Merry Christmas!!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Well I don't really have any Christmas pictures to post but I just wanted to post a message of greetings to everyone, I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday! Jared and I are having a nice low key Christmas this year, our first year alone and in New York :-)

Since I don't have any holiday pictures I just want to share a few other pictures that I have wanted to post and haven't...hope you enjoy!

Our two little loves, Dexter and Izzy, they are adjusted to the city, Dex fits right in, Izzy is terrified of the outside, she hates the noise

Holiday House!
Alanna and I took a tour of the Holiday House on 63rd, it is this beautiful place and each room is designed by a different designer, it was so pretty, I loved it. I would have posted pictures but I wasn't allowed to take any so I just have pics of the outside. By the way, this house was the one used in Sex and the City the movie, the place "Big" bought for him and Carrie to live, its really amazing. I think they said this place was bought by someone in 2000 for 31.5 million.

Here are a few pictures I wanted to share of Jared's concoction, he decided one night he wanted to make himself a cake from scratch and he developed the frosting all on his own, it was very good too :-)

Thanksgiving Weekend Surprise!!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Jared and I were so excited to have my family come out for Thanksgiving. My parents and my brother Michael drove out here from Michigan. They got in about 11pm on Wednesday night and we were ambitiously going to get up to go the the Macy's parade in the morning. Well we did not quite make it before it started like we had planned but we still went and saw a few of the floats and balloons. It was fun to see all of the people out for the parade.








Well we were at the parade for a few hours, but then realized we had to make Thanksgiving dinner still so we had to get back...here is our lovely apple ginger tart coming out of the oven, yum!! Not only did we have to get back for dinner, but we had another little surprise in store...


Jared and I decided to fly my brother Daniel in from San Francisco for Thanksgiving, my parents thought he was spending thanksgiving by himself there, and he played it that way. We told my parents that Jared had invited a friend to dinner that was unable to go home for the holiday, they bought it of course because its something Jared would actually do. About 5:30 Jared says that his friend is on his way over (aka Daniel is on his way from the airport). There is a knock on the door and quess what!! ITS DANIEL!!

The look on my dads face in this picture says it all, they had no idea, it was a complete surprise, SUCCESS!


Check out this video of the surprise!

Mom, Daniel and Dad after surprise arrival!

The day after thanksgiving I had to work of course so Jared took everyone to this lovely garden that he had heard about, I am sure its even better when everything is in bloom

They all came and picked me up from work around 2:00pm and then we had set up to go on the Circle Line cruise around half of Manhattan, Jared and I went before and thought it was great so we took everyone, it was a little cold but still really nice and cool to see.

After the cruise we walked over to times square, its something that everyone must see, although it is always way too crazy

We also took a walk over to Rockefeller Center to see the Christmas tree even though it was not lit yet, the tree lighting was the week after they left :-(

We walked down 5th ave also and checked out all of the holiday windows! Bergdorf was my favorite, they were so elaborate and beautiful!

Our weekend in Connecticut!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

We had the pleasure of spending the weekend in Connecticut. We went with our friends to Alex's parents house, it was such a nice getaway from the city. We spent the weekend relaxing and just enjoying the quiet. We made some really great food, had a nice soak in the hot tub, and the last day was really nice so we went on a little nature hike, it was beautiful. Thank you to Alex & Alanna for hosting this weekend and Alex's family for opening their doors for us, we had a really great time!

This was our first adventure of the weekend, we went to the local apple orchard, it was so cute and fun!

Which apples to buy....

From left to right: Zai, Alanna, Alex and Danny in front of the Apple Barn!

Jared making his perfected pancake recipe

Jared in his element, he was so excited he found a fishing pole!

We walked over to a large pond, of course Jared threw a few casts.

Oh look!! he caught one on his second cast!!

I got eaten by a picker bush, it grabbed my pants and my scarf.

Me, Jared, Jon and Katie in the middle of these very tall trees.

I am very intensely looking for pretty leaves to craft with.

We are all trekking our way back to the house, what a fun little walk we had out in the woods!