NYC HERE COME THE BUTLERS!!!!!

That is right, we are finally taking advantage of my flight benefits and flying to New York City for out Anniversary!!!!!

I can not believe it has almost been a year since our wedding! Wow it went by so fast!

Well we just made hotel reservations and now all we have to do is make our flights. We are leaving next month!! YIKES its soooo close yet soooo far away!!!

Shift Supervisor!

I am starting on an exciting road! I have definitely made it clear to my manager at Starbucks that i want to move up in the company. I have been with Starbucks for a little over 2 years now and ever since the 6 month mark i have been asking to move up. At the time Starbucks was closing tons of stores leaving a lot of shift supervisors and baristas jobless, which meant there was no need for anyone to be promoted at the time. I have now spoken to our new store manager about moving up and he really thinks i would be great at the job.

He has mentioned my name to the new district manager and she is going to make a folder for me of things i need to complete. I would first need to complete and Learning Coach class. That allows me to be a trainer in our store. After that i can start training for shift supervisor and once i am ready and once a store needs one I would be able to move up.

This will guarantee me more hours and a tad bit more pay. Which will hopefully allow me to only work one job! Which is soooooo exciting to Rodney and I!!

If all goes well I will pass the learning coach class, the interview with the new DM, the shift lead training, and become a shift lead!

Please I would really like all of your prayers as I start this step. This would be such a blessing and a huge weight lifted off my shoulders! Back would be the days of working only one job!! =)

Where have we been???

Where have we been????
we have been working quite a bit. I'm still at Starbucks and American Eagle and Rodney is now at 5Guys Burgers! Which is delicious by the way =)
Here are a couple photos of us this summer.


Rod and i took a day trip to Pismo Beach! We had a sand castle competition and i totally kicked butt!!


For Rodney's Birthday I took him on a surprise dinner to Lucilles ( his favorite bbq place). We do not have one here in Fresno so we had to drive up north about 3 hours. Since it was such a long trip just for dinner, i decided to spend the night in sacramento. We visited old town Sacramento, drove to the Jelly belly Factory and also the Anhueser Busch Factory!



Rodney and I had a blast for his birthday staying up until 2 am playing monopoly (which i won!!)

I am so blessed to have a wonderful husband like Rodney!! =)

We had a great summer even though we worked more than we played but hopefully that all changes sooner than later!!!

until next time.....
jb

Bass Lake!

Yesterday I took Rodney on a surprise trip! He swore up and down that we were going to Yosemite and it was really funny on his reasons why that could be the only place we are headed! =P

Not knowing what to expect we brought blankets, card games, subway, flashlight and a good time! We just hung out and played "Would you Rather", "Speed" and other games.

And at 9pm we enjoyed the firework show over the lake! =) It was such a great Fourth of July!! Sorry Evan we could not make it for your Birthday but we were thinking about you!!! =)


Camera Batteries died before fireworks, maybe Rodney will put some from his phone on here on Facebook!!

--JB♥

"Oh... No..."

I quote just how Phoebe Buffay from Friends says it!

Yesterday I get to work (AE) and there is a note on the board

"There was a change in the schedule, double check to see if you were written in for any shifts"

Im thinking oh great now what, so i take a look and ok next week i was written in to work Thursday, and then the next Monday i was also written in and i accept this fact. Then a few seconds pass... wait! MONDAY? JUNE 28th? ... Oh NO! that is my birthday.

I proceeded to explain to my supervisor that the only reason i asked for Mondays and Tuesdays off during this schedule is so I may have June 28th off. I told her that she could have written in me in any other day that week and to please let me have it off. It is not a morning shift, if it was i would work it because then i will be off and get to go to dinner and such to celebrate, but no the shift starts at 6pm and ends at 1030pm. =(

I then frantically text and left notes for people to see if they can cover my shift for me so i can celebrate. I love my birthday, and i am really hoping that i do not have to work!! GRR!!!

Just thought i would share my frustration with you all!!

until next time....


--JB

Gone Banana's!

A few weeks agoI made the BEST banana bread! My mother wanted the recipe so here it is!



Banana Walnut Bread!

2c flour
1tsp baking soda
1/4tsp salt
1 egg
1 1/2c sugar
1/2c vegetable oil
2Tbsp Buttermilk (any milk)
1/2tsp Vanilla extract
3 ripe mashed Bananas
1/2c &1/3c Chopped Walnuts

Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9x5x3 loaf pan and dust with flour. Blend together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside. Mix together the egg, sugar and vegetable oil until combined. Add the flour mixture and when blended add the milk, vanilla and mashed bananas and mix until combined. Fold in 1/2c chopped walnuts and pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Top the batter with remaining 1/3c walnuts. Bake for 45 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10minutes on a wire rack before removing from pan.


starbucks banana walnut bread recipe!

I'm Online

Hello All!

We have the internet back, and what you ask have the Butlers been up to?

Well.... lets see, in March we flew down to surprise my sister for her Birthday! Some time inbetween then and now, I started working inside at the Airport, working at the ticket counter and at the Gate, letting people on and off the plane. It has been an interesting change, interesting to see how clueless some people are when they are traveling just one question... how do you not know what airline you are flying on?



April... just work and more work.

May... my mother flew up to visit for a few days and we went to Yosemite and had a blast!

Somewhere between Yosemite and Memorial day Rodney and I rented Greys Anatomy Season One with Netflix and we have been pretty much addicted to that show ever since, we are now on Season 4, we just love when netflix hits the mail box so we can see what happens in the next episode!


Rodney and I went home for Memorial day! My little nephew is getting so so big!! All of us "adult" children entertained ourselves by playing with my year old nephews water toys. Looking back it seems so silly.




Now June.. not sure what we will do this month, hopfully my sister can come up for my birthday... what? YES! MY BIRTHDAY is at the end of this month, so June is going to be really exciting! I Love my birthday, i have the day off and i am just going to enjoy it! =)



Now that we have the internet back, i will try to update more often!

thats all for now! =)

--JB