Weddings, Reunions, and Good-byes

HI!

Greetings from the Sandcastle! All is well here. Not too much is new. I started teaching at OSU again, teaching the Italian and Latin Lyric Diction course, and also teaching voice lessons. The course takes a lot of work, but all in all I am really enjoying doing some teaching. It is only about 8 hours of in class time a week, so I can still mainly be home with Jefferson. I have a neighbor watching Jeff when I teach the class twice a week on Tuesday/Thursday, Staci (little Nick's mom) watching him for a few hours on Wednesdays, and Kirby comes home early one day a week and watches him for several hours. It is working out pretty well.

I am singing in a couple upcoming events, including this next Thursday singing an aria with the Corvallis Repertory Singers and Orchestra on a Bach cantata. Then in December it is more Bach, singing an aria in the Magnificat with the OSU Chorus and Corvallis/OSU Symphony. Should be fun.

The last singing I did was with Kirby this past weekend in our friends Noah and Sarah's wedding. It was a beautiful wedding on Sunday afternoon and it was a fun weekend. Kirby and I were both in the wedding standing up for those two, and then at the reception we sang "At last" for them. We got to see a lot of college friends and a bunch of people from high school, and that was a good time. Jeff did pretty well, although it gets to be a bit much when there's no place to nap and there are so many people around. We thought he did great though. We also had this little tux for him, (which I just didn't get enough pictures of before he spit up all over it) and it was just soooo cute. We borrowed it from a friend of a friend, and it was quite a hit. :) Jeff had his first experience sleeping in his pack-and-play in a hotel, and did great, and he was even able to nap on the floor while there was a DJ playing music. Good boy! :)

Mr. and Mrs. Hummel

The big gang. We probably won't be all together for a while!
Our family!
Daddy and Son looking good in their tuxes. (Nice Broncos socks, Jeff)
Speaking of him sleeping, Jeff is now sleeping about 8 hours at night, so that gives me a really nice chunk of time. Now if I could just go to bed before midnight, it would be really helpful. :) Jeff was already only waking up once at night, so I really can't complain anyway.



During the week before the wedding, we also had some company. Garrett who we went to high school with came with his fiancee Jill, we hadn't seen him in many years, and then our friends from college, Andy and Sarah, came to visit with their little daughter Claire. She is a month older than Jeff, and she's such a cutie, a very beautiful baby. She and Jeff got to meet, and once in the car with the moms they both decided to start screaming, and all Sarah and I could do was laugh. :) Most of the time they were just having a good time and they were both very good babies and it was so fun to spend some time with their little family; we don't get to see them very often and they are moving to Kentucky in not much time. Sad :( We went to college with them, then they got married and I sang in their wedding and Kirb was in it and now they have been married four years and have a baby. wow, time flies. We have had lots of fun time with them and will miss them.

Claire and Jeff ready to go shopping with their moms!
Yesterday we went to a going away get-together for our friends Janelle and Austin. We have known them since college and before they were married. They are moving to Savannah, GA this next week, and we are going to miss them being in Oregon. I stayed with them on the late nights during grad school since they lived in Eugene, we have always gone camping with them, we sang in their wedding, we have made a tradition of spending Thanksgiving with them, and they were about the first people to hold Jeff besides us and my mom, anyway, great friends who we will miss a lot. We hope you have a safe trip and that Bo and Rajah do ok on the plane!

"Bye-bye Austin!"

Dancing on the floor with Janelle

Jeff says, "I'll miss you Nelle!"

Well, I have work to do and a baby to feed, so I will get going. Enjoy the pictures, and we hope everyone is doing great! :)

Playing on the floor

"See you next time!"