Monday, December 9, 2013

The Big Apple
So when we found out that my aunt Holly would be moving to New York for a year for culinary school Mike and I knew we had to make the trip over Thanksgiving to see her. She was going to cook the whole meal!! Sign me up! That was not the only reason we wanted to go. My dad's other sister my aunt Heather and her family live in New Jersey. We hardly get to see them and since we are so close to the east coast we thought it would be a great chance to spend a holiday with them. Mike had also never been to New York! My good friend Amanda lives in New York too and I had not met her cute little girl Emma Perry yet. My cousin Klane and his wife Angie also live there and we don't get to see them very often either. So as you can see we had a serious amount of reasons to go to New York. 
So Tuesday night before Thanksgiving we hoped in our car and drove almost the whole way. Then we hit that nasty snow storm that came in and decided to call it a night and get a hotel. Wednesday we got up and drove to NJ to my aunts house. She drove us into the city to drop off our luggage at my cousin Hayley's house, who we would be staying with. Then she drove us right into Time Square. Okay so the weather that first day was pretty awful. There was lots of rain and wind and it was cold. So we tried to stay inside the best we could. We went into the shops around time square. I especially wanted to take Vi into Toys R Us to see the ferris wheel and all the characters. We went to the New York Public Library and saw the children's book exhibit and walked around a christmas market there. I loved it. I think it is so important to read to children and I appreciate so much that my parents made an effort to read to us. It was so interesting to see. We had pizza two different times that day! One was from a hole in the wall place around the corner from Hayley's house. The pieces were seriously bigger than our heads. The other was a brick oven style. Both were really good. They were out of banana pudding at Magnolia's so we got cupcakes( Am I the only one who is not really a fan of their cupcakes??) We walked and saw Rockafeller center and watched the christmas display on the side of Saks. Inside Saks was breathtaking with all the snowy branches! I loved it. We managed our way on the subway and got Vi down for bed at a decent hour. She was eating up all the attention from new people.  I decided to take these posts one day at a time since I am still catching up on orders for the shop and Vi is napping. First day despite the weather was still very fun!
















Oh and P.S. the post should really be Mike goes to New York bc pretty much all my pictures are of him. I was just so excited for him to be experiencing it all!!

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Notre Dame

About two weeks ago Mike and I went to the BYU Notre Dame game in South Bend. It was so much fun. It was a 2.5 hour drive from our house and luckily we got there with no big weather issues. Our amazing friends offered to watch Vi during the game, which ended up being a life saver since it was so cold. I also might have cried when I said goodbye to her. It was really weird to be baby free for that long. We got there with enough time to walk around campus a bit and hear the band make their procession into the stadium. It is a really beautiful campus. The game was really fun. The Notre Dame fans were so kind. Everywhere we turned people were welcoming us to Notre Dame. The people who sat behind us at the game were so friendly and kept telling us all the cool traditions that Notre Dame football has. The beginning of the game was so exciting. They play this Irish music and the whole crowd started jumping up and down. it was such a cool environment. During the 3rd quarter the fans all started throwing thousands of marshmallows in the air. It seriously looked like a snow storm there were so many. I guess it is a tradition for senior night. Mike and I got the best soft pretzels I have ever had during half time. We were sad to lose but it was still such a fun game. I think it should for sure be on your bucket list to go to a Notre Dame game. It was freezing however!! On our way home we stopped at one of the best donut places, in Kalamazoo. I seriously dream about that Oreo donut. Luckily Vi really missed me… not. She didn't even care that I was there. She started crying when I took her away from mike. Whatever, I will never be as loved as he is by Vi. All in all it was a great day. 
Go Cougars!!











Mike and touchdown Jesus.






I could not get a good picture where the marshmallows actually showed up but this was the best one. Look closer the the heads of the people.