New York, New York

I had a work project in New Jersey over the 4th of July holiday and my coworkers finally persuaded me to go into Manhatten for the first time.

This is just after coming out of the subway from Hoboken, NJ where we parked.  We walked a few blocks to Central Park and as you can see the weather was perfect!

 

 

This is Belvedere Castle next to Turtle Pond

The aforementioned Turtle Pond

It was too late to head into the Museum of Natural History and it was under construction anyway.

We thought this was the building from Ghostbusters but it turns out we were a few blocks off.  Still a cool looking building.

 

We headed back through the subway system to Hoboken and found our spot to watch the fireworks over the Hudson.  Here's a great sunset picture and if you look close, you can see a blimp flying overhead.  We actually saw another one the next day with a different sponsor.

During the show, my coworker Brian and his girlfriend who he had brought on the trip wandered a little ways away.  When we met up with them after the show, she had a brand new engagement ring to show off.  Congratulations to the happy couple!



Father's Day Mariner Game

Since we attended a Ms game for Mother's day it only seemed appropriate to attend one for Father's day!  Colby's Uncle Randy and Aunt Shelley gave us tickets to the Ms for Christmas.  They also gave Ken and Sydnie the same thing so we could all go together.



As you can see the season seats are really close

Dustin Ackley was called up the night before so this was his first time at bat in the big show!  It was awesome to see the fans go crazy and cheer for him!  My pregnant hormones got the best of me and I teared up thinking of how proud his family must be!

Root sports reporter in our section!  Chatting it up with fans.

The moose even stopped by for a visit!

Only group shot we got.  I was trying to protect the chin from the double look since the camera was inches from my face :)

Showing the score after the 7th inning stretch!

It was a great night for M's fans!!

How does your garden grow?

Elle decided to help out in the garden and even dressed herself for the occasion.



Swinging is way more fun!

Note the new cement wall Colby made during his week off.  It is AWESOME!  Colby has started on the next row which will give me a big veggie garden in the front and back will be trees and foliage.  If all goes as plan this will be done next month! YEAH!!

Mother's Day Baseball

This year for Mother's day, Colby's Uncle Randy was able to get the family a suite at the Mariner's game.  Colby's grandparents were original season ticket holders and Uncle Randy and his friends have continued renewing each season and as a result Randy was able to pick one game to use a suite for free!  YEAH for us!!



This year meeting the Moose was way less painful for all parties!  Elle didn't have the choke hold/death grip going!

Cheese!

Stare off!

Colby's Mom side of the family.  Happy Mother's day!

Elle The Builder

Elle was Daddy's helper for a weekend when we were building the new cabinets in the office.



Very serious about her job holding the nails and helping to tap, tap, tap them in!

 

See Momma, piece of cake! 

Neighborhood Concert

The night before we left for vacation (way back at the end of March) our dear neighbors hosted a concert at their house!  Mindy Gledhill and Debra Fotheringham gave an awesome performance.

Finleigh's 1st Birthday

The following day we headed north to Finleigh's first birthday party!  It was a book theme and we were given a book plate to fill out and put into a book we loved for exchange.  At the end of the party the books were handed out and each child got to open it along with a super duper cute book mark from Finleigh's Momma.

Elle bouncing around on a Rody. 

Elle mingling with Colby's coworker Dan and his wife Jess.

Circling up for cake time!

Getting ready to sing.

Elle loved the cake and enjoyed playing with new friends.  Finleigh had on a big sister shirt and we are very excited to meet the new little one in October.  Which means our little one will have a playmate close in age!

Visitors

We had visitors two weekends ago (see getting closer to caught up).  Christy, Parker, and Delaney came up from Vancouver, Liz and Madelyn came from Seattle, Brooke came drown from Bothell, and Holly, Brian, and Tanner from Sammamish for a mini WSU reunion! 

The kids had so much fun playing together!

Miss M is growing up so quickly so is a super quick crawler on the verge of walking!

Christy brought the girls matching yellow outfits!  So stinking cute!

Delaney and Elle

Miss M "What"?

Playing around while Parker played music.

Sunday morning!  Elle was sad to see her little buddy go!

Evolution of our cars

We made some big changes to our car situation in the last few months.  We decided to sell not one, but both of our cars!

I was a little sad to see Jeepy go as it was the first car I purchased completely on my own but it was like the time I sold my first steer at auction.  Dad said something very wise to me "Kimmie you can keep the steer and continue feeding it forever or you can take the cash, your call"   Jeepy would have sucked us dry just like the steer!

Neither of us even batted an eyelash at selling the Altima.  We were rear ended three times in this car, for some reason people just didn't see us... Twice we were fully stopped at a light and they rolled into the car.  Mind you this car didn't even get a nickname, sad... 

Bring on the new!!

We adopted "The Little Mule" from my parents.  I think Daddy-o had a hard time parting with the mule but the cash helped buy the new canopy for "Mister Clean" his new Tundra :)  So it worked out for both of us plus we have brought the "the little mule" over the hill for visits.

  

Here is our newest pride and joy, "The deathstar"! Colby was so excited to take this picture while we were visiting Grand Coulee Dam notice the lacking of Elle or me in the pic?  We were posing off to the left thinking Colby was taking a picture of us...