i <3 jersey

so my vacation home is going by waaaaay to fast! i'm leaving for the shore tomorrow morning and then my weekend in the cape with my lovers. crazyness. so i am loving every minute of being home. and it is weird for me to say that, haha. normally i try to spend as little as possible time at home. but i am loving the sunshine and hot weather, driving a car, rnndom american food, more than 4 tv channels, being able to easily talk to friends, seeing friends and family and just everything that i've missed that i didn't realize i missed until i was around it. so it has been a good week, not super busy, but still fun.

monday and tuesday was just random things around the house, met my mom for lunch on tuesday and went to the library to get a million books for the shore, then jerz and i spent the afternoon/evening together. it was fabulous to see her, our schedules aligned for once and we actually overlapped at home for 3 days, so we spent the evening looking at apartments and driving around new brunswick. it was fun and great to catch up on life. wednesday i drove around and ran errands, thursday i went over to my aunts/cousins's to see them. i can't belive how big the kids are. a is sooo cute and kenzie is adorable and she talks now, but she was quite shy around me, i can't believe ky is almost 10! john made me laugh, he was like so when you getting married, i was like not for a long time. he then commented i was getting old, then thought for a second - jen was pregnant at 23. i rebutted i wasn't married the day after i graduated college. it just made me laugh and be like, ahhhh. it is totally crazy how if you look at something in perspective how it changes it. to be married and expecting my first child at this time in my life, ahhhhhhhhh. i'll continue to live abroad, finishing the thesis and traveling, being a carefree 23 (ok my 23rd birthday is in 10 days) year old please.

so then friday my mom and i went to the mall. it was good, the mall made me sad because they still had mostly summer clothes, and well as much as i love them summer things, i need fall clothes, i need long pants and long sleeves, not cute sundresses. but i did get a pair of khacki's and i do need to get another pair. it was so nice to walk into a store and see clothes that i wear, i missed gap, old navy, ae, jcrew.... and then today i met with twin! YAY!! and andy. we had a good afternoon, meeting for lunch, then coming back to play in tranquility, we went on a walk, played with the wii - omg, best thing ever, soooo much fun. even though i'm pretty bad. hello- horrible hand eye cordination! then went to yetters for dinner. hopefully plans are in the works for the week i'm back. i've missed my twin, we had a lot of fun laughing at pictures from our first summer at camp and just remembering funny times.

so i should finish packing for the shore! sooo excited to lay on the beach, read some books and just relax for 5 days. then friday i'm going up to the cape to camp with my lovers, and then meeting klast in the city on monday for dinner. it is a busy next week :)

and just for laughs, here are some old pictures i've scanned.

baby erin

happy 1st birthday - i <3>

daddy's little girl - i'm about 4 here

possibly my favourite picture - i'm 3 and playing with my baby sister

kindergarten graduation with my 2 friends

4th grade halloween
first day of 7th grade and kitten max
8th grade graduationfield hockey sophomore year
skiing junior year
begining of senior year - right after knee surgery
senior prom
high school graduation with becca