Happy 2011!!!
So... it's been awhile.
I guess grad school can do that to you. But, life has been good in the Fissel household. The biggest news we haven't posted about yet is that Kirk went to El Salvador with three other men from our church (Northchurch) over Thanksgiving weekend... he will need to write a blog post about that soon. But we are both very excited about what God is doing in El Salvador and look forward to this summer when hopefully BOTH of us will be going there together!
Tomorrow morning I am starting my Practicum/Internship tomorrow at Olentangy Orange High School. I am very excited with a little bit of nervousness too. I will be in the district for about a year and a half completing my 700 hours of Internship - yikes! I just can't believe how fast everything has gone - to think, a year ago I had not even gotten a phone call about my interview and now I am starting Internship. I will update as I can on life as an intern.
For now have a wonderful, happy, and blessed 2011!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Meet our Godson!
This past winter, our cousins Derek and Megan Rund asked us to be God parents for their second child. As soon as they asked, we were ecstatic! We could not wait to meet this new little baby and have continually prayed for this baby for months.
Well, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Timon Paul Rund was born! He shares his birthday with his amazing mom! How cool is that?
When he was two days old we got to go and meet him. We are so in love with him and miss him already! He is a sweet baby boy that we feel so honored to have the privileged of praying for him and being a part of his life and his journey to knowing Jesus Christ.
We will see how long we can stand it before we go back down for another visit.
Enjoy some pictures of us meeting Timon (pronounced like Simon with a T)!
Well, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Timon Paul Rund was born! He shares his birthday with his amazing mom! How cool is that?
When he was two days old we got to go and meet him. We are so in love with him and miss him already! He is a sweet baby boy that we feel so honored to have the privileged of praying for him and being a part of his life and his journey to knowing Jesus Christ.
We will see how long we can stand it before we go back down for another visit.
Enjoy some pictures of us meeting Timon (pronounced like Simon with a T)!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Vacation
Oops!
I guess life got a little busy and we did not post pictures and stories from our quick vacation to North Carolina. It was soo wonderful to get away for a few days and play in the ocean!
Enjoy a few pictures!
Enjoy a few pictures!
Seriously... how beautiful is this?!?! Thank you Jesus!
It felt so great to be at the beach!
we enjoyed our first beer at the beach!Monday, August 16, 2010
Meals, Vacation, and Jobs, Oh My!
Hello Blogging World!
I came up with a novel idea yesterday before grocery shopping. I always go through recipes and buy lots of items, and often, we don't end up eating that meal before 1/2 the ingredients go bad. This frustrates me. I got a sudden idea to take our calendar and write what we were having for dinner for the next two weeks!
I have no idea why I did not think of this before, sure it takes away the predicableness of life - but you usually know what meals you will need to eat out and how many to plan for in the few weeks to come. This is great especially with me starting school again in a few weeks. :( Kirk will always know to get started, or just when to heat up a lovely, delicious, lean cuisine.
In other news - in just a little over 2 weeks Kirk and I get to go on vacation! I cannot tell you how happy we are - we can almost smell the beach. We are going to Southport, NC where my dad just bought land and will build and move down there someday soon! We have not been to see it yet, so we are looking forward to seeing his new home!
Also - a week from today, Kirk will start his new job at Nationwide. He got promoted! He's excited to do something else than answer phones - from what I understand, he is now doing out bound calls and follow ups!
Life in the Fissel household is great!
I came up with a novel idea yesterday before grocery shopping. I always go through recipes and buy lots of items, and often, we don't end up eating that meal before 1/2 the ingredients go bad. This frustrates me. I got a sudden idea to take our calendar and write what we were having for dinner for the next two weeks!
I have no idea why I did not think of this before, sure it takes away the predicableness of life - but you usually know what meals you will need to eat out and how many to plan for in the few weeks to come. This is great especially with me starting school again in a few weeks. :( Kirk will always know to get started, or just when to heat up a lovely, delicious, lean cuisine.
In other news - in just a little over 2 weeks Kirk and I get to go on vacation! I cannot tell you how happy we are - we can almost smell the beach. We are going to Southport, NC where my dad just bought land and will build and move down there someday soon! We have not been to see it yet, so we are looking forward to seeing his new home!
Also - a week from today, Kirk will start his new job at Nationwide. He got promoted! He's excited to do something else than answer phones - from what I understand, he is now doing out bound calls and follow ups!
Life in the Fissel household is great!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Lunch
Recently, I have really gotten into how much things cost and ways to save money. (I guess graduate school costs will do that to you!) Really, it isn't something new for me, I have always been frugal and enjoyed saving money.
