Hokie Land & College Sports

 We started the month of November with a trip to Hokie Land.  We hadn't been there in so long so we were so excited for the visit.  We went to the Thursday night game against Georgia Tech.  Wow what a game to go to.  Thankfully we won in the last few seconds with an interception in the end zone.  Friday we walked around the beautiful campus remembering when we first met there.  We also had a chance to walk around the solar house.

We Friday afternoon we traveled out to Roanoke to see Randolph-Macon play in the semi final match of Regionals.  Yet another close game, but they pulled off the win.  We got a short visit with Auntie Kristie after the game before heading back to Michael and Maggie's for a yummy dinner and board games.

Saturday we braved the cold and wind and headed into Christiansburg for a chli cook off.  We at lots of yummy chili, and even got to talk with Bud Foster a little bit!!!

To conitue our college sports week, after returing home we went to see my cousin Trent play against University of Maryland in Basketball.  We had tickets 4 rows up behind the bench.  With great seats, and homemade signs our family cheered him on.  They lost by two points with only seconds left, but we had such a great time. 

NYC Mommies Weekend

My two girlfriends, Megan and Dana, and I took a much needed mommy get away weekend to New York City a couple weekends ago.

Megan's Aunt and Uncle live in NJ just outside the city, so we spent Friday night eating tons of delicious food and drinking some yummy wine.  Our meal consisted of several rounds that included homemade clam choweder, hummus and veggies, seared tuna with sesame seeds on a bed of seaweed salad, kabobs with fresh basil, mozerella and tomato with balsamic dressing, and flank steak.  Little did we know that was the beginning of our pampering.

After chowing down on the yummy food, here's Megan, Dana, Aunt Dee and I.

We woke up to an overcast morning, and breakfast on the table.  Aunt Dee surprised us with some spending money at the Marriott to accompany our suite at the hotel.  So we headed off to the city.

On our way out the door...

First stop was to drop off our bags at the hotel and then we headed down to Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty....here she is...

Just kidding.  Here's the real one.

Here's a picture of ground zero.  They've done so much in the past few years.  Last time I was there they were still cleaning up.  Awesome to see the progress.

We also had lunch with my cousin Catherine and my Aunt Donna in Chinatown followed by dessert in Little Italy.  Yummy!

 After all that sight seeing, we headed back to the hotel to change and get ready for our Broadway apperance, I mean show.

Yes we saw Wicked and it was amazing!  This was my second show, Rent was my first, and I just can't get enough of Broadway.  I would love to go back and see Wicked again.

We also got to go to The View...not the talk show.  It's a revolving resturant in Time Square.   Both Dana and I have motion sickness issue so we weren't sure how this was going to work, but we did ok.  Luckily we made reservations because there was a really long line waiting to go up to the resturant.  We had drinks and the dessert and cheese bar. 

What a wonderful time with some wonderful ladies.  I must also say thanks to our wonderful husbands for taking care of the kiddos for the weekend.

I made it to September

I'm finally catching up!  September started with a trip to the DC Zoo.  With a lot of running around in August, we needed a family day.  Maryssa loved looking at the animals and had a great time on the giant pizza!

Our Hokies had a rough start to the season this year, but Maryssa is happy to wear her Hokie gear. 

At 9 months she loved to sit in her chair, stand at the glass door and play in the puddles.

This is her frined Logan.  I got her a little people set and she just loves it.  Glad to see she's not beating Logan up this time.

This is after an avacado and pea lunch.  We went straight to a bath after this one.  She does love her food.  She eats everything and she eats a lot of it.

Last weekend, Maryssa and I traveled down to celebrate Baby Mannion, Lindy Lu and Dan.  Lindy is part of the Super 7 (my girlfriends from high school).  The shower was a lot of fun and of course full of fun games.  Here's a shot of us girls...but we were missing Corker.

After the shower there was one more surprise in store.  Julie's (also pictured above) boyfriend, Paul proposed to her before they came to the after party!  It was so wonderful that we all got to celebrate with them.  You can see the excitment on Julie's face as she told us her proposal story!

This past Wednesday, Maryssa and I met up with some other mom's at Fun Land.  The giant blow up playground was a lot of fun.  Maryssa loved crawling around and bouncing on her butt...although I think she loved watching the other kids run around just as much.  Another favorite was the bubble machine.  Her first experience with bubbles was a blast as she loved waving her hand around in them.

September has been a month of big milestones for our little girl.  She has two teeth on the bottom and one coming in on top, crawling all over the place, pulling up and "cruising" along tables and couches, clapping her hands, shaking her head no, climbing the stairs, and will occasionally let go and balance while she's standing up.  Her personality is become more apparent everyday.  Her laughs, squeals and low raspy scarry voice are part of our converstations everyday.  She's also more oppionated now and will refuse things if she doesn't want them, and crys when she doesn't want her way.