April 2017

We started off the month with a visit from Mum & Dad B. New England showed off its rain shower-power for most their visit but we still had a lot of fun. Mum and Dad went into the city with Phil and visited Harvard Med School Quad, Phil's work and stopped by Fenway Park. They were meant to go to a Red Sox game but it was rained out!

We visited the park and learned new tricks, played games at night and celebrated Dad's birthday.

We introduced Mum & Dad to candlepin bowling at the local alley - Jayne and Elle love it as they can hold the balls themselves.

We took a trip up to New Hampshire one Saturday to visit Keith and Nerissa and their girls. These cuties always get along so well!

We made a day of it and trekked out to Vermont to Joseph Smith's birthplace. It was a nice little trip through the snowy woods and these kids loved stretching their legs by running around in the frigid temps.

After Mum & Dad's visit we celebrated Easter. Jayne's increasing understanding of holidays makes each one better and better. They happily searched for eggs and loved finding the candy inside.

Easter dresse!

My mom sent little gifts over with Phil's parents (they stopped in Utah on the way) and the girls loved them...and wanted to swimming right away. A few more months girls :)

LOVE!

Jayne got an Ariel dress up from the easter bunny...and of course Elle had to get in on the dress up action :)

Because the Red Sox game was rained out when Mum & Dad were here, we were able to used the tickets and go as a family later that month. It was a beautiful spring day, we loved being inside historic Fenway Park and girls lasted the entire time - plus the Sox pulled off a ninth inning victory. It was great! We loved singing "Take me out to the ball game" to the park organ and Jayne kept tabs on the players' sock colors...Red Socks win, right mom? :)

Elle lasted through the game, but quickly zonked once she was back in the stroller. It was adorable!

And by the end of the month, Spring finally arrived! We went into the city, visited Phil's lab and ended our day out with a picnic in the Harvard Med School Quad. It was amazing to feel the sun again!

And we'll end with Jayne's infamous rockstar song that I mentioned last month - I finally found the video. Enjoy :)

NYC 2014 - Day 2

Our second day in New York was jam-packed with sight seeing. We started off at FAO Schwarz toy store. We liked this store much  more than the Toys R Us in Times Square. It felt classy, had a great layout and they had any and every.single.kind.of.toy you can even imagine, each in its own themed area. Seriously. Plus amazing staff demonstrating toys to show you how cool they are. We strolled through each area and fantasized of doing our Christmas shopping in the big apple.

Safari section...any stuffed animal you can imagine

The "Schweetz" section...any candy you can imagine!

My sweet tooth :)

Infamous Big Piano

Lego section

I mentioned this dog in Jayne's 11 month post. It was one of the first things we saw when we walked in the door. I gave it to her to keep her occupied and well, it was love.

Muppets area-you can customize your very own muppet there!

They even have a baby section. Ah, if you can't tell-we really enjoyed FAO Schwarz...kids at heart I guess!

From there we took a short jaunt to see Serendipity...

and then made our way to Tom's Restaurant, famous from Seinfeld for my Seinfeld loving hubs. They actually don't ever eat there (the show was filmed in LA), but the outside is what they always show before diner scenes. The food was actually good and decently priced-Plus we enjoyed the Seinfeld memorabilia on the walls and references in their menu

Next up was the Manhattan Temple. It popped up out of nowhere, right across the street from the Lincoln Center.

We decided it was time to let Jayne stretch her legs so we made our way to Central Park. Mmmm-I do love Central Park!

We found a nice area of grass to just unwind and take in the surroundings.

This little one loved crawling around (not many places to do that in NYC) and pulled the grass to her little heart's content

(Jayne & I are that little white blob of people in the middle right of the bridge)

Our walk through park let us to Belvedere Castle, which provided some stunning views

I just love how the city skyline suddenly meets the treeline

We decided we needed some air conditioning to cool our bodies down. The Museum of Natural History is right across the street from the park and provided the perfect cool down.

We made it for the last hour (free entry!) and even found our favorites from Night at the Museum

We finished off the day in Rockefeller Center. We had a scheduled trip to the Top of the Rock for sunset. Luckily we had some time to kill beforehand and stumbled on this Godiva chocolate shop. Their iced chocolate was to.die.for! I gladly forgo-ed my dinner for this little beauty!

Our Top of the Rock visit was well worth it. We opted for this route rather than the Empire State Building because you can see the city and park from the Rock, and it was cheaper.

Central Park

Panoramic Shot

Our seasoned traveler. The other tourists thought it was so cute that she was just sleeping amid the hustle and bustle up top

City View

Jayne woke up halfway through our visit to the top and obliged us with some photos

(check out the tourists behind us in these pics. They were loving Jayne!...We got points, smiles, and waves from so many people. She made friends wherever we went on this trip! )

Another day in the books. Thanks NYC!