Last week I ran to the grocery to get one item - bread. Boring, I know. We always get the same bread and I never thought about the cost. It rang up as $1.67. As I was driving home I thought, I wonder how much that is per sandwhich. I got home and started number crunching. Now, I have always heard that packing lunch vs. going out for lunch saves you money, but I had no idea and wanted to figure it out.
In our loaf of bread there are 18 slices (not including the ends - yuck - who eats those!). So: 1.67/18 = .093 cents per piece of bread! Of course every sandwich has two pieces of bread, so that's $.18 for the bread.
I continued on trying to figure out how much we spend on each lunch we pack.
We started buying items in bulk. We love healthy fruit snacks, Target has really good off-brand Welch's fruit snacks for around $7 with 50 pouches, which equals $.14 a pack! We also always pack chips, we started buying the pre-packaged baked Lays green pouch, again depending on the sales for the week it's around $7 with 20 packets = $.35 each (in the store for one alone it's $1).
Some items are hard to get a good read on how much (i.e. carrots, celery, peanut butter, jelly, etc.). However, my estimated cost for each lunch came out to $1.50 - $2 MAX per lunch. Going out to a CHEAP lunch usually runs you about $6-7 dollars. Per month packing lunch then saves you: $90 a month, and $1080 a year, and if there's two of you that's about $2160 a year - just from packing lunch!
I don't know about you... but I sure can think of about a 100+ ways I could spend $2000 a year!
Just some thoughts to get help others start saving money.
What are tips and ways you have to save?
Last week I ran to the grocery to get one item - bread. Boring, I know. We always get the same bread and I never thought about the cost. It rang up as $1.67. As I was driving home I thought, I wonder how much that is per sandwhich. I got home and started number crunching. Now, I have always heard that packing lunch vs. going out for lunch saves you money, but I had no idea and wanted to figure it out.
In our loaf of bread there are 18 slices (not including the ends - yuck - who eats those!). So: 1.67/18 = .093 cents per piece of bread! Of course every sandwich has two pieces of bread, so that's $.18 for the bread.
I continued on trying to figure out how much we spend on each lunch we pack.
We started buying items in bulk. We love healthy fruit snacks, Target has really good off-brand Welch's fruit snacks for around $7 with 50 pouches, which equals $.14 a pack! We also always pack chips, we started buying the pre-packaged baked Lays green pouch, again depending on the sales for the week it's around $7 with 20 packets = $.35 each (in the store for one alone it's $1).
Some items are hard to get a good read on how much (i.e. carrots, celery, peanut butter, jelly, etc.). However, my estimated cost for each lunch came out to $1.50 - $2 MAX per lunch. Going out to a CHEAP lunch usually runs you about $6-7 dollars. Per month packing lunch then saves you: $90 a month, and $1080 a year, and if there's two of you that's about $2160 a year - just from packing lunch!
I don't know about you... but I sure can think of about a 100+ ways I could spend $2000 a year!
Just some thoughts to get help others start saving money.
What are tips and ways you have to save?
Monday, July 5, 2010
The 4th
Ahh... The famous Perrysburg fireworks finale!Well, not only was it the 4th of July this past weekend, it was also the celebration of 4 years of dating for us! Back in 2006, Kirk officially asked me to be his girlfriend during the Perrysburg fireworks. (Perrysburg, OH is where Kirk grew up, it was always a tradition for him to go to the fireworks on the 3rd of July so that is the actual day we began dating.) It was a special night, and so, we go to Perrysburg every year to revisit the "scene of the crime".
This year we got Barry and Paulette to join us and the four of us had a blast this weekend celebrating America... and Kirk and Holly!
Here are some pictures from our weekend! Enjoy!
We went to Webber's on Friday night - such a scenic and great restaurant!
Being goofy before the fireworks
Barry and Paulette joined us - they are the best in-laws ever!
While waiting for the fireworks to start - they made me my first clover necklace!
Being goofy before the fireworks
Barry and Paulette joined us - they are the best in-laws ever!
While waiting for the fireworks to start - they made me my first clover necklace!Sunday, June 20, 2010
Garlic
Interesting title you say? Well, Kirk and I are not great about cleaning out the fridge. Recently, we noticed that we did not have a lot of room in our fridge, so we cleaned it out yesterday. Sadly, a lot of groceries that we bought we only 1/2 used before the expiration date came. While cleaning out produce, and the like, I came across this garlic!
I had no idea that left by itself in a cold fridge - apparently, this is what garlic looks like.
Interesting.
Just had to share!
I had no idea that left by itself in a cold fridge - apparently, this is what garlic looks like.Interesting.
Just had to share!
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