Dance Recital 2011

Both the girls took dance this year! McKenzie hasn't taken dance since she was Addison's age.. so she chose to try a Hip Hop class.  Addison did Ballet and Tap in a preschool class.


Addison loved getting all "pretty" for the pictures as well as the big day! Makeup is something she loves to put on now... she thinks she needs to have it every day now!

 

Here are their pictures..

 

I had told them to take a single photo of McKenzie... and for some reason, she didn't get one... and she failed to mention this until AFTER we were home and she had changed.. ugh!

 These photos are from the photographers on recital night!

 This was McKenzie's big flip.... she did a hand stand, then the girl grabbed her legs and flipped her over her head.  It was really cool!

 

Addison comes out 2nd, but ends up in the middle... she is the one who tells the little girl where she is supposed to be standing!  It's hard to see very clearly because of the lighting..

McKenzie comes sliding in from the right..

Trevor's Last Soccer Game

Trevor's last soccer game was on June 4th... and he was so excited that not only was Daddy home to go to it... but Grandma was in town as well! It was a big win for the final game of the season!

The coaches had trophies and t-shirts for all the players after the game! And we all pitched in with some cupcakes and goodies!  The Skeletons had a great season!

Giraffe Pool

Summer is definitely here... Just days into June the temps skyrocketed into the 90s... so we filled up the pool for the kiddos and let them cool off in the water.  Addison fell in love with the giraffe. So did Tyler.

 But mostly Addison.

 You could hook the hose up to the small giraffe tail and it sprayed water out... Tyler liked that feature best of all! As long as he was on the contols!

 Addison kissing the giraffe.

 The Addison Thumbs Up!

With my kiddos personalities... you can only imagine how much fun it can be to try to get a GOOD group picture of all of them.  There is always AT LEAST one who is unwilling to participate or cooperate and smile nice!

5th and Final Day in NYC

On our last half day in NYC... we decided to walk around Time Square... and then walk to Hello Deli for real this time!  It was our last opportunity to get our souvenirs. But every morning should start off with a good breakfast... from Starbucks!

 

The Travel Channel is doing a new show with sand sculptures.  They dumped a huge pile of sand in the middle of Time Square and we watched these people create an amazing sculpture in just a few hours. It was military themed in honor of fleet week... and it was beautiful!

We finally found Hello Deli.. but it was closed.

Here we are standing outside !

And just around the corner is The Late Show with David Letterman!  It'a s really beautiful building!

Walking back to our hotel, we happened to come across another yummy cupcake bakery! Crumbs!  Since it was early, I got a sample pack to go!

 

These actually made it home to Virginia and the kids got to help sample these!!

All packed up and ready to fly home.... just waiting in the lobby of our hotel... building up the nerve to call a taxi for the long ride to the airport!

Day 4 NYC

Our 4th day in New York started off in Central Park... on bikes! We rented some bikes and rode through the trails in the park.. so much fun... and it was hot!

I don't have any good pictures of us actually riding... but I promise you we didn't push our bikes the entire time!

After our stroll in the park, we walked around and then headed to the Museum of Natural History, on our way, we popped into the Magnolia Bakery.

Here was the before... well, AFTER we devoured the first cupcake. Oops!

And just a short time later...

Meridith pointing to the remains of her favorite cupcake....

After a quick walk through the museum, we caught a taxi to Serendipity's.  Where we opted to NOT wait out the 2+ hour wait (we really just wanted to try the famous frozen hot chocolates) So we grabbed some Frozen Hot Chocolate mixes and we went on to Dylan's Candy Bar.... can you see a theme for today?

Can you say 2 enormous levels (actually I think it's 3) of never ending rows and rows of every candy you could ever imagine!!!

I'll just say I came out of there with way too much sugar!

We walked down to FAO Swarz to check out the toys!!!

There was a line to see the giant piano.... that will cost you $250,000 to take home!  It was the big piano that you see in the movie "Big". The room was packed and the line was too long to take a turn... but you can just imagine the show we could have put on... am I right?

  

Our last mission that day was to go seek out Hello Deli.. Rupert's Deli featured on David Letterman.  We walked back to that area... hungry.... so we stopped to get a little something to eat at a Diner.  Worst decision that day.  The food was TERRIBLE!  We were so disappointed with our food, and still hungry, that we forgot to finish our search for Hello Deli (which we later realized we were only 1 block away from) So we went back to our hotel (taking the scariest and most life changing taxi ride of our lives... nearly killing numerous people, including ourselves) and we ordered a pizza to be delivered to our room! It was amazing!

And yes, we ate it in our hotel room! Sitting on our beds! Yum!

Happy Father's Day!

Here are the kids' pictures they do each year for their dad!