HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

My baby, The piano studio turns 1 year old today. HAPPY 1st Birthday. I can not believe that it has already been a year. I started out with 10 students the first week and now 1 year later I have 22 students. I have only lost a few and most of the kids I have now were my first ones from last year. I love teaching!

~Happy birthday to Bubba today too! My parents dog turns 9 years old today~

Ode To Mr. Snake

Oh, Mr. Snake

You have done some wrong

You slithered into my lawn

Only to be rolled on by my dog.



Oh, Mr. Snake

You lived a short life

Not sure how you died or where you came from

But now you are part of the circle of Life



As a vital piece of my compost garden

You will rest in piece(s)

Helping to give me more fruits of my labors

And help the other worms in their own behaviors.



Oh, Mr. Snake

May you compost well

And none of you friends return

Or they will join you where you dwell.

10 Things I'm Grateful For...

1. My loving husband who always takes care of me no matter what.
2. My home which is my favorite place to be.
3. My friends. No matter where they are or where I am I know they are thinking of me and miss me like mad!
4. Archer. He is finally obeying me and he truly is my best friend.
5. My mom. For showing me support and being there for me to talk to when I need her, unless she is at Quilting camp. (LOL)
6. My dad. Cause he will always be the teddy bear dad even though he looks like the grizzly bear (meaning tall and intimidating).
7. My studio. I truly love teaching piano. I never knew how amazing it is to be able to watch a child learn and understand what you are teaching them.
8. My health. Other than my condition, I am in almost perfect health.
9. People who are braver than me. The people out there that have blogs who are saying exactly how I feel but actually have the courage to write it and put it all out there. Thank you, you have given me more inspiration than any other pamphlet I have ever read and remind me that it is ok to cry but to be happy for things in my life.
10. My branch/my family. They take such good care of me. They are already arranging people to check on me while Matt is away to make sure that I am safe and sound. Thank you.

Back Into The Real World

Well it is Sunday afternoon/evening. I am just relaxing watching a few NCIS episodes. I just wanted to let everyone know how we are doing. Well we are finally back to normal for the most part after our most wonderful trip to Mexico. It took us a few days to get back into the swing of things, for the most part, I have decided to become accustom to sleeping in everyday till 10am. But other than that we are back to normal. We are enjoying watching the Olympics every night. Which is aired very late here. I was watching the gymnastics all-around competition and it wasn't even over till 1:30am.

Matt is leaving tonight for a training course in Richmond and he gets to do the cool Italian Job driving course. I begged for him to talk his work into letting me take the course but they denied my request. So he will just have to teach me when he gets back. Yeah, he has to stay there all week so another week without him here. But an awesome friend of my usually stays the night during the week to keep me company. My studio will be celebrating its 1st anniversary in a few weeks, and I have 22 students with only 4 openings left and then I start a waiting list, yea!!! Well hope all is well with you and your fam! Missing you tons! Other than that, that's all folks.

Midnight Gala & Character Breakfast

I love it when ships have a dessert buffet because it is always so YUMMY! Lots and Lots of Chocolate and my favorite, fruit tarts. Here are some pix plus some pix from the character breakfast. Also pix of our server and some of the workers on the ship. Also, our server Igor, looked like Orlando Bloom on pirate night when he was in his pirate garb. We really had a ton of fun and our server Igor went out of his way to help us have even more fun! One more thing. I wanted to play my recital piece for my Grandma while in AZ. We ran out of time so I wasn't able to do it. Matt suggested that I ask Disney if I could use one of their really really nice and expensive pianos to play for Grandma. The worker Nelsey said she had never received a request like that before and would see what she could do. A few days later she called me and said that she had booked one of the bars on the last sea day for me for 30 minutes. So on the last day I got to use one of their really nice pianos for 30 minutes and play for most of my family. That is something that I will never forget.

~My Dad and Snow~

~Beauty and the Beast, from what my dad said after the pix was taken~

Everyone!

There are 5 different posts for Mexico with a ton of pix. So check them all out!

Formal Pix

Matt and I took a ton of formal professional pix while on the trip. We had to pick out our favorite 6 pix because we got a package deal. Also the fam pix are at the bottom. 48 members of the Birchett Family came on the cruise. We are only missing 1 family this trip, with 5 people. Enjoy.