Build a Bears (that are not bears)

Katie got a Build a Bear for her birthday, the bunny, and named her Alex. She saved all of her birthday money plus her allowance and just bought the dog from Build a Bear and named her Lauren.  They go everywhere with her.

Have Some Sass

This morning I hear Tanner trying to get Katie to help him do something. He says to her "Katie I love you." Katie's response "That's not going to work Tanner."

I Need Some Underpanties

Garret is a little confused. His sister wears panties and his brother wears underwear. He apparently wears underpanties.

Easter Egg Hunt and Coloring Easter Eggs

Coloring Easter eggs at Grammy's house

Hunting Easter eggs at Grammy's house

Counting the eggs so we could make sure that we found them all.

Acorn Award

Kirt made me put this post on. He says I have to blog my life too. I have been the PTA president at the kids school for the past 2 years. The members of the PTA at the school gave me a PTA award called the Acorn Award for my years of service.

New York City Day 3

Thursday we went downtown to the financial district. We saw Ground Zero and walked part way across the Brooklyn Bridge. Then we ventured into China Town and had some great Chinese food for lunch. After that we went to the Statue of Liberty. That night we met some friends from College, Matt and Kendra Cope and their 2 girls, in Central Park. It was great to catch up with them. Tanner, Garret and I went back to the apartment while Kirt and Katie had a date in Times Square. Katie wanted to go souvenir shopping. They also had hot cocoa and found a Toys R Us that had a ferris wheel inside it.

Ground Zero

Katie was so grouchy, we just had to capture the moment

Brooklyn Bridge

The Empire State Building is in the background. For some reason Garret decided that he wanted to be a "Statue of Liberty" in a lot of these pictures.

Katie and Garret didn't want Chinese food so we bought them a hot dog from a street vendor.

Eating in China Town

The Statue from the ferry

Garret's Statue of Liberty pose

The Statue of Liberty

Looking at Manhattan Island near the financial district

Looking up inside the Statue of Liberty

Up on the platform base of the Statue of Liberty

Statue replica

Actual size of the Statue's foot

Inside the pedestal of the Statue

Kendra and I in Central Park

Kids in Central Park

Kirt and Katie on their date to Times Square


Katie and Kirt were on the jumbotron in Times Square

The ferris wheel inside Toys R Us

Riding the Ferris Wheel

New York City Day 2

Wednesday we had an adventure. Garret somehow managed to lock the door of the room that he and Tanner we sleeping in. I had taken out their suitcase to get them dressed that morning, but their shoes were locked inside the room. We called the management company and they said that would probably not get it unlocked until later that afternoon. So Jessy took Will and Katie to a playground in Central Park while Tanner and I went on an adventure through NY City to find new shoes for Garret and he. (Tanner wore Kirt's shoes on the adventure while Kirt and Garret stayed in the apartment.) We finally found shoes. Then we ventured up to the Natural History Museum. Afterwards we took a pedicab and had a tour of Central Park. We played in a playground. We also did some geocaching. We found a cach that had something in it all the way from Germany. Jessy and Will took the train home that night. They had had enough of us:) Kirt and I went to dinner with some friends of his, Yorg and Alena at a Moroccan restaurant. 

Natural History Museum

Pedicab ride in Central Park

Garret in Central Park 

Geocach