Unbelievable! A new post already! Nothing too out of the ordinary happening out here, but I realized all of my posts were centering around Arizona exploring events and when we go through a stretch without any new explorations, the blog goes untouched. So, here's a lil update on our everyday life.

We spent Rob's weekend and the end of my spring break getting some work done. Exciting stuff, clearly. I've been fighting with the Ohio Department of Education over being fingerprinted for an Ohio teaching license. Thankfully, Miami's police department helped me sort everything out and sent me an Ohio card to use for fingerprints out here rather than flying to Ohio just to be fingerprinted. I also applied to three more school districts, and now have applications in at seven districts total. Tomorrow is Chandler's teacher job fair and I have a screening interview scheduled after school. My cooperating teacher and I met up Thursday morning and I talked with her a lot about job openings/interviews. Apparently, districts have to notify current employees whose contracts aren't being renewed for next year by April 15th, which is hopefully when the interview process will really start up. The general consensus is that jobs will be offered very late this year because districts want to drag their feet as long as possible to determine how much money they will be getting from the state and how the economy is doing. Realistically, whether I'm hired in May or July matters less to me than just being hired.

Rob has been working on filing our taxes this weekend and it looks like we should be getting a good amount back, which is fabulous news. Here's a picture of him hard at work :)


It has been gradually getting warmer here and has been in the 90's the past few days. We went running along the canals one afternoon in the heat and it was pretty rough. The treadmills are going to be looking really good this summer :) We have an indoor-outdoor thermometer in our apartment and no real good place to sit the outdoor sensor. When the sun is shining on it, the temperature is ridiculously high. For example...

The 81 degrees in our apartment, however is not an exaggeration. Soon, we'll be needing a/c for sure. And it's still March! This desert stuff is pretty intense.

We are making some good use of the sunshine though. My mom sent us another package and this one had, among other delicious things (Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks beans!) a container to make sun tea in. I have been searching for one for quite some time and she came across this perfect lil one for super cheap at Marcs. This picture is from when we first set it outside this morning...and it is still brewing! I am looking forward to coming home from Rolly Pollies today and having a glass of sun tea :)


Okay, last random picture. Here is the baby bit of Easter decorations that crept into our apartment...beautiful plastic eggs! I keep meaning to have a practice for Easter egg hunt with Rob, but am still plotting the best hiding spaces in my head. Meanwhile, the eggs make a beautiful lil filler in the rose bowl that Cindy and John gave us as a wedding gift. I am still searching for a good permanent filler for it, but right now, seasonal decorations are working best.

I have a party to work in about an hour and am going to finish some laundry and get ready to head over to Rolly Pollies now. I am back to tutoring tonight as well. Break is definitely over, but I am actually looking forward to getting back to school. The two weeks was a perfect amount of time to relax and still get a good bit of planning done too. (I have the final 7 weeks of my student teaching all planned out!) We hope all is well with you. Love, Sarah and Rob

PS- We developed the pictures from the old school film camera this weekend and have pictures of the gila monster to post as soon as they are scanned into the computer. Check back soon :)