New Yory City- the longest post ever

Welcome to New York!! So we woke up Monday morning and drove 9 hours to New York. The trip wasn't bad because it is pretty everywhere you look.  I felt like a kid again, laughing with my siblings, being silly, getting annoyed at them and being the bossy older sister. it was great!! We arrived in New York at like 9:00pm and mind you it was a monday night and still look at the traffic getting in!!! It took an hour just to get through the Holland Tunnel and to Jasons apartment.  Classic New York!

So we get to Jasons apartment which I'm a fool because I didn't take any pictures. It was very nice and it was the whole 3rd floor of a building and the square footage was bigger than my house. So a pretty decent apartment for New York.  He is the lead singer in a group called the Scissor Sisters. They are huge everywhere but the US. Their song was number one in the UK and all over for like 40 weeks.  So they are in the works of putting out a new CD and had written several songs. They wanted to try them out so they get a feel for them and pick the ones to put on the new CD, so they held 2 private shows one monday night and one Tuesday night.  Since their were so many of us and some one had to be with my kids. Shaun, Adelle, Sarah and I went the first night. So we get to our hotel, get ready and walk to the club.

The pictures didn't come out very good of them performing, oh well.

Adelle, Sarah. Me and Shaun. Yes my sister are under age so they had a huge black X on their hands so the bartender didn't serve them any "adult beverages"  it was a smoke-free club, so that was nice!!!

Shaun and I after a night of partying. Shaun stuck out like a sore thumb =) With his green polo shirt and all.

Our Hotel.

The next day was our only full day to get out and see the sights.

I LOVE the movie Grease and wanted to see the play so bad. Oh well maybe next time!!!

Shaun, Ryker and my brother Abe went to see Wall Street and were the Twin Towers use to be.

We took a tour on one of those big red busses. It was really fun driving around and seeing everything.

Amelia loved it. I think she is going to be a city girl. Ryker on the other hand got bored quick. He was not amused by the tall buildings. He just wants to run and play, New York is not for him.

We of course had to go to FAO Schwartz (the biggest toy store ever)

Yep the big keyboard from the movie Big.  Ryker was running up and down the thing,

 

A kids DREAM Store!!

So my wonderful Uncle Jason heard I really wanted to see a play.  Jason is like really good friends with Elton John (that is a whole story in its self) but Elton wrote the songs for the broadway play "Billy Elliot" so he got me 2 ticket to go see it that night. Shaun was not really up for it (what a fool) so Sarah came with me. Shaun and Adelle stayed at the hotel with the kids and the rest of my family went to Jason concert.  So we were in row 5, right in front of the stage. Sarah and I were all ready to see a broadway play then this lady comes out and says something on the set was broken and they had to cancel the play that night!!!!!! Are you kidding me. But we didn't let that get us down, Sarah and I made a night of it, since we were in Time Square we walked around checking everything out. Ate and the Hard Rock cafe. Adelle was so mad the whole time and keep texting us, "come and get me".  Well we decided to head back to the hotel and really wanted ice cream. we walked for blocks all around and never found a place. So we went back to the hotel, got Adelle and finally found a store that had frozen yogurt. Mind you this was at 11:30 pm I know some might call us stupid but New York is not as scary as everyone makes it out to be. W also had a plan if someone trying to mug us =)

Here we are with our ice cream. =)

Well there are the highlights. I'm sure no one every read all this -maybe Sarah. So this is for you, a few of our inside jokes that I will remember forever.!! Thank you Jason and Noni and Bompa for providing the amazing trip!!! I had more fun that you will ever know and it was fun times with my family. I thought I would be sick of everyone by the end but I wasn't. We made some memories that we will laugh about in years to come!!!  

*Narpy Pete

*"where'd ya get your whiskey, where'd ya get your gun"

*"Let me hold that boy"

*Ryker driving the little truck

*staying up till 2 in the morning and playing phase 10

*"come and get me, I'm in New York City and I'm watching your son spin around on a spinny chair"

*monorail surfing

*peanut butter M&Ms

*Sheetz gas station

*"tasty morsels"

*"She will share with you when she is done"  "No I won't"

*KP Duty

*dad yelling in the womens bathroom for Sarah to hurry up =)

ok I'm sick of typing, Sarah I know I'm forgetting many, you need to post on your blog!!!!

FHE- Family Halloween Evening

Monday night we had a little get together with the Drews and Porters. What better to way to spend FHE than a yummy dinner, silly games and family.

Captain Hook with some witches brew. SPOOOOKY

The dads carved pumpkins for the kiddos. Can you tell which pumpkin had a dentist carve it =)

The Peter Pan Crew

I have no idea how I lucked out and am friends with these 2 AMAZING decorators. 

Skeleton Lady, Chris as himself, the Scarecrow, The Wicked which, Wendy and Captain Hook

Dorthy and Peter Pan= True Love

The kids (and moms) wrapped our dad's up like mummies!!!

They also got to draw all over their faces.

Sorry Shaun I had to share this picture.

