PICS OF ME AND MY PEEPS!!
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Hiking Sentinel Dome in Yosemite	My sisters Linda, Karen, Mom, and me.	Guido! My totally cool new laptop...I am in love!	Matt and I causing trouble at a show
Me and some of my trumpet peeps	Me and Kevin.	Hiking Taft Point in Yosemite	Kevin and I in 2008.
Me and Foxy not counting our rests in jazz rehearsal	Me and Kerry at Congress 2006	My family - 2007	Taylor and I - she is my firstborn daughter!
Taking a Caribbean cruise in 2007	Me and Reg (I don't know how he tolerates me!)	Hiking Angel's Landing in Zion National Park	My extended family - they rock!
Killing time before jazz rehearsal...	The new Charlie's Angels!	Me and my parents - they are the coolest!	Stacey and I in Tulsa, 2007
Sibling rivalry at Thanksgiving!	Yep, a bunch of cool and awesome jazz trumpetists!	Me and Pat in 2009. Pat and I started e-mailing back in 1997 and have remained great friends.

All about ME!
(more information than you care to know)
I am originally from Lorain, Ohio. That's kinda near Cleveland. Northern Ohio means Lake Erie, summer beach cruising, and SNOW SNOW SNOW. I hate the cold. I think I was supposed to be born in Florida. Anything under 90 degrees is cold to me!
My family consists of Kevin, and Kevin's three kids: Cody, Courtney, and Caitlyn.
I earned my Bachelor's Degree in Music at Bowling Green State University. Go Falcons!
I am the Director of Bands at an awesome Catholic school in Ohio.
Along with my music, I also raise and show horses, paint, and play with new technology. I have EXPENSIVE toys!
My animal family consists of: Corky ("Captivate Your Heart") is my 2004 bay Appendix (now white-papered) filly out of Fruit and by The Last Captive. She is sweet, gorgeous, loving, and definitely a keeper! Corky is my most successful breeding project, and together we earned two Congress top 10's. Along with Taylor, she helped me earn 4th place in the nation in AQHA limited open Hunter Under Saddle in 2007, which is probably one of the coolest things to ever happen to me. Tango ("Thanks For The Details") is a 2010 colt out of my beloved mare Spare Me The Details that I lost after she gave birth to Tango. Tango is appendix Quarter Horse and solid paint-bred. He inherited every ounce of Taylor's loving personality! Pasta ("Wingmasters Pasta and Jazz") is a 1998 German Shorthaired Pointer. She is my horse show pal and daily companion. Milkshake is a 1998 deaf white cat I adopted from the Humane Society. She is the most fearless cat I have ever seen.
My music is important to me - I built my life and career around it! I feed my muse by playing in a jazz group in Dayton. The fun people in the group make the 70 mile trip worthwhile.
I Love... ...the smell of Play-Doh ...Spaghetti ...Sharpie markers ...Gumby ...Mowing the lawn ...Car Talk on NPR ...Shoes ...Bubble wrap ...Pretzels for breakfast
I hate... ...Green food ...Strange food ...Food mixed together ...Paperwork ...Slow computers ...Hypocrites ...Negative people ...Being poor ...Funerals ...Scratchy pens