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Stop number two of our trip brings us to St. Louis (or “The Lou” if you’re down with that) to visit my family. Today We went with my dad and niece to a park near by my parents. My niece did not want to get off the swings…. I think she’s addicted! We’re trying to find a good psychologist for it.

I also made friends with the local water foul.

Ok I’m all caught up now. We’re going to a Cardinal’s game tonight so I’ll have more pictures from that.

Our fist stop was Jessica’s family in Springfield, MO. We were able to attend Charles’s (Jessica’s brother) high school graduation and Rachael’s (Jessica’s sister) baby shower. Here are some photo’s of Charles’s graduation…

Charles will be heading to England this fall to attend Capernwray… I’m so jealous!!!

The semester is almost over! Thank God. It really has been brutal. I sure have learned a ton, though. One of the big things is that I love teaching and don’t love accompanying so much. I’m coming to the realization that I’m more of a concert person and like working one-on-one with people to really establish a connection and produce a great product/concert. So I guess in that sense I love accompanying. But I’m not into the whole mass-accompany-for-everyone bit. I like to perfect things and when I’m accompanying for tons of different people each week plus choirs and teaching full time on top of that, I don’t have the time I really want to practice and perfect things. Anyway, I’m sure that’s not terribly interesting, but I’m learning that about myself.

Lori Dunn and I did a duo piano concert on Sunday at Wesleyan and it went pretty well. It was our first concert together and we threw it together over the course of a couple months. She did an AMAZING job. Perhaps if Andrew is willing, he can post a couple of the pieces we did (the Dello Joio, Copland, and Prokofiev, maybe?). I definitely hope we can do more together soon.

Next week is juries for Wesleyan and then the week after for the TCU kiddos. I’m trying very hard to be encouraging while at the same time trying to instill the fear of God in them…..we’ll see how it turns out:) I have to say again that I truly do love teaching and I love working with the students at both schools very much. They work hard!

Well, I know all I write about is music and work, but that’s truly all I do between the months of August and May (and I still do a bit of teaching for June and July, but not nearly as much as during the school year). I’m very excited about getting a life back in a couple of weeks! I can taste the freedom of my summer schedule and that’s probably not a good thing at this point.

I’m looking forward to seeing Rachael and her baby bump in a few weeks! Also looking forward to spending some time with Helen before she heads off to Morocco (have to learn how to spell that….hmm). Had some nice visits this spring from Dad, Charles, and Helen. Looking forward to Brian and Molly and Simon’s visit this summer!!

Well, I’ve been random enough now. That’s my little update!