changes and stuff

It's been an eventful spring. Jose made his decision to leave the school where we met and got hired at Diamo*nd Bar High. I have been trying to leave for a few years, because my current position has me signing temporary contracts amongst other issues. Well, as of today, I am a Mustang... I've been chosen to teach at Walnu*t High. I am in shock. For many reasons. I'm sad about leaving this place for the last four years, but really, I'm excited for a new job that I can hopefully make my home.
Boy, the brandin*g Iron is really up for grabs, isn't it?

Why does this taste funny?

Yesterday morning I was having a hard time waking up. So I stumbled into the bathroom and started brushing my teeth. Something was different, so I looked at the toothbrush and thought that Jose must've used it by accident. I continued brushing. Not until about 15 seconds later did I find that I was brushing my teach with sunscreen. SUNSCREEN! SPF 50! Oh ew!
So I spit.
Then I rinse.
Then I spit again.
This continues as I look around the counter desperatly for something to take this terrible taste and poison out of my mouth! I see out of the corner of my eye the ACT flouride rinse. I don't think about how strong that cinnamon flavor can be instead I take a big, BIG swig of it to rinse.
At this point, my mouth is on fire. Cinnamon and SPF 50 do NOT mix (kids, don't try this at home).
I spit, I rinse, I calm down.

I'll tell you what, a little sunscreen will kill the weekend right out of you. Happy Monday.

The Brahmanther

Jose and I got to go away for a few days since football begins tomorrow. I'm calling Jose a Brahmanther. He's going to spend the next 6 weeks working at Diamond Ranch and coaching at Diamond Bar.
I'm actually pretty excited for football to start as I like it, and this year Jose is stepping down from Varstiy to be the head freshman coach. I shouldn't say 'stepping down' because it's actually more responsiblity, but from where I sit, I get to have my husband back on Saturdays this year. Varsity requires more time, even from the 0-line/d-line coach. So it'll be an interesting transistion back to Freshman.
Looking foward to it.
And I'm looking foward to the end of school. We have one more week of teaching and 5 weeks of summer school. I shouldn't even be counting down yet.

Disneyland Mania

Last weekend we went to Disneyland twice. On Friday we went with my cousin Beth who is soon to be leaving the country (she's nursing with Mercy Ships - I'll try to find a link if you're interested, it's really cool) and some friends from work.

Then on Sunday we went with our friend Jim and Patty (fabulous people!). Well, since we went after church, we were wearing our AdventurePoint t-shirts (have I mentioned that we are helping to start a church and Jose and I run the childrens ministry... until we hire someone... hopefully soon?), and while the t-shirts are cute for church, what I forgot was that the word GUIDE is written in White on the back. So here we are walking through Disneyland with a shirt that says GUIDE on it.

Yup. I was asked directions.

I just pretended like I knew (the poor lady was frazzeled) and I told her where the Jedi show was (I actually knew!).

It was awesome.

Jim and Patty took a picture of us, so this is what we looked like walking through Disneyland.

Next time I'll dress more appropriately.

Garage Pictures

Here is Jose, Jim, and Jonathan after putting up most of the dry wall on Saturday. The other Jonathan had to leave for his plant ID class at Calpoly, so these guys did the bulk of the work.

They worked tremendously hard but then it got awfully hot after lunch, so things slowed down. Last night Jose and Jonathan did some sanding and hopefully this Saturday we can get some paint going. Woo Hoo! (notice in the picture on the right how Jonathan is working and Jose is supervising... I love it!)

To finish or not to finish...

So Jose and I have been living in Diamond Bar for about 2.5 years (we bought the house a few months before we got married). The previous owners were Del and Diana, and they had different ideas about what a house should look like. So largely we have spent the last 2.5 years fixing what they did to the house. So what's cool is that the house really feels like we've put our finger print on it and we love it. But now we've come to the garage.
Last weekend Jose and Jonathan and Jonathan and My brother Jim put up drywall because even though Del was a handyman, he never got around to finishing his own garage. But now, I'm finding that some people don't think a garage needs to be finished at all! Even though we'll be working again this coming Saturday finishing it with paint and everything else, it looks great! It feels like a prettier work space and it's much more inviting to do the laundry.
So, you know our opinion: Finish the space! But let me ask, how many of you think that a garage doesn't need to be finished? I really thought everyone agreed that we should finish the garage, but I'd like to know for sure (so here's my completely unscientific poll).