More Spring Break Fun

Last Friday, Rob and I headed back to Goodyear for a spring training game. It was college id day (Rob bootlegged his way in with his BG id; I on the other hand, am legitimately paying Miami tuition this semester.) We spent all the money we saved (and then some, I think) on beer...stupid sporting event prices, but had a wonderful summer afternoon.

In the stands, enjoying our beer (I may have purchased a girly Smirnoff. It's fine...delicious too :)

the view from our seats

Not the view from our seats :) We spent some time exploring the ballpark again.

We discovered when we arrived that it was also autograph day. Here is a picture of Bob Feller autographing a ball for us!

After Friday's fun, I have been getting back into the work mode little by little. I spent Saturday at Rolly Pollies, but had two great parties. The family at the first party owned a Chick-fil-a and left us with ridiculous amounts of chicken salad sandwiches, fruit and even birthday cake! It was a delicious, simple and free dinner that night--can't complain! At the second party, I met a woman who teaches in the Chandler district and another who teaches in the Gilbert district and had the opportunity to do a little networking. I have spent most of the past few days finishing up applications and reading 1984, which I will teach when school starts back up. My goal is to have the better part of the fourth quarter planned out by the end of break so I have plenty of time to grade the research papers that are due in early April.

I have done a good lil bit of cooking this week already as well. Yesterday, Rob and I both ate a beef roast cooked in the crock pot. Yes, I ate beef. The evidence is below in a not so attractive picture.

Today, I made homemade rolls. Last week I baked banana bread with plain yogurt and was on a hunt for recipes that will make a bigger dent in the huge container of plain yogurt in our fridge. (Suggestions still welcome.) I found a recipe that used the yogurt, mixed with a little bit of honey and heated on the stove top, instead of milk to active the yeast. It was the stickiest disaster ever at first (I was disappointed Rob was not awake to take a picture of the mess and my hands were so caked with sticky dough thatI couldn't get to the camera). I had just about given up, when the dough actually started resembling dough, and the rolls turned out remarkably well. I made half of the batch into lil baby pepperoni breads and we used the other half for bbq beef sandwiches tonight. (I ate them too, ps. Go me.) My beautiful roll creation is below.

Not too much else is new out here. Rob's checkride has been scheduled for March 31st. It's a little later than we both had hoped, but as I am learning more about the aviation field, I'm realizing that the setback is not abnormal. We are planning on doing our taxes this weekend and I have more parties at Rolly Pollies. Quite the exciting life we lead :) Oh and an update on the much-anticipated Ostrich Festival post. Turns out, the admission and parking is neither free (as anticipated), nor cheap. Maybe next year the ostrich will creep into the blog. There was a bird that lives near water that popped up on our run yesterday and scared me half to death though. It's either called a pelican or a heron. Honestly, I can't remember which wouldn't live in Arizona. It might be both of them. Rob knows. I'll ask him later.

Okay, enough for now :) Hope all is well with you! Love, Sarah and Rob