Busy Weekend

We had a very busy weekend, but it was fun filled!

Today we went and saw Dusty at work to wish him a happy Father's Day

Friday night we went on a date with our friends to the Strawberry Days Rodeo! Love me some rodeo and strawberries & cream. We had a lot of fun!

Saturday we had a Batty Family BBQ for Father's Day. It was so fun with all the cousins and all the kids.

Kinley's new friend Cort

Many of you have seen many pictures of our friends Jeff and Kitani, but what you haven't seen is there little boy. He was born in April and has become Kinley's favorite little baby. She is always interested in what he is doing and where he is at. We went and out with Kitani and Cort this weekend for some fun! We went to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point. Kinley loves animals and was very interested in all of the kids.

Kitani feeding the geese
Cute Cort

Kinley just hanging out

Love his big eyes

this is a picture from the other day at our house. She ust likes to sit and hang out with him

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to the best dad a girl could ask for!

Love, Kinley

Art City Days

This last weekend was Art City Days. This year was a little more fun because Dusty was involved as a firefighter/paremdic at the Fireman's Breakfast. Kinley and I are so proud of him! We went to the breakfast, parade, car show and carnival. We love living in a community that is so great!

Happy Family
Dusty and Kinley at the parade

Up to Idaho We Go

Last week Kinley and I spent the week up in Idaho at my sister's. It was a lot of fun to spend time with her family and I think Dusty enjoyed the break and was able to sleep very well.

We made silk flower bows - I will try to get a finished product picture up
Kinley playing with a bunch of new toys with crazy hair

Bath Time with Dax

Hanging out at the library while the kids were at storytime

With her favorite - Tia Tia

Kinley's First Trip to the Zoo

We met my sister and her kids and my mom at the zoo. Kinley had such a good time looking at all of the animals.

Excited to see the next animal
Looking at the elephants

Dax and Kinley

Grammy and Kinley

Going down the slides with Tia Tia and Dax

All the Things To Do

Here are some of the things that we did

Karly and I went to Chicago

Christie Brinkley played the lead Roxie Hart was was horrible, but the rest of the cast and play was amazing!
Me and Karly

We went to the American Girl Doll Store

Kinley loved it. She couldn't stop looking at all the dolls

She even got her first American Girl doll

It is just a little one

FAO Schwartz - she did not like the solider

We went to story time and Kinley had a great time playing with the kids

We also played on the giant piano

We walked a lot and Kinley loved looking at all the new things and people

We had a great trip! Thanks Karly and Carlos for letting us stay!

All the Places to Eat

So many places to eat! Karly and Carlos knew all the good places and we tried to get to them all.

Grimaldi's - best pizza! It is over in Brooklyn and we had to wait about an hour and a half but I would for sure wait again! Kinley loved the crust

Carlos and Karly are focused on eating their pizza

Ferrerra's - in Little Italy

It has a lot of different Italian desserts. We tried almost 15 different ones

Crumbs Cupcakes - soooo delicious!

We got the Red Velvet, Cookie Dough, Peaunut Butter Cup and Carmel Apple Pie

A cute little place for brunch for Karly's

Cafe Lalo

Yummy desserts

Cafe Lalo

It is the cafe from You've Got Mail

Dylan's Candy Store

lots of fun candy, it was worth the stop

If you can't tell we ate lots of delicious food and would go back to all of the places

All the Places to See

We did a lot of sight seeing and of course we hit the "tourist" spots

Grand Central Station

One of my favs - gorgeous
Times Square
(a little overrated, but cool to see. if we ever went back we would go at night)



Times Square

At the Seaport

The girls

Me, Kinley and Karly

Me and Kinley ready to go for the day

Manhattan skyline

BrooklynSt Patricks Cathedral

Central Park

One of our favorite places, we could have spent longer there

hanging out at a playground in central park

Seeing the Statue of Liberty on the Staten Island Ferry

New York New York, a wonderful town!

In May we made a trip out to New York. It was so much fun and Kinley is a great traveler! We stayed with our amazing friends Karly and Carlos and they were the perfect guides and it was so good to see them and hang out with them again!

I am VERY proud to say that I packed for a week trip in 2 carry on suitcases, 2 personal items, a diaper bag and a stroller. I am was pretty amazed with myself :)
We had a early flight to catch
Kinley just hanging out in her pjs at the airport

Kinley was a fun of the poles in the subway

Scary thought

She loved looking at herself

After a long day sight seeing. Kinley was tired