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 :)

Alaina Rose

Bre at 40 weeks and me at 13 weeks :)

What a blessing it was to be at home a week before my sister had Alaina to spend that time with her before her life would change forever! It was also wonderful to be together as a family and go to dinner or just sit around in the living room talking. Living away from home isn't the easiest but it sure helps me appreciate having such a wonderful family and being able to spend time with them when I can!

At times we thought we couldn't be more blessed as a family (at least I did) but then having Alaina come into this life was a miracle! She was sent straight from heaven as a tiny, pure little angel! I felt honored that Bre let me be a part of it!

Alaina Rose 

Born: Sept. 20th 2010 

6lbs 5 oz

19 inches long

The quality of this picture isn't great but I think it's beautiful!

That little foot is what kept pushing Breanna's belly out like crazy! :)

How perfect!

My favorite of all the pictures!!! Isn't she beautiful!

My 2nd favorite picture!

We thought this was hilarious! She pulled the bow down and was fussing cause it was covering her eyes!

Then she was fine because it was right where she wanted it - in her mouth :)

Mommy and Daughter

Daddy and Daughter

Proud Auntie of the cutest little girl!

In her car seat, a couple days old.  What a little cutie pie!