NEW YORK, NEW YORK!!!

We took another trip this Christmas to the Land that NEVER sleeps!! Our friends watched Jackson and Tanner for 4 1/2 days so we could go party hearty. My old roomate from Utah State lives in Harlem and she was so nice and let us stay at her place. We met Jerrin and Sharidee first then later met up with Joey and Katie in New York. The first thing we did was go to the Statue of Liberty.

I new it would be cold, but it was COOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDDD. This day actaully wasn't too bad. It got progressively colder as the days went on.

I think we spent 96% of our time in Time Square. Jared and I love Time Square..it's just SOO New York! We ate a lot of Pizza. MMmmmm, I'll dream about some of that pizza for years to come.

This is my FAVORITE store.

This was Charmin's gift to New York. It was nice to get a break from the cold and the Grimy subway latrines. They had a whole bunch of toilets and every time someone came out, it was sanitized, febreezed and you got to choose super soft or super strong toilet paper. Cha Cha Cha...Charmin.

Jared's goal for this trip was to walk across the Brookly Bridge. My goals was to walk across the Brookly Bridge alive. I am not fond of heights, but we made it and it was actually pretty cool.

Our New York trip was not nearly long enough. We didn't see Rockefeller Plaza, Chinatown, Diamond district, Central Park, Somebody Famous....I guess we'll just have to go back again soon. I forgot to mention, we did get to see 3 shows. The Lion Kind-awesome costumes! The Spelling Bee-HILARIOUS! and Stomp-that was something I've always wanted to see. So overall we loved it and New York has not seen the last of us!

One last trip to the potty.

Christmas at Yankee Candle

In Williamsburg there is a Yankee candle outlet that's HUGE! It's actaully a really cool place. They had Santa and Mrs Claus. Last year neither of them would go near Santa without immediate bribes, this year Jackson understood that if he wants a blue bike for Christmas he has to ask the man with the power. Tanner will just do whatever Jackson does.

As I mentioned before, the store was HUGE...and what happens in HUGE places? Tanner disappears. Jackson and Tanner were playing with a Thomas the Train play set and I turned to talk to Jared. When I turned back, Tanner was gone! I started to freak out because I would have gotten lost in this monster store. I didn't even know where to begin looking. All I could think about was either someone snatched him up or he followed somebody out the front door to his death. I had an emplyee call "Code Yellow" and all these people came rushing out asking what Tanner looks like and they started searching the store. Jared found him being held by Mrs. Claus. She said she watched him walk out of the toy area and wander alone so she picked hime up. THANK YOU MRS. CLAUS!!!

In one of the big rooms of this store there was a little bridge with a mini town surrounding it. Every five minutes or so it would snow from the star studded sky. The kids really loved it. I think Jared and I would have liked it too if we weren't so worried about losing one of the little rugrats again.