On the Road Again

After we got back to SLC from our nights at the cabin, we spent some time at Mom's house. Hanging out with all the babies. It was fun to just be together.  And the babie cousins are hilarious and adorable!

Mmmmm, eating Sam's arm like a corn on the cob!

Check out those Ellie cheeks!  Chuba-luba-love!

Our 2012 cousins together for the first time: Ellie (born in March), Kingston (born in April) and Des (born in February).

Smack!

"Eat this!"

Sometimes Ellie thinks she can fly!

Holding hands? 

Watch the progression of Des and Ellie next to each other...climbing on Ellie....

A good cheese grin!

Awww, looking at each other as bestie friends would.  :0)

Then...attack!

The cutest little Kingston!

Goin home!

Ellie is stylin' with her shades! The drive home was much better than the way up.  I guess she got used to the drive.  We did made up mad libs and listened to good music and talked up a storm.  Sam and Sadie both drove home with us which was super fun!

Hanging out in the Cabin

This was the lookout view from the stairs up to the 2nd floor...the Hangout area.

Isn't that a cool light fixture? 

Beautiful Pheob and cute baby Kingston!

Just chillen'!

Our chunky little Ellie-bellie! :0)

Little Des jumping like a tigger!

Joanna & Sammy!  It was super fun to get to know these two!  They are awesome!

My Mom the Graduate!

So one of the main reasons for the cabin and everyone coming together was...My awesome Mom graduated from University of Utah!  It has been years and years of hard work...working full time and going to school part time.  That is a hard schedule to live...especially for so many years.  But she did it!!!  Such a HUGE accomplishment!  I'm so proud of her!  

Since none of us could make it to her actual graduation (I don't think she even walked), we did our own re-enactment of her walking and getting her degree (her mom presented it to her!)  It was so fun!

My sister Heather and Mom.

Brother Sam and Mom

ALL my Mom's children together to celebrate graduation (and Mom turning 50!)!  It was so much fun to be all together! (Jenny, Sadie, Sam, Mom, Amber, Pheobe & Heather) I love them all so much!

Aunt Chris and her DIL Joanna and her little man, Sammy.  It was so fun to have our fam from Colorado there!

Sade & Mom

Aunt Julie & Mom

Mom & her bestie Cindy

Mom opening her many gifts!

The Colorado folk gave mom her very own ipad!  Lucky!

Mom and her 2 older and only sisters.  These 3 are hilarious together!

Mom and her mom!  Love these guys so much!  And i'm so happy for and proud of my Mom!

New York City Highlights

Lots of pictures...click on them if you want to see them larger.

So the main reason we went to NYC was so Dave could represent Stratus Games at the NYC Toy Fair.  He had a blast and absolutely LOVED working the game world!  The fair was enormous!  It was a lot of fun seeing all the toys out there too.

Manhatten Temple (fun to see all the yellow taxis too)!

Brooklyn

Times Square---do I look cold? I was!  

Macy's store is this entire building on the right.  Just looking at all the pictures is making me remember how  much walking we did!  We got back to the hotel every night and practically collapsed! A good collapsed though, if that's possible!?  I loved how much people walked there.  Many of the families we met didn't own cars even.  Being from the west...that is unheard of! :)

The must have pictures! :) 

For Valentines Day we went to the top of the Empire State Building!  It was FREEZING!  It snowed up there!

But it was still super awesome! 

For Dave's Bday on the 16th, we got to go and be on the Letterman Show...quite the experience! :)

And then we went to a show that night on Broadway.... which we LOVED---How to Succeed in Business Without really Trying.  It really was a great day!

The September 11th Memorial was very eye opening and touching for us.

The new #1 World Trade Center Bldg.

Seeing the city and the Statue of Liberty off the Stanton Ferry! 

The view off the roof of our hotel.

We had a ball walking through Central Park.  And we only covered a tiny itsy bit of the park too.

I beat my hot man's booty in checkers! :) 

This is how I looked for most of the trip...big ole' prego belly under a maternity coat.  :)  And...looking up stuff on my i-phone so I knew where in the world I was and where I was going!  

Finding the locations from the movie Enchanted! :)

And then, suddenly, it was time to go!  This is a good shot of our tiny hotel room and my HUGE belly!  I barely fit! :) (Abby asked us to take a picture of our room).

The week flew by.  We missed Abby and Joey like crazy, but knew they were having much more fun at home with Grandma Omer! This is me on the Subway, where we spent a lot of time going all over the city.  It was always packed!  By the end of the week, we finally had it down and saw how brilliant a subway is. 

What a fun opportunity to go to NYC.  It was a fabulous trip we will never forget!