I'm the next Rachel Ray!

This week I have made 2 recipes out of the Rachel Ray Cookbook. First Mike and I made "Cashew, God Bless You" Chicken and then tonight I made Enchiladas with Mole red sauce! Look at me be all domestic! It's a miracle. (Although on the cashew chicken the other night I had a little incident with the knife and Mike had to finish dinner because I had to stop the bleeding (way gross and Painful!) So atleast I know I'm marrying a potential chef! Rachel Ray get out of the way! Because in the kitchen, Sommer is No Bummer!! And cooking is what Mike likes!

First teacher story EVER!

Today was my first lesson. EVER! It was on Simplifying and Comparing Fractions in a 6th period Pre- Algebra class.(easy enough, right?) However, everything that could have gone wrong WENT wrong and More!

So these are my Top Five Reasons why my first lesson became quite the disaster in a matter of 35 minutes:

1) My resident teacher was sick today so there was a substitute which automatically makes students extra squirrily

2) The substitute remarkably resembles Abraham Lincoln which we come to find out works in his favor as he is an actor in historical reenactments where he plays the 16th President of the United States. He decides to take 25 minutes of the period to explain this along with the meaning behind Mr. Lincoln's "four score" speech

3) Because of this drawn out tangent of the Lincoln inside of him, I am left with 35 minutes to do my lecture and have the students complete their classwork

4) I begin to give my lesson and the substitute attempts to "help" minimize the talking of the students by talking over me and telling them to be quiet. Leaving the students confused as to what teacher to listen to and completely undermining my authority as a teacher.

5) The students decided to erase the substitute's real name and replace it with Mr. Lincoln. So at the end of the lesson I refer to the substitute as "Mr. Lincoln" and the students burst out laughing. (that one was pretty funny though- you have to admit)

So as for now, I figure the lessons can only get better from here. So we shall see when I give my second lesson on Wednesday. Hopefully the only Lincoln I'll be seeing is the one in my wallet. :)

Becky & I are famous!!

Ok maybe not famous famous but we DID make it on the turkey trot website this year with our pilgrim lady instant disguise costumes (the packages name, not mine).

Becky, Me, Jen, Tori, Thomas, Matthew, Kerrie and Corie all ran a 5K on thanksgiving morning and it was fun! Becky and I found last minute costumes to run in and it totally payed off!

So look on the website and you'll see the soon to be celebrities Becky & Sommer! :)

www.turkeybeachtrot.com

RIP Louise the Crab

So, Thomas and Silvia were getting ready to go to bed the other night when all of a sudden Silvia yelps, "Thomas! There is a huge spider crawling across the floor! You HAVE to get it!". Thomas gets closer to it and turns on another light and realizes it's Louise the crab, not a spider! She had CRAWLED from upstairs in my room on my desk (where the fish tank and her home is located), down 20 stairs around the corner and heading toward the kitchen! What an adventurer!

Thomas picked up Louise and put her back in my fish tank. Sadly I thought Louise had died and so I turned off the filter a few days prior. (I hadn't seen her in a week or so - because she was out roaming the house!)
Yesterday, I saw Louise at the bottom of the tank not moving and so she is now in little crabby heaven. (which unfortunately I am quite thankful about) I didn't want her to get inspired and crawl over to my bed to cuddle!

Although Louise is no longer with us, at least she went out with the greatest adventure of her life.

This girl tri'ed

I DID THE TRIATHALON! I FINISHED! So amazing... I couldn't beleive it myself! And I couldn't have done it without my sister in law and most amazing friend BECKY! whoop whoop!

Here are my stats:

Swim 00:13:24.0 (my favorite part of the whole event)

Transition 1 00:05:38.4 (I got REALLY dizzy after the swim so I had to take it easy so I wouldn't fall over right when I got on the bike)

Bike 01:32:33.3 (time posted online is 20 minutes more due to bad luck with Becky's bike tire which we had to fix before we could continue the race!)

T2 00:00:16.2 (record timing! especially when your brother and fiance pick up your bike for you!)

Run 00:53:28.1 I would not have survived the run without Becky! She was my little encourager and it was so amazing to have her there! I couldn't believe she waited for me to start her run and we even passed 5 people! I totally slowed her down on the run but we totally kicked butt together! GOO TEAM PERRY!

Finish = about 2 hours and 38 minutes!!! SO EXCITING! I finished! It was a miracle!

The Triathalon in this sat!! OH no!

I have decided I am going to die this sat. The triathalon has snuck up on me and now I don't know how I am going to complete this task I have set for myself!

I haven't trained for it like I hoped i would have so basically it's been nice to know you... I'm going to see Jesus... and it's going to be beautiful!

Zebra Love

The perfect pair of zebra shoes have been waiting for me to find them for several months now and TODAY was the day we found eachother...

it was love at first sight, I walked into the store just casually perusing and then BAM


and it gets even better... heather surprised me by buying me them as a birthday present!



We made our debut together tonight at the Petersons, it was a beautful thing... walking sitting, laughing, dancing foot and foot.