Its Friday again, my favorite day of the week. I love the feeling of having the whole weekend ahead of me. On Fridays I usually feel so exhausted from the week, so I spend the whole evening just hanging around the apt. I love this! Its not something I get to experience much during the school year.

School is going well this year, busy and always stressful, but I am beginning to feel more comfortable with things. I have more confidence in what I am doing and enjoying the ability to think a little more outside of the box. I also don't feel nearly as overwhelmed as I have the past two years. Part of it being because this is my second year in the same grade level and my school no longer requires us to do an after school program. Which means I have more time for planning, grading, and all of the other millions of things we teachers do.

Halloween is fast approaching. I miss not being able to have trick-or-treaters come and ring the doorbell. I always liked passing out the candy (and even more receiving it, but that ship sailed a while ago). We get to dress up at school though on Friday, which is always really fun. I am going as Pippi Longstocking. I've always wanted to be her and I started reading it to my kids, so it works out well. I'm keeping it a secret from them, I think they'll be pretty excited. :) I got the red braided wig with wires and all! Hopefully it turns out good, I'll post pictures.

Alex gets sworn in on November 4, so he will officially be a licensed lawyer. I took that day off of work to attend the ceremony. His mom and grandpa are coming up for the event as well. He's busy applying to jobs! He's had two interviews so far, and he just received an e-mail for a second interview with a firm next week. We're very excited!!

We're also really looking forward to a trip we just booked to NYC over New Year's. Not to see the ball drop, but to spend time with my good friend Meredith (who lives in CT) and Miles (our friend from high school). We're going to see a concert with them on NYE in the city, and spending two days in the city. Alex has never been, and I've only been once for an over night trip with Meredith and my cousin Adriane, who lives in the city. I'm really excited to go back and hopefully see a lot more of the sights. We booked our hotel and flight, so we're ready! Thank you reward points because one of our flights was practically free.

Enjoy the last few days of October. I can't believe how fast this month has gone! Turkey Day will be here before we know it!

Happy Halloween!!

Oh My!

How did I let this poor blog go neglected for soooo long! Yikes!

Well, life is definitely busy again (hence the reason why I haven't blogged). School is obviously back in session, so there goes 95% of my time. Plus, it seems like we have had something going on each weekend. Lots of visitors lately and to come- which we love and are super excited about! At this moment we are waiting for the Standefords to arrive for the weekend. We are going to the Purdue/ Northwestern game tomorrow night with them, and just hanging out and spending the weekend together. We haven't seen them since the wedding, so this is a long over due visit.

Last weekend Alex's buddies were in town, so we had an apartment full! Then.... at the end of the month Brandy and Kyle are spending the weekend up here. Kyle hasn't been up here since 5th grade, so this visit is long over due as well. haha

In other news, Alex finally received his Bar results. After a loooooong day of extreme nervousness he found out that......... HE PASSED!!!! WAHOO!!!! He was sooooo relieved. I have never seen him so worked up about something, and he was a mess! Which I don't blame him b/c I would have been much worse, but it was interesting to see him like this. Generally, he is the calm one out of the two of us. haha So, now the fun task of finding a job comes. Wish us luck!

That's about all for now. Hopefully it won't be a month and a half before I update again.

We have furniture!

Yay!!!!

Our furniture was delivered on Friday, and we love it!! After a slight ordeal (oil/ grease from the elevator dripped on one piece, so we sent it back w/ the delivery guys, and then we decided we like the furniture how it is w/o that one piece so... we just returned it and got some money back- all in all a blessing in disguise) So now, its all in place.

On our way back up to Schaumburg (to get our money back from the couch piece) we stopped at Super Dawg for lunch. Its similar to Dog N' Suds in L-town, except this place is obviously known for its Chicago style hotdogs. We saw it on Rachel Ray and since we knew we were going in that direction anyways, we decided to stop. Plus... I wanted to see the giant hotdogs on the roof in person! :)

Mom and Dad came up for a visit today b/c they haven't seen our new apartment yet. We had lunch with them and walked around for a bit. They did us a huge favor by bringing up Kelsi's old couch, that I am going to put in my classroom, and taking back the futon so Kelsi can use it in her next place. Enjoy it Kels!!

I go back to school tomorrow for teacher days... so this is officially my last day of summer. :( I hope all of my teacher friends out there had a great start to their school year, I can' t wait to hear all about it!

More Costa Pics

This is the link to the rest of our Costa Rican pictures. Our furniture is here and in place. I will post pictures soon!

http://gallery.me.com/alexdimitt

p.s. The pictures are in reverse order- sorry!