Thanksgiving!

is one of my favorite holidays. Its all about one big wonderful meal and being thankful for what you have. This year my little sis. Penny stayed with us for the weekend from the far land of Provo. She was an Angel and upon arrival and my joking that I would pay her to clean my oven that I had dropped a pizza in a few days earlier she got right to work and cleaned and scrubbed it till it looked brand new while me and Ryan finished and cleaned up our painting job from the day before. I still love opening the oven and having it sparkling clean. The morning of, Ryan made us delicous beinget dounguts we got from our trip to New Orleans so that our stomachs would be stretched for the main event. We met Ryan's family at his aunt's house and had a wonderful meal, and Ryan and Penny participated in the Walleyball game. Afterward we relaxed at Ryan's mom's house and watched a movie.

Black Friday we didn't have any incliniation to wake up at 5 am again, but we did brave the shopping around noon and got a few good things.

Saturday, sister Annaliese and family were in town and we had a fun day, eating at Costa Vida, going to the Bean Museum, Byu bookstore, Penny's apartment and Baby's R' Us.

New York- 11/11/11- 5 Year Anniversary

For our awesome 5 year anniversary date we went to New York. It was fun, but I probably wouldn't advise anyone who was pregnant to go. If i was to do it all over again I probably would have picked a more relaxing vacation to go on, just because of all the walking involved and my body isn't used to walking around with all this extra weight:)

We did all of the touristy things. Went to times square, rockefeller center, metropolitan museum of art, central park, top of the empire state building, statue of liberty, rode the subway and saw a parade and the Wall Street protestetors.

Our hotel.
The morning of our anniversary 11/11/11 we walked outside of our hotel to a full blown New york parade, in honor of our anniversary or Veterans Day, (one or the other)


Met




This bridge at Central Park look familiar? Its in the Cloverfield movie at the very end, probably other movies too.


Who knew there was a freakin castle in Central park, would have loved to explore this if it hadnt been getting dark

random brake dancers in the subway
From the top of the empire state building, it is crazy that you are looking down on all the sky scrapers from this buildilng