Merry Christmas 2020!
Welcome to our online Christmas Card! Since so much of life is online now we figured, why not?!?
We hope that you’ve had a wonderful 2020 full of life-renewing challenges and happy times, in spite of everything going on in the world around us. Our year has been actually pretty darn good.
Elisa spent the first couple of months in 2020 traveling to music education conferences, presenting and building her online conference business. She started her Doctorate of Education in Instructional Design in January and has made excellent progress this year - even being invited to join the honor’s society at her school. When schools closed down due to the pandemic, Elisa was perfectly poised to take a leadership role in her profession. She started a Facebook group to support music teacher that has grown to 48000+ members in just these few months. Her online conference took off and she’s since been hired to consult on, run, and speak at many online workshops and professional development events. In July she accepted a position with the Conn-Selmer corporation as the Senior Manager of Online Learning. She has loved having the kids learning from home most of the year.
Matt has been working alongside Elisa through many of her projects, and has started a new blog and lifestyle business all around tea: Tea Elevated. Check it out on Instagram, too. He also recently re-vamped his photography website.
Trinity is mid-way through her senior year, and though she was disappointed at cancellations of the Colorado All-State Band and their competitive marching band season, she has continued to excel at music and has even started singing in choir, playing euphonium, and learning the cello. She’s decided to continue her education at Colorado State University and will start there in the fall.
Timothy continues to do very well in school, and has had a lot of fun building video games and Minecraft worlds in addition to his demanding school work. He auditioned and made it on the drumline for the Fruita Monument High School Marching Band and we got to enjoy watching he and Trinity perform a few exhibition shows together this fall.
Connor has loved remote learning, and has been the one also in the most in-person school. He’s enjoying playing euphonium in the middle school band and had taken to mountain biking like a fish to water.
We would love to hear how things are going for YOU! If you’d like to share your 2020 story with us, send it our way:
