A great weekend...

This weekend I did what I thought might be impossible.... I went skiing! My knee held up just fine for the 10 hours or so I was on the slopes. I am so thrilled. When my surgeon diagnosed me a little over 18 months ago, I thought there wouldn't be a chance that I would be on the slopes again, but I was.... and I was fast. Such a good feeling.

We went up with a couple of friends from High School that are near and dear to our hearts and had a blast. Our tradition is to go to Devil's Head Resort in Wisconsin and this was a record year. Usually we deal with ice and artificial snow, but there was a wonderful base and great conditions.

Valentine's Surprise

I have been meaning to post this, but just now got around to it. My hubby is the BEST! He really did a nice job this year for Valentine's. Usually we keep it pretty low key, but this year we felt like spoiling each other just a little more than usual, so on the 14th, I came home to this on my doorstep:
I was so excited. He picked it out all on his own and it is fabulous. Coach is my guilty pleasure and i just love it! I had flowers show up twice at work. One being when he made the order, and one being the right day. It was amusing to everyone except Tyler, poor guy. Tyler ended up picking out a weather station that broadcasts over the internet. If you want the link, just email me and I will send it over.

We ended up eating out at Biaggis, which is a favorite of ours. And then we went to see Juno at the movies. That movie is really good. It really did something to me (teaching jr. high and all) but that is another story. But overall, it was a nice evening and day with lots of love to go around.

Success!

Wednesday night, Tyler and I started this year's valentines adventure by taking our first cooking class. It was fabulous! Each year we try to choose something different to do together. The first year Tyler came up with this idea, we did horseback riding lessons. We ended up doing them for about 3 months. It was so much fun!




So this year is the year of food. We hooked up with the Adult Education Center and this week's lesson was on The Flavors of Italy. We learned the recipes for:

-Lentil Soup with Italian sausage - very tasty
-Gorgonzola Coins - not a big fan
-Clam Soup - Tyler's choice
-Parmesan Polenta Squares
-Pork Tenderloin with a tomato and olive topping
-Mozzerella Shrimp - to Die for!
-and Beef Tenderloin with a brown gravy

Tonight's dinner was the Beef Tenderloin. We went to the Butcher to get our meat. I explained what I needed and he custom cut the beef to my needs. Came home and cooked a wonderful dinner of beef, asparagus and butter bread. :) It really turned out great. We have some leftover meat and gravy, so I plan to make a stroganoff Monday. Tyler is busy making dutch cocoa cookies and I am relaxing. Happy Weekend everyone!

Thank goodness it is Friday...

I could have sworn that there was a FULL moon this week. My little darlings were near the edge of demon-like this week. Friday is looking good. Here is to a great weekend!

It's a BLIZZARD!!!

Well this is seeming to be a common post on my blog :) Our last blizzard was about 2 weeks shy of a year agao and here it come again. The major school districts are us are closed tomorrow already, and I am waiting for the call. Not too much is going on here. We had my brother and his wife over for tacos last night and rocked out to Rock Band.

We have also been stuck on this awesome series from Discovery: Planet Earth. Last night we watched the segment on Jungles. This had to have been one of my favorites. The Birds of Paradise


has to be one of the craziest species on our planet. So amazing for this science geek to learn all about. Tomorrow we continue on with our staining project, hoping to still have the Cosby show on Saturday.

Till next time!

Lazy Sunday

This weekend has been a busy, busy weekend. Only because we have had things going on. This weekend we decided to start our staining project. Way back when, we bought the console table and mission table in natural wood finish. It was a good buy and looked great in the old apartment. This weekend we started to change the natural finish to a dark walnut finish to match the rest of our new furniture in the house. It is a task and a half, but had been fun working together to get it going.

This past week I worked a total of a whopping 2 days. We had MLK day off. I went up to Chicago on business Monday night and Tuesday and school was called off Thursday for the cold. Have to love those days where there is no school and you can still get around ok. :) Love being a teacher.

This next week we look forward to seeing a living legend: Bill Cosby. We are heading home to see him at the local Theatre. It should be a good show. Not much else is going on. Taking it slow and living life. Hope all finds you well.

Till next time.

A new toy...

Here is a link to a cool letter image finder using FLICKR images. You plug in the word you want to spell and can then customize the images. Very fun!