NYC at Christmas

A lot has happened in the past month since I last posted. This year we decided to go to NYC to see my brother before he graduates in May. I wanted to go to his graduation but I will either be having a baby or have a brand new baby when he graduates so we decided to go now. We saw lots of neat things.

This is the Empire state building


My mom bought her grand kids matching PJ'S so we had to take a picture with them on, Lilly loved being able to play with her cousins

Garrett and Lilly chasing each other, they got along great by the end of the trip

Freezing at the statue of Liberty. It was very cold that day!

We ate at the Hard rock cafe in Times square!


Every morning I watch the Today show and we were able to go to the NBC studios where they film it. I was excited!


This picture is supposed to be turned the other way, but its a display of all the different Christmas decor out on the streets in NYC.


We were able to go see the Rockettes at Radio city music Hall. This is the most beautiful Chandelier I have ever seen in the lobby of Radio City music hall.

Rockefeller Tree


The rockettes performing



The statue of Liberty


Good view of Manhattan from the Island with the statue of Liberty


Same picture but you can see the new World trade center being built. It is the tallest building there that looks like it is still under construction.


In front of the Statue of Liberty, my sister missed it a little bit when she was taking the picture but its there.




Manhattan temple, so neat, we went inside and it was so peaceful compared to the noisy city just outside!


While we were there I got some tickets to see the daytime Cooking show called "the Chew." Nate, me, Aleisha and my mom went and saw it. It was neat to see how a live tv show works. You would never guess that there are like 30 people behind the cameras working everything and the set is not that big. On the show there are five hosts and they are Carla hall (she was on Top chef, nate and I watched her), Michael Symon (a chef in New york), Mario Bartoli (a famous chef), Daphne Oz(Daughter of the famous Dr. Oz and she is a self help author), and Clinton Kelly (he is also on TLC's what not to wear). We had a great time and got some canolis for being in the audience.


We went to the famous toy store FAO Schwartz. My niece and nephew and my sister Brooke played on the big piano.

Lilly fell asleep when we were there. I was just surprised she wasn't grabbing all the toys.

On the streets of NEW York

Cousins

So the day after we got back from New York we got an ultrasound and we found out that we are having a GIRL!! I was very very surprised. I thought for sure we were having a boy. If you would of asked me I would have said I was 98% sure it was a boy. So I haven't done any belly shots of me yet b/c I didn't think boys would care how their mom looked pregnant with them. But when we found out it was a girl I was like OK I'll do a belly shot for my future daughter because they seem to care about that stuff. So this is me at 20 wks. I'm about the same size I was with Lilly. Now we have to think of girls names which we were not thinking of. I'm excited for Lilly to have a little sister and for another girl. Girls are so much fun to dress!

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