New York City

Besides the Provo parade and the Lehi parade which we absolutely love going to, there were always the two national classics that are musts- Macy's Thanksgiving and Rose parades! I have been fortunate enough to attend the Rose parade twice and have always wanted to go to the Macy's parade. Being on the East coast, we knew the parade somehow needed to be on the bucket list! Luck would have it that Scotts brother Ryan, lives in the city and so for Thanksgiving we were able to spend time with him and cross another thing off the list! 

Scott's cousin Evan was able to come out from DC and enjoy Thanksgiving with us. Jackson had so much fun with Evan and really liked that there were three big boys to play with. This was the first Thanksgiving that we didn't have a turkey but we replaced it with some really good NYC BBQ.

Scott and Jackson have never been to NYC so we tried to fit every thing in during our short little stay. After the parade we did all the attractions around Central Park and the Rockefeller Center. We were able to go to FAO Schwarz and see the guys perform on the big piano like in the movie "Big". On the second day we were able to go see ground zero, the Statue of Liberty, and the business district. There were a lot of protesters and Scott was excited to see the cops on horseback controlling the scene!

One of my many favorite things about our tip was going to the restaurant, Max Brenner's Chocolate by the Bald Man! It was sooooo good and Jackson went to town on their home made mac and cheese! I now crave it all the time and their chocolate is truly to die for. 

Watch the guy in the green pants to your left and his friend in the next pic. :)

I have a tooth!

Mmmm... This is good.

This is really gooooood!

I can not get this in my mouth fast enough!!!!!!

October Fest

There is so much to say about October! This is the time where it really starts to feel like fall, you have apple pie, crafts, pumpkin spice, and most of all there is Halloween! We did a lot during this month and here is a little snip bit of all our fun adventures!

Our first adventure was to Roba Farms with some friends. We enjoyed their pumpkin patch, animal races, and all their other fun festivities that they had for Halloween.

Next on our list was going down to Hershey Pennsylvania. The town is basically made out of chocolate and you can even just smell chocolate in the air! They have chocolate, an amusement park, museums, movies about chocolate, and more chocolate!

After getting a glimpse of what Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory would be like we decided to go see the Amish country.

In our play group we put together a Halloween carnival for the kiddies and they just loved it! We had a cupcake walk, pin the nose on the pumpkin, pumpkin toss, stories/songs about halloween, coloring, cookie decorating, and candy! Jackson really loves other little kids and has so much fun following them around! He also has a thing for older girls and is such a little flirt. 

On actual Halloween Jackson was sick and we had to take him to the Dr. This ends up being his second ear infection.  Even though he was sick he was such a good little boy and was excited to pass out candy even though we got NO tricker-treaters. Our costume theme was that Scott was Petter Pan, I was Tinkerbell, and Jackson was a lost boy (the lost boys dress us as different animals). But mostly Jackson was a cute monkey. :) Jackson's moccasins that he is wearing were made by my grandpa for my brothers when they were little! (My mom and I found them this past summer in a box!)