New York Trip Day 3

Wednesday July 8th we went on a ferry ride to go see the Statue of Liberty! It was ridiculously crowded and I was sweating like a dog!! Do dogs really sweat? If they do I can NEVER tell haha. 

Anyways, it was a fun ride but with Alaina and all the people it was way too complicated for me. It was a pretty expensive ride... $25 each and there were 5 of us. Right when we were getting close to the Statue of Liberty Alaina had to go potty so I had to go down stairs and take out the potty that we brought and take her down another flight of stairs to the bathroom... UGH!! It was really complicated haha 

She finally smiled for a bit while we were waiting to get off the ferry. haha

After the boat ride we went back to the loft. We were starving and had seen GREAT reviews to this Italian Panini Place it was called Pisillo Italian Panini (YOU MUST GO) that was literally down the street from where we were staying my dad decided to come with us since he stayed in the whole day. Again this place we delicious but didn't accept cash. We noticed a pattern all the GREAT places didn't accept cards. Good thing my parents were prepared with cash. 

It was so good!

After lunch we left Alaina, my mom and my niece Desi at the loft and took my dad and Alexis to go see Wall Street it was literally a few blocks from where we were staying. 

There were a million reporters and Sam asked what was going on and one of the reporters said that there was a glitch.... there's like NEVER a glitch with the stock exchange.

Please excuse my funky smile... haha 

Red Cube  Artist: Isamu Noguchi

There were a million people by the Charging Bull this was the best picture that we could get.

We were pretty much Subway pros! :) 

That night me, Sam and Alexis heading toward Time Square which was pretty much daylight at 9PM. 

This is how excited my husband was to take a picture at the M&M store. 

I had tried to get tickets but they were out in 5 minutes. I WAS TICKED I wanted to take Sam for his birthday. I waited all morning for them a month before we went to NY. UGH... oh well 

We had so much fun that night! We left at midnight to head home and we were exhausted! 

xoxo

Teresa Snow

NEW YORK TRIP! Day 1 & 2

First off I have been MIA since FOREVER and I am so sorry! I honestly need this for myself so that I can go back to this blog and remember all these memories! From now on or just tonight I will catch up on EVERYTHING haha

Let's start off with MY SELFIE STICK THAT PRETTY MUCH WAS THE BEST INVESTMENT! 

SELFIE STICK

So, we took a New York Trip with my parents and my two nieces. It was quite an adventure and I can't wait to tell you all about it.

My parents arrived in the afternoon on Saturday, July 4th. We had just found out that we were moving and I'll write a blog about it later but we had been finishing up house projects all weekend long. As soon as my parents and nieces got here we kind of put them to work! We had so much to do and so little time to do it. 

The plan was to leave Sunday morning but we still weren't finished with things around the house so we stayed an extra day. Monday morning we headed out to Niagara Falls, NY. More than half of us had already been there but my dad and younger niece hadn't so we went on the Maid of the Mist which is a boat ride to the falls which I thought was the most fun out of all the stuff they had. We took a walk closer to the falls after the boat ride and tried to take more pictures.

Then on that same day we also headed up to Palmyra, NY and saw LDS Historical Sites!

Maid of the Mist boat ride. 

Alaina was NOT that happy on the boat!

These girls refused to continue to take pictures with us! ;)

She loved kicking the rocks!

Heading to Palmyra, NY

When we arrived to Palmyra we were STARVING so we went to this local Burger and Ice Cream place that was seriously the BOMB DOT COM! haha (who says that anymore) I wish I had taken a picture of the ice cream. Then we went back to our hotel and took our suitcases up to the room. 

We had decided to just walk from the hotel to all the historic sites since the girl at the desk at our hotel said it was a five minute walk. YEA, SHE LIED!! It was not 5 MINUTES!

We only had that evening to go look at everything and the first thing we saw was this 

BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE!  

We practically died walking up to the temple but once we got there I was so happy! It was so pretty! 

Happy Place!

We also went to the Smith Log Home, The Sacred Grove, and we drove to Hill Cumorah (because it wasn't walking distance from our hotel) where Moroni buried the golden plates that was later translated by Joseph Smith and published them as 

The Book of Mormon. Learn More!

We didn't actually go up the hill because it had already closed by the time we got there!

We were all tired by the time we got back including my sweet Alaina who was a trooper all day long since she had just been potty trained a week before! Also, that same week she had face planted into the concrete and hurt her sweet nose and upper lip!

First thing the next morning we headed out to NEW YORK CITY! 

We got to there around lunch time and traffic was awful! 

We all stayed in this AWESOME LOFT that we got off Airbnb.com.  

And then before we remembered that there were subways I DRAGGED my whole family on a 25 - 30 minute walk to Lombardi's Pizzeria which was AMAZING by the way. Even though everyone was pretty mad at me for making them walk in the dreadful heat that NYC had to offer we all left pretty happy that we didn't have to walk home and happy that we were full of delicious food. 

(p.s. bring a lot of cash to NY if you ever go this place it was CASH ONLY (which is ridiculous) but there are a lot of places that just accept cash) 

On our way back we decided to go check out the 9/11 Memorial! I didn't get a picture of it!  It was an Incredible Memorial that honor those lost!

That night we put Alaina to bed and took the girls out! It was quite the adventure!

World Trade Center!

Brooklyn Bridge!

We went home that night and fell on our beds! 

xoxo

Teresa Snow 

Sam's 27th Birthday!

Sam's birthday was on Wednesday, July 9th he turned 27 years old! I KNOW!! Where did the time go I mean he will be 30 in 3 years! 3 YEARS!!! haha. Just kididing babe you're not that old! :)

Anyways, on Wednesday morning I woke up early to make him breakfast. He was very surprised because I never wake up early haha as soon as he gets out of bed I roll over to his side and just take over his pillow and Beano takes over my side. We have a routine going on here now. (For those that are just peeking in on my blog Beano is our wonderful dog and we know his name is a pill that helps prevent gas before it starts.) I made pancakes, bacon and eggs! It was seriously yummy! For lunch, Sam's department at work had a little party I forgot what it was for but they had a lot of food. Dinner was yummy we had a few friends join us at Red Robin and it was so yummy except the service was TERRIBLE! We wanted to complain but decided not too. It seems that July 9th was a very popular birthday because there were a lot of groups and balloons at Red Robin. I had signed Sam and I up for free stuff on our birthdays and Red Robin was one of them. Although, you have to have signed up 30 days before your birthday. (Just a heads up) We had fun it was nice going out to have a nice dinner with our friends. After dinner we went home and had carrot cake! I have never been a fan of carrot cake I know LAME! I don't know what it is that I don't like but I just don't like it. So, I go ahead and make the cake and it smelled so yummy I just wanted to eat the batter. Once we had it all ready I was excited to try it andddd...... I didn't like it but that didn't matter because the birthday boy DID! haha I did good!

Sam looks beautifully tan! 

Love them! 

Alaina tried to help daddy blow out the candles but she couldn't. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SWEET HUSBAND!! 

There were a few other places that you get free stuff that we have tried I'll write down a list. 

- Red Robin (Free Burger) 

- Dunkin Donuts (Free drink) 

- Susie Soups (Free Soup and yummy corn muffin) 

- Baskin Robbins (Free one scoop (2.5 oz) or one 3 oz soft serve swirl!

- Ruby Tuesday (Free Burger up to $9) 

- Denny's (Free Grand Slam)

Go ahead! Sign up now before you're birthday and you will be glad you did it! I know this is crazy but I love getting free stuff and if it just takes signing up then I will do it! :) 

XOXO

Teresa