oh hi

oh hi. february is almost over and well i've been a bit busy. and well i haven't been on my computer much and i hate blogging from my phone.

so the last few weeks via pictures.

went into nyc for the super bowl to see two of my good friends from hs. we had a great night watching football and chatting about life and such. plus i drove into manhattan for the first time ever! 

i'm a very active sorority alumna both in nj & sc. i used to be a membership advisor for a collegiate chapter in nj but when i moved i resigned, but i went to help a few nights for their recruitment and had a great time! 

 

went to boston (well outside boston) to work a conference. it was a fun weekend. 6/7th graders are pretty funny and i was working with some great people. 

and i was able to see another great friend from hs who i worked with at summer camps and lives in boston. we went to dinner when i arrived on wednesday for tapas & sangria. it was delish and i haven't had good spanish food since the summer in dc. 

my work trip to boston had to end short though - my great grandmother (nanny) died and i missed the last day of the conference for work. she was 98 and had lived a great life. she had 3 children, 10 grandchildren, i'm 1 of 20 great grandchildren and 3 great-great grandchildren. sadly she was the last of my great grandparents. i knew 3 of my great grandparents all on my father's side, with her husband dying my freshman year of hs, my other great grandmother dying my junior year of college and her when i was 26. so i've been extremely lucky. this picture is 60 years old and is from my grandparents wedding and my nanny & poppy are shown there. 

my knee is doing well! i am 9 weeks post op today. and things are going great. my knee bends all the way, which is great and now i'm just getting my strength in my right leg back. therapy is going well and i can start jogging next week. wooooo! i'm doing all sorts of fun lunges, wall sits and such. 

so in other news i'm teaching for a few weeks in nj at the school where i used to teach. so far it has been good - interesting but good. it has been kinda weird to be back - i taught there the 09/10 year but was let go due to my position being cut due to the budget. and now i'm subbing in my old department for a few weeks. i'm enjoying my classes and i have about 15 of my old students who are now seniors which is funny and it has been great to see them. so just enjoying a few weeks of teaching and it really does make me miss teaching and having the same students. and it also has been great to see so many of my old co-workers! 

and to end it - this story came out of my undergrad last week and when i first read it i was so proud of washington college and to be an athlete there. it is an incredible story of sportsmanship by our basketball team and it has received a bit of national attention and a piece on it will be on next weeks (feb 25) college game day. 

happy presidents day! 

why i love my job

i've mentioned a lot how much i am loving my job. and most days i really enjoy teaching high school students. and this week has made me love my school and teaching and my students (well most of them). so my school has a pretty good media program and they televise the morning announcements and every morning between the warning bell and start of school they play a song over the loudspeaker and have some random phrase on the tv. usually the phrase is like wacky wednesday! or TGIF... well last week was the week of john mayer and it put me in a good mood and on tuesday they played "crazy game of poker" by OAR and hearing that just brought me back to freshman year of college. and to make the morning even better on the screen it said - GTL baby, gym. tanning. laundry. now for those of you unaware it was a line from jersey shore. and i burst out laughing when i saw this and then my students discussed the show during homeroom. soooo today it said - it's thursday which means jersey shore! and well i just laughed. and then during announcements they were reading something for ski and on accident they said mr. mylastname instead of miss. so of course my students called me mr. allll first period. but i also found it pretty amusing too, so i couldn't blame them.
and my juniors today both first period and later in the day remind me almost everyday why i love teaching. they are fun, are actively learning and are relatively problem free. unlike my sophomores... which are another whole story. my 9th period class welllll frustrated me beyond belief today and they reminded me that your average high school student is lazy and no matter how many times you stress accountability and practically give them the assignment they still won't do it and then give you some great excuses as to why it isn't done. buuuuut i love teaching despite the redic high schoolers sometimes.

