girls weekend

Last weekend my mom, sister-in-law and niece came all the way from Utah to play with me for the weekend. This was Shae's first visit to the big city and I think she loved it. She was the best little trooper and never complained, even when she missed a nap or two.

My mom and Nicole have seen all of the touristy cites so most of our time was spent discovering new parts of Central Park, going on the row boats, seeing the big toy stores and walking arount the UWS. Shae got to see her firt musical while they were here, we tried for Lion King tickets but they were all sold out, but Shae loves Shrek so we got tickets to the musical and she was mesmerized the entire time.

I took them to all of my new favorite places to eat on the UWS and we did a lot of shopping, but most of all I enjoyed just visting with the girls and playing with Shae. The first few nights she would get a little homesick at night and say she wanted to go home but on their last night we were out and Nicole told Shae it was time to go home and she said "mom we can't go home, we are living at Sheena's house". She says the funniest things. But of all the many things we did, Shae's favorites were riding in the taxis, pushing the elevator buttons and taking the subway.

I had so much fun with the girls and hopefully we can start a new tradition of having a girls weekend in NYC.








- Sorry they are blurry.

tallest man

I walk by the Today show on my way to work each morning, and this morning I just happened to walk by the tallest man in the world. He was on the Today show and was just leaving when I passed him. At first I thought it was a man on stilts but then I realized it was all his legs, he almost doubled me in size (not really, but it felt like it). He stands at over 8 feet tall and wears a size 22 shoe. He was on the Today show to receive his award for being the newest tallest man in the world for the Guiness Book of World records.

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vma's

When we first moved to the city the VMA's were here and I remember watching the pre-show and thinking "This is just down the street, I could be there seeing all of these celebrities in person", so when I learned they were returning to the big apple this year, I was not going to be sitting in my apartment again (I love award shows). So we loaded up our camera and headed to Radio City.



We were in for a big surprise when we arrived and saw that we couldn't even get close to the front to see the red carpet (apparently a few other people had the same idea we did). So we hung out across from the back door with several other fans, hoping that somebody would come out before the show began. Lucky us, just after we arrived out came Lady Gaga in her crazy feather dress, mask wearing get up. She walked out the back door, got into a limo and drove around the block and got out on the red carpet. After that we knew we weren't going to see anyone else so we went home and watched the rest on tv.

I was glad we at least got to see the weirdest dressed celeb of the evening but I will never try to go to the red carpet again.

I thought the VMA's were pretty good ....

- Loved Jay-Z's NY song
- Wish I could move like Beyonce
- Felt bad for cute little Taylor Swift
- Think Lady Gaga is psycho
- HATE Kanye and wish he would go away

it's here

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. - Tom Hanks, You've Got Mail



The weather has dropped and it is officially turning into fall. School started today in NY and I sometimes secretly wish I could go back to the days when I was packing up my school supplies, setting out my clothes and laying awake in anticipation of the day to come. And how cool would it be to start school on 09-09-09?

labor day weekend

Due to Jason's studying schedule the last two months, we feel like we've had a shortened summer and because Labor Day signifies the end of summer, we decided to go out with a bang.

I had a four day weekend at work so we started the weekend on Thursday night at the US Open where we saw Sharapova and Roddick cream their opponents. The girls left a little early but right after we left Jason and Bryan worked their way to the front row and got to see Andy up close.

Andy in action


Jason sitting courtside


The rest of the weekend was spent soaking up the sun in Southampton with the Granum's, Megan, Laurel and Avery. The weather was perfect, and of course, the Hampton's was beautiful.

Kelli, Kenzie and me

We had so much fun hanging out with this little cutie who kept referring to Jason as "Baby"


Jason and Bryan


Me, Megan, Laurel and Kelli



Jason has been wanting to go to Six Flags since we moved here so we finally made it to Six Flags Great Adventure and got to ride all of the big coasters - several times. Lagoon is the only amusement park I've been to besides Disney and I have to say, Six Flags puts Lagoon to shame. But it also brought back some fond memories of my summers at Lagoon.

Finally, we ended the weekend hanging out with some friends in Central Park and enjoying Patsy's pizza and Pinkberry. It was the perfect weekend to mark the end of summer, now we are ready for fall!