14 weeks to go

tiny yogi

Addy takes my prenatal yoga regimen very seriously.

I appreciate her support.

a few days in jersey

We made our NY visit into a whole weekend, spending it with my sisters. Actually, we only got a few hours with Jenn's fam before they headed out of town themselves. But still, we'll take cousin time whenever we can get it!

We played games, watched movies, baked, and froze our booties at a Christmas festival.

We're seriously feeling the pressure to make the most of our time with our fam while we're still living in driving distance from them.

catching on to the tackiness

We did the Tacky Light Tour again this year, but unlike last year Addy cared about it this time... score! She was all about the "Keesmas yites."


In fact, she liked them so much, this was her reaction when we tried to leave our favorite 2-house display:

totally wicked

So I've been a fan of the musical "Wicked" since before we got married. I knew the music, but I'd never seen the show. When we moved east of the Mississippi we vowed to see it, but to save ourselves for Broadway (cue jazz hands).

With our east coast time winding down, we finally decided to celebrate our 5th anniversary/my 30th birthday by going up to the city at Christmastime and see the show. We drove up to NJ, and then Cydney watched Addy for the day while we took the train up and experienced what we like to call the New York Mega-Date.

Christmas window shopping (our favorites? Tiffany's and Bergdorf Goodman... well done, 5th Avenue)

The Rock in daylight (sadly, no Tina Fey)

Doug holding hands with an idol in FAO Schwartz

(I think you'll be pleased to see we took FULL advantage of the self-portrait pose. It's almost like we just superimposed ourselves in front of a bunch of NY tourist traps. Tricky, eh?)

Central Park

The Rock at night

Times Square

Finally seeing and LOVING "Wicked"

Maybe we were hungry, but I was really craving pizza so we found this delicious formerly-known-as-Ray's pizza place that was so SO good. But have you seen that Office clip where Michael talks about his favorite NY pizza? We were almost tempted to eat there too.


We had time to see everything on our Christmas sight-seeing list, and even had time to just sit in the ridiculousness that is Times Square, sip hot chocolate, and share a black and white cookie. The weather was perfect, and we loved how easy-going the whole day was.

The whole mega-date was a true, true success.

addy hearts chocolate milk

We've tried to protect Addy from the goodness that is chocolate milk, just in case she loved it and never looked back.

Well, Cydney watched Addy for us last week and took care of the choco milk issue on her own. Thanks, Cyd.



And here's another just because Eliza and Addy are cute.

thankful

This Thanksgiving my sister Cydney came down with her family. We kept it classy and decided to eat out... at Cracker Barrel. We were surrounded by both dress clothes and camouflage. It was fun, tasty, and easy. And as grateful I am for fun and ease, I'm even more grateful I got to spend the day with my family.

One should always eat out on Thanksgiving with a school-made pilgrim and indian

Dessert at home... mmmm boy

Yay for cousins, moustaches, and air mattresses in your family room

We also shopped, played games, and ran around outside. We even got a sweet bonus visit with our Aunt Kris, Uncle Craig, and cousin Katelyn who were here visiting Kurt. It was a good weekend indeed.