Crunchy Apples

8/30/10

Our week

My parents took the kids away from us for 8 whole days!! gasp! It was AWESOME!! We did tons of stuff and just enjoyed being together. Alone. And we ate a LOT.

Japanese steak house for lunch. Awesome.

Fried green tomatoes at Diosaur BBQ in Harlem. Not so awesome.

Need I say more? I told my friend/neighbor Anne Marie that we went there twice in one day and she was all, wait you mean twice in one week. Nope Anne Marie, twice in one day. In my defense they use organic ingredients. But even if they didn't I would still go.

Burgers and (bleh) fries at PJ Clarks. I say Meh to the burger. No offense to all of the lovers of PJ's, but it was just a burger, albeit a very juicy burger, but certainly not worth breaking my rule for. The waiter was awesome though.

Highline Park in Chelsea. Really cool and a lot longer than I thought. And I just love nearby Chelsea Market.

The Brooklyn Flea Market. Of course incredible as it involves peoples junk which we all know I love.

Bambu at the Met. Amazing! And how the H did they do it?

Breakfast at Norma's.....

And a totally stress free day of freedom with my best good friend K dawg. You know its "tru" love when your friend uses one of her free daycare days for you.

A gorgeous sunset. This was on our way back home after dropping the kids off. A good omen for the week ahead :)

Beautiful scenery and a whole bunch of other stuff that we didn't document but rest assured that it included a lot of lounging, napping and no responsibility, at least on my part. Thanks mom and dad, it was so great to enjoy our lovely city sans kiddos!

8/27/10

Philly

We met my parents in Philly to hand off the kids for the week. Before we went we consulted with Man Vs Food as to where to go. We took his advice on 2 places and were dissapointed with both.

The first was an old time ice cream shop which was so cute and check out this guy. Isn't he adorable? The ice cream was totally tasteless. But the ambiance was really fun.

And they had a million different old sodas. Doesn't Nee Nee have nice bone structure? She is a beauty in the making.

And this heres the bell. With a crack. Yup. I am not so into history like my Dad and brother. But it is still cool to go to a really old city.

The youngins.

We sure are a lively, happy bunch. It was starting to sprinkle and we were lugging around junk. Good times.

While we were waiting we went to the Terminal Market and saw an Amish diner. They had meat gravy on the menu which Can thought was a good idea because Maddie Lapp (our Amish farmer's wife) had made some from scratch that was just devine. This meat gravy? Not so much. Me I stuck with eggs and toast, you can't go wrong.

K it seems as if I'm complaining about this little trip, I promise it was nice and the best part was that we came home by ourselves!!

Guillo

This is my cute Uncle Guillo. He is such a sweetheart. Guess how old he is? First guess and then I'll tell you.

He's fifty six! Wow, I know right. I have so many fun memories of him. He is still going strong and goes to work at a bakery everyday. I am so glad that I got to grow up with my three handicapped sisters and this sweet uncle. It really gives you an appreciation for and love of those who are disabled. I love you buddy boy!

8/26/10

fixed

Many of my hundreds of readers, well ok, not so much many of hundreds but some of my fifty readers were having..... OK lets be honest, my mom and my sister (who make up the majority of my fan base) were having trouble seeing the pictures on the Family Time post so I laboriously saved each picture to the computer from my email and now we have a fixed post below. I hope you guys appreciate my hard work!

8/19/10

Salt: A review

We just got back from watching Salt. We LOVED it! Yes there are some (many) plot holes and some very unlikely stunts but it was SO entertaining. And it takes place in both of my cities :)

OK so that wasn't so much a review as it was an endorsement. But go see it!!

8/17/10

Family time in UT

Our laptop has a virus so is therefore unusable so I can only post pictures that I emailed to myself for now.

Can's sister Jenny and her family is to my right and then next to Can are his parents and his brother Mark and his family. We went to a cabin in Eden UT which is gorgeous.

Can Man is shoving his face with marshmallows, his fave which he never gets to eat because of the food Nazi. Muahaha.

Jenny and I just chatting while ignoring screaming child(ren), we are good at that.

One of our goals of the trip was to make sure that E and L got lots of cousin time in and they did! They all hit it off...

Except when they were crying

This photo will probably be vetoed later but here we are at a lake in Eden, can't remember the name but it was nice.

And then I found these old ones on my inlaws computer, they were all taken in 2004/2005 and then some after Levi was born.

This was at Mark's wedding, I'm not sure what I'm doing but Can looks very contemplative. Don't you love the goatee? He grew one out last week and I love it, but he had to shave it for Sunday...boo!