Back to School! Back to School!

Yup it's here! The night before school starts... for teachers at least, (the kiddies come back next Monday!)

As I finish up the school work for the night and settle in to enjoy my last evening of the summer, I am reflecting over the last 63 days of summer vacation. I definitely had a blast visiting my family in Pennsylvania and Ohio over the last few weeks. Here is my summer in review!

My brother David is off to college at Penn State next week. Here’s a picture of me with my brothers and sisters at his going away party up in my hometown of Latrobe PA. 

 

Two weeks later my sister Breanna got married in Pittsburgh. 

And now she’s packing up to move from Pittsburgh to Oklahoma City next week! Can’t wait for my first trip out there to visit their new place!

A week later my cousin Derek got married in Ohio. 

I was helping with the sound during the ceremony so I have an aerial view of the whole thing!

I'm so happy for my sister and cousin and I can't wait to plan more of my own wedding!!

In between all the weddings and family time I got to do some touristy things up north! 

Phipps Conservatory was absolutely gorgeous. 

The conservatory had thousands of flowers and plants for our viewing pleasure!

 

And I would love to spend more time at the Cathedral of Learning at Pitt campus. It looked like real life Hogwarts and had all these fun classrooms to explore. 

And best of all I got to relax this summer and enjoy the slow paced living in Ohio where I used to spend my summers. The landscape is breathtaking and the weather is amazing there in the summer! I was actually wishing I had jeans and a sweater at one point! 

One of my favorite summer past times is watching sporting events! I happened to catch a Pirates game..

 .. and you know summer is almost over when football season starts! I am so excited to watch the Jaguars play from this spot this year

and the Steelers from my TV so I can keep up with my home team!

My favorite part of summer is getting to hang out with my fiancé and sweet doggy Leigha! Here she is looking extra comfy on one of our lazy days!

All the reminiscing has put me in a good mood and a great mindset to start back to work tomorrow! I’m excited about going back and seeing all of my coworkers and hearing about their summer vacations!

Oh and in 8 days I get to meet my next class of first graders! Yay yay yayyy!

I hope you enjoyed my casual post since the next time you read it will probably be about school stuff instead of personal stuff.