I live to serve my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am reminded daily of His perfect love and am always striving to know Him more. I was blessed to marry the man of my dreams August 4th, 2007 and our love for each other grows with each new day. I am a high school chemistry teacher, and my husband is the high school youth pastor at our church, so most of our free time is spent with teenagers! I love to cook and my husband loves to eat (but he can also hold his own in the kitchen)! :) Everything! I love trying new ingredients and methods. My favorite food to make with my husband is our famous eclairs from scratch! My favorite dish to make is stir fry (I am still trying to perfect my wok technique) and I love to bake just about anything! My father was a great chef, but he was so good that he never used recipes and would often forget exactly what he put in his dishes...so I never got to really learn much from him except for an appreciation for excellent food! My favorite tradition is baking cookies around the holidays! One christmas we had spent the entire day baking a plethora of different cookies. The next day my job was to finish up by baking the very last cookie variety and then make the trays for our neighbors. I preheated the oven, made the dough, and plopped it on the cookie sheet. Much to my dismay when I opened the preheated oven I found out that my dad had stored ALL of the cookies we had made the day before in there...and covered them in plastic. Needless to say, the cookies were all a plastic mess, and I called my dad in tears. He calmed me down, and when he came home from work we spent the evening re-baking. In the end we had a blast, and we still laugh about it today, however in the moment I felt awful!