Picture Day for Christmas :)

Alex

Cara

Someday I will hopefully get a nice shot of the two of them!

So, there I was, ready to take Christmas pictures of the kids for the year. We woke up and it is a balmy 75 degrees out today!!! This is SO not Christmas weather!!!! So, our pictures have ended up more springish than Christmassy, but oh well! As you can see, I still haven't been able to get a good shot of the two of them together, but someday I will :)

Our Pumpkins!

Alex, drawing his face he wants carved :)

Cara, concentrating hard on drawing her face :)

Alex's result....

Cara's result

Cara did so aweomse pulling the guts out!!

Alex, on the other hand, couldn't even bear to put his hand in once! It just didn't want to get yucky!!

She did get gossed out, but she stuck through it.

Our family of pumpkins :)

The kids loved having the candles in the pumpkins!

Mine and Alex's....his turned out a wee bit more terrifying than I wanted....

I thought Blake did an excellent job making Cara's look like her actual picture :)

Fire Safety Week!

Alex, all ready for the firetruck!

 

Alex, and his bestie Jilly :) 

 

Both classes, getting ready for the firefighters :)

 

In full gear! 

 

Alex's class, getting ready to look at the firetruck

 

 

 

Cara's class getting ready to look at the firetruck

 

 

My two munchkins, who yes pick out their own clothes, and who also kinda grimace at the camera at times.....

  The kids had so much fun during fireweek at school! The week ended with the fire department sending out a firetruck to the school :) They learned so much: How to dial 911 in case of an emergency, how to Stop-Drop-and Roll, how not to be afraid of the firefighters when they come in to rescue you. Alex really really learned that you feel a door to see if it is hot, and if it is, then you have to climb out a window to escape the fire.....He loves that rule! Cara keeps bugging me now to come up with a meeting place outside in case of a fire. Maybe fires will replace tornados in her journal now......If you haven't heard about her journal, it's quite amusing! Maybe I will do a blog on that :)
        One other amusing note...when the firefighter had all of his gear on in the classroom, Alex turned and looked at me and stated "He sounds JUST like Darth Vader!" Makes a mother's heart proud :)

The kids

Cara and Alex

 She's looking a little photoshopped....I am working on that :)

 His turned out pretty cute :) Less photoshopped-ness going on.

Our FABULOUS hotel! Blake went all out :)

 He got us tickets to the Phantom of the Opera....front row seats!

 We weren't allowed to take pictures during the show. But it was absolutly amazing!

 Central Park :) I had no clue there was a lake in the middle of it.

 Here we are, eating hotdogs in Central Park. I was pretty sure the hotdog would be gross becuase Blake ordered it with everything but onions on it. This included sauerkrout. Yuck!!! Amazingly, though, it was delicious!!! I loved it :) 

 The Empire State Building

 I loved this picture that shows how tall the building is :)

 View from the top

 Huh...this is out of order. This is the entrance to Central Park

 We took a ferry ride around the river. It had rained all day, but thankfully, the rain stopped for the 90 minute ferry ride :)

 The Brooklyn Bridge

 The Statue of Liberty. We would have love to go to the island, but the statue is undergowing a year long renovation, so we wouldn't have been able to go inside. It was amazing to see it from the ferry, though!

 These are the new Twin Towers.

 Grand Central Station. The pictures don't show it very well (we got a new camera and were trying to figure it out!)

 Some interesting buildings

 This is in the wrong order as well. It's the Museum of Natural History

 The main entrance to the Museum of Natural History

 A minature of ancient China :)

 Can you see Aladdin flying??

 Crazy skeletons!

 The cool ocean part of the museum

 Rex! from Night at the Museum :)

 A different exit to the museum :)

 We spent a good 3 1/2 hours in this museum....could have spent all day!!!

 Metropolitan Museum of Art

 These are all different carved beetles. They looked cool!

 After walking 40 blocks to one museum, spending 3 1/2 hours there and walking across Central Park, we ended up only spending about 2 1/2 hours in the Metropolitan Museum. Then we had the long 40 block trek back to the hotel. My feet HURT after that!!!!

 The streets of New York

 Rockefeller Center

 The Rockefeller Building

 Times Square, at 10:30pm. It was packed!

I have a few more pictures, and I didn't put up all the ones I had, because that would have made waaaay too long of a blog :) We had the most wonderful time. I thought New York would be scary, but it wasn't. There were definetly a TON of people. All the time. But it was cool. Once you figured out the crosswalks and what not, it wasn't scary at all. I am so glad I didn't have to drive there, though!!! The drivers are totally like you see in the movies. They drive super fast and use their horns for everything!!!! It was all so cool, though. I am so thankful to my awesome hubby for setting it all up. Happy tenth anniversary to us!