are you ready for some football?

so it was a football filled weekend :)

saturday my parents, sister and i went up to west point to cheer on army as they played vanderbilt. it was a fun day and gorgeous! army won 16-13 in overtime and the second half of the game was exciting! even though i kept saying go navy! i blame my roomie and going to college in maryland for that! and it seemed like the whole day was the family makes fun of erin day, but it was still amusing! i think a highlight was on the way home my mom, sister and i rocking out to t.swift's you belong with me and my dad was like seriously... this isn't happening.

go army!

the classic fishy face with my sister

me, my sister and mom

and sunday was a day with my zeta's! october is our big month as our main philanthropy is susan g. komen for the cure. so all of our college chapters and many of our alumni chapters do fundraising efforts in october. we used to do a mr. zeta pagent and a battle of the bands - mammojam when i was in college. so one of our big partners is the nfl. there are 22 nfl teams signed up to "think pink" and yesterday i was able to go to the new york giants game and help raise over $28,000! it was awesome and so much fun to see 5 of the local college chapters helping out and a few of the alum were on the field right before the game for the national anthem, but i was helping to collect and count the money from the collegians. it reminded me of working in ireland, counting that much money! but it was a fun day with sisters and so great to be able to raise so much money for a great cause!

and school is going well. i'm really excited about US 2 for the next few weeks. we are starting to look at world war II. and this week is the lead up to the war and everything in europe. so i'm excited to be talking about 1930s germany, italy and russia. but i think what i am really excited about is what is happening in spain with the spanish civil war. i'm doing an art history lesson using picasso's guernica to talk about spain. picasso is one of my favorite artists and after studying guernica in spanish and history classes, seeing it for the first time last january when amy and i were in madrid, was unbelievable. it is gigantic (11'x26') and just so detailed, i loved seeing all the sketches and all the work picasso put into it. i like trying to incorporate literature and art into history, so hopefully my students will like it. i'm just really happy at school and in the classroom. and my mentor teacher is amazing. i came in this morning to a card and an adorable pair of earrings on my desk, just saying you are doing an amazing job and you made it through your first month!

i can't believe i am up this late on a school night. i'm watching the jets-giants monday night game and it is just crazy. we keep bouncing back and forth with who is winning, so i'm like must watch game.

ohhh! and tomorrow i'm headed to a college fair in the area to promote my undergraduate university! i am quite excited and can't wait to talk about it! plus a girl i know from wac works in admissions at a local college and we are meeting up for dinner before and i'm also seeing her in the morning, as she is going to be at my high school!

andddddddddddd it wasn't even worth it, as with 10 seconds left the dolphins score. so the jets loose 31-27. ahhhhhhh! and it is now 11.50... uugh!