and skiing is going well. our first meet was last night and my skiers did well. they placed ok and we didn't come in last, and they all individually skied well and now they are more ready for next week. and it was weird, but i really felt like a coach yesterday. i had the 3 new kids and we were inspecting the course and as i'm explaining the gates and the best ways to attack the course it hit me, i'm a coach. and then as i was at the top before their first run and walkie talking down to coach at the bottom discussing their runs and my skiers all asking me for advice :) so i'm loving getting to see students outside of class and also getting to coach and learning a lot more about skiing.

and in random news... so i've been listening to a lot of darius rucker. he ia country artist and has had some pretty popular songs recently - alright, it won't be like this for long and (my favorite right now) history in the making. sooo i was listening to something and they were talking about his recent success and they said something about hootie and the blowfish...

yea, darius = hootie.

and it wasn't until i heard him sing, i was like omggggg. how have i not realized this before. and apparently my mom knew it when i told her, so i felt kinda stupid that i didn't know.

so here is the song i've been in LOVE with - history in the making. (i can't embed it)

and the lyrics are just increddddible.

and it is almost the weekend. i'm looking forward to it and it should be fun :)

field hockey and fall

today after school i stopped by my high school's field hockey game. the girls were playing our rival and if there are any field hockey games that are are super intense, it is when we play this team. so it was fun to go and watch! funnily enough i've never seen my field hockey team play as an alum. i was never home in the fall to be able to watch a game. and so 6 years after graduation, i went back to watch my first game, and 10 years after i first stepped on the field for my high school. so they won in a pretty awesome game. i arrived later than i had planned (i went to watch the boys soccer game at the school where i teach as a few boys asked me to go) and there was 15 minutes left. and it was still 0-0. and with about 12 minutes left, we scored our first goal, with a nice deflection, and then with about 8 minutes left, they scored an even nicer goal. so it was a well played game on both sides and just fun to watch. i also ran into a few parents of girls i played with, who haven't had daughters playing since 01 or 03, so it was awesome to see parents who love the game and the team even though it has been 8 years since their daughter played. that is why i love my field hockey team.

we have been a strong team in the area for long time, winning half of the league titles since it was started over 30 years ago, including 2 times when i played, and 5 of the last 6 years. it was awesome when i subbed at my old high school last spring to see the field hockey championship banner the only sport with 2 banners because the first one was full, and to see it from the 70s to today with strong teams. we have a saying, "tradition never graduates" and it really is true.

but the weather and the leaves changing reminded me of how fall isn't fall without field hockey. and it made me really happy.

what random things remind you of fall?

an oldie of my playing field hockey my sophomore year of high school

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

today was my last day of summer.

tomorrow morning i'm up early and i head to school!!!!

it is the new teacher orientation tuesday, wednesday and thursday.

so i am excited to get started and know more so i can work on planning more and actually knowing more about the school and policies and such. and get to see what resources i have.

yay!

good weekend :)

saturday i met my best friend from high school for lunch. we had a great time catching up, as i last saw her when i was home at christmas. and then i went down to pennsylvania to see the boy. we had a good night, but we changed our plans as the weather was completely gross and neither of us were in the mood to go out with one of our summer coworkers. but sunday was great! i met up with becca and another good high school friend for brunch, and that was also fabulous. laughing about funny times in hs and just the fact that i am now teaching high school.

becca, me and suz

and then i've just been cleaning the room (almost done!) and doing what i can on lesson plans and notes! so the next week before school starts is going to be crazy! but i am sooo excited to finally be teaching!

