Trip back to Michigan: June 4th-June 9th

A couple of weeks ago Olivia flew back with Jasper, Jayna and me to Michigan! It was so great to spend so much time with Olivia, I hope she had fun too...I think it might have wore her out hanging out with Jasper so much! He's SOOOOOO into the "WHY?" phase....I never thought a person could ask WHY about so many things. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it, but it can get tiring by the end of the day.

The special occasion for going back to Michigan was Marilyn Kesler's retirement. Ms. Kesler was our orchestra conductor for both middle school and high school. When I thought about it I realized how much time I spent with Ms. Kesler, every school day, 5 days a week, for one hour for 7 years! To this day I still think back to how inspiring she was and how she managed to get such an amazing sound of a bunch of middle school or high school musicians. It was fun to see some people from my past as well and Helen and Randy even drove back to Michigan to play. Oh yeah, so they had this big retirement concert planned with an alumni orchestra of over 100 people and we all played these pieces under her direction.