And a little background please......

So I'm now living in Nashville and have been since the Summer of 2002, when I moved to start my Master's...and Thank the Good Lord that's done. I'm all for a bit of academic hoop-jumping, but people please...luckily I graduated in 2005!

Anyways, while in the last year of my master's, I met my wonderful husband and we got married July 22nd, 2006. I promise to post some pics soon (my wonderful MIL just scanned out entire collection of pics onto discs so now I just have to sort them.) Here's a couple of pics from the Honeymoon though...until I can get some of the wedding ones up! We spent two weeks in Hawaii--on Oahu and Big Island in Kona...and had a wonderful time!




This is the view from our 3rd floor balcony on Oahu the first week in Hawaii. I miss that place!!

Here's one of Alan just chillin' on the balcony after a long day of playing tourist! Isn't he cute?





This one was taken at the Luau at the Polynesian Cultural Center on Oahu. We had a blast...but Alan doesn't like this picture!!




And of course, here's a pic of me trying to learn how to surf. I got really badly sunburned after that lesson and Alan had to take care of me!!









Here's a few from our Waterfall tour while on Big Island. It was lots of fun...although some days it was really windy!!!





These are of Alan and me standing behind a 500ft. waterfall in North Kohala on the Big Island...it was absolutely beautiful...and we got soaked!!







We did get to see some volcanoes, but I can't seem to get those pics loaded...I'll try to add them another time!

I'm teaching at Belmont University again this semester (where I got my master's) as an adjunct instructor of celtic fiddle. I have a few classical students too, and I've discovered that I really like teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels! I also maintain a number of students outside of Belmont and I play with a couple of different bands--mostly celtic. (More on those in another post!) I think it's about time I sign off of here...I ended up staying up way too late last night figuring this thing out--I need to get some sleep tonight! Enjoy!!

~KMB

My first blog...well, sorta

Ok...so I'm considering this to be "Officially" my first blog. It isn't really, however. I actually have a blog on my website at www.kimberlyhaller.com, although it's really not the same. I can't just write about anything on that blog though, since it's more of a professional site/blog...so I have to have something REALLY good to post on that one. Hence, this is my first REAL blog...I can write anything I want! Yay! I'm wearing purple underwear.....(not really, but it was fun to write.)

I have to admit something though...I probably would not have even thought about starting a blog had it not all happened by accident! I was attempting to comment on a friend's blog, and as I went to try to publish my comment, I had to sign up for an account and the next thing I know, I have a blog! Now all I have to do is figure out how to get a cool template that I can actually stand, post pics (I like blogs that have pictures on them, so of course, mine has to have that too!), and then keep up with this thing.

So please bear with me.....I haven't even managed to figure out how to put a background on my myspace page though, so this might take awhile!

~KMB

I wonder if anyone will even read this? or comment? Is anyone even out there?