Chocolate Tour of NY

I think in April, five of us bought a Groupon for the Chocolate Tour of New York.  It took us 5 months to find a date that worked for 4 of us (Cady went alone before she moved :(. 

This tour took us to 7 or 8 different chocolate hot spots around Chelsea, Greenwich and Soho.  We sampled lots of delicious and different chocolates and had a fun night. 

                                         Me, Larissa, Mary and Brooke

 My first time trying Magnolia Bakery! This cupcake was delicious-yet suuuuuuper sweet.

 This place had some very unusual and cool chocolate. Mango and chipotle or something.  Very good.

 We had a little girls night out dinner afterwards. Stuffed and stuffed! Love doing cool NY Adventure things while we are here!

1st Day of WHA?!?!??

I don't know how, but we are the parents of a KINDERGARTENER!!

                        Yummy chocolate chip waffles for a power breakfast for the first day!

                                        Ryan had to be a part of first day pictures!

 

                            Our big boy rockin' out in his MNS P.S. 290 shirt!

                                                      Family shot with Fasbee

 No bus for this boy. Just a short little walk

 Looking happy, looking tired, and screaming crying all within 20 minutes.

The first day was a half day. Chris got to work from home in the morning and go pick him up with us and we all went to Big Daddy's for lunch.
 The next day was his first full day and he wasn't too happy at drop off again (hysterical to be exact), but told me he had a fun day it was just too long. The next few days have been exhausting, but I think we are heading in the right direction.  Cheers to a successful first year of ALL DAY kindergarten!

KPMG Labor Day Picnic

Last year we got together with three other families on the Great Lawn for a Labor Day picnic. This year I sent out an email to the wives I had met and holy smokes, it snowballed. I think we had 50+ people! It was crazy to try and meet everyone and semi-watch your children!

Braxton       Katie

                                                   Wrestling in the grass

                                                Celebrating Henry's 6th Birthday

                                            One of the few adult pictures I took Jess, me , Larissa and Mary

                                                      Baby Alex

                                                  Mikey, Ashley, tired Ryan, Andrew and Henry

                                                             Mikey cheesing

                                               Quinn attacking Andrew

                                                           Quinn

                                                          Family shot

Yankees vs. Orioles Game

We made it down to Yankee Stadium! And we got to see the Orioles beat the Yankees!! (Well, we didn't actually make it to the end of the game..but still…) Woohoo!

Look at that calorie count!! I couldn't believe it!

      Ryan was so excited he fell asleep on the walk up to our seats while Chris was carrying him

How handsome is this little fella! Too bad all he wanted to do was EAT!! Bottomless I tell ya!! And, on another note-we must get some Orioles attire for our family!

                                              Being silly with cousin Sam

                                                           Andrew and Sam and Cara

Family shot. Hopefully we can make it to another game next year. It is really easy to get to, I just need to make sure we take 476 snacks for the boys!

CP Zoo

We had to take advantage of the BEAUTIFUL weather we have been having and took a trip down to the zoo. I actually haven't taken the kids lately so it was fun to go down where we know where every animal we want to visit is! Ryan got brave and wanted to really feed the animals this time! 

 Look at these cute babies! They were running and jumping like crazy!

I won't go into detail about how Chris tried to get into this turtle shell….

This mama has got to be popping soon!

                                                      Love my two little turtles!