It's been awhile...

I feel like I normally have nothing new or interesting to post, therefore I do not post very much. Although sometimes I'll think of interesting things that I would like to post but then forget about them until I remember them, and usually I'm never on the computer when I do think of them. I think mostly I'm just lazy! I also think I watch way too much Netflix. Nick spends most of his time on the computer, and since we only have one computer now, I am not able to use the computer as much.

In May my family came to visit me. It was only for a few days over memorial day weekend, but I enjoyed it very much. One thing about my family is that we are very close, even though sometimes you wouldn't think so, compared to other families I've realized how close we really are. When I was living near them I would see them weekly or many times a month. Now I get to see them, if I'm lucky, a few times a year. My parents and my sister Tiffanie and her son Aiden came to visit. I was hoping we would be able to go up to the mountains and see a waterfall that Nick has told me about. Nick was away in Minneapolis for the International Trumpet Guild, the UNC trumpet ensemble drove all the way there. But he came back that evening. We did go up to the mountains but there was still way too much snow! I was bummed, I guess I didn't realize that snow doesn't disappear from Colorado as quickly as I thought. We tried to hike a little but it was very slippery. It was still very beautiful up there. I love Estes Park. It was nice seeing some of my family.

Nick is student teaching in the Fall at Mountain View Highschool in Loveland. He spent a few days in June with the band director and some of the new students who will be in band in the Fall. I can tell he is going to have a lot of fun student teaching. He's told me that he's tired of going to school and not actually teaching. And he is now the new primary chorister, and he is wonderful with the kids at church. It is so surprising how well they listen to him! I know he is going to be a great teacher someday! I have a new calling as well, primary pianist, and I LOVE it. I get to go to a little bit of sunday school and I love playing the piano. It is so much fun doing music time with Nick. He makes it fun for everyone!

For the fourth of July we decided to hang out in Ft. Collins. We decided to watch the fireworks there. The city does fireworks at this park near a little lake. We drove near the lake to see if it would be possible to park and walk to the park, but there were cars lined up for many blocks! It was crazy!! It was like everyone in Ft. Collins decided to all gather in one area. We drove up to a look out near Horse Tooth Reservoir, which overlooks the city. It was actually really wonderful! We not only got to see the City of Ft. Collins fireworks, but we could see some of Lovelands fireworks and everyone else who was letting off their own fireworks. It was really nice.

We are excited for the beginning of August. Nick's parents and his brother and sister are driving here for a wedding of their good friends. I'm going to be taking the PLACE exam on one of the days they are coming, so I'm not excited about that. Especially because it is going to be in Denver at 7:30AM, way too early if you ask me. I'm going to have to leave before 6:00AM to get there on time!

We are both ready for school to be over. I feel like I've been going to school for years! I started 20 years ago in Kindergarten and haven't stopped! I really wish that I knew what I had wanted to do in High School. But I really had no idea. I wish that I had gone to a High School that would've given me more opportunities to figure out what I wanted to do. But who knows if I really would've figured it out. I have always been terrible at making up my mind. I really think that at this point I just want to be done with school, so even if I don't have the greatest desire right now to be a teacher, I'm still going through with it so that I will have my degree for later when I realize I really do want to teach. There are so many different things that I would like to do, but I've always felt that if I were going to do something in life I wanted to be really good at it. I guess I'm a little bit of a perfectionist, even though I feel that I never get anything perfect. Somethings I don't event try because, I know there's no way I good do it as great as I think I should.

Something interesting happened this Sunday. There is a guy visiting from Missouri, I think. He builds or repairs organs. He told a story about how he grew up in a musical family. He learned to play the piano when he was young. He decided to go to BYU and try out for a piano degree. But he had just returned from his mission and hadn't played very much for 2 years. The professor told him to wait a year and get better at playing and try again, but he didn't want to wait.He had always known he needed to do something with music. So he went home and prayed and had a strong feeling that he should ask about studying the organ. So he did and the professor accepted him, even though he didn't know anything about the organ. He mentioned that if he hadn't listened to the spirit he wouldn't have ended up in our ward talking to us. He mentioned that he did take a piano class and said that the lady who taught him was very humble. He said that sometimes when he would practice piano he would hear others playing and think he could never play as well as them. His teacher told him that he has it in him to play well. Basically that you won't play well unless you think you can play well. He said that he shouldn't have compared himself so much to others. Now that he's older he says he realizes that he shouldn't have compared himself so much. He said that pieces he had problems with when he was in college he can actually play them better because he doesn't think so much about what other people think.

I honestly felt like this man was speaking directly to me! The funny thing was that as soon as he was done I was accompanying someone for a musical number, I was very nervous! It's really hard to follow someone who was talking about people who have the talent of playing the piano. It was nerve racking. I do compare myself so bad, or worry about what people think especially when it comes to playing piano in front of people. I just don't know how to not think about what people will think of me, because I know that everyone will make an opinion of me either way. It human nature. I relaxed once I focused on the girl who was singing. I was listening to how pretty she sounded and tried to make myself sound like she does. I do love having the talent of playing the piano. I love hearing the primary kids sing while I play for them. It makes me love church even more.

Well I'll try to add some picture later.