It's New York City Baby...

WARNING: This is a really long blog!!

Okay, so Ty has had this whole week off, which I am loving...except that it is cramping my blogging style! We are just having so much fun, there isn't time for blogging. (Ty, you know I am kidding and would love for you ditch work everyday :) )

So anyway, here is an attempt to catch up...

Yes, we are officially moving, just to Santa Clara which is in our old ward. We are really excited because it is a nice neighborhood and we will actually have MORE room than we need...is that possible out here, or have our views just been altered? For those of you who know, we are moving into Annie's house, who we will miss as she moves to Utah to buy a house and have a wonderful life.

And now for the AMAZING NYC Trip...

So all my siblings, except Lisa because of 2 week old Elsa, and my parents met my sister that lives in Prague in New York for a wonderful week. I am now going to try to pack all of our activities into this, oh so small blog!!

We flew on the red eye flight, which was wonderful with a 4 month old...yeah, not so much. He was good, I just didn't sleep! Oh well. We threw our bags in our hotel, and headed out to get breakfast at Norma's. Thanks for the suggestions Chels it was AWESOME!! So those of you that know me well, mostly those that have lived with me before know that I could eat cookies or cake, or whatever dessert we have for breakfast. Well that is exactly what I had at Norma's. Chocolate Decadence French Toast! It was French Toast made out of chocolate bread with strawberries and pistacios on top...and a little chocolate dizzled on top. It was amazing. My sis took a picture of it so I will post it when I get it from her. Everything else looked really yummy too!! So later that day my sis, Amanda and I were able to go to the show Mary Poppins for free because of a nice lady in the airport that caught an early flight so she gave her tickets to us! It was very cute, we really liked it. Then we walked around Times Square and ate dinner at a BBQ place there.

Amanda and I at Mary Poppins

Amber, me and Amanda in Times Square

Day 2: Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, my parents bought lunch for any of us that could resite what's on the Lady Liberty's tablet. My mom's grandma and grandpa came to Ellis Island so we took pictures by their names.

This was Christian 95% of the trip...he was a little angel. It was obvious that not many kids are around in NYC, he got SO much attention! And he loved it of course!

On our way home we stopped by Ground Zero, which for some reason surprised me that nothing was really there but a HUGE construction site.

So that night was Jersey Boys!!! I LOVED this show. (Disclaimer...a lot of language for those of you that might see it). The music is AWESOME. It is in San Fran right now and I am totally taking Tyler. It got over at 11pm or so, but we had all the energy in the world from the show! And Fergie was playing right next door.

I had to snap a picture of this store. Is that seriously there slogan? Clothing Bargains for Millionaires? Too funny...we didn't stop!

From here on out the days blur together so here is what we did...

The Empire State Building

My cute boy and his new shoes!

About to head across the Brooklyn Bridge

Christian and me at Grimaldi's Pizza in Brooklyn.

At church/ the Temple

Central Park

Amanda and me at WICKED!!! LOVED IT! I am driving Tyler crazy with the music now!

Christian loved his uncle Jake by the end of the trip

Serendipity then down the street to Patsy's for lunch. Then to a cute little childrens store where we picked up this cute outfit for Ava...that she literally puts on EVERY single day!!!

A few things I forgot...Les Miserables, "The March" (a gay parade) we sure did get more than we wanted that day! Walking around SoHo, Fifth Avenue and just enjoying being in the big city. We had a blast! Thanks sisters, mom, dad and jake! :) It was a trip to remember. If you can think of something significant that I missed, let me know.

Okay so believe it or not there are more pics on our smugmug site...if you can handle more NYC go ahead and check them out.

Family Pictures

So while we were in Utah we had Haley take some family pictures for us. She did a fabulous job...as usual. You should all check out her blog and her site. These are a few of my favorite pics. Thanks Haley, it was a pleasure, as always.

Haley made the slight mistake of mentioning "boogies". Ava knew just what to do. I love this picture though!





Okay, so I loved them all. The rest of the pictures from the shoot are on our smugmug site. Feel free to check them out.

Month in Review

Sorry it has taken me so long to post, but my internet was down the last few days. I never realized how dependant I am on the internet! I can't even look up a phone number without it anymore. Remember life without...hardly!

Anyhoo, lots to post!!! So we left California on June 1st, which was Ty's birthday and headed for Utah where we had lots of fun. I was there alone with my kiddos, then Ty came in for a week, then I flew with my family to NYC and Ty went back to work. So here is a little review with pictures!

Happy Birthday Ty!! Don't worry we celebrated the night before without the kids, but forgot to take pictures. So we relived it that morning with birthday muffins! :)



The next few pics (that I stole from Nat's blog :) ) are from our little friends BBQ up the canyon. Nat you conveniently left out a pic of you guys!! It was so much fun and I am so glad that we got to see everyone a few times while I was there.

The big birthday girl!

Jesse and Marty...congrats on the little boy...we better be seeing a blog from you in the near future! ;)

Me, Chels and Ava and her boyfriend! I think they are pretty cute together what do you think?

Josh and Mer

Hayley and Grant

Don't I have cute friends...love you guys!!

Remember when he had hair?!

Cute Sammy and Kimball!

Ava had so much fun with all her cousins and has already asked for all them at least once since we have been back!

Every time we left my mom's house and walked past the car in the garage Ava would ask, "I go for ride grandma?" So my mom finally took her and when they got back all she could say was, "That was SO fun!"

Baby Elsa was born!! It is amazing to see the difference 3 1/2 months can make in baby time! They are only in that sweet little peanut stage for a short time! Obviously my porker is already out of it!

Auntie Joce took us all to the zoo! It was so fun. Ava loved the Choo-choo and she saw all of her favorite animals. In case you didn't know the picture above is what the giraffe says! It has been one of Ava's fav's for a long time!

Christian sat up so well in his high chair, he looked like such a big boy. He also started rolling over while we were in Utah!

Auntie Joce had us all over to her new house to have a BBQ for Papa Jim's big 60th!! Wahoo, happy birthday papa Jim!

Thanks to everyone for all the fun we had in Utah and Bear Lake! We miss you all already!