Finally settling in...

I have sent information about my blog to some old family friends who I have recently reconnected with, so I thought I would write a little summary about the last few years:

I met Madison Taylor in college, actually I can't remember not knowing him in college, because we lived on brother/sister floors, fischer 2e and 2w at Wheaton College. I don't remember meeting him, since there were 50 guys & 50 girls to meet, but we were friends within a few weeks.
I earned my bachelor of music degree, specializing in music performance (viola). I took violin lessons my senior year, and am planning to teach both violin & viola soon (this fall). I took lots of pedagogy/early childhood music classes, and really figured out through the classes and my practicum that this is what I was made to do.
Madison & I had our dream wedding on May 31 of this year, and now here I am, sitting in the cool AC in Oxford, MS. Madison got into the law school program here at Ole Miss, and I am finding some great connections for teaching and other gigs. I met a man before I got down here through another person I met through the music program of Ole Miss. This man, Irwin Bell, was a graduate from Wheaton in the 50's. He is a violin teacher down here and has helped me SO much with setting up a studio this fall, giving me his waiting list students, etc. He has a very impressive musical background and I am privileged to be able to have this opportunity.
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Right now, I'm just settling into our cute rental house, just a mile from campus. We have been having fun being able to have some time off before our busy lives take off in just a few weeks. This summer we went to Destin, FL with his family, and of course during wedding frenzy time, we hung out with my family a lot. We are looking forward to getting into a routine, although like I said, we're enjoying the time off.

Well, that should mostly catch you up to date...hope everyone is doing well!

Also, here are a few pictures of our wedding and our house!

Seeing each other for the first time:


The flowers

Pictures across from the church at our Alma Mater


Back of the dress/bouquet
a close up

Our marriage announcement picture

His family

My family







I love his face in this one!!! ahh!!!
this one is special too


SO happy!


my cake that I had so much fun designing!


Our house!

Back to blogging

So I figure now that college is over and I have moved far away, I would start blogging again. I'm sitting in an amazing condo in Destin with a cold in the middle of the summer...!!! I'm on vacation with the Taylors and it has been a great time. I have been having so much fun. It's the MS bar convention and Judges' conference, and so they made a vacation out of it.
Things at home are going well. There's still stuff left to do, but I'm hoping by the end of next week, we'll be mostly done setting up and get some good pictures of the place up. I'm searching for a part time job in Oxford which has been incredibly challenging, given the fact that there are 20,000 students who I'm sure quite a few of them are also looking for jobs...and for the spouses of the grad school students and all the grads that stick around, it makes it difficult to land a job. I'm not giving up!!! I have some really good teaching connections, and I plan on having a pretty full studio starting this fall.
Well, time for lunch...I'll write more later.
Liz