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Our Pastor’s daughter, Jessi, is getting married today! Yippie! We’re heading off to the wedding in just a little bit and I’ll try to remember to get a picture of us all dressed up… We’ve known Jessi for a while–she’s been on the worship team with Tim and I for quite some time. She was also a music major and also a soprano, so we never have a shortage of topics to talk about. 😉

I’m so excited! But I bet they never envisioned getting married in the beginning of April with this much snow on the ground!

Oh, and for those keeping tabs on us–we’re all feeling much, MUCH better today.  🙂

Friday was the official start of Spring Break for Shakopee.  They get all of this week off too–so that’s a nice hefty break for them.  I still taught on Friday and I’m teaching all day today as a make-up day, so my break doesn’t actually start until tomorrow.  🙂

I made a mental list of all the things I wanted to do with the kids and accomplish around the house and suddenly my break doesn’t seem nearly as long… one of my big items was to rent a heavy duty carpet cleaner and clean all the carpets in the house.   So, I was really motivated and rearing to go on Saturday–so Tim stopped by Lowe’s and rented a cleaner for the day.  And I cleaned like a mad woman.  ALL.  OF.  THE.  CARPETS.  And let me tell you, in this house we have a lot of carpet!  My legs and arms are still sore.  And I had blisters on my right hand from pulling the cleaner back and forth!  I’m just glad I had already been working out b/c I can’t imagine how sore I would have been normally!  😉

But, despite my soreness–the house looks FANTASTIC!  It’s so wonderful to know that all the carpets are clean.  Ahhhhhh….

Now onto cleaning out the garage and working on the yard and storing away clothes that don’t fit the kids anymore and somewhere in there I’ll relax.  🙂

It’s rumored that it might hit 60 degrees on Sunday.

Shhhhhh…

Let’s not say anything too loudly so we don’t accidentally scare it away.  😉

Ooooh, I bummed.  I was doing so great at posting every day except Sundays and then I missed posting this Saturday.  Sigh.  Oh well–what’s done is done.  🙂

Baker’s were over Saturday for their piano lessons and they brought the newest member of their family–a brand new (7 week old) puppy!  Seeing the adorable puppy brought back so many memories of Dende as a puppy.  And I had forgotten all about their sharp little teeth!  Chloe and Josiah had a really great time seeing the puppy and trying to hold him and pet him.  It was adorable.  They’ve named him Darien–here’s a link to Kristen’s post about the puppy.  🙂

We Took the Plunge

I found it especially adorable when he would play in Dende’s new bed–he is just so tiny!

Darien in Dende’s bed…

In other news I finally feel like myself again.  I took a bit of time over the weekend to clean and organize and do more loads of laundry than I want to count……. but by Saturday night felt great.  I even said to Tim, “hey, wanna watch a movie?”  So we watched that wonderful classic “Funny Farm” with Chevy Chase.  I love that movie… haha!

I hope you’re all having a FANTASTIC Monday!

Not a problem to do with contest though…

I just found out that the church that I normally hold my studio recitals doesn’t have the baby grand piano anymore.  Apparently the piano player left the church and took her piano with her.  I didn’t even know that she owned the piano… but now it’s gone.

And now I’m going to have do a little searching around Shakopee to see if there are any other places that we would be able to hold our recitals.  I’m a bit bummed  because we’ve had our recitals at the same place for so long that it was comfortable.  Everyone knew how to get there, and the church has always been so nice to me (even offering to let me teach out of one of their classrooms this past fall if I wasn’t able to find a rental house that would work!) and it used to be nice and close.  Of course, now it’s not as close anymore… 🙂 But for someone who doesn’t like change, this bums me out.

So, onto new (and hopefully better) things!  And who knows, maybe I’ll find an even better place, right?!  😉  And Shakopee is a big town, so I’m sure there’s places out there.  I just have to start looking.  So, that’s what I’ll be doing this next week!

Well, I didn’t finish up until well into the evening yesterday and now this morning everyone is getting their results already (isn’t that fast!?) and calling/emailing about problems and complaints.  So… another day of chaos still.

In lieu of not having time to write again, I thought I would share something instead.  This video made me laugh (and kind of gape in awe)….

All my stuff is now at the U of M.

I got my hair trimmed today, so I look all pretty.  🙂

My breakfast is ready in the fridge.

Now just a few more lessons to teach…

and then I go to bed early so I can be up at the crack of dawn and on my way!