Date Night in NYC

While my folks were here we were super lucky to have the opportunity to escape down to the city for a night without kids.

We used up all of Matt's Marriott points to stay at a fancy hotel just blocks from Times Square.

It was an itty-bitty little room, but it was all that we needed.

The hotel had lots of charm.

A longtime friend was also in NYC for the weekend so we met-up to have lunch. It is always a pleasure to catch up with you June!

We checked out the Macy's store windows. The pictures do not do them justice.

Matt was in heaven in this comic shop.

The New Years ball!

Our big splurge for the trip was dinner at The View restaurant. Which is a rotating restaurant over Times Square. SO worth it!

We went to the toy store without kids! That never happens! (When we got home K grilled us as to why we were in a toy store)

Saturday morning we ate breakfast in an empty Times Square. Why not?

Then went to the temple. I love how peaceful and quiet it is inside the temple, even in the middle of Manhattan.

Then we walked the long way back to the hotel through Central Park ...

... And past the fancy decorations and window displays on 5th Ave.

It was such a wonderful and rejuvenating weekend without kids. Thanks Mom & Dad for making it happen!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a GREAT Thanksgiving around here! We were so lucky to have Grandma and Grandpa here to celebrate with us. Our festivities started on Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Both kids had class parties.

It was so great that Grandma and Grandpa could come!

K's class had a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving celebration (without parents).

The kids had Wednesday off from school and we got a good amount of snow to play in! This was L's first experience (that he can remember) with it all and he loved it! He was bundled appropriately, so the cold didn't bother him at all.

We woke up Thanksgiving morning to a beautiful foot-and-a-half of snow. Matt and the kids spent at least 1/2 of the day playing outside.

The most fun thing they built was a fort at the bottom of the slide.

 

We had true Thanksgiving feast for dinner and stuffed ourselves silly.

Freezing Field Trip

C had a field trip yesterday to a horse farm and it was a 1/2 day for K so he got to come along! It was a cold day, something like a high of 27, but the kids were troopers and had a great time.

K really enjoyed seeing his old teachers, and even had a buddy from school (another brother) to play with.

Halloween 2014

We had a SUPER Halloween this year.

Matt came up with the idea for us all to be Batman characters, and he even made his own Mr. Freeze costume.

First up was the ward trunk-or-treat.

  His costume even had lights on it! He won the prize for best adult costume at the party! Woot woot!

Cutest Robin ever.

 

Our super family!

Batman and Reepicheep

The kids both had class parties, and they were both at the same time. Matt went to C's party:

And L and I went to K's party:

Then our superheroes suited up again for trick-or-treating.

Everybody had a great time. I think L got twice as much candy as the big kids because everybody thought he was so cute! He would say something that sounded like "trick-or-treat" and hold up his little bucket and they would scoop handfuls of candy into it!