YAY!!

any advice for a first year teacher?

fall into the gap

so can i mention how much i love the gap?

i've been a big gap fan for a long time, especially their jeans and sweaters.

and while sometimes they can be slightly out of my budget, but sale time i always manage to do well and pick up something. and sometimes it can be hit or miss in what i like, but i love the gap.

so with everyone raaaaving about their updated jeans line and being such a gap jeans fan and realizing i only have 1 pair of jeans and getting a 25% off your purchase if you use your gap card i decided to head to the gap with my mom this evening.

and i knew i was in trouble when the biiiiig signs in the window said - buy one get one free! sweaters, tshirts and long sleeve shirts! annnnd $20 off jeans!

and their fall collection is ammmmazing!

and i am sooo excited that i was able to get 2 pairs of gap jeans for the price of 1!

yes, the amazing gap curvy jeans which i LOVE came out to be $29.50 each. i was giddy in the store when buying them. yay for $20 off each pair and then an additional 25% off! and i was having a conversation with the guy at gap about the jeans because i was saying how excited i was to be getting them for nothing, and he asked if i'd worn them before. and i said yea, i love them. and we were taking about the changes.

and theeeen i also got 2 sweaters, which i'm quite excited about. and 2 of the henleys!

so i was really excited because i spent $120 and got 2 pairs of jeans, 2 sweaters and 2 henleys.

YAY!

and i'm also reading 2 amazing books right now. the first one is a history of ellis island. and as a person who studies immigration history, my dream job would be working at ellis island and it is one of my favorite places. the book is amazing so far and it makes me want to do research and be all scholarly.

and the second is firefly lane by kristen hannah. i am a huge kristen hannah fan, and this is my favorite of all of her books. i've cried through the last half, with my mom making fun of me. but wow. it is a story of a lifelong friendship between two women and growing up, love, and life. so if you are looking for a great end of summer read, i would recommend it. it came out last summer, but as i was only in the states for a few weeks and i couldn't find her books in ireland. and i went to the library today and put a bunch of my favorite authors books on request, but of course i'm like 40+ back for the new sophie kinsella and jennifer weiner books... so we'll see, i'll probably end up buying them before my name comes up on the list.

i'm super excited to see my best friend from high school tomorrow! i haven't seen her since christmas when we met up for lunch and last summer we met up for dinner when i was home. and then i'm headed to pennsylvania to see the boy, where we might head to philly, depending on the weather...

ohhh, and thanks for all the comments about the pictures the last few posts :) it is one of the reasons why i love hiking, the gorgeous scenery! and it really isn't that bad. it might sound like a lot but 10 miles isn't bad over 5-6 hours!

anyone up to anything fun this weekend?

i'm teaching high school, i'm not the student!

so i still love the state of nj. they are making it super fun for me and my school to get my nj teaching certificate. so i had to run up my substitute teaching certificate to the school as a backup, because i probably won'y have my teaching one in time. grrrrrrrrrrrr! i love how they are so rediculous! and it wasn't like i planned on teaching in nj - i only applied to 2 schools in the state and there was no way i was paying the $190 certificate fee if i didn't have to.

and omg, was it raining today!! like from alllll night to 4pm just constant rain :(

how did i live in ireland for 2 years?

so my dad and i were running a few errands and i was driving... so we are at the drive thru at the bank. and as we are getting the envelope, she goes to me. driving with dad? did you just get your permit.... i burst out laughing and said, i'm 24. i've been driving for 8 years now.

it made both of us laugh pretty hard!

yay for being mistaken for a 16 year old, when i'm going to be teaching them in a few weeks!

and so as i've mentioned i'm in the process of cleaning out my room. and i'm a maajor saver. like i save everything. so it is quite a process and i'm trying to consolidate and not have as much stuff. so right now it looks as a tornado hit my room, but i'm doing a good job, i'm on like garbage bag 7 and 2 bags of clothes/shoes for donation. and tonight i had fun going through some stuff from college but more fun was my camp stuff.

