The Good News

Great News for the Week!

- Spencer got a Job at Chevy's
- Spencer had a great interview for a possible 2nd job
- We got our money from Uncle Sam
- I finally got paid from CUSD.  Thank you!
- Ashley got Saturday off of work
- Spencer got a great haircut from Ashley
- We found out we are going to have a Nephew ( thank you Adam and Karen)
- Going to LA to be with the family
- In LA for Beckett's baby blessing

Things are really looking up. :)

Feeling the heat

Sunday's are 'o so fun and relaxing in the Relitz apt.

umm nope to the second part, but yes to the first!

I don't know why but Sunday's seem to be very busy days.  Church at 9 in the morning and I have to teach sharing time in primary. We come home and have to pick up a few things before our company comes over because we invited someone over. Then stress starts to mount as we cook dinner our smallest kitchen ever and boy o boy it gets hot in the kitchen, and I'm not just talking about the oven. We rush to get everything finished on time and plan to have a great time. When all is said and done we are asking ourselves why do we always invite peopel over when it is so much work? Well we just like having people over. It is always a lot of fun. Stressful but fun.


Spencer and I will be making dinner and dessert next weekend when we got down to LA to see our new nephew Beckett! We are very excited.

Mr. Vanilla Bean

Spencer and I bought so real vanilla beans from costco a few days ago and thought it would go great in our ice cream maker. We had already tried making basic vanilla so we thought we would try the recipie all the way in the back, " decadant chocolate!" The recispie called for vanilla bean, and it had a lot more steps then just poor ingrediants into ice cream maker.

1. heat ingrediants for 30 min
2. cool ingrediants in fridge
3. PLace in ice cream maker for 30 min

Once all was said and done, we were tired, and excited to try the ice cream.
It was way way too chocolaty and sweet! It didn't really seem like ice cream either. More like a chocolate sauce!
:( bummer maybe we shoul have stuck with vanilla.

In The Kitchen

Spencer and I have been in the kitchen  a lot over this Easter/ Conference weekend. I'm learning things I never know about my husband and I am pretty sure he didnt know them about himself either. If you have seen the movie Julie and Julia, it is about the cook Julia Child and a woman named Julie who takes cooking on as a challenge. Spencer see's cooking in the same light and is just coming to love it more and more every time we are in the kitchen. Over the spring break we stopped in Gilroy and he was the most excited to walk in the kitchen outlet stores. I think it is such a wonderful surprise!

So, durring the late night he wipped up creme brulet ( sorry I dont know how to type french),

*sorry the camera died and there is no picture

 a home made white cake, cocolate frosting, fondant, 

 oh and these amazing chibotta bread sandwiches.

Happy Easter!

Top Ten

Happy Times Check List
1. I turned 21 last Wednesday
2. It's Spring Break
3. We had an easter egg hunt with the kids in my class and it was pretty fun
4. Monterey for 2 nights this week
5. Matt and Julie got married and Spencer and I got to be there. :)
6. Last week another class teacher brought in some baby chicks for the kids to hold and I got to hold it too. so cute
7. My nephew Beckett it home and doing from after surgery
8. I have been married for 5 months now
9. Spencer and I played Tennis for the first time together last week and it was a blast.
10. Spencer bought a creme brulee set for himself and I got a garlic grater. :)


Things are going GREAT!

Terrible Tantrums and Terrible Tips

I made it through another week at Freedom Elementary. I’m getting a handle on this in the classroom, and I actually took a few days off at the restaurant. Over the past week Freedom has been a challenge ( but I still love my job, it can just be difficult). My student throws tantrums when she doesn’t want to listen or “ follow directions,” ( This is something we are always saying to the kids, follow directions..). During stations this week one little boy didn’t want to do his math like I told him so he drew sad faces on his paper. I’ve been bit, kicked, punched…and ohh yeah had my feet stepped on a billion times! ( Don’t worry they are not strong, but still kids should be doing this stuff). I am determined not to let her get the best of me. Even though she may run away and be a royal pain, I stick to my guns and always follow through with the punishments. With Friday coming to a close and another week under my belt I would say things are getting better. But I will say one thing is true, never a dull moment at Freedom.
Since I have been working so much this week I decided to take a little break from Logan’s and go back to work tonight. The night is going alright and I get a party of little 20 year olds and what happens I get a 1% tip which was $2!!! You do the math. I went to work with such a happy attitude and let me tell you things changed after that. People make me crazy! I worked my butt off and get nothing to show for it.

Well this was my way of venting because I have to do it all over again tomorrow. Thanks for the chat.

Trouble posting

This past week Spencer and and I watched The movie Julie and Julia and I just felt so inspired to write on my blog, but I have been having some trouble coming up with things to write about. This is not to say my life is boring, but sometimes I feel like blogging to be an assignment, and then I just want to stay as far away from that as possible. Although after seeing this movie ( side note: It was a great movie) I wish my blog could be as cool as Julie's.
I just started a new job working in a special ed class, and let me tell you there are lots of stories I come home with, but it's hard for me to leave out any details. Let's just say I'm really like my new job, although my student ( we can juts call her D) is a pill and a pain all wrapped up into one. There is always something going one, but maybe ill tell you another time. ( one quick side note I finally got to paint my nails because I quit my Abercrombie job! Yeah for pretty nails again. I feel like a girl.)
My husband and I went to play last week and that was interesting for a few reasons.
#1) it was about people in prison on death row #2) we only went because it was his homework assignment, we are not the play type of people and #3) our family member is his teacher, so things are always interesting
My night time job at the restaurant always has me talking about something. I come home at night talking about my tables and how they were so nice or so mean. Let me ask you, what would you tip on an $88 tab? Well ill tell you I got a $2 on an $88 tab. Ughh but what can you do.
So The main problem I am having is that I just don't know what to write about. So what ends up happening I just don't write anything.