Travelin' Month

We went to NYC for the Maker Faire Sept 16-18! It was an absolute blast! The best part was seeing Siri!! I loved having pretty much three days full of Siri time! I know everyone back in Wisconsin is super jealous! Siri was a super tour guide and took us to so many wonderful, off the beaten tourist path restaurants! Matthew and Adam (and their company Wayne and Layne) exhibited at the New York City Maker Faire! They had an excellent weekend and did a great job talking about their products. The Maker Faire was a mix of a classy art fair, a state fair and a science fair for adults. I'm glad this was my first Maker Faire experience, because it was absolutely excellent
On Friday I'm headed to Washington DC to see my brother for his birthday! I'm taking the Amtrak which I'm beyond excited to do! After the excellent experience I had in NYC with the subway and buses, I'm still loving taking mass transit. It's about a 7.5 hour trip to DC which would normally take about five by car, but I don't have to worry about parking, tolls or road rage (yay!) It's going to be an action packed weekend! I'm excited!

In two weeks we're heading to Chicago for my cousin Dan's wedding! There hasn't been a Sullivan family wedding since Lauren and Greg in 2008 so I'm super excited. My parents will be there, so that's another bonus. Also, on our way back home, we're stopping in Fort Wayne to see the lovely Lauren and Greg and their incredibly cuuuute baby Norah! Well, she's almost one so I guess she's almost a toddler! I haven't seen her since she was about six weeks old and super tiny!

Making it work with Tim Gunn
Being touristy in Times Square
Happy at the end of Maker Faire!

NYC

Tomorrow Matthew and I are headed (at the ass-crack of dawn, seriously our flight is at 5:30am)to New York City for the weekend! Matthew's company (with his friend Adam), Wayne and Layne is exhibiting at the Maker Faire! I haven't been to a Maker Faire before and I'm pretty excited! I also get to see my wonderful friend Siri who has been living in NYC for the past two years. She's already helped us out by making a really sweet map of how to get to places via subway, time of travel and cool places to get food:)

Hopefully we'll see someone famous! That would make my day!

Birthday

My birthday was lovely! Thanks for all the warm wishes, cards, phone calls, and text messages! Matthew and I went out to dinner at Cafe Sam, which was excelente! I came home and talked to bestie Emma for an hour, ate cake and talked to my parents. Love it!

First Day

Today I had my first sub job of the 2011-2012! It was only a half day but it was lovely to be back working with kids and being around teachers! Here's to a wonderful school year full of sub jobs and hopefully a full-time job opportunity (keep your fingers crossed). What a great day!

Crazy Stupid Love

Tonight, Matthew and I went and saw Crazy Stupid Love with Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Julianne Moore. It was super cute!! Emma Stone, as always, is clever and charming (and gorgeous). Ryan Gosling was an excellent ladies man and him and Steve Carell had great chemistry between their characters' friendship. Kevin Bacon was in it too, which I didn't know ahead of time:)

I also saw a preview for Breaking Dawn Part 1 and was very very excited!! Hurry up November!

The Help

On my first and last day of summer, Jessi and I went and saw The Help. It was excellent! Not to mention that it was $5 ticket and free popcorn night! We will hopefully be going to more movies there in the future, especially with that price!

If you haven't read the book, read it! It's hard to stop reading because there is so much happening!

I give it 4.5 out of 5 stars:)

Summer Camp 2011 finished up last Friday! I'm full of mixed emotions about the end of camp. They're long and tiring days but it's the one part of the year where I'm in control of the situation, know all the kids names and am the one who gets to make the rules. Unlike when I'm subbing. Don't get me wrong, I love subbing, but it'd be nice to have my own classroom some day:) Camp made the summer absolutely fly by. I can't believe it's September 4th today!

This past week was equally busy! On Monday I took the day off to do stuff around the house, relax, sleep in. Enjoy my first and last day of summer:) Tuesday was training in the morning, cleaning out the church in the afternoon and a Back to School night at Sunnyside. Wednesday was training and moving everything to Sunnyside. We hit the ground running this school year and I think we will be just fine at afterschool this year. The numbers are low right not, but I'm hoping things will pick up as the year progresses. The first few days of school are always new and different.

I've got my first subbing job on Wednesday and then I'm starting at a new afterschool program in the North Hills District. It's going to be fun and interesting! I can't wait!