New Years Eve with Whitehead's and Hogge's

We spent our last few moments of 2008 with our friends Nikki and Wes Whitehead and Lexie and Rob Hogge, and families. We ate dinner and many fun finger snacks. We all played a little ping pong, bumper pool, guitar hero and cranium.

The 10 kids ran wild through Nikki's house leaving a path of destruction everywhere they went. Rob taught us that kids at the age of 3 and younger can fly. We found out that Wes has quite the green thumb. He is growing about 5 banana trees, 3 grapefruit trees and many various other plants in his house...yes all are legal! And Nikki openly admits she HATES to loose. Brian and I finally lost a game of New Years Eve Cranium, (thought Christy and Darrell might like to know! HEE HEE HE!) We had a great time! Thanks guys!

December 30th 2008

We had tickets from PwC to go to an aquarium in Connecticut. Brian had time off so we took the day and went. IT WAS AMAZING! We got up early and left out for a 3 hour road trip. We got to the Mystic Aquarium around noon and spent nearly4 hours there. We got to see dolphins, beluga whales, a seal lion show, penguins, sharks, all kinds of cool fish and we got to pet sting rays. I LOVE aquariums. They are calming to me. We saw all there was to see and having realized before hand that we were only 10 miles from Rhode Island we decided to end our day on the beach there.

It was so beautiful. As much as I loved the aquarium, I have to admit my favorite part of the day was our brief time on the beach. Beaches are so peaceful and refreshing. I would love nothing more than to live on the beach at sometime in my life, even if it is only for a month or two.

Museum of Natural History and NYC

The 29th of December we decided to use one of the PwC perks and head into the city to go to the Museum of Natural History for free. All said, it was an ok museum, we didn't get to see much of it because the kids got tired and hungry, but it was a fun trip. Please take note: the kids hats...my mom made them all a hat for Christmas! We love them mom! Thanks so much!

Because the kids were tired we left a bit early from the Museum and took them to see Central Park instead. We grabbed them a pretzel from a vendor on the street then headed into the park to show them the Belvedere Castle. We loved it! It was a nice walk and it was pretty warm that day too. We loved the park until the hunger set in so we took the kids for some great burritos and nachos at a restaurant we just happened upon. After dinner we realized we weren't quite ready to go home so we decided to take a chance and see if we could get close enough to see the Rockefeller tree.

We got across the street from Radio City, about a block from the tree, saw the crowds and decided we valued our lives and turned around and headed for home. Definitely NOT an extra block I ever want to take with my kids! The crowds were exactly what everyone says they are...NOT WORTH IT! We really had a good time in the city though. We took the bus in so we didn't have to worry about parking, then took the subway everywhere else. The kids LOVED taking public transportation. They are quite good at surfing on the subway!

Thanks Giving

These pictures are a long time in coming! We shared our Thanksgiving with Ramos' and Bridges. It was a very peaceful, fun weekend. The reason for the bum shot is because Ethan was pretending to be a bucking bronco on the top bunk of Michael's bed and literally put his bum through the ceiling!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So much has happened this last year! We moved across the country and are LOVING it! Ysabel was baptized, we made tons of new friends, we moved again, we have seen many new states, enjoyed moments on the beach, all of the kids are in school, I am working for the first time since we have been married, Brian loves his career with PWC, Ethan is singing with his 4th grade choir, Hannah graduated from Kindergarten, and Brock started it! 2008 was a good start to a new life for us and we are so happy to start 2009! Thanks so much for being a part of our past! We welcome you to be here with us in the present.