Good News!

We learned yesterday that John has been accepted into the second year Baking and Pastry Arts program at his school. We are very excited about this as it will help us tremendously in decision making in the near future. I was actually at the school when he got his letter....my heart was pounding and I was more than a little nervous. :-) But God is faithful and we feel this is what He called us here to accomplish, so Praise the Lord!
I had yesterday off for President's Day, so John arranged it so that I could observe some of the classes at the academy. It was really interesting! I watched one class decorated sculpted fruit with food colored gels. That was pretty cool. And I tasted duck liver...probably won't ever eat it again, but it didn't kill me. :-) It was neat to see what John works on all day and I enjoyed talking with some of his chefs.
We spent the weekend in Pittsburgh. John's sister Julie was in town, so we went to visit her. We had a relaxing time of playing games and watching movies.....and I did laundry. Really that is a blessing because it is expensive to use the laundromats and they don't clean or dry nearly as well. All in all, a great weekend!
And our Valentine's Day was nice, too. We didn't do anything special, but I did get flowers and we rented a movie. Friday night we had some friends over for dinner and watched a Brian Regan comedy video. If you haven't seen this guy, he is absolutely hilarious...and his comedy is clean, which is a nice change.
I think that is about it. We do have one request....John would like to know which pastry (bread, cake, pie, muffin, etc.) you would most like for him to learn to make. He says if you want to taste it, he will have to learn how to make it. :-) I must say, it is a wonder we both haven't gained 50 pounds yet. He makes some pretty tasty stuff. Yesterday, they were preparing to make a chocolate ganache cake....YUMMMY!!
Love to all...