i went to a girl scout camp for 6 summers and worked there for 3, so i have a lot of stuff. each summer i worked i had a staff manual, plus the end of the summer staff book with funny memories and camp love. plus countless song books, cookbooks and other random camp stuff. so it was fun to go through the 3 staff books and remember people and the funny stories and remember whens. i was good though, i finally got rid of the staff manuals but saved each weeks schedule and so i have a small folder for each summer. but i loved looking back and remembering. i had some of the best times of my life at camp. i made some of my best friends and camp was a huge part of who i was my jr/sr year of high school and freshman year of college. i miss singing around a campfire, waterfront hill, the craziness of the dining hall, counting trees, sitting on the porch, cookouts, nicknames, hiking, 1 &20, stargazing, homesickness, and being completely crazy. i miss camp.

backpacking summer 2002

the waterfront

the backpacking/canoeing program in 2003 - sunset over the trail

2002- 2nd year junior counselors at our campfire

but i am super excited to be camping this weekend :) the boy and i (i need to think of a better nickname) are hiking about 20 miles and enjoying the gorgeousness of the appalachian trail in new jersey!

hope everyone has a fabulous weekend :) any good plans?

fifteen

so the last two days i subbed at my high school. i was a resource room and then a gym teacher. and while i've subbed at there before, it has been a while since i subbed and the whole thing made me feel like i was 15 all over again. i last subbed there in 2007, when i had just graduated from college, so maybe the few more years out gave me a different perspective?

but it was interesting. it was great to see my favorite teachers and catch up with them. i talked for a while with me child development/cooking teacher, who i took 3 classes with and would talk with all the time in school, my favorite history teacher and biology teacher and said hi to a few other teachers i had. it is weird because most of my teacher's aren't there anymore because they have retired. my sister who is 3 years younger than i am, we only had a few teachers the same; and my little brother who is entering hs in the fall, will have even less probably!

but walking through the halls, seeing the students making out against lockers, the posters for diffeeent activities on the walls, the banners in the gym, the guy doing morning announcements... it all brought me back. it was cool to see the championship banners up in the gym and that field hockey was the only sport that had 2 because they filled the first one. and then seeing 1999,2001,2002 up on the banner the years my team won the county championship. and when i was the gym teacher and watching the kids play basketball/tennis, remembering when my friends and i had self directed tennis and we would play what we refered to as "penis tennis" where we would hold the raquet between our legs and hit the ball. or in the mornings before school when my friends and i would sit on "g level" and talk while finishing homework and talking sophomore year. or sitting in the senior lounge during lunch and talking and laughing with everyone.

so since i've been blogging since my sophomore year i've decided to share some of the random high school erin... so they are all from june, so right at the end of the year, since subbing in high school has really made me feel like i'm back in high school.

june 2001 - sophomore year.
19th-tomorrow is the last day of finals!! yippee!! i have child development and then i'm done at 10:00! i did good on my geometry final.. i got (drumroll please) 88!!! i still don't think i coulda done that well.. i got a 101 on my bio final.. there was a slight curve because i got a 96 but there was a large gap between me and the next person so she added a curve..oh well. i also got a 101 on my foods final.. there was etra credit and it was mad easy.. i like easy finals...

june 2002- junior year
14 - i went with my mom to undecorate the gym... and i was driving my new car ... i was driving around the parking lot and some guy backs into me!! i was sooooo mad.. there was no major damage and noone was hurt
but still he hit my car!! there was a a small dent on the back passenger side and the paint got a bit dumb... he said it was all his fault WHICH IT WAS! because he backed out NOT looking.. so yea...
then i went and did my english homework... i had to define 200 words that i need to know for the final. then i had to sign my name on every page in my notes to use for the final.. tomorrow is open notes voacb in class then fri during the actual final we have 200 vocab ?? not open notes and then lit with open notes.. after writing my name soo many times i was thinking i was writing it wrong.. hehe

