What We've Been Up to!

Okay... so I sort of fell off the map... for a WHILE! As we speak, there are dishes to be washed, TONS of clothes to be folded, and some reading to catch up on, but when I saw that the last time I blogged was the BEGINNING OF DECEMBER, I thought I'd sit and attempt to catch up. So... here goes!

What we've been up to:
1) CRAZY holiday plans for us personally as well as with my Kindergartners.
2) VERY spontaneous NYC Christmas trip right before Christmas (thanks to my awesome husband)

and finally...

3) Trip to Israel over the new year....phenomenal....'nuf said!

I have uploaded TONS of pics to my Facebook page, so be sure to go there and take a look at them all... but here are a few to get you started...

At my parents house Christmas Day- Tiny Bruiser (the nephew dog) on his new skate board :)

Our baby Lexi Grace wanting NOTHING to do with him- haha

Happy Birthday, Daddy... even in those AWFUL new pjs :)

Cute Christmas Story at MyChurch- kid participation!

Jeff telling the Christmas story to some of the MyKidz kiddos

So that's a few fun pics from Christmas. I am sorry to say that there are not more because I had a yucky cold over Christmas... yes... Eve, Day, all of it. :( Therefore, I was not up to playing paparazzi. I am looking forward to a more energetic Christmas in 2011! Ha!

A few weeks before that, one AWESOME afternoon my fabulous husband walked in and was like "Do you want to head up to NYC for a few days- ya now, to see the Christmas lights and all?" Ummm... YES PLEASE! I felt like one of those kids in those Disney World commercials where people send in home videos after they tell their kids they are leaving in half an hour to go to Orlando... yeah that was me! I have ALWAYS wanted to see NYC at Christmas time. We walked until our feet fell off, took the busses and subways, ate a fun restaurants, shopped, and even made it to a Rockette's Show!!!!! I was in heaven (despite the cold that I got the last day we were there- the same cold that lasted me through Christmas, but it was all worth it)!!! Here are just a few pics to mark the occasion...

Central Park

5th Avenue...

On top of the Empire State Building... breathtaking!

It was REALLY cold up there!

The tree in Rockefeller Center

Times Square

The Beautiful Plaza Hotel... "Credit card? You got it!"

Inside view from our seats at Radio City... not feeling well though... as you can tell! ugh!

There they are!!! The Rockettes! Hands down, the best show I've ever seen!

AWESOME nativity!

So yeah... that's where I've been. I intentionally left Israel off this blog post because it most definitely merits one of its own. That will come soon... but I figured this was enough to get you started! Happy New Year!