Friday, July 31, 2009

NYC baby!

We had just gotten out of the van that took us to our hotel in Time Square. Had to capture the moment.

Times Square right outside our hotel.

Below are several pics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was the first place we went and I've wanted to go there forever. Could have spent days in that place. Couldn't believe I was actually seeing the paintings I had spent many hours studying through college.













We decided to do a rickshaw ride around Central Park. It was HUGE! We didn't get to see all of it, but loved everything we saw. Could have spent days there too. Can I just buy a huge piece of land and have it be like Central Park in my backyard? Is that too much to ask?

Jess' dad was having a little too much fun. :)

The FRIENDS fountain!





Jess, me and her mom at the Top of the Rock(efeller). We had just finished seeing Jersey Boys as you can tell by my playbill. LOVED IT! Some crude language, but the music was great. Totally forgot that Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons sang so many great songs.

Times Square at night.

Times Square at night again. It was probably about midnight and the place is still jumping. We were exhausted and went to sleep, but in the morning...

...we saw Tom! Tom is one of our oldest and best friends. We were roommates in college and he's currently a chef in NYC.

The flat iron building

Empire State Building

Madison Square Garden

Wall Street

New York Stock Exchange

Rockafeller Plaza

The U.N.

Chrysler Building (one of my favorites).

Lady Liberty. She a good looking lady.

She's even better looking at night. Since she wears a gown and it's at night, does this mean she's in her nightgown? Oh my. I'm a bit embarrassed now that I took a pic of her. This was taken on our dinner cruise one night. It was awesome. I thought I had more pics, but the boat had an all glass, dome shaped ceiling so that it felt like you were just sitting on a big open boat, but you were covered. It was nice since it rained just a little while on the cruise. The food was great also.

The Empire State Building and Chrysler building. Sorry the pics aren't the best. We need a new camera.



I could totally take Yao.

Since I'm such a kid at heart we HAD to go to F.A.O. Schwartz while in NYC. It wasn't like I thought it would be. I remember it differently in movies so I was a little disappointed, but it was still amazing. On the other hand, the Apple store was right outside and it was AWESOME! Can't believe we don't have a pic of it. Wait, I'm getting one from the internet and putting it on here.

Darth Lego

Yep, we played chopsticks.



Jelly Belly toy soldier.

The oustide of the Apple store at night. It's a huge glass box that you walk into and then go down a glass spiral staircase.



The spiral staircase and inside of the Apple store. It was actually pretty crowded and had tons of tables with Apple products on all of them for you to test out and play with. It really was MY candy store.





Randomness Spring09

This will be one of the few posts I do to just catch up on random events or pictures in our lives that don't really go with anything else. This is what you have to do when you're about 4 months behind.

Yep. She makes her daddy very proud. Found her like this one morning. Brought a tear to my eye.

Kaylee was so excited to take her school to lunch to practice for 1st grade next year. She can't wait to be able to eat in the cafeteria and is especially looking forward to Wednesdays. That's pizza day.



Yep, those are our boys. As you saw before, Kaylee can have a basketball in her bed and sleep sound enough that it stays next to her and she even stays covered up. She's just a peaceful sleeper. The boys on the other hand.....well, you can see for yourself. You can basically expect them to be in some weird position every night. I even walked into their room one night to check on Carter and Austin fell out of his bed while I was in the room. He slowly crawled back up (barely) and went back to sleep. Kind of like it was a nightly routine. Who knows. Maybe it is!

I got Jess 6 dozen roses for Mother's Day this year. One dozen for every year she's been a mom. Kaylee helped with a picture and a piece of paper in front of each vase. She thought it looked nice.





Just showing I still have it in me to blow out 33 candles at once!

Kaylee is a great helper at cleaning and organizing things.

Carter was Austin's shadow while they helped us clean the house.

Once again, Carter is Austin's shadow.

This isn't just for people to see us, but more to see what's going on behind us. We didn't know until we looked at the picture. Little booger picker!

Carter found a microphone and decided to entertain us....for the next week.

Austin has become very independent and loves when it's time to brush his teeth. He actually probably brushes them better than the other two.