Busy Busy Busy

Today was the first day of school. Back to the ol' drawing board. I love the first day of school with Freshmen because they are all really scared. It's their first day of high school so they all behave like little angels. Give them a couple of weeks and their true colors start to show. My classes are so small this year! Look at the class size on the schedule above. First period I have 20 students and all the rest are less than 10. It looks like smooth sailing for me this year.

Today was a busy day!
5:00 AM Wake up
6:30 AM Go to school
3:30 PM Go to gym
4:30 PM Go home and shower
6:30 PM Go to baseball game

This is Mary and Baldemar's 4 month old son
looking at a magazine at the
Fresno Grizzles baseball game.

Dad acting like a little boy while singing
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
during the 7th inning stretch.


Maryhelen and I.

By the way, the only reason why we went to this game was because dad got free tickets at church. It was Christian night so we got to sit by a lot of people from New Hope Family Church. Oh, and I saw my High School Geometry teacher, Mr. McFall. He remembered me and Ana. I wish I would have taken a picture with him. He looks exactly the same. The evening was fun but I was so tired. It would have been more fun if my Handsome Husband was there with me.

Thank You Handsome!

Look what came in the mail today! I have been wanting a coffee maker for a long time and one with a stainless steal carafe. The Hubby and I have been researching online which coffee maker had the best reviews within our price range. We found this one on Amazon.com. So I told the Hubby I was broke this month that I would buy it next month.
Three days later this comes in the mail.
Yes I am spoiled...finally.
Yea Handsome! Thank you so much!

A First Year Wedding Anniversary Tradition

It is tradition to save the top tier of your wedding cake and eat it on your first Wedding Anniversary. So we did it. Last year I looked up online how to preserve a wedding cake. I wrapped it in plastic wrap, foil, another layer of plastic wrap, another layer of foil, two types of plastic bags and finally in an oven bag.

It worked! We took the top tier in an ice chest to Avila Beach this weekend and put it in the fridge when we arrived. It thawed out great and tasted pretty good.

Just remembering our big day. Don't we all look happy in these pictures.
Can you tell that we were in 115 degree heat.
Our wedding day was very hot but every one looked awesome!
Thank you again to our wedding party, friends and family for celebrating with us.

Avila La Fonda Hotel

This weekend Fernando took me to Avila Beach to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary. The hotel he picked out was awesome! Once you walked into the lobby it felt like you were in Mexico, minus all the Mexicans. The floors were tiled, there were water fountains, stained glass windows and Diego Rivera paintings on the wall. It was so nice. I loved it!

Our room was really cute. And I especially liked the complimentary snack basket. They also had available 24/7 hot chocolate chip cookies, fruit, tea, coffee and juice. I think I ended up eating 6 cookies over the course of three days. Ooops. It was the Alvarado in me. It was free so every time we passed the lounge it was very difficult not to take one.

Gotta love the jetted tub in the bedroom!

This is after check out and I was finishing up my last cookie for the weekend.

Avila Beach

When we arrived in Avila there was an ocean front farmers market going on with delicious food booths, produce booths, dessert booths and live music. We shared a tri-tip sandwich and a fish taco. Oh and we took back to the hotel these juicy peaches and a big bag of kettle corn. Yummy!
The last time I had a peach that good I was about 7 years old sitting in a fruit stand with Claudia in front of the Garcia Packing Shed.

Shell Beach

Swinging. My favorite!

And sleeping...
Actually most of our time in Avila was not spent lounging around. The first morning we were there we went into a building that said "visitors information". The business was actually a real estate business with a few pamphlets advertising what to do while visiting Avila and Pismo Beach. We ended up talking to the agent and he showed us some properties. We spent most of our time looking at homes and condos in the area. We looked around Shell Beach, Pismo Beach, Grover Beach and Avila Beach. We decided that we really liked Avila the the best and need to get serious about saving our money to invest in the near future....maybe in vacation rentals.