Shaun and Ryker drove home a few minutes before me and this is what I came home to. I guess Peter Pan and Captain Hook are putting their past behind them and are good friends now. =)

Thanks you again for such fun memories.  I use to HATE Halloween but now it is up their with Christmas and Easter =)

Another Girls Get Together

So our goal is to get together once a month but we will take every 2 months I guess. Megann came down from Idaho so we had to see her and her darling girls. Also Heather moved back to AZ, YEAH from Cali and we got to meet her new little one. He is so handsome!!! We missed Lindsay who was up working the night before helping deliver new babies to the world and Rhona who is flying over-head somewhere- we missed both of you.

Heather (Benson), Morgan (Tallie only 7 weeks only), Alissa, Meg, Nat (Cameron) and Me and Millie

 

The whole crew. Man we could repopulate a tiny country.  

Ryker played outside most of the time and loved every minute of it. 

Thank you Nat for letting us come and trash your house. One day when I have a bigger house and yard, you can all come trash it =) 

You Betcha....

Tonight was our ward party. it was alot of fun and everyone did a great job.  Our family was the characters from Peter Pan, Ryker being the Peter, Melia as the cutest Tink I have ever seen, Shaun a young Captain Hook and I was supposed to be Wendy. But today talking with a friend, a thought popped in my head. I should be Sarah Palin. Well my mom had a dress suit and broken glasses. I pulled my hair back and what do you know, the Governor from Alaska.

Peter and Tink

Well I look out of place but I will dress up as Wendy for a few more events we have. It was so fun being Sarah Palin for the night.

Ok so I'm not a dead ringer of Sarah but you get the picture.

We had a costume fashion show so here I am giving my Sarah Palin wave.

Vote for me please. I came in 2nd place in the fashion show, I lost to Captain Moroni who was stinkin cute.  

Day 3, 7 and 8 - Playing around in Virginia

Ok I know everyone including myself is sick of all the post. So here is a few from the few days we were in Virginia just hanging around. I'll finish by posting New York  tomorrow and be done with it. 

Me, Sarah and Ryk on my Grandpas Razor. This thing is a blast, we just cruised around all over.

You can't go to a place with horses and land and not ride a horse. Ryker loved his horse ride around the property.  I love his cheesy smile.

Sweet Wuggie (Adelle) walked him all around. She is great with animals, and loves them. I have no idea where she got it from!!!

This was Ryker every night. He played so hard, hardly ever ate, look at his dirty feet and wore his clothes to bed. I tried to give him a shower and stuff but he would just pass out before I even got to him. One of the nights around 6:00pm he fell asleep on the razor while out driving around.

They have the best park ever just up the road. The weather was perfect and it was just beautiful. Lots of fun toys to play on as well.

Cute girlie!!!

Yes they really do have rocking chairs on the front porch!!!!!

I was a razor hog!! I loved driving this thing. Since Shaun doesn't like Quads and I haven't been on one since highschool I had to get my 4-wheeling out of my system since it will be another few years till I can again!!

Us on the last day. NO ONE wanted to leave. I could have stayed another week!!!  I thought I would be sick of my family by the end but we had way to much fun.  

I like this picture because Amelia has a weird face. And I love my mom!!!

I laughed so hard when Ryker would drive this around. Something about a little guy driving a little car. I don't know I just think it is funny!!

Leaves and more leaves. I should have brought some home to show my preschoolers. Try teaching then about seasons in Arizona!! We just look at pictures in books.

Day TWO- Man of the hour!!

On to day 2 of our big adventure.  This was the day of the big party.  We spend the morning helping get everything ready for the party and enjoyed the beauty of Virginia. 

This is my Bompa and Noni. (my dads dad)

Noni, mom, Caleb (my cousin), Me, Adelle, Sarah and Shantay

My dad, Uncle Jason (he is only 3 years older than me) and you know the rest

All my Noni's relatives live in a 3 hour radius, so here they all are eating up some great food.

They had a band come and play every couple hour. I thought it would be bluegrass stuff but they played all sorts of popular songs, they were great.

The whole "Fam-Damly" as my dad calls us

(my dad side is alot smaller than my moms) I only have 4 cousins compared to the 30 on my moms side. I have my Aunt Sheryl with her hubby Ray and 2 girls- Sophie and Sonia, then my Aunt Windi with 2 kids- Caleb and Montana and my Uncle Jason

All the women folk

This cake was yummy- amazing good. It had some great photos of my Bompa's past!!! He has done so much in his life.

My dad put together a 15 min slideshow of all Bompa's pictures, it was so fun to watch and see all the many things her has done in the past 80 years.  Ryker crashed during it, he played NON-STOP from sun up to sun down. I'm not joking I couldn't even get him to stop and eat. That whole day he ate a bowl of cereal and 4 slices of an apple for lunch. Hey I tried to get him to eat but he would rather play.

Sweet Amelia all bundled up. It was not freezing but my Arizona babe is not use to 60 degree weather.