These are the moments..

Let me just start by saying, it's been a busy past few days. With Josh attending meetings and assorted dorm sup functions for hours every day, and me jumping right in and working around 7 hours daily with 3 year olds, it's rather astounding we are both still faring reasonably well.

We were able to sneak some fun in this weekend though. Saturday found us at the Dodge County Fair with Jenny and Matt. It was an, eh, interesting experience.

• It was raining for most of the time we were there. So we walked around through puddles with our hoods up.
• We almost got trampled by a runaway sheep in one tent and a runaway pig in another. The man watching as the pig comes barreling towards us merely says, "Um, girls looks like you have a loose pig."
• Finally, the part I most look forward to at fairs: walking around the exibiters booths and collecting free stuff. :) But alas, I aquired but two items: a plastic 11-12 week fetal baby from the Pro-Life booth, and a CD of Christian songs from around the world from the Lutheran Ministries booth. Definitely not the bagfuls of free stuff I recall scavenging while walking around fairs in my youth.
• Last but not least, I experienced one of the hick-est events thus far in my life. A true Beaver Dam, WI horse pull. We cheered for Hoppercorn. Our cheering helped little though. The winning pair of horses ended with pulling a load of a whopping 6,600 pounds. "You bet!"

Then on Sunday, after church we stayed and ate lunch with the Pastor's family. It was a nice time of fellowship. Oh, and Sunday night we talked to the Pastor and Deacon's about joining the church. So grateful, God led us to Faith Baptist Church in Oconomowoc. We are definitely excited to get involved in the ministries of the church.

Last night I met with the fellow dorm sup wives in one of their apartments and we made cookies "for the arriving guys." I don't know how many cookies actually made it through to be given away to guys though. :) It was a fun bonding time to be sure.

Work at Kiddie Kampus has been going well. The fellow teacher I'm with and I have gotten along wonderfully. Definitely an answered prayer! I've already fallen in love with the 3 year olds we have. They are definitely a crazy bunch, but also so precious. Next Monday all of the kids will be back from the summer (20 total!) and we will start the curriculum. I'm looking forward to it being a little more structured. Week number one is about colors and back to school! That week is then followed by teaching about shapes and 'God made me!' :) And the cute story of the day is this: This afternoon while playing out on the playground a couple of the kids were making pretend meals and we were all sitting around the table eating. Before starting to eat the pretend meal, I mentioned how we should pray first. I then proceeded to pray a simple prayer thanking Jesus for the food. The ext meal they made, the boy playing said he would pray. He then proceeded to pray a rote food blessing prayer. The NEXT meal they made, the girl playing said she would pray (*note:this girl comes from a very rough background). She prayed the following, "Dear Jesus, Thank you for the food. Thank you for playing. Amen." So precious. I melted. :)

My husband is free from all meetings/guys/dorm related stuff for approximately 3 hours and 17 minutes. So I'm off to make sure not another of those minutes are wasted. :)

The Daily Grind

I just met our first pre-season dorm resident. Of course, he came early and Josh was not back yet. I think I might have been a bit scared to be greeted at the dorm by me - a female. :) Starting today the pre-season guys will start trickling in. Then Monday the RAs arrive. Then RLs. Then Freshmen. Then the returning students. It's kin of crazy that it's all starting! We are for real living in a men's dorm as dorm supervisors! Josh has had hours of meetings all week, and I do believe his brain is fried. But things will settle down after these beginning weeks are over.

As for me, I started work at Kiddie Kampus on Monday. Let me just say, there's nothing like being thrown right into things! I started Monday without having gone through orientation or training. Plus, the lead teacher was gone until Tuesday. Needless to say, the first day was a little stressful. I hate not knowing what I'm supposed to do in a job. But the last couple days went a lot better. I really like the other teacher I'll be working with and the kids are great. I'm working in the 3 year old room and I've already fell in love with the little cuties. :) I love hearing them say, "Mrs. Annie, Mrs. Annie!" :)

Another fun thing that happened as of late was a trip last weekend to Illinois. We were able to drive down on Friday evening and spend a couple days with Pastor Caleb and Ms. Jess and their family. It was awesome to get away for a couple days. We really love that family as well as the awesome church family we have gotten to know down there over the past couple years. We are definitely hoping and looking forward to being able to visit down there every now and then.

Well, lunch is now beckoning. :)

I have my dining room table back!

We finally finished writing, addressing, stamping, labeling, and licking all of the thank you cards to all the generous people who gave us wedding gifts. That means, I now have the other half of our dining room table back! Woot. :)

I can't believe it's almost been SEVEN WEEKS since we got married! {I just had to go look at the calendar and count.} People were asking us last night at church how long we have been married, and we were both like, "Um, since June 25?" :) I guess it's hard to keep track of how long it has been, because it just feels so normal now. It feels like this is how it's always been. :)

Well, tonight starts the beginning of dorm sup meetings and such. A cookout at the Dean of Students' house. Next week {Monday and Tuesday} are two more cookouts/picnics! You can tell we're Baptist. :) It's okay though, it just means less time cooking meals for this wife. :)
Tomorrow evening after Josh has training on the new E-Learning computer system, we are heading to Illinois for the weekend. I'm very much looking forward to getting away for a couple days. As well as getting to see some dears friends.

