Wednesday, November 16, 2011

6 Months

So we passed our 6 month mark of living here in New Jersey at the end of October. Wow 6 months, on one hand it doesn't seem that long ago but on the other hand we've done so much and covered quite a bit of land in that amount of time.

It is pretty magical up here already for the holidays, and we don't even have the super cold weather YET. We passed Macy's last weekend and they were setting up their holiday window displays.

We went to Bryant Park for ice skating and family day last Saturday.


Matt was the only one who had real experience and at one point Matt was trying to keep up both kids along with keeping himself up. While it was hysterical (to me) we decided that wasn't the best situation so Mason was getting the hang of it and Madeline and I just clung to the wall.


After ice skating we got kettle corn, colored at a craft table, sang ice karaoke for Columbia's Freezer tour and the kids won hats!

Bryant Park has really cute temporary glass shops set up for the holidays so we peeked into a few of those as well.

I am not sure if Matt will brave ice skating with us again, but I am really looking forward to trying again.

Here goes to another memorable 6 months!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Halloween Fun

Wow we had an action packed Halloween weekend!

It started off that Mason's school had a school dance on the Friday before Halloween. I helped set up and the dance was AMAZING!

Friday night Matt and I went to the Metropolitan Opera and saw Anna Bolena.

Saturday we had breakfast in Hoboken with Scott and Maj who arrived just in time for SNOW!!
We then headed to NYC to show Maj around in the snow.Sunday we had three events!
We first attended our neighborhood costume contest.

We then went to a Fright Festival put on my meetup group.
After that we headed over to Trunk or Treat also put on by my meetup group.
We had a blast!

Monday Mason wore his costume to school, Maddie and I went to see him in his costume parade.
Following school the kids and I headed to Hoboken for Trick or Treating and a parade.
When Matt, Uncle Scott, and (soon to be Aunt) Maj got to our house we sat on the stoop and handed out goodies for a bit then we went trick or treating around our neighborhood.