Kiss Me, Kate

Derek was in the orchestra for the high school play.  There was intensive practicing 2 months of after school until 6:30 EVERY DAY, or it seemed like it.  Actually it wasn't quite that much, it was more like, during school and then only about 2 to 2 1/2 weeks of the every day after school until 6:30.

The orchestra did amazing of course.  Derek played the bass clarinet, normally he plays the alto saxophone but he is pretty versatile and has been playing the bass clarinet on the side in high school for the past 2 plus years.  If he had his way he would have so many different instruments that he would need a second bedroom.  I love that he loves music.

 My mom and dad are very into classical music and my dad was in a big play, Carousel, when I was little and also played Abraham Lincoln in another play when I was younger.

Derek and my mom are amazingly alike in so many ways.  I love to see it.  They both love music and have a talent for it.  They are both quiet and reserved, they are both old souls and are wise beyond their years, they both have a very strong moral compass and are very compassionate.  They both have very strong sense of right and wrong and feel more comfortable and safe following rules and understand that there is safety in rules.  They also both have had and continue to have a very strong and natural love for the gospel and love to follow it's teachings.  I love them both and love to see genetics at their finest.  It would be well if all people could be more like my mother and Derek.

Sam, Leia and Derek