Shooting on our Street

There are two kinds of shootings in New York City... this is the kind where they take over 6 blocks for two days with a LOT of trailers and tempting food tables. So recently on our street, they shot the finale episode of some show called "A Gifted Man", which I don't know about, but it had a lot of special effects and a lot of people... like really, hundreds of people standing around, most doing something that looked like nothing.

It was a car crash scene where two cabs collide, and then explode. Below is the main guy trying to pry open the door to get the lady out before the taxi blows up. I wanted to tell him he should just open the other door, but they would have probably attacked me and taken me out.

One woman's entire job was to hold the trapped ladies coat just in case she needed it. She would run up to the car when the filming stopped and try to put it on her, and sometimes she was sent back.

We should have taken pictures of the taxi after it was toasted. Emmi was a little confused at the car accident and why no one was helping them. She still asks about what happened to the taxi and the lady inside. So if anyone watches this show, let me know if you see us.

Buddies

These two love each other, and (usually) play well together. What one does, the other wants to do, for good or bad.

You can see Emmi also likes to help "protect" her brother, which often leads to borderline strangulation sometimes.

I love these two and I am glad they are buds!

At Last...

23 months, 11 classes, 9 textbooks, 2 pregnancies, 45 hours of clinical, 8 power-point presentations, 6 group projects, 15 papers, 25 back-up daycare days, numerous babysitting swaps, two very helpful visits from my MIL, hours on the phone trying to get my transfer credits corrected, and my second purple robe for the kids dress-up box....

All this to go from a Associates to a Bachelors.

This in addition to my AMAZING husband that spent many hours coming home early, trying to keep kids quiet (in 750 square-feet), "working" from home, assisting with power-point/printer problems, and overall being wonderfully supportive...

And 2 great kids that I am happy to see more of.

Christmas is Coming, the Goose is Getting Fat

We have been sick and in quarantine the last 7 days with pink-eye, ear-infections, and some mean viruses, but we did do some Christmas activities before the diseases hit.

Macy's Santaland and windows:

(do I have a halo?)

(Jay took about 15 of these pictures... either he liked the reflection, or he figures it is the only time we will see bricks of gold).

You can tell it was a fun experience since they looked like this on the way home:

And we are much better now. In fact, today is the day for us to go out and enjoy some more of this magical holiday. Hope you are doing the same, without antibiotics.

Holiday's

This isn't actually about the current holiday season, just a catch up of the last few celebrations around here so we can say something about Christmas.

In May we went on a sorta holiday trip to Utah/Idaho. It was for my grandmother's funeral, but we stayed a couple weeks and did a lot of fun things with neglected family, like try on hats, climb trees, and yoga. The kids loved the open spaces.

And there was a little too much Kung-Foo watching...

In June, Emmi had a Pirate Princess Third Birthday...

Robert had combined pool party with my co-workers son complete with ice cream cart (Emmi took full advantage of this) ...

We had a Hurricaine Irene Party where friends came and helped with flood clean-up in our basement...

Jay had a birthday in which we went to the Met Opera and our awesome (free) babysitters not only looked through ALL of our photo albums with glee, but selected their favorite photos to pay tribute to Jay in a shrine on our door.

For Halloween, Emmi was Rapunzel (or "Tangled" as she called herself) and Robbie was supposed to be Pascal the Chameloen, although the closest we could find was a dragon...

Oh, and we had our only (huge) snowstorm so far.

I had a birthday complete with "Princess cake" (Emmi insisted), sick children, and a surprise visit from friends...

And for Thanksgiving we hosted some families from our neighborhood as well as my Uncle and Aunt and daughters. We had 18 people, including kids, which filled up our humble home, but it was fun!