One more update: Yesterday I bought a self-training book and some yarn and am teaching myself how to knit! I've always wanted to learn, and had a 50% off coupon to Joann Fabrics and thought, why not?! Another hobby added to the list. :) We'll see how it goes.

First week of August...

This week has flown by. Can't believe the first week of August is over! We are anxiously preparing for the upcoming days of arrival of guys in the dorm. Josh starts his dorm supervisor training and meetings this weekend and I start my job at Kiddie Kampus next Monday. So busy times are a coming! We've immensely enjoyed these weeks of settling in and spending lots of quality time together though.

Moving on...

We worked in the office the other evening finishing up our Ireland/Missions wall. Josh found every missionary/pastor in Ireland and where their church is located and marked them all with a number on a map of Ireland. We then recorded the names of the missionaries, their church's name, and their location on index cards and wrote the corresponding number from the map on the card. For those we had prayer cards for we simply used the prayer cards instead. It turned out really great. It will be a wonderful way for us to systematically pray for the missionaries over in that country. We also then added our collection of other missionary prayer cards around the map as well.

One more thing. I got a much anticipated orange box in the mail this week! Our wedding photo book from Shutterfly. I love it. It turned out wonderfully! :)



 Off to go relax now with my loving husband. :)

Quesadillas, Bourne, and Crickets

This post is about yesterday... but by the time I thought to have written a post I was already in bed. So here it is today.

Top Three Reasons {on August 4th} why I Love my Husband:

1. He makes delicious quesadillas. And let's me sit and relax while he makes them.

2. He doesn't get annoyed at me while watching movies such as (Bourne Supremacy) when I talk aloud and try to work through all the things happening in the movie and guess at what I think is going to happen.

3. He gets up out of bed to try and find a cricket I hear that is keeping me awake. (Also! He doesn't find me crazy when I pray to God to make the cricket stop making noise. Which by the way, was a prayer answered! Right when we finished praying the cricket had stopped making noises!)


So thankful I'm married to a loving husband and serve a great God.

Blueberry Scones

I made blueberry scones last night. For the first time ever. < That tag line seems to accompany all my cooking expeditions so far. I was very nervous when getting married knowing that I had never really cooked/baked much at all. BUT... so far so good. I've only had one scorched pan, one burnt hand, and one entree that didn't taste like it does at AppleBees. :) Anyways, the reason for this post so early in the morning is that since posting a picture of my scones on Facebook, I have had several requests for sharing the recipe. So that I will do.

Cherry Chip Scones {I substituted the cherries and chips for blueberries. Experiment how you want.}
   
    3 cups all-purpous flour
    1/2 cup sugar
    2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    6 tablespoons cold butter
    1 cup vanilla yogurt
    1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk, divided
    1 1/3 cups dried cherries
    2/3 cups white chips

1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda. Cut in {I learned this term: to break down and distribute cold butter, margarine or shortening into a flour mixture using a pastry blender or two knives.} butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

2. Combine yogurt and 1/4 cup milk; stir into crumb mixture just until moistened. Knead in the cherries and chips.

3. On a greased baking sheet, pat the dough into a 9-in. circle. Cut into eight wedges; separate wedges. Brush with the remaining milk.

4. Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.


And there you have it ladies and gentlemen - SCONES.

And so it begins...

Well. I finally did it. I made a blog. A blog which I hope to keep up to date with the latest happenings and musings of this newlywed girl. {I don't completely have my hopes up yet on actually keeping up with this, but I'm crossing my fingers!}

So here goes. Day 1. The first post. I feel like I should post about something really worthwhile and of utter importance. But, alas, here's what it's going to have to be.

It's official. I'm really and surely living in Wisconsin. I applied for a WI driver's license today. I am going to miss my good 'ole pink Ohio license. I wish I could have kept it for memories' sake. But being shredded was its demise. One bonus: my new picture looks better than my latter! Oh, and it also says my new name: Elizabeth Anne MOORE. That still makes me smile. :)

Another newness that happened today is I found out I will be the assistant teacher for the 3 year olds at Kiddie Kampus instead of the 1's. I'm excited about this change! I will be get to do a lot more actual teaching. I start training sometime next week, and my first day in the class will be August 16th. Still praising Jesus for the blessing of this job!

I believe I have put off my good wifely duties for long enough by searching for blog layouts, getting distracted and looking at adorable digital scrapbooking elements, getting distracted by facebook, and finally starting up this blog. So it's off to do dishes, and tidy up a bit I go.

'Til next time.

Mrs. Moore :)