Oops!

So I decided to make a german chocolate cake today...not my day to bake.

I added all eight eggs to the cake mixture (there were only supposed to be 4 - the other four were for the icing). Wal-mart here I come...I went and bought what I needed to be able to double the recipe!

Now all my problems are solved! Or so I thought.

Baked the cakes...they look great! But I haven't tasted them yet.

I was about to make the icing for them and looked at the recipe. Evaporated milk? I already used the evaporated milk! Oops....I was supposed to use the buttermilk for the cake! The evaporated milk was for the icing!

Well, I can go buy more evaporated milk for the icing...but I'm not sure how the cake is going to taste.

Keep your fingers crossed that it is passable (there are two of them after all).

Update: Brad said it tastes good....and it is pretty good...but not the same!

Last Few Days

Monday - Made YUMMY ice cream.
Tuesday - Went to a surprise birthday party for one of our friends. We had a lot of fun!
Wednesday - Really slow day! But I only worked a half-day so it was very relaxing.
Thursday - Great day! Had an amazing class that is so sweet and wonderful! Walked by one kid's desk during writer's workshop and he had arranged his crayons on his desk in ROYGBIV (okay...so it's not perfect...but it was 1st grade!) - then he straightened them with his pencil!

YUMMY!

We made home-made ice cream in our KitchenAid Mixer! It is so yummy! I was so excited to be using our new attachment...and even more excited to eat the yummy goodness!

Really?

As I was eating lunch with my husband and his co-workers (an upside to not having to work today), I received a call from the school that forgot to call me this morning to tell me that my job was cancelled. They had a teacher get sick and wanted to know if I could come in. I told them I was eating lunch and asked how soon they would need me there. Her response was..."Right now, but thank you anyways. We'll try you again on another day." So now, I'm even more irritated. I know I sound really gripey...and I probably am. But I started out this morning in an excellent mood, only to have my day completely scratched. Thanks!

Slightly Annoyed

I got up this morning, got dressed, checked my e-mail, and headed to work. When I got to my school for the day, my name was not next to the name of the teacher I was supposed to sub for today! It had someone else's name! The lady in charge of the subs came around the corner at that time, so I was like...what's going on...I was supposed to be so-and-so today.  Oops! The teacher had already asked someone else to take the class and messed up when she put it in Aesop. Unfortunately, they did not change it until about 7:45 this morning. I got a call from Aesop informing me of the cancellation as I was walking out the door of the school to head home!
I love the school and all of the ladies that work there, but they should have called me as soon as they realized the mistake this morning. Maybe even before they actually made the change in the computer, or immediately afterward. I would have already been on my way, but at least I could have turned around and come home instead of driving all the way over there and actually showing up.
Don't get me wrong...I'm not angry, just a little annoyed. This has never happened to me at this school, and I completely understand that these ladies are busy. But at the same time, it ruined my chances of picking up a job at another school. By the time they had taken me out of the system, my other disctrict had already started classes and this disctrict was about to start classes. Now, I am sitting at home with my dog (no big complaints there) instead of working. Big down side is that I have one half day this week and still have one day that I have not filled. So now there is a chance that I will only be working half of this week....there goes that paycheck.

Oops!

We woke up this morning at 11...guess we aren't going to church today. Who would have thought we would need to set an alarm to wake up that late? We normally are awake by 9 at the latest when we don't set an alarm.

Girls' Day Out

I met up with Denise today for a girls' day! Christi was supposed to join us, but she ended up having car troubles this morning and did not get to make it :( We had a delicious lunch at Guadalajara and then spent the afternoon shopping! I enjoyed getting to hang out with Denise! We don't get to see each other too often, and I cherish the times that we get to spend together. I also was able to meet her beautiful baby boy! He may only be a few months old, but he looks like a little man! He was adorable!

Hip-hip Hooray!

I was offered a long term sub position at one of my favorite schools! I am very excited to be able to take a class for an extended period of time. It will allow me to get a better feel of what teaching my own class will actually be like. I have also been told that the principal of this particular school uses long term sub positions as a type of long interview process. So, I am keeping my fingers crossed and saying a lot of prayers that this will help lead to a job next year! Starting in November, I will be teaching 5th grade science for several weeks staight!

What a Small World

Brad went downstairs to get his phone one night and our neighbor was out checking her mail. She has always been very nice and says hi whenever we see her. That night however, she said it was wonderful to have seen us at church. Turns out her husband is the interim preacher at South Park. We both thought that he looked familiar on Sunday, but I thought it was because he looked like the average Baptist preacher!

It seems kind of crazy that we have been wondering who we could ask to find a good Baptist church in our area and a Baptist preacher has been living in the apartment below us!

We Got the Towels!

We went to Bed Bath and Beyond Sunday evening for a registry completion event (20% off of everything!). We finally used all of our gift cards and we purchased our ice cream maker attachment and food grinder attachment for my Kitchenaid mixer. We also got our shower caddy rod thingy (so excited to get stuff off the edges/corners of the tub!), a broiler pan, a water pik, and the hand towels to match the towels we had already received.

We were a little early when we actually arrived, so we were through getting all of our stuff before the "event" actually began. I knew there were door prizes because they were getting them together when to got there and said they would start calling names around 7:30....we were there and finished by about 5:45. When I told Brad we had to stick around he started freaking out on me. So, I told him to just walk around the store again, a little slower and see if there was anything we would prefer to get. They actually started calling names around 6 and by the time we had made it all the way around the store they called our names! Brad was so excited because it meant we would be able to leave.

We ended up winning a set of Nautica towels! We were of course grateful for any free gift, but the workers at the store seemed more excited than we were. Everytime someone saw us (our cashier, and a few of the other cashiers) would exclaim, "You got the towels!" We thought it was hilarious!

So, yes, WE GOT THE TOWELS!

Looking for a Place to Call Home

We are currently visiting different churches in our area. We have been here for over a year and have put this off for quite a while. It is difficult to go to a church as a visitor, because there is usually an awkwardness. You don't know what to expect and you are slightly nervous.

There are churches everywhere here, but not as many Baptist churches as I would have thought (not close to us at least). We tried one before I went home for the summer and thought it was okay. It didn't grab us and make us feel at home. We both like the church but at the same time we felt a little out of place.

Today we tried a different church. We really like it. As soon as we walked in the door we were greeted by several members and whole-heartedly welcomed into their church. They seemed truly happy to see us and wanted to make us feel welcome. Several members actually sought us out because they didn't recognize us and wanted to make sure we were welcomed. The preaching was great as well, although I'm not putting a huge emphasis on that at this particular church because they are currently searching for a preacher. They also have a young married couples Sunday school class. This is important for us because we want to be able to connect with people at the church and find others that we can relate to easily. It will be nice to have other couples to grow with.

We are still going to try out a few other churches before we make a decision, but I am glad to have found a place that feels like it could become home!