I've kinda been slow at getting caught up on our blog. This past week has been rough as I un-spoil my boys after a week with grandmas! But now things are pretty much back to normal. The reason we went to New York is because Abe had to do some more training for his job with Pfizer. They train in White Plains, which just happens to be only 10 minutes from where my sister Amy, and her husband LaMar live. So I decided to tag along this time. We drove to Utah to drop the boys off at grandma's, then flew to New York on the worst airline EVER--Northwest! Never, ever, ever will we fly on Northwest again! But that's a story for another day...
It was a really relaxing trip. And the weather was amazingly perfect the whole week--a cool 70 degrees every day. Amy and I (and usually LaMar too!) just hung out, doing our cross-stitching, or doing some shopping in White Plains, or whatever. It was great! Abe and I also went into the city on one day and hung out. And I also got to meet up with a bunch of friends from when I was a nanny out there. It's actually quite amazing that we all were able to meet up for dinner that night! But it was a lot of fun! We also bought some more baby turtles down in Chinatown (Toby passed away unfortunately while we were gone...a moment of silence, please.) All in all, I'm so glad I got to go. I haven't been there since I lived there almost 6 years ago.
This is LaMar and Amy.
The statue by Rockafeller Center.
Us, standing in front of the skating rink at Rockafeller Plaza.
My nanny friend, Amanda and her boyfriend, Azam. Sorry, there were a bunch of other pictures I took of everyone else who was there, but this is the only one that didn't turn out fuzzy and out of focus (probably 'cause they were sitting right across from me.)
We're at this pizza restaurant called Lombardi's down on Spring St. in Little Italy area. We saw this place on a show on the Discovery Channel and had to check it out. It is the first pizza restaurant ever to open in America (1905). This is the original oven. Very good pizza!
Logan is Curious George this year (again). Isn't he the cutest monkey ever?!
And if you couldn't tell, Jake is Spiderman.
This is the best part of the costume...his buns! Yup, no padding there!
It's been a busy week, so last night we finally carved a pumpkin. Jake did the ears...
