New York, New York...

Recently my friend Amber and I took her son and Cregan to New York for the weekend.  It was a blast!  We left on Friday, spent the whole Saturday walking around New York seeing the sites and then drove back on Sunday.  Favorite part, Statue of Liberty, it was amazing to finally see it and I wasn't the only one Cregan while on the ferry sat on the side not moving just staring out at the Statue and finally turns to me and says "I've wanted to see this my whole life", another great place was Time Square we got there at Twlight and went into the Toys R us which was amazing and by the time we left it was dark and all the lights were lit brightly all around us, it was breath taking!

 Here Cregan and Nemo are at the Twin Towers Memorial Park, where the towers stood there are now 2 inverted fountains, with the names of the people who lost there lives going all the way around it. 

 The lady herself, she was beautiful, I've always wanted to go to NYC and see her and it was so great being able to

 The building in the background is one of the 4 buildings being built to replace the Twin Towers

 And finally in the Toys R Us store, it was like nothing I could imagine, for example this Hulk was made out of Legos, 4 levels, one of them made into Willy Wonka candy shop, a life size Barbie house.  I was in heaven along wth the boys.

End of school ritual

 

The end of school, is the start of summer (I don't care what it says in the calender, that's summer time for the kids) and each year for the last day of school, I will take them to Tim Horton's and let them pick out any sugary donut they would like, (add chocolate milk to your order?  Sure!!).  Then I send them to school, all sugared up and let them spread their havoc on the school (muwahahaha...).  Anyway on the last day of school, I'm always prepared with a poster and a water balloon fight to attack them with as they get off the bus, but this year Sophie stepped it up a notch or 20.  She had this sign and we hid around the corner with 2 big water guns and after they started the attack which was actually short lived because they started attacking eachother instead of us... but I'd say the mom's side ruled this year... Afterward, they enjoyed popsicles and discussions on how much they were going to miss school (yeah right) and how they will never have such a good teacher as so and so (we have the best teachers, always! just saying).  Then we went home and stayed up late eating pizza and watching movies, quite fun!  Think I might add this last part in each year too.