Just Be a Duck

Sunday, January 15, 2012

a christmas recap

So in trying to catch up with everything this will be somewhat of a jumbled blog...

First off, my friend good friend Vickie, who I met at work invited Chris and I over for her annual Christmas party. It was so nice to have a home cooked meal along with great friends.

Brittany and her boyfriend David

Vickie has twins that I adore. Gabe showed me the newest addition to his bedroom :)

An airplane his grandma gave him! Love this! Grandpa Clyde would have loved this!

This is one of their cats :) I think this one is Autumn.. or maybe Georgie... I'm not sure, but he was giving me such a sweet look to let him inside!

Kim and her boyfriend Ryan

Me and Gabe

Roman with his cute smirk

Christmas Eve Dinner, Vickie also invited us over. I think she knew it was going to be hard on us being away from home. Such a thoughtful friend :)

Her husband Matt is itailan. I guess there is a tradition to have a 7 fish dinner. We didn't have 7 fish but I think 2 or 3.

Best meal ever!

First off was this... so yummy!!!

Vickie and Gabe

Gabe ended up with the camera after awhile

this one reminds me of how J-Boy used to take my camera and take a bunch of pictures of himself :)

Vickie's husband Matt

Georgia even got to come over! This is Zoe and Georgia giving the boys attention

Christmas at our new house :)

Started off with Georgia opening presents

gross picture of me... but making monkey bread for christmas morning breakfast...

a tradition my mom always makes on christmas morning

Our babies of christmas morning

A blurry Ga opening higgins present

Kitty cat sushi toys!

Higgs loves fishing pole toys!

Chris opening his stocking...

of course not wearing a shirt :)

Ga playing with the fishing pole toy

How did you get up there Higgs?

RIP new water bottle toy (last about an hour)

Because we had spent some much money on house stuff a few weeks prior to Christmas, so we decided to get each other meaningful orienments :)

I got him a whale tails that looks like a snow flake

He got me an elephant :)

One of my recruiters, Tammy, got me this. :)

baby girl

Our tree

watched a lot of " A Christmas Story"

Our fireplace with all the cards... and baby girl in the corner :)

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Since Chris and I weren't able to come home for christmas this year we decided to make it a priority to go be with Katie and Cupcake for New Years Eve. I was a little nervous because Cupcake's brother and girlfriend (Steve and Amy) and roommate (Michelle) were all going to be there as well. That makes 7 staying in a tiny apartment! Thats a lot! :) We flew in and promptly went to explore the city with Katie, Cupcake and Michelle.

Starting off in "the park" - central park, that is...

they had all these musicians playing under the bridges. so neat!

Randon Bear Sculpture

We walked to the Met. Had lunch at the caffertia. Ended up losing Cupcake for a bit... it all worked out. These places are so huge! SO easily to get lost and lose your direction!

Random pieces of art at the Met

This is one of Katie's (and mine as well) favorite artists, Chuck Close

Another Chuck Close

This was really creepy. Her eyes looked real!

Jasper Johns... I think

The U of A has one of these pieces hanging

This was an interactive piece. Other people were trying to make it work. Leave it to Katie to correctly turn it on!!!

I lost track of days... But i think these are from day 2.

Katie decided to take us to Chelsea Market. We loved it there! Esp all the bakeries!

we had a birthday cake like this when we turned 3 or 4.

GO BARBIE CAKES!

hambuger cupcake! too cute!

all the shops/restaurants they had. Did I mention they film the Food Network in here!

I loved these butterflies

We all got food and then walked up to the Highline... it was an old track that got converted into a park. Really cool. We walked most of the way down it. I'm really glad we got to see it. They had observation places where you can sit and really see the city

my lobster roll

the view

love the billboard!

of course we made

As a surprise for Christmas, Katie and Cupcake got me and Chris as well as Steve and Amy horse drawn carriage rides through Central Park! We loved it! Our guide even told us where the pigeon lady from "Home Alone" filmed her parts!!!

Most of the pictures are on Katie's camera! Bummer! But it was totally amazing and such a sweet present.

On to New Years! We ended up going over to Jay and Sarah's house (Cupcakes's friend from highschool/groomsmen) It was nice because we walked over so we could walk home later in the night.

Fun time pictures!