Merry Christmas!

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior,

who is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:11

We are headed to Louisville for a week and I'll be catching everyone up on our travels sometime in January because belive it or not January is almost as busy as December. We would like to wish all our friends and family a healthy and joyful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

TGF...

Thank Goodness For NY in December. I love NYC in December and it gives our family a reason to come for a visit which makes it even better. My parents and sister came to experience NY during the holidays 2 weekends ago and we had a great time shopping, looking at the holiday windows, seeing the big tree in Rockefeller Center, seeing the Radio City Rockettes, and taking Lindsey out for a belated 21st birthday celebration.

The Big Tree

Riding the Subway

Going to see the Rockettes

The chandeliers in Radio City Music Hall were beautiful

This is the Swarovski Crystal Star that is on top of the Big Tree

Holiday Windows

Barney's Windows were Lady Gaga Themed

Doing the little monster pose

Bergdorf Goodman Windows were animal themed

Tiffany's Windows were carousal themed

Brian took this picture and I loved how the people are blurred

Henry Bendals Windows were NYC themed

Taking Lindsey out for a night of dancing

Thank you Mom, Dad, & Lindsey for such a wonderful time together!

Hanging Out in November

We are already mid way through December and I haven't blogged once, that's how busy I have been. I am actually still trying to catch up on November. Here are a few snap shots from all the fun we had in Nov. Maybe in January I will catch up to December.

Hanging out with the PGY 4s playing a little flip cup

We made it to central par one day in the fall before all the leaves were gone. I love the park when all the leaves are such pretty colors.

Celebrating Leslie's 30th Birthday

Happy Thanksgiving

This year we stayed in New York for Thanksgiving and celebrated with each other. I am very thankful for my wonderful family especially my husband. Brian was on-call all weekend but we still managed to spend some time together. On Thanksgiving night we went to Bar Boloud which is one of Daniel Boloud's restaurants. It was so delicious and the best part was no cooking or cleaning was required. I also had a very productive weekend and I am happy to say all of my holiday shopping is complete and all the gifts are wrapped and under the tree. I also was able to finish putting up the Christmas decorations, thanks to Mr. Schulz bringing them to us from storage, and to a little midnight black Friday shopping at Target to get our tree.

The weekend before Thanksgiving Stephen, Melissa and Andrew came to visit us. We had a good time and tried our best to show Melissa the city in 24hours since she had never been to NYC.

Times Square a Must See

Brunch at Cali Ocho with all you can drink sangria :) Bob and Kristen joined us too.

I love this picture in Central Park of the Brian with his brothers.

You can't tell they are at all related ;)

TGF... Taylor Swift at MSG!

On Tuesday night we went to Madison Square Garden to see Taylor Swift in concert. It was my birthday present from Brian and it was one of the best presents ever. I'm a huge Taylor fan, not crazy like most of the 12-15 year olds who were there, but I do know all the words to her songs and I think she is an awesome performer. I can't believe she is only 21 and can command a crowd of that caliber. MSG was sold out two nights in a row and the show Tuesday was the last show of her tour. She played for almost 3 hours and had two special guests. The first one was Selina Gomez and the crowd was ecstatic. Every person was singing all the words so the noise level was enough to do damage to my ears I think. I couldn't hear clearly until midday Wednesday. The second guest was James Taylor, who she is named after. They played Fire and Rain together.

I'm posting two short clips of her concert but I'm warning you that my singing is so bad you may not want to watch them. I'm not a great singer but the fact I couldn't hear anything makes it way worse. It is really cool to see the crowd at the Garden though and to hear James Taylor play. Thank you Brian for such an awesome night

James Taylor

Water Adventure

This is the last of our Key West trip. I saved the best for last because the most fun thing we did on vacation was going on a private sailing charter/kayak/snorkeling adventure. Brian's dad went fishing so it was just the three of us and our awesome guide. I had never been sailing before or kayaking in the ocean. We were lucky to such beautiful weather.

I've always wanted to layout in these mesh nets on a sail boat

like they do on all the bachelor excursions :)

Kayaking through the mangroves

It was a windy ride