Kade's home!

Logan's parents went to pick up Kade from his mission in Philly. The day before they flew back home they drove up to visit. We went out to breakfast and drove them around the city a little so Kade could see it. Kade and I had never met, it is weird that I have a brother-in-law that I don't know, I am so used to my new family now! But it's great that he is coming home! It will be fun to get to know another member of the family!

Welcome home Kade!

Palmyra

Last Sunday we decided to drive up to Palmyra. We left in the morning, and it took a little over 5 hours to get there. It was so beautiful!

The Palmyra temple. I blame the crookedness on Jim or Pam, I'm not sure who took the photo.

Around the temple were fields of grass and trees, it was so pretty! I am sad we didn't take a picture of it. You couldn't see a building at all from anywhere on the grounds. It is in the perfect location.

This is the Smith's first home. 12 people lived in here. Crazy!

The view of the temple from the Smith farm.

Just down the road on the farm is the Smith's second home. This is where Joseph hid the plates. It was kind of surreal to see it all in person.

This is my favorite picture of Pam. I'm sure this gangster pose was unintentional, but it's still great!

The sacred grove was so beautiful and peaceful!

I'm glad we had the chance to go there. It really is such a wonderful place!

New York in a day.....eek

Okay, first of all I apologize for the massive size of this post. Log's parents came to visit and their short stay required us to cram the city into one day. We saw a lot and it was a blast! But we were also very tired.....

Waiting for the bus to take us across GW Bridge.

Jim and Pam's first subway experience.

China Town! This is the cute part of Chinatown. The rest is just packed with people and full of hundreds of knock-0ff purses. Needless to say, we left with 6 purses that we didn't arrive with.

This picture was taken for McCall!!

We ate lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant. The food was way good and very inexpensive!

Then we made our way up to Times Square. Jim doesn't like smiling in pictures...

We went to see Hairspray to give us a break from the heat and the walking. It was way good! If you like the movie, I recommend seeing the Broadway. It is just as good, and has a few songs that aren't in the movie. Loved it!

This was Jim's favorite spot. The deli from the Late Show.

David Letterman.....

We walked through central park a little bit. This is The Mall, a long dirt walkway lined with trees. It is really pretty, and the shade felt great!

For dinner we made sure that Jim and Pam got to try some New York Pizza. Thank goodness they got their Diet Cokes for the day!

About to go to the Top of the Rock. Don't ask about the faces....I don't know.

These things are harder to use than you would think.

This one is for Tad. Mmmmmm....

Broadway at night! So cool!

Don't wear flip flops on an all-day excursion in NYC. Your feet won't appreciate it. We didn't take pictures of the blisters on Jim's toes, so be grateful for that.

Top of the Rock

While my mom was here, I met up with her after work one day at Rockefeller Center to go up to the top. It was so much fun!
Here we are in front of the plaza. It is a lot smaller than it looks on TV.

Central Park and the Hudson River. Just on the other side of the river, about as far North as you can see in this picture, that's about where we live, in Fort Lee, NJ!

Brooklyn way out there. I could almost see Log knocking on doors.

Empire State Building just as it lit up. It was actually getting dark in this picture and all the buildings lit up looked beautiful, but my camera made it look like daytime.

Kinda blurry, with glass reflections. Oh well.

Celebrity Sightings

One of the advantages of working in Soho is that it is the perfect place to spot celebrities. I have seen three already within a block or two of the building I work at. These aren't pictures I took, because I don't carry my camera to work with me and I am usually too distracted when I see them to think of using my phone camera.

First I saw Renee Zellweger, when I went to Starbucks to get a frappuccino for lunch. Only she didn't look like this! She was this skinny, but she was really sweaty and gross, wearing workout clothes.

A couple weeks later I walked past Neil Haskell. He may not be a big celebrity but if you are a fan of So You Think You Can Dance, my favorite show, you will know him as last year's almost winner! He looked pretty much like this, and was just shopping on Broadway in Soho.

This week I saw David Schwimmer! He was just standing on the corner by my work chatting some other guys. He looked pretty much like this too, but without the jackets! He was just in a t-shirt.

Next time I will try to be on my guard so I can take a picture myself!

4th of July

For the 4th of July Logan took the day off work, so we could go to the Yankees Redsox game! It was a blast! The weather was a perfect overcast, so it wasn't super hot. It started raining in the 7th inning but until then it was great.

We were super excited to be able to spend a day together that wasn't a Sunday!
Yankee Stadium!! We were lucky enough to come to a game before their last season here is over!

Our seats were in the bleachers right behind the Redsox bullpen.

We did our best to eat as much junk food as possible. Nachos, pretzel, frozen lemonade, etc...

Don't ask me why Log is making this face. He gets really excited when he doesn't have to shave for work, so he took advantage of that for his day off!

At the end of the game the Redsox won 6-4. We went into Midtown Manhattan after if was over and ate some more junk. Huge peices of pizza! mmmmmm...We were going to see some fireworks, we thought there would be some really great ones in New York, but we were tired and decided to go back and watch a movie instead. We fell asleep after like ten minutes and ended up going to bed at like 10:30 to get some much needed sleep! It was a really good day!

Concert in the Park

A couple weeks ago Logan's work treated everyone to pizza. We were supposed to meet at this park on the river in Edgewater. We were lucky enough to be some of the few that went a little early. This meant that we were foolish enough to go even though the sky looked like it was going to explode any second. We got this picture taken before the downpour. That is the George Washington Bridge in the back, that I take over to Manhattan everyday for work.

Suddeny this lighting crashed on the water right by where the park is, and is started pouring so hard. This was right when the pizza got there, and here we are taking cover under a bunch of trees. Safe huh?

Our friend Troy, after about 30 seconds of rain, even with the shelter of trees. After this we made a run for the car, but half way there we realized it was pointless. It was like we had jumped into the river. In the parking lot we found all the cars who had arrived after the rain started, laughing at us from their dry seats. It was pretty funny!

Later that evening we went to the Summer Stage in Central Park for a free concert. The artist was Yael Naim. You have probably heard her song on the imac commercial. I love her!

Some of the guys Logan sells with came along too.