Wrapping up our NYC adventure

So this past month has been a whirlwind! Between Blake traveling for interviews, studying for finals, and finally graduating, and me keeping busy with Jaylee and special guests (Lacey, Alicia, their friend Tom and Blake's dad) all while being PREGNANT, wow what a month! Yep I am pregnant with number 2 and due in November. Blake got a couple of job offers but we finally decided on a firm in Chicago called McDermott, Will and Emery. So off we go on another adventure, wow it seems like we have had a lot. He won't start until the fall so we are headed back to Utah for the summer which I am super excited about! I have been missing family like crazy and am sad that we won't be able to stay there for long, but at least it is a few months. We have had a blast here in the big city but we are definitely ready to move on. So here's some pics from the past few weeks First Blake's Graduation YAY! We were excited that Blake's dad got to come and see him graduate, little did we all know that it was going to be 3 hours long, haha!

Right after graduation we hit the last thing on our to do list and went to a Yankees game.

We also celebrated Jaylee's 2nd birthday while Lacey, Alicia and Tom were here.

These are pics of our fun adventures in the city while Lacey was here We went to the Bronx Zoo and it was huge! Luckily there was a zoo tram that took us around to the exhibits or else we wouldn't have seen it all. Jaylee's favorite part was feeding the goats. We thought she would be scared but she walked right up and stuck her hand right close to the goats mouth and it ate it up. She laughed and wanted to keep doing it over and over and over.

We also walked over the brooklyn bridge and played at the park on the other side. It had awesome views and we were glad that we did it because we almost decided not to when we saw how long it was, haha.

The main attraction for Jaylee during Lacey's stay was carousels! She rode on 3 different carousels and did them multiple times. We did the bug one at the Bronx Zoo, the one in Brooklyn called Jane's carousel, and the Central Park Carousel. Wow she was spoiled!

We rented bikes and went to Central Park. About half way through we decided that Central Park was huge, haha we were both dying going up and down hills while pulling Jaylee. It was way fun though!

We also played on the "BIG" piano at FAO Swartz toy store, had a huge frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity's, and went on a sunset Cruise in the rain.

Thanks Lacey for a fun trip

More Easter

Jaylee and I went to a fun Easter egg hunt that one of our cute ward members planned and boy did they do it in a picture perfect place. They live in apartment right on the water and they have great views.

Easter

Happy Easter everyone! We are sad that we will miss out on fun family traditions again this year :( but we are enjoying this time with Jaylee. She saw the Easter bunny at the mall and said that she wanted to sit on his lap and I thought ya right, she will chicken out when it's our turn but she didn't. She sat there a little shy at first but then started smiling for pictures.

Cheering at the the game

On Monday we were able to go to the Jazz game cuz they were playing the Nets. We got an awesome deal on tickets and sat on the 11th row for only 8 bucks each! Jaylee loved the game and was given some of those blow up noise makers. She loved banging them together and cheering with the crowd. It was more fun to watch her than the game (the Nets are not a very good team and the Jazz won by a lot).

Stink Eye

Here is Jaylee's new favorite face, we call it the stink eye face.

BABY!!!

Sorry that I have been MIA, I have been here there and everywhere. From New York to Salt Lake to Albuquerque back to New York. We had a wonderful elongated holiday stay and loved seeing family and friends in Salt Lake. We now have only one semester left, yay! We will be excited to be done but we are now stressing about interviews and future jobs so cross your fingers for us.

So funny story...Last Sunday as we were leaving for church Jaylee decided that she wanted to take her baby doll with her and because we were already running late we decided that was alright. Jaylee was excited to show her baby the train that we take to church so Blake picked her up as she was holding her baby and they were looking for the train when the unthinkable happened! The baby started to slip and Blake, who minutes before commented on how tragic it would be if Jaylee's baby fell on the track, tried to catch the baby and knocked it onto the tracks. Jaylee's face told the whole story! HORROR! She burst into tears and started screaming BABY BABY OH NO!! Just then the train came and miraculously left the baby unharmed so Blake ran and told the agent about the baby lying hopelessly on the tracks and he called the next train to have it stop so that someone could get the baby for us. It was seriously the longest 10 minutes of Jaylee's life. She just kept crying and calling out for her baby. Well needless to say she was an emotional wreck the rest of the day. Blake and I couldn't help but laugh as we boarded the train that we just stopped haha! Oh Jaylee...

Alicia Trip

We were super excited that Blake's sister Alicia came to visit us after getting done with her finals. It was so nice for all of us, but especially Jaylee and I because Blake has been busy with finals. With Alicia here we were able to go explore NYC and see all the fun holiday stuff they have going on. She was only here for a few days so we action packed our days and we are both pretty beat;)
Here is some of the stuff we did...