june 2003- senior year
13 - i have a week of being in high school left!! today was the last full day of school.. and classes.. YAY!!! i don't have to go to school at all on monday.. i am exempt from history and english.. then on tuesday i'm exempt from psych but i think i need to come in for physics which is at 10.. then i have a red cross piza party after.. wed i don't have any finals.. it would be foods and gym.. but graduation practice at 1? thurs i have my bio final at 10 then graduation practice.. and then fri we just go at 8 and pretty much hang out until 10 then we have grad. practice! then i graduate at 5:30 friday night!! yay! then project graduation is going to rock! we are going to the poconos!! horray.. this next week is going to be awesome!
its kinda sad though.. like i really won't miss that many people but it will be weird because everyone is making summer plans.. but i know if i was home my summer would be super boring.. so knowing that i have camp 4 days after i graduate helps!! i can't wait.. i have SOOO much to do!! i need to pack and everything.. i am also going to WAC on monday the 23rd for registration! horray for college!! the yearbooks came out awesome!! rob wrote me a nice message :) i still need to write in his.. grr. i don't know what i want to say..

but i am glad not to be in high school any more! while it was fun and i had a good time for most of high school. i did well in my classes, liked most of my teachers. loved my sports and all the activities i did. but i don't want to go back. i would however go back to college in a heartbeat!

so i leave tomorrow for dc! i'm eaching middle school and then i'm off. i still need to finish packing. i wanted to leave directly from school but i'm nowhere near packed yet. i'm getting excited and i can't wait to meet everyone and get started!

how was everyone else's high school experience? what is your favorite memory from high school?



powder puff - junior year senior year at a track meet

back to ireland

So my vacation is officially over. I am sitting in Newark airport waiting for my flight to Heathrow. I still have about an hour before we start boarding and then another hour before our scheduled departure at 9pm. The lines weren’t too bad, I had no wait dropping off my bags and security took the average 30 minutes or so. Which in Newark is not too bad. My plane just pulled up to the gate, so the flight I took over here that arrives at 7 just came in slightly late. I just love airports. They are just so interesting and really run like mini cities. I can people watch all day, I would love to be more talkative and just ask people where they are going. The few people who were around in security were interesting a middle-aged British couple who were here on vacation and recently bought a sailboat in Conn and were testing it out. The man behind me was going to Sri Lanka for 2 weeks to see his wife and children who’ve been over there for a few weeks on holiday. I just think it is sooo awesome. Anyway, I love people watching.

So the last few days at home were fabulous :) It was great to see twin and db on Friday evening. It was fun pretending like we were 16 and on our night off. I can’t believe the last time I saw Gina I was heading to Ireland the first time, pretty much three years ago. Crazy how we have not seen each other. I’ve known Gina since summer 1999. So that was a great night, just catching up on life and reminiscing about camp. Saturday during the day Becca and I met up for our windows down, Madonna blasting reunion. We had a great time catching up with stories from Law School and Ireland. We went to lunch, and then went to Target. It was great singing Madonna :) Then my sister and grandparents were over for dinner, it was good. Then I met up with Suz and Cate at Chili’s and had a great mini-HS reunion. It was good to hear what they and other friends were up to as well as all the great gossip! And there was some fabulous HS gossip about a few people. So that was fun.

Sunday I went over to my Uncle’s and he wasn’t there at first, so I talked to Oma until they arrived. It was good to see Scottie/Barb and the kids. The twins are still adorable as ever, I had Daniel most of the day. I also saw a family friend whose known me since I was about five and haven’t seen since I was 18. It was good to see everyone there and it was a gorgeous day! Then the little bro was headed to camp! This was super exciting, since I went when I was 10 (even though I started asking when I was like 8 to go), Kel’s first summer was when she was 7 (and she cried for the 3 days she was there, and waited 2 more years to go back). So I was super excited he was finally getting to go and get the experience. So I went with the parents to drop him off, he is going to a Ycamp and it is co-ed and it seemed nice. Totally different from Hoover, 12 boys/2 counselors to cabin for the 2 weeks. I always wanted to do one like that. So hopefully he has a great time. It totally made me miss camp! After we dropped him off we went to Outback for dinner, I got my pomegranate margarita :) Which was fabulous. That is what I am going to miss, the cheap drink. Oh well.

