New York, New York!

Last Thursday I met my mom in New York City along with my boss, her daughter, a co-worker & her sister. It was a quick trip - we left Sunday but we fit tons in those 2 days and it was so much fun! I forgot my camera on Friday...I was in shopping mode rather than tourist mode. We went to Chinatown, Macy's & the Hard Rock in Times Square for dinner. And let me just note that Saturday it was down right FREEZING...I was convinced I had frost bite on my fingers and toes...I guess I didn't, but whatever it was still cold!


Saturday we had a very busy day...keep in mind we walked to and from all of these places! We were very tired Saturday night!!
 

Christmas market in Bryant park

Grand Central Station (they also had a Christmas market inside)

Walked down 5th Avenue by all of the fancy shops & Rockefeller Center

Central Park

FAO Schwartz & Apple Store

John's Pizzeria - YUM

Rockefeller Center at night....biggest mistake ever to go there on a Saturday night before x-mas!!

Ended the night @ a brewery near times square




Bryant Park

 



Yummy looking cupcakes @ Bryant Park!





Soo many Santas around NY that day - it was Santapalooza...no for real - look it up!



Radio City!



Time Square New Years Eve Ball

Pretty buildings @ Ave of the Americas & 42nd street



St. Peters Cathedral on 5th Avenue - soo pretty inside



New Apple store across from Central Park...the entrance is this glass box!



Pigeons convening outside of Central Park

Huge Menorah - this is for you Rachel!!



Blurry picture of the tree @ Rockefeller Center



Meee and the tree



HUGE Christmas light strand on 6th Ave

 

Mom & I

  Sunday morning mom and I got up and made our way to Grand Central Station to catch our train to Connecticut. Sadly I don't have any pictures from Connecticut - I didn't even take any pictures of the snow :( Just on my cell phone. We spent Sunday - Wednesday with my grandpa and came home Wednesday night. It was a great trip but I'm glad to be back home and ready for Christmas!!

So much to be thankful for!

Hard to believe Thanksgiving has gone by and Christmas is almost here. I got a nice vacation last week, half day Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. Wednesday afternoon I had a baking bug and decided to make pumpkin sugar cookies for Thanksgiving dessert...to go with the cinnamon gelato I made yumm. I used the icing decorator I got for my birthday - I love it!

We had a wonderful feast on Thursday...enough for like 20 people...even though there was only 7 of us!



That night we had the pleasure of watching A&M beat UT :) Hunter, Lexie & Spike all had their A&M t-shirts on...I think that's why they won...duh...Oh and Hunter had his t-shirt on for about 24 hours...he just loves being an Aggie...and staying warm!


my sweet Hunter



Spike obviously thrilled with his shirt



my precious Lexie

 Sunday morning Justin and I put up our outside Christmas lights/decorations. We were out there from 9am to about 3pm and it was so WINDY but we (and by me I mean mostly Justin) got it done!


Christmas decos in the works!



Our cute "little" 6 foot reindeer!



So brave on the peak of the roof!



Our makeshift outside "fenced in" area for the dogs






All done!





So pretty all lit up at night :)

 Tonight we celebrated my mom's birthday! We went to PF Changs for dinner and then came back to our house for presents and dessert. We ended up not having dessert because we had delicious chocolate cake at PF Changs.


Presents & Cupcakes!



Mom's birthday ring from me and Justin!





Birthday princess!