The first couple of days I didn't take my camera, dang! But we went to times square where we went to the M&M factory and Toys R Us where Alicia took Jaylee on her on a ferris wheel ride which she loved. Then Blake and Alicia got tickets to the broadway play How to Succeed in Business without really trying. The next day we did the staten island ferry, grand central station, public library, and went to the "Top of the Rock".

For her last day we decided to wake up way early and go down to the Rockefeller Center where they film the Today Show. We didn't get close enough to get on TV but we did get to see them filming and that was pretty cool.







Then we were lucky and found discount tickets to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular show and they were awesome seats!



After the Show we went to the Museum of Natural History which is huge! We spent about 3 hours walking around.





Then we went to Macy's Santaland where we had to wait in line for about an hour, but it was worth it! We made Jaylee sit with Santa by herself and she was not too happy about that!




After we decided to go to the 9/11 memorial site




We were so tired after, but we had a lot of fun! Thanks again for coming Alicia!

Holiday Fun

This year during Christmas time has been really fun especially because Jaylee is at an age where she can get excited about Santa (she likes to see him but not get too close), Christmas trees, lights, window displays and that kind of fun holiday stuff.

Newport Christmas lights

Our little town square is decorated really cute with christmas lights. They had a special christmas lighting ceremony one night where Santa came and the lights were turned on and were synchronized with music.

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Winter's Eve at the Lincoln Center

They held a Winter's eve at the Lincoln Center which is where Juilliard, the Met opera house and the Manhattan temple are located. They had a Christmas Tree lighting, ice sculptures, concerts, and places you could go see Santa. Blake was busy studying for finals so Jaylee and I went to go check it out. We went to a little kiddie concert that Jaylee absolutely loved. She loves music, dancing and kids so this was perfect! We also went to see Santa and Jaylee loves to say HoHoHo when you ask what Santa says and she loves seeing him but she does NOT like being too close to him. So when when we were in line she got more and more nervous as we got closer and closer. I didn't want to make her scared to death about Santa so I just sat on his lap while I held her. As we left of coarse she warmed right up and said bye, waved and blew kisses to him, haha oh Jaylee!

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Washington Square Park Christmas tree lighting

So one of the cute ladies that I have met while here invited me to go to see them light the tree at Washington Square Park which is right next to NYU. I was excited to go over into the city and spend the day with her even though it was rainy and cold. We walked over to the park in the rain to see them light the tree and when they did we both started laughing. Here we were in the freezing cold getting all wet and the tree looked terrible! It only had lights on it and they looked like they had started and got sick of doing it after 10 mins and just threw on the rest. So needless to say we only stayed for a couple of mins and left. Oh they had a Santa walking around before they lit the tree and he walked up to Jaylee who was dancing in the rain and when she saw him she ran towards me until she saw that he had a candy cane, then she went back and took it and blew kisses to him as he walked away. So stranger danger unless they have candy, haha!





Santaland & Ward Christmas Party

Jaylee and I went to THE Macy's famous Santaland with the ladies from our ward. First off, Macy's is huge! It is the biggest department store ever, Santa is on the 8th floor and someone told us that they leave Santaland up all year round. It was adorable how they have it set up. First you go through a train that sounds like its moving and it takes you to the North Pole. Once inside there were snowmen, a weird christmas tree that talked, trains, lots christmas trees decorated, build-a-bears singing and dancing, and this is all just as you go through the line. Then an Elf took you to a little room where Santa is waiting. Jaylee was all excited seeing all the cute stuff through the line but when I told her that we were going to see Santa she kind of freaked out and said no no no bye bye bye. She had a kung fu grip on me when she saw Santa so I just held her and sat by him. But I want to go back and see if I can get her to sit on his lap so I can get a picture, I know that she will be screaming but I think it would be fun to have.



We also had a ward Christmas party on Saturday and the Primary put on a christmas pageant and they had the nursery kids be the sheep. They had made cute ears out of white felt and had them wear long black socks on their arms (we put Jaylee's on and immediately she took them off, haha). There were about 10 nursery kids and when they brought them out with the shepherds they had them sit down off to the side. Of coarse they only sat for a minute and the rest of the pageant we were just trying to contain them! Haha by the end only 2 kids still had their ears on and the rest were crawling on the floor, piano, and on the manger they had made! It was rather funny!



Funny pics of Jaylee


Yummy and sticky!

Ho Ho Ho!