Today I was up early to take my Mom to work, then I came home and finished packing. I went on a major food buying spree and bought a bunch of food and that is most of what I am bringing over. The pile of clothes and such was so small. I am still not looking forward to moving at the end of the month, I still have so much even though I home a ton of stuff. How did I acquire so much stuff!! Oh well.

So my trip home has been fabulous. I had an amazing time visiting friends and family. I really got to see most of my friends, which was pretty awesome. I took advantage of all the food and everything I’ve missed. I will really miss driving though, that is my favourite. So I’m back to the ususal work/thesis routine. I can do it for 2 more months. I’ll give myself a few days once I get back, and by this weekend I want to be working on the thesis again. My goal is to have 3/4/intro/conclusion done in 2 weeks. So 5000 words in 2 weeks. And then I’ll start on the editing. My goal is to have it done around the 15th of September and then I’ll do all the little proofreading, nit-picky stuff. I want it bound about a week before I have to hand it in.

So I’m about to board in a bit, so next time I’ll be back in Cork!

already august?

i can't believe it is already august. gah, where is time going? it has been a good last week in the states. tuesday night i went to dinner with my parents, then on wednesday - my birthday i didn't really do much, so it was a nice relaxing day :) my mom and i took clyde the silly kitten to the vet where he did break his paw and now he has a big blue cast. i think it is pretty funny :) but i do feel bad for him because all he wants to do it go outside, but we aren't letting him. after that my sister called and since it was her night off, her and ryan were going to the mall so she invited me because she felt sorry for me. haha. it was fun though :)

thursday i was busy and took my mom to work so i could have her car, where i went to walmart and then the other mall to get things i want for ireland. i mostly got makeup and other things that i can't get in ireland that i like. then i went to old navy and got a few things and then i was a good daughter and brought my mom lunch and we ate at work. so then i went to the mall to get perfume - it is sooo expensive in ireland and i also went to hallmark to stock up on some cute cards. i also treated myself to coldstone ice cream :) soooo yummmmy! then it was time to head to the grocery store to stock up on peanut butter, mac&cheese, goldfish, sweedish fish (it is serious thesis time) and a few other foods i want. the way i see it is i have 2 almost empty suitcases so might as well bring back some food :) then i went and had dinner at my aunts and it was a good evening. it was good to see the kids, they were so excited about their weekend in boston and it was nice to talk to my aunt and cousin. so that was a fun evening.

i can't believe it is friday and i go back on monday. i need to start thinking about packing. it will be nice to be back in ireland but i am going to miss the warm weather and sunshine, being in the same time zone, easy phone calls and driving. the only thing i am not looking forward to is getting back working on the thesis, gah. but only 2 more months, and i'm almost 3/4 written with my adviser liking both of the chapter's he has read. so i'm in the home stretch now. i can do it! (and having 3 huge bags of sour patch kids will help!)

tonight i am meeting up with twin and hopefully db? the last time i saw db was summer 2005, right before i was headed to ireland the first time. tomorrow is an afternoon with becca :) blasting the madonna, windows down and singing loudly! then dinner with the fam, then going out to meet a few high school friends. it should be interesting as i haven't seen these girls since 2005? i think it was right after i got home from ireland last time? sunday is seeing my uncle and the twins, then taking michael to camp!! yay! the little bro is finally going to camp! and then out with my parents. so many things in so little time!

oh! and i am soo excited by this! my old pen pal holly and i are back in contact! we lost touch around jr/senior year of college and she no longer has facebook, so i would send her emails to the last known email address i had and earlier this week i had a gchat request from her! and we've emailed a few times and i've already written her a real letter. sooo excited to be back in touch with her, because i have a huge shoebox full of letters from her and it was fabulous getting to finally meet her summer of 2004. so YAY!

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