Mundane Things

It's been a while since I've graced this blog with my presence. There's just not been much going on. Of course, we've continued our frequent ski trips:

I'm still awesome.

But other than that, we've been pretty boring around here. A few weeks ago, Matt had a couple of business trips to Aspen and St. Paul, MN. I spent my time alone baking, watching Gilmore Girls, and catching up on my Better Homes and Gardens subscription, so that was a productive week. I've been sick a couple times, which meant more Gilmore Girls and magazines. Awesome. And sadly, my Spring Break has come and gone. I got some cleaning done, had a can't-wait-for-summer trip to Oskar Blues, baked some more, and spent a lot of time reading my books. We also bought a chest freezer.


What thrilling lives we lead.

But baking and watching TV and reading is fun. In fact, after spending all of my February free-time practicing for Salem's wedding, I've found myself wanting to bake all the time. Usually with Gilmore Girls on in the background.

Some of my yummy baking. Raspberry-filled shortbread cookies, and chocolate-chocolate chip cookies.

I've also been utilizing my wonderful ice-cream maker more often, now that I have a giant chest freezer where I have room to freeze my ice-cream maker's core. This means I can spontaneously make ice cream whenever I want!

Yes, my ice-cream maker is sitting on a washing machine. We put it in the laundry room because it makes too much noise.

So that's been our exciting life for the last month. Awesome, I know.

One somewhat exciting piece of news is that I am ridiculously close to being done with my student teaching! Unfortunately, the stress of finding a teaching job has kind of put me in a funk these last few weeks. My funk has, of course, led to more Gilmore Girls, magazines, and books. But I'm trying to remain optimistic about job prospects. It's only April, after all!

Finally, we can't seem to go more than a few weeks in my family without a birthday to celebrate. This time we had a little joint party for Matt's and George's birthdays. We planned to barbecue in the beautiful sunshine, but Colorado decided to give us typical April weather: while it was 84 degrees a mere 24 hours before our party, it was snowing and 30 degrees at barbecue time. Of course, that didn't deter us.

Snow. Not much fun to cook in, but totally worth it.

Birthday festivities, kids decorating cookies, and playing Apples to Apples.

It's always fun to get together with my family, and it helped to get me out of my funk for a little while. If I keep doing fun things like going out with family and friends, I can hopefully stay chipper and make it to summer!