Saturday, September 14, 2013

October 1 - 8 2012

Well, October 2012 will go down as a memorable month for us!  I went back to work on October 22nd and I experienced and lived through my first natural disaster experience when hurricane Sandy hit on October 25th.  It was also the first time in my life that Halloween was canceled!  Yes, they did not allow trick or treating as it was too dangerous with the debris all over the streets, live wires down and properties that were "beach" front that were never intended to be!  But let's back up to the beginning of October when things were just as normal as can be:)

Katelyn started tap/ ballet in October.... I thought it would be good for her to get into a class of some sort since it was just going to be her and me home while Daniel was in school.  Since we had only been here for 2 months, we didn't know a lot of people so getting her in a social environment with her peers was important to me.... so right down the street from us is an amazing dance studio that took 2 year old dancers:)


 Our library has an amazing story time with music, puppets and of course, stories!  She LOVED it!


Her love for babies is just the cutest thing ever....


Our sweet neighbor whose husband is an elder at our church and who blessed us with our home went to the hospital and so we were going to visit her but she was released so we dropped some flowers, balloon and card off.

Sunday morning Katelyn getting dressed for church and relaxing:)

The next day we went to NYC!  See the Columbus Day Post:)

Water Park

So... we decided to take the kids to one of those indoor water parks... this one that we found had a nice hotel attached to it as well.





Our kids definitely know how to "vacation" aka "relax and take it easy"  LOL!








One thing that we thought we would be fun is that they had the kids bedtime story with cookies & milk with the "bird" at night.... well, one kid of our two liked it....

and the other one was traumatized!


We also asked them where they wanted to go to breakfast and of course, 
it was CRACKER BARREL!

We did do some Christmas shopping too:)
Who doesn't love Pottery Barn's displays?

Poinsettia Tree @ the mall

Real Cheese Steaks from Philly



Having fun in the hotel:)

More Water park fun!















THANKSGIVING 2012

So... Daniel is still really into music, playing band... which requires a stage so the fireplace is where is inner rockstar comes out!


Katelyn... she is still our free spirit... like doesn't everyone wear a mitten and attempt peeling an orange with a plastic knife!


Daniel's Thanksgiving Feast at school... loving walking from my office to the festivities:)









Every once and a while, I like to swing by a kids photographer for some milestone pics:)



Thanksgiving this year was going to be a little different/ difficult than normal because we were away from our family for the first year.... however, there were several people we knew that didn't have family close so we were all going to have a big potluck Thanksgiving feast together.... except Brendon woke up VERY SICK!  He was in bed all day:(


So the kids played and we relaxed for the day....


Katelyn is still into playing Mommy/ Baby!

And I made yams/ sweet potatoes for the pot luck....
However, Brendon HAD to feel better in 24 hours because we had a family vacation waiting for us on the day after Thanksgiving!

NOVEMBER 2012

November 9th... right after Hurricane Sandy, Carrie Underwood had a concert in Atlantic City... she was going to cancel it but decided to go ahead and have it and she donated all the proceeds to Hurricane Sandy Relief!  It was amazing... if you ever get a chance to go to one of her concerts, GO!

So, a group of girls from work got our boots on and had a fun night out!


That same weekend, we decided to take a group of young adults from our church to HILLSONG NYC... we had a blast!!! 



Sign on our way to NYC... Fuel restriction because of Sandy!




I believe they have around 7 services on a Sunday but you wait in line for every single one of them... if you are not in line early enough, you will wait in the line until the next service starts!


Hillsong NYC!


We also did our Christmas Pictures