Thursday, October 29, 2009

Graduation

Oh man...this is so overdue! I figure it is time to catch up on summer events before the holidays. Graduation was WONDERFUL! My whole family came (except Maeg of course) We did so many fun things!

Whit was the first to arrive. She had been in D.C. visiting her roommate Tara and took the "China-town" bus to NY - Despite her concerns she was not kidnapped ;) Sorry Sis

Me and Whit trek through Central Park with all her luggage- harder than we thought!


Enjoying the chaos


Cutie


Oh, and she won the lottery at "In the Heights" and we sat front row


The next night Mom and Al flew in and we met Dad and Grady in Philadelphia. They had been in Pittsburg watching the Pirates and met us in Philadelphia to watch them play the D-backs. We got trashed but it was still lots of fun! Note: you MUST try philly cheese steak sandwiches when in Philly!

We got a hard time for wearing our D-backs shirts but the crazy funs went completely nuts when they saw Nathan come in wearing his Dallas Cowboys shirt - so funny!


Grady's awesome poster!


Cute Girlies!


I love Whitney's appearance in this one :)


With my favorite boys!


Na was such a good sport to drive through all that traffic - we were on the road longer than we were at the game


Getting a little stir crazy in the car


The next day was graduation! Nathan and my parents got me beautiful flowers and sat through a long and quite boring ceremony.

The whole gang


They think my coat is cool :)


I have the BEST parents EVER!!!


Girls!


We LOVE Tiffany and Devin and will miss our fun Office nights :(


So, this is kind of random...I was telling Carly one day in class that my husband got a job at Alliance Bernstein - what do ya know - that is where Steve works too!


Some of my cute classmates


We go out to a nice dinner but really, we're just not that civilized






Playing in the rain (poor Grady had just run into the fire hydrant trying to wave at passing cars)


My Cutie Husband


On the last day we did some sight seeing and ended the night with a little Broadway.

Subway from the Bronx



Some successful shopping - of course!


Dinner at ESPN-zone in Time Square


She's either hiding from the paparazzi or embarassed to be with us. What a doll!


Dad was going to surprise Mom and take her to "Lion King" for their anniversary but of course we had to spill the secret when we caught her searching for tickets for the whole family. Thanks for letting us be part of your anniversary :)



Thursday, September 10, 2009

Lake Powell

Wow! I'm so behind on my blogging! At the end of July, Nathan and I went to Lake Powell with my side of the family. After enduring many years of nagging sisters, Grady was excited to have our cousin Ryan come keep him sane. It was such a blessing to have my Grandpa and Grandma Hansen with us as well! Maegy was very missed but she is working very hard on her mission and touching many lives....8 more months and she'll be back :)
We had the most wonderful time EVER! I have done this vacation for as many years as I can remember but this was Nathan's first time going with our family and I think he was pleasantly surprised. Sorry for the world's longest post...This is also my best attempt at a journal.

The boys watching Napolean Dynamite on the drive up


A really cool storm came one afternoon and made tons of these beautiful waterfalls...don't mind Al


The whole gang (other than Dad) cruising through The Escalante River


The Girls at Rainbow Bridge


Our tough MEN!!!


Always an adventure when Grady's driving...love him!



I forgot to warn Nathan of the tradition...ok, maybe I didn't "forget"


Just enjoying the ride



At Dangling rope


WHIT!!


My 83 year old grandpa...pretty cool!


Dad!!! Ok, maybe we shouldn't have been out that late...oops!


Mamasita


Alex!


Grady! (haha, he's even smiling)


Ryan!


Me and Grams


He's Cute


And after a couple of hard falls...

He learned some cool tricks!


The boys playing Texas Hold 'em...Grandpa couldn't win so he told us Grady and Ryan kept cheating


The book club...always hiding from the rest of us :)


Al trying to get a signal...what's a poor teenager to do when she's deprived of text messaging!


Gramps teaching the boys how to fish...so cute!


Just before Dad nearly killed us


Don't let their smiles fool you...they were plotting how to use alka seltzer to blow up the fish...I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty cool


The best captain in the world!


These two were too cute!


Kayaking might be fun??? I wouldn't know, these two were trying to tip us the whole time :)


I'll give you a quarter if you can guess what we're playing


Everyone just doing whatever they want!


The whole Family!