Working for the Weekends

Apparently I am in the habit now of blogging about things a week after they happen. What can I do? The weeks are pretty busy now!

Last weekend we had probably one of the most touristy/ sight seeing weekends we have ever had living here in Chicago.

Saturday night we went to the Bear's pre-season game vs. the Buffalo Bills. Alex's good friend Lucas got 4 tickets from his boss and he generously offered two of those to Alex and I. So, it was me and the boys at the Bear's game. No complaints here... it was a blast!!

Sunday, my parents came in to town to visit. We all went out to breakfast at a restaurant called Yolk near our apartment. This place was AWESOME! Great food, big portions, and well priced! We will definitely be going back! After breakfast we walked down to Michigan Avenue to buy tickets to go on an architecture boat tour on the Chicago River. This is something I have been wanting to do for awhile now, and I am so glad we did. It was AWESOME as well! I highly recommend this to anyone visiting the city. It was $26 a person (maybe a little pricey, but the original one I looked at was $35, so I was happier with this price). The tour guide was entertaining and gave us a lot of info about the city. The tour was 75 minutes, and you go north and south on the river, then they take you out toward Lake Michigan where the river basically begins. Below are a bunch of pictures from the day.

Marilyn has a new home on Michigan Avenue now.

Trump Tower from the river below.

Willis (Sears Tower)

Dad, Mom, and I

Alex and his in-laws

Skyline view

Mom and Dad

Great weekend! This weekend won't be as exciting... tomorrow I am doing a few home visits with my student's families and that pretty much sums up all of my plans. This weekend is the air and water show, so we may catch a glimpse of that.

Our Anniversary

I'm a little late on this, but its been a busy week.

Last Sunday was our first anniversary. We went out to dinner the Friday before to a little Italian restaurant on Wells St. near our apartment. Then we spent our anniversary weekend on the road to Southern Indiana (near Cincinnati) to go to my friend from college, Sarah's wedding.

We had a great time at the wedding and it definitely brought back a lot of wedding memories for us.

Here are some pictures of our day a year ago...

I tried uploading more, but blogger was giving me a hard time!

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Now, I'm back at school and have survived my first week of classes. I have 31 students (will most likely get one more in the next few weeks) and I am teaching second grade again now for the third year. Its hard to believe this is the start of my fourth year of teaching! I remember being soooo nervous for my first year, and I still get "The First Day Jitters" some, but I definitely feel more comfortable. Because we have switched to the year round schedule, I will get a week off in October, 3 weeks at Christmas, and 2 weeks for Spring Break. It will be nice when those dates come around.

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Some exciting news was shared with us last weekend as well, my brother Ryan proposed to his girlfriend of 3 years Shannon! We are sooo excited! Alex and I got the call from them on Sunday and it was Shannon's two kids, Hunter and Kirsten and they were calling me Aunt Jackie... they've never done this before so I was a little confused. Then Shannon finally got on the phone and told us the news! No plans are set in stone yet, but we are very excited for this event and to add a few more to the Slucter name!

That's all for now. I'm sitting around hoping that the sun comes out so I can go up and enjoy the pool while Alex is out golfing with Fife. Why does it have to rain on my weekends??!! Boo!

Have a great week!