New York City

In my humble opinion, you haven’t fully experienced New York City until you’ve been at Christmas. I was in New York for my 21st birthday and I loved it, but now that I have been at Christmas I can say that the city really comes alive for the holidays...despite the chilly weather. We met my parents, my aunt and uncle from Texas, and our dear friend Nicole in New York for a weekend of fun, fun, fun! We had many “must dos” on our list and got through almost all of them.

(1) The Tree at Rockefeller Center (30,000 lights on that beauty)

(2) The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall...nothing short of spectacular!

(3) Top of the Rock

(4) Holiday Window Shopping (We all agreed that Bergdorf Goodman had the best windows - these pictures don’t do them justice)

Lord and Taylor (cute idea - all based on children’s drawings of Christmas)

Macy’s - baby wanted to visit Santa at Santaland...or at least that’s what I told Roger:)

Henri Bendel (her dress is made out of jelly beans!)

Barney’s New York (I’m not a crazy Lady Gaga fan, but it’s pretty impressive that she has an entire floor of merchandise at Barney’s and a window display made enitrely of HAIR...kind of gross but definitely unique!)

(5) Today Show

(6) Last but not least, Central Park

Until next time...

Thanksgiving

My parents came to visit us for Thanksgiving and we are so very thankful that they did! They helped finish up some renovation projects we started this summer while they were here...and started planning for the projects they are going to help us with when they come back in January:) We had a lovely turkey dinner on Thursday and were very proud of our ability to multitask in the kitchen (Dad was putting up the backsplash tile while mom and I were cooking). We took a few breaks from projects to visit Fairchild Tropical Gardens and enjoy a beautiful sunset and stone crab in the Keys. Mom and I also did LOTS of shopping. On Black Friday alone we went to 10 stores (Home Depot, Babies R Us, Target, American Signature Furniture, Marshalls, Kohls, Loehmann’s, 9 West, Nordstrom Rack, and Michael’s). Mom and Dad also helped us decorate the house for Christmas...Dad was especially excited about putting lights on palm trees:)

Thanks for all your help Mom and Dad, we love you!

We put up the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving because we knew we were going to be busy on Friday...busy shopping that is.

Mom and I were on a shopping mission to find a new dining room table so we can move this patio table outside where it belongs. Mission accomplished! It will be here next week so you won't see pictures of this one again until we have a BBQ:)

Roger's post turkey nap

Mom and Dad at Fiarchild Tropical Gardens

Rainbow Eucalyptus - my favorite thing at Fairchild

Drinks and Stone Crab in the Keys

Our little sweet potato

We were very excited to find out today that baby Obando is a BOY...a little Obandito:) Right now he’s about the size of a sweet potato.

Here are a few pictures of my little baby bump.

2 weeks (I was on my way to the 80’s prom...thus the awesome hair and excess of sequins)

16 weeks

19 weeks (Today)

Watching the sunset in the Keys last weekend. You can’t really see the baby bump because Roger was giving the baby a high-5 for the picture:)