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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

While we were in NY Dancing With The Stars was doing their tour.  They had a show at Niagara Falls and comped us some tickets.  John and I left the kids with my parents and headed to Niagara Falls for the night. We were able to catch dinner before the show.  The show was amazing.  Then we had dessert afterwards… Read more →

Other fun NY adventures

Other fun NY adventures

This is my random post of other fun things we did while in NY. We decorated Sugar Cookies and Ginger Bread house and made t-shirts. We were able to have a mini Rochester II reunion with Erin Graham, Lynette Simmons and Alison Miller.  We met at the church and let the kids run around the gym together.  The kids even… Read more →

Snow what fun!

Snow what fun!

It snowed ONE day while we were in New York.  Curtis and Micah were being little stinkers and refused to go out in it.  Alessia and Gianluca were loving it though.  I went out long enough to snap a few pictures of my snow loving children.

Christmas 2014

Christmas 2014

We spent Christmas eve at the my Uncle Richie and Aunt Karen’s house.  It was so fun to spend time with my cousins, our kids and my aunts and uncles.  It has been a long time since I have done a lot of my family Christmas Traditions.  We had dinner, talked and opened presents. When we got home that night… Read more →

Church Sites On Christmas Eve

Church Sites On Christmas Eve

We decided the best way to celebrate Christmas Eve was to go and visit the Church Sites in Palmyra.  We were the only ones at the sites that day. Which was a good thing because we are not the most reverent family. We visited the Hill Cumorah first.  It was 60 degrees out so we didn’t even need coats.  There… Read more →

Leaves in December

Leaves in December

My kids were so excited to see leaves on the ground.  They had a blast raking them up into piles and then jumping in them.  Living in Vegas this just does not happen. While playing in them one night Curtis lost his glasses. It was pretty dark. I had to go out there and sift through all the leaf piles… Read more →

Christmas Tree Shopping

Christmas Tree Shopping

The last Christmas I had spent in NY was the year right after my mission. I got married the following year and John and I spent Christmas on our Honeymoon in NYC.  Before we knew it 12 years had passed and we had never made it to NY for Christmas.  We finally decided it was time to experience a white… Read more →

Christmas In New York 2014

Christmas In New York 2014

The last Christmas I had spent in NY was the year right after my mission. I got married the following year and John and I spent Christmas on our Honeymoon in NYC.  Before we knew it 12 years had passed and we had never made it to NY for Christmas.  We finally decided it was time to experience a white… Read more →

Bass Pro Shop 2014

Bass Pro Shop 2014

Every year we  I take the kids to the Bass Pro Shop to visit with Santa.  Bass Pro always does a great job of decorating their store for the Holidays and having little stations for the kids to play at.  Every year I am super excited to go and every year I leave exhausted. I tell myself each year that… Read more →

December 2014 Happenings

December 2014 Happenings

December is always a busy month for us.  We are running from one activity to the next.  It seems we have a lot of Christmas traditions we like to do each year. Every year we attend our Ward Christmas Breakfast.  This year Alessia was the first to sit on Santa’s lap and managed to pull off his beard while getting… Read more →