The girls with Elmo!

New York City

This past weekend I flew to NYC to visit Paige and family. My awesome neighbors Alan and Bev watched the kids Friday night and Saturday night they spent with the Peck's. The kids had a great weekend although they kept Beverly awake for a while in the middle of the night.

We had the best time in NYC. Sonja took the bus up from DC with baby Kaleigh, and we just spent the weekend hanging out and getting in the Christmas spirit. It was freezing cold, I have definately gotten thin blood and get very cold easily. But Sonja and I got dressed and went for a quick run in Central Park Saturday morning. The rest of Saturday was spent shopping and to look at all the Christmas decorations. Oh yes, we went jeans shopping because I wanted a really nice pair of jeans. My budget of $100-150 was easily exceeded, but that wasn't the bad part. It was hearing from a snooty New Yorker in one boutiqe that they didn't carry my size! I didn't realize I was that big!!

We went to Union Square and bought the neatest gifts, ABC homestore just to look, and finished by going by Rockerfeller Center to fight the crowd. After shopping all day we went home had a glass of wine or two, dropped kaleigh off with babysitter Nick ( he was a trooper) and went to a nearby Wine and Taps bar. While we were sitting by the window which was covered with a nice wreath it started snowing....so nice.

Happy Birthday Emmie!

Emmie turned two on Sunday. It's hard to believe she is two already, time flies. We had a great birthday party with lots of kids and adults. The absolute favorite present is this trampoline, that plays a really annoying song nonstop. Emmie loves it and can jump nonstop. The hardest part is to share with her brother

Happy Thanksgiving

This is a picture from last Thanksgiving that we celebrated on Fripp. We want to keep up with the traditions so we are heading down there again this year. They have a great buffet at the Beach club and on Friday Santa arrives on the firetruck. Hayden has his lists ready for Santa. One list that he wrote himself has 7 items on it and the other list that Auntie wrote has 23 items. I told him that he will not get all the things on the lists and what did he want the most. Of course he wants this giant dinosaur from Target that costs $130! His response when I said it was expensive, "it doesn't matter mommy, you don't have to buy it, Santa will get it"!

Grattis till Morfar på födelsedagen!

Gary's blanket

Sonja's mom made this blanket for us out of Gary's favourite shirts. There is a mixture of Olympic swimming shirts, work, running races, diving expeditions, skiing vacations, Fripp and also a Corona shirt from our last weekend in Mexico. What a treasure, we all love it and it's already our favourite blanket to snuggle with in the evenings and mornings. Thank you Mrs. Leiter!

Princess Fairy and Bunny

Emmie and Maeve are getting ready to go trick or treating. We had to give them some candy to sit still for the shot! But they both did really well and it didn't take them very long to figure out to ring on every one's door and grab some candy out of a bowl.