Going back a couple of weeks...

The week before Christmas was full of piano stuff. The pictures are in the opposite order than they should be:

On Wednesday night(12/17) was the Christmas Open House @ my piano teachers house.

Me & Mrs. Schupp playing a duet together

The night before that,(Tuesday) was Amber & Holly's (my piano students) Christmas recital at my house. It was the 4th recital I've had for the girls. The recital used to be pretty short, but now their songs are getting longer so it's lengthier now! I wish I had more students. :) Anyways, they did an amazing job, with hardly any mess-ups! Afterwards, we always have a big table full of food. I'm pretty sure that's the best part and that's what everybody comes for. :D

The week started off on Monday with playing at Kidder Music. They give you a $5 gift certificate for coming to play, and it's totally worth it. I got an amazing new Lorie Line Christmas book while I was there. :)

Glad it's all done for another year, but now I have a competition, more piano testing, and another recital coming up. AND orchestra starts.

Oh, well... at least I love it!

Skiing!

Yesterday (Monday) I went skiing for the first time. I wasn’t too sure if I wanted to go or not, because I didn’t know if I’d like it. BUT... I LOVED it!! It was such a fun day.
I had to get up at 4am(doesn’t that sound fun?) and then we left from Uncle Scott’s at 5:30. A big group went, but we were just kind of by ourselves. It was Uncle Scott, Jenna, Jamie, Adam, Eric & I. We went to Sundown in Dubuque, Iowa and got there about 9.

I took a lesson, and fell only once! The whole day was so fun... I wasn’t even that cold until the end. I pretty much just hung out with Jamie (Uncle Scott sometimes, too) because we were the only skiers...Adam, Jenna & Eric snowboarded.

When it got dark and the temperatures dropped, I wiped out a lot because the snow turned into ice. Ouch. I have a huge blue/purple bruise on my knee and my back kind of aches, but other than that, I’m not even that sore today! Just extremely tired.

We stopped in Galesburg for supper and didn’t get back to Morton until about 10:30.
It was a great day (thanks Uncle Scott!)... I only took 2 pictures, but I’ll post some when Jenna emails hers to me. :D

And I’ll also post about Christmas sometime...

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Grandma's 85th birthday was yesterday! We celebrated it last night at my Uncle John & Aunt Jeanne's.

Happy Birthday Gramm's!
Love you!

John's 2nd Birthday!

Last Sunday was John (& Amber's) birthday party! Johnny LOVED it! It was soo cute. He got lots of balls, which he liked better than anything else, because he's obsessed about them! :)
He had a bear cake, because he loves bears. Great job Lynette!

OH, he's just too sweet.

Congrats, Hyde!

Last Saturday (the 13th) Heidi graduated from Methodist College of Nursing!! (I know, this post is a little belated!) Here's a few pictures:

Heidi walking in.
Receiving her diploma (not a very good picture, I know!)

Heidi & Luke... so glad she's done! :)

The ceremony was at 10, so afterwards we went shopping and then out to eat at Longhorn Steakhouse. It was soo good! (Us kids at the resturant)

We went to our house for dessert afterwards. It was a fun day. CONGRATULATIONS, HEIDI! :)

Happy B-day 2 Jenny...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENNY!!
I'm not really sure how old you are... 23?? or 24? I think 24. O, well! It doesn't really matter!

Have a great one, Jenny!

Cinnamon Rolls

I betcha can't guess what I did today...! Yep, I made 9 pans of Cinnamon rolls. It was a double batch and it took 10 cups of flour. Which didn't seem like much, since I've done a batch with 20 cups of flour before! (yeah, that was a whoops!)

I've done it so many times, but it seemed like today took forever to do them all! Probably because I was trying to get them to taste and look perfect for the Sunday School teachers gifts. :)

I'm tired now.

Let your mouth drool over the pictures.

cutest picture ever

We got this Christmas card in the mail... and it's definitely my favorite one we've gotten so far!! :) Ernie is just too cute. Lester is only 3 months old and is soo chubby.

My weekend was good. Not real exciting, but definitely not boring.

I got to babysit for Wyatt & Wade. Just so you know, Nancy... you have the most adorable little boys! :)

Saturday night the Young Group was here for the Christmas Party. I got to play Settlers with Jenny... finally!

Sunday night was church caroling. I've always loved going with my friends, and the yummy meal afterwards. :)

This week is pretty busy. Tonight I was supposed to go to BroMenn hospital in Bloomington and play violins with a big group of people, and then we were going to go shopping. BUT... Mom & Dad thought it was too icy to go and that it was gonna get worse. :( I was disappointed we didn't go.

But I guess I now have a whole evening to do stuff that needs to get done!

Have a good week!

p.s. I'll try to not just blog about kids. I know, it's pathetic. Just wait till I get some nieces & nephews!!

Festival of Lights!

During Thanksgiving weekend, there was the Festival of Lights Parade! Since it goes past my Dad's shop, it's always been a family tradition to go there on the Saturday after Thanksgiving with my Uncle Rob & Aunt Lily. After seeing it so many times, it gets kind of boring. But this year, we had lots of people come out and join us!! Lynette and the kids, Lindsay, Aunt Carol, the Lemans, and some of the Wyss's. Here are some of the pictures (thanks Lynette, for sending me them!).

Linds, Me & Johnny
I love Laura's face! She looks so excited.

Waiting for the parade to start:

Heidi, Kendra, Me(& Johnny), Lynette, Linds, Laura & Aunt Carol

The duck float

Laura- lovin' it.

John- look scared half to death the whole time and was motionless!

Afterwards, some of them came to our house for pizza (not the Leman's or the Wyss's).

It was a fun night. :)

I'm having difficulties with uploading a couple of pictures, so here is just a few. :)

I only have one picture from Thanksgiving, and I didn't even take it. It's pathetic.... I need to get in the picture taking mood again....
and of course the only picture is of ERNIE!

The day after Thanksgiving we set up our Christmas tree and decorations. yay! Here's a bad picture of me and Luke setting the tree up.

Yesterday I babysat Laura & John. They were really good and I got tons done while they were here. Probably because they both took naps... even Laura! She was playing "house" with Adam and they were pretending they were going to sleep in the little play house, and Laura actually fell asleep! When she woke up she didn't feel good and just layed around. She had a fever and her tummy hurt. Sorry to send home sick, Lynette! :\

Happy Birthday to little Johnny who is turning 2 tomorrow!! (and he has no idea, haha!) aahh, I just love this little guy!

I should...

write a post about my WONDERFUL Thanksgiving weekend.... but I'm really not in the mood to do so.
I'm really tired and all I want to do is read my book.

But, I can't. I have gobs of school and some cleaning to do....



Actually, I think I'm going to read it anyways.... I'm almost done with it!(shhh, don't tell my mom!) :D


I'm going to post some pictures this weekend....... so keep checking! :)
Have a great day!


[fyi, this post is rare... I don't usually like reading. But I've been into it lately! :) Probably because I'll do anything to NOT do school.I'M SICK OF IT!!!!]