Cute kids

Snow day!

First decent snow of the year and someone got pretty excited!!!  Daddy even built a snowman with her and when they were done got some hot chocolate.

5 girls....it's doable!

I've always wanted a lot of girls....well today we visited my good friend Molly and her girls (Emily, Kate, and June).  It was kind of cute having five girls sitting around the table eating lunch, playing dress up, coloring, smiling and laughing.  I think I could handle five girls....maybe we should get started on that third girl Isaiah :)

Here are some pics from the day!  We had such great hosts and Molly's kids are always so well behaved (I cannot say the same for Felicity today unfortunately), it's always a good time when we visit. 

Halloween Clearance!

Thanks to Target's Halloween clearance our girls now have a LOT of great dress up clothes.  Here's Felicity modeling a few.

The kids loved trick or treating and were great the entire night.  Of course all of our pictures turned out horrible but here are two that give you the general idea.  Felicity was a "scary spider" and Lydia was a cat.

NYC

I just returned home from a long weekend in NYC (my first) and had a wonderful time visiting my good friend Meghan.  

Friday night we went to Jazz at Lincoln Center to watch Meghan's boss perform...which just happens to be the famous Wynton Marsalis.  It was a great show and I'm sure I'll have hearing loss for awhile now!  After the show we hung out with Wynton's son and had some pizza, what a great kid!  No pics from Friday because I didn't want to be the crazy tourist taking pictures with Wynton (he was super nice though).

Saturday we woke up LATE but ate an EXCELLENT brunch at Igloo in Astoria.  I think it was probably the best brunch I've had.  The day was sort of dreary, windy, and drizzly but we did some shopping on 5th Avenue and of course we had to go to the toy stores!  We also swung by Magnolia Bakery which had the most delish cupcakes ever!  I had a red velvet and it was pretty much pure sugar but it was awesome.  By early evening I looked pretty awful from all the walking in the rain and wind.  

One of the things I really wanted to do was see a musical on Broadway so we put our names in for the front row lottery at Wicked, fully intending that we'd be seeing something else because the chances of one of us getting tickets when there were 300 some people there were pretty slim.  Imagine our surprise when my name got called!!!!  We got front row seats to see Wicked for only $26.50 a piece!!!  It was the highlight of my trip!  GREAT musical!

After Wicked we walked to the famous Serendipity for some appetizers and desserts.  YUM!

Sunday was a beautiful day and we ended up walking 8.3 miles and pretty much all over.  We started by going on the Staten Island Ferry, down to the WTC site (which wasn't anything to see), by Wall Street, up through SoHo, Chelsea, West Village, etc and then ended at Central Park.  It was great.

I think I'll have to take a trip to NYC every year for a long weekend.  Thanks Meghan!!

Fall Colors

It was a nice warm fall afternoon so we decided to take advantage of the weather and head out to Indian Lake County Park to let the girls pick up hickory nuts and try to get some pictures.  They both were too excited to do much posing for pictures but I think we got some good ones.

How bout' them Apples!

Uncle Chris invited us to the apple orchard this morning.  What a GREAT time!  We went toEplegaarden, right outside of Fitchburg, and the girls had a blast picking apples for a few hours.  The prices were awesome, only $19 for a HUGE bag of Self-pick apples and we ended up getting enough apples to last us a LONG time.  Lydia spent most of the time in the wagon eating the apples and unfortunately she got stung by a bee when she tried to take it off her apple but overall it was an excellent time!  We are definitely planning on going back again once these apples are gone.