they called Scott to be the Executive Secretary for the Bishopric. Suddenly it donned on me that we are grownups. It’s a weird feeling.

4) In the nursery there is a very sweet girl who gets really worked up every time her parents drop her off. She gets so worked up that she pukes. We try really hard to get it in a bowl, but it usually ends up on one of us. This past Sunday she didn’t puke, she really didn’t even cry. The past couple of weeks I’ve made her sit in a time out chair if she started to cry and she can’t come out until she stops crying. On Sunday I took her from her parents and asked her if she wanted to play or if she needed to sit in the chair and she wanted to play with the babies and only three tears were shed. I felt like wonder woman. Nursery is getting easier-which is good seeing as Scott can’t help anymore.

5) We also had a small birthday party with some friends for Scott’s birthday on Sunday afternoon. I made a peach pie, pumpkin cupcakes and yellow cupcakes from a box. The peach pie was a big hit, the pumpkin cupcakes got eaten and we still have yellow ones left if you would like to come over.

6) Here are some favorite pictures from the weekend. Our friend's daughter Jane came up to see Gimli but had to look under the couch to find her.

I hope this ordering system has helped you navigate through this very long post. Don’t blame me if you skipped important information.

Julie and Julia

New movie coming out in August. A movie about Julia Child and food blogging with Amy Adams and Meryl Streep! How could you not love this?

Dear Husband,

This is your cat Gimli, she is waiting for you to come home. I think she is sick of me.

This is your wife, she cut off ALL of her hair and she's kinda freaking out about it. Come home from your fancy-shmancy conference. We miss you.

Our first week of veggies

We picked up our first CSA bundle and it was fabu! We got salad greens (Scott picked up one of the leaves and said with a pout, "This one looks like a weed!"), broccoli raab (not our favorite), radishes, and the most wonderful spinach I've ever had. When we went to the farmer's market to pick up our veggies the guy at the booth introduced himself as our "farmer". I totally freaked out. This is going to be so awesome.


I just roasted my radishes in the oven and I stood over the pan and ate most of them. I think I'm going to have a tummy ache.

Saturday night, 8:00, panic attack

At 8:00 p.m. last night I realized that I had failed to think of a cute craft for my nursery kids to do for their mother's the next day. So turning as I usually do to Amanda I was inspired my her genius and put a small twist on it.


Paint samples from Home Depot, sticky foam shapes from Michael's and sharpie messages. The kiddos colored them a bit during nursery and then completely man handled them so they were a bit wrinkled, but I assume the moms loved them all the same.