Team Thomas in New York: October 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Jared and I have been together for a long time, but 3 years ago today we vowed to make it forever. I thought I would share a few pictures of our years together...

I think this was one of the first times Jared came over to my
parents house and we actually made dinner together this night

We took a little trip with my family up north (in Michigan)
and Jared was fishing of course :-)

This was one of those hard mornings where
Jared was leaving for his baseball season,
Dexter and I were always sad :-(

My birthday one year in Arizona for Spring Training
I'm pretty sure this was my first sushi experience, yum!

The pillow he had made for his proposal

The proposal Christmas morning, we are not fancy people :-)
Proposing in pjs!

Our engagement party

Our special wedding day
October 28th 2006

Mr. and Mrs. Jared Thomas!!

Happy Anniversay Jared
I love you!!

For those that may have not heard, I was rehired at Bloomingdales in May after being laid off in January. I am still in visual but not in the same position. When I first started I was doing visual for the furniture floor and now I am doing window display for the windows all around the building. The windows are changing all the time, we change something every week! I wanted to just post a few pics of a window display we did a few weeks back for Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams new bedding line. I really liked doing this window of course because of my background in home furnishings :-) It was a really long setup, it took about 5 days to complete. I had fun though, and as we were setting up some of the last things Mitchell and Bob showed up outside the windows to give us a thumbs up! The christmas windows are always the big deal of the year, and we start those in about a week or so and I hear it is crazy...I will let you know how that goes.

Alex and Alanna's book release!!!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

I know I have mentioned before that our friends Alex and Alanna write a food blog, Two Fat Als, well they now have a cookbook that was just released in September! We are so excited for them, how fun to have a published cookbook!

They had a book release party in the city that we attended, unfortunately I didn't take any pictures, but it was a lot of fun. Then we traveled with them to Alex's house in Connecticut for a book release there. This is our second time to Connecticut and its always so peaceful and a nice change of pace from the city, it actually kinda reminds me of home :-)

Here I am helping out with the book selling table,
I think they actually sold out of the books they had to sell this day!

Alex and Alanna signing away...

What a cute pic, Alex and Alanna with their book :-)
The Frugal Foodie

One Saturday in September Jared went to the Union Square Farmers Market to help Alex and Alanna with a cooking demo they were doing, how fun! I had to work so I couldn't go, but I heard they had a pretty good crowd of people that came by to observe and of course taste!

Dinner with friends

Jared and I invited our friends over for a last summer get together before school started and their crazy second year began! It was really nice to have everyone over, we had a really nice time.

Wow Danny, you made friends with Dexter, that is impressive :-)

Moms Birthday in New York!

This year my moms birthday wish was to have dinner in NYC, so she, my dad and my two brothers drove out the morning of her birthday which was August 22nd. Unfortunately I realized when I decided I wanted to do a post about their visit that I really do not have many pictures :-( I will post the few I have though. Its always nice to have the family come out for a visit, Jared and I really enjoy the times with family since we do not get to see everyone as much as we would like to.

This was the first night we went out for moms birthday,
its one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, El Paso Taqueria,
just down the street from our apartment.

I don't remember what day this was but we all took a trip to
Brooklyn to go to a restaurant that was highly recommended
by our friends Jon and Katie. It is called Buttermilk Channel,
and it was really really good :-)

My dad, Michael and Daniel went with Jared to the MET,
this was an installation on the roof, looks cool.
My mom and I did some walking and shopping
around town while the boys were here.

Jon and Katie's Wedding!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

We were so excited that we were invited to share in such a special day with our friends Jon and Katie. They were married on July 24th in the city and it was such a lovely event. This of course I have a lot of pictures from. We really enjoyed ourselves and thank Jon and Katie again for inviting us, our first New York wedding!!

The Church was so pretty

They rented a big city bus tour bus to transport guests from
the church to the reception!

How cute is the old taxi with "Just Married" in the back window!

We were lucky enough to get a seat on the roof of the bus,
this is the view on the front of the church from the roof.

We were holding up traffic waiting to load everyone on

Turning onto Broadway...

Jared and Alex on the roof of the bus, we actually
had to duck from some tree branches :-)

Alanna and I on the roof

This was our little group once we got to the reception out front,
it was held at Tribeca Rooftop

They had lots of passed hors de ordervs, food stations and a cocktail bar
set up on the rooftop of the reception area, it was quite a feast
and everything was so good!