Breakfast with Santa 2009

Yesterday we did Breakfast with Santa at our church. Nene, Lawson, Britain, Mary, Jonathan, and Lucy all joined us. I think the kids had a lot of fun! As you can see the big kids did much better with Santa than the girls!


Not happy little girls:

Taylor and Erin Leonard (these guys have been best buddies since they were 3 months old).

My beautiful Niece Britain and Nephew Lawson:

It is so very hard to get a good picture of these two together:

NYC 2009 Part 6 - Done!!!

NYC 2009 Part 5 in Pictures

Taylor, Uncle Jonathan, and G-Daddy

Rockefeller Center

Ice Skating
Fairytale carriage ride through Central Park. It was supposed to be a surprise for Taylor, but I think he was not shocked. One day I am going to surprise him good!

This is the natural museum of history. Taylor loved this museum so much, mostly because it had dinosaur bones. He is so much like his daddy – he loves to learn!

I remember when I was little I would get so bored when my parents would drag me through museums. I use to remember wondering if “do my parents really enjoy this, or are they just trying to torture us.” Not that I am older I truly think that they did not enjoy them, and they only reason they brought us is because they wanted to exposed us to new things. Which are all good things, but while we were at the museum in NYC my dad chose to stay in the hotel and watch the Alabama game. Which just solidified that they were trying to torture us and they did not enjoy museums as much as they lead us to believe.

This is Mary and Lucy by a cut out of a CA redwood tree - isn't it huge!!!

Taylor loving to learn:

Mommy and her baby boy!

Here are some pictures of mine and Mary’s adventure down to 5th avenue.

The stores on 5th Avenue had the most wonderful window displays all decorated for the holidays. This is the window outside of Tiffany’s. You can’t really tell from the picture but it is all three dimensional and made out of paper.

Sak's

Beautiful building ready for Christmas:

NYC 2009 Part 4 in Pictures

Rockefeller Center

Central Park

Going to the Central Park Children's Zoo

Taylor the rabbit

Taylor the Turtle

I think that Lucy and Taylor are going to be the close ones, and they are going to leave Emma Grace out. They sure do enjoy playing with each other.

I felt so bad leaving Emma Grace, but it was really for the best.

NYC 2009 Part 3 in Pictures

Time Square at night. We were headed to see Mary Poppins on Broadway. Poor Taylor was so very tired by the end of this night that he did not make it all the way through the show. We had to take him back to the hotel at intermission. As we are approaching one of the busy streets on Time Square Ryan and I have to pause a minute and to determine which way to go, and in the meantime Taylor starts to flip out (remember he is half asleep and delirious). He starts yelling at me, “MOM YOU HAVE LOST YOUR MIND, WE HAVE TO TURN BACK THERE TO GET TO THE HOTEL, MOM YOU HAVE LOST YOUR MIND.” I usually don’t let my children talk to anyone like this, but in all honesty I probably deserved it from dragging him around NYC all day long!












This was the Macy’s day parade. Taylor has the best seat in the house (up on this planter that his daddy reserved for him), he could see over everyone’s head. He only lasted about an hour through the parade but I thought that was pretty good. After that we went back to the room to watch the rest on TV. I think that I read there were over 3 million people in attendance at the parade.


Central Park:
G-Daddy and Taylor at the top of a really big rock!

NYC 2009 – Part 2 in Pictures

More of China town. This was really an interesting part of the city. There was so much illegal activity in this area it was unreal. Plus we did see three huge dead and gutted pigs being carried through town. There was beautiful produce displayed all over the streets of this city which was interesting.

The Plaza

TAO Toy Store


This is the three story candy store that was Taylor’s favorite part of the trip! The whole place was completely overwellming

The Walls looked like you could eat them.

This design was made our of Jelly Beans

The stairs had candy in them

Have you ever seen such:

Incase you ever wondered there is a Home Depot in the middle of Manhattan.

NYC 2009 Part 1 in Pictures

7th Ave right in front of our hotel on Time Square.

Taylor and his Aunt Emily

Chinatown Park:

- Watch out for creepy old men with no children wondering around.

Classic NYC checker board park table.

Macy’s Flagship Store on 5th Ave:

Taylor writing his letter to Santa at Macy’s

The Crew, minus G-Daddy who was in the hotel working.

This picture was taken in the Subway. It was much cleaner than the movies make it out to be, but it was still dirty. When we got back to the hotel at the end of the day Jonathan said “I have to wash my hands because I feel like I have been playing in doo doo all day long.” I could not have summed it up any better.