Much needed visit from family :)

Oct. 15th - 22nd 

 Josh, Bre and Alaina came out for a bit while Josh had some time off during UEA weekend! Then Josh had to head back to get to school and Bre stayed so I wouldn't be alone while Matt went on a business trip to New Mexico. So nice huh? It was so nice to have family around!!! And have something other to do than just sit at home by myself! 

Here is a little summary of our week in pictures!

Who wouldn't want this sweet little girl to come visit!

Won't he make the cutest dad! :)

The pumpkin festival! We learned that this is a huge tradition in New Hampshire, so we had to check it out! Pumpkins lined the streets for blocks and blocks!

Check out all those pumpkins!

 

We took a little hike up Pack Monadnock, a nice trail not too far from us. 

We wanted to get some cute pictures of Alaina with the leaves all around but she didn't agree with us! :) Ha ha But she is still so dang cute when she's fussy, don't you think?

Is that not just precious!

One thing I've always wanted to do was walk through a drive-through but we've never been allowed. This night was our lucky night cause they mopped the floors and said it was safer to walk through the drive through! ha ha I'll cross that off my bucket list :)

 You almost don't want to sleep just so you can watch her! Too cute, huh? 

Aren't they both beautiful!!! 

This is the area that makes you feel your walking through the 'Gilmore Girls' town

Then we went for a nice walk around town. This is Milford! It's a nice little town! We really like it! It's really beautiful this time of year!

NYC Vacation

October 7th - 10th Short but Sweet ;) 
This weekend Matt and I were able to go and spend some time with my parents and grandparents. We met up with them in Connecticut on Thursday and then drove down to NY on Friday morning! :) 

We had fun in NYC learning all about the city with a 48 hour, hop on & off, bus tour. We got to see just about everything. We went to Brooklyn, Harlem, Queens, and all around Manhattan! We went out to dinner and tried NYC pizza and of course we tried the food from the food stands!!!

NYC city is a very busy city!!! With 8.4 million people living in the city and then all the tourists... it can get a little crazy :) But it makes for some very fun and interesting people watching!!! It was also just good to be with my family!!!

One of my favorite things was going on the Staten Island Ferry at night and seeing the Statue of Liberty again! We didn't get a good picture though cause it was at night, but it was beautiful!!! What a good weekend... and now my lucky parents and grandparents are on a 12 day cruise!!! :) I'm glad we at least got to take part in some of their vacation!

If you can tell, we're on the bus tour and the Empire State building is in the background!

Flat iron building

 

The Wax Museum, doesn't it look like we're really with Whoopi?  :)

The M & M Store

The ball that is dropped on Jan 1st!

Time Square!!!

This was the night tour of the brooklyn bridge and and city lights!

 

 

 

CENTRAL PARK

The New York City LDS Temple

 

 

Since we were having to drive a couple hours anyways to get home, we decided to make a couple pit stops and see some of the beaches in Connecticut and Rhode Island on our way home. 

 

A beautiful beach in Connecticut

We stopped and had dinner on Oakland beach in Rhode Island called Warwick :) 

 It's fun living on the East coast. We drove for a couple hours and visited 5 states :) Good times!!!

Our new car

It's a Mitsubishi Outlander :)