NYC Vacation & Wedding

July 1-7th (Vacation!!)
The week of the July 4th holiday was a Blast. It was vacation time, and wedding time for my sweet cousin and her finance.
We went up to Connecticut and into New York on July 3rd, and the kids did great. We left at 5am and only stopped TWICE for the 16 hour car ride; once at 9:30am for breakfast, and once for lunch at 2:30pm, then we were at my Aunt's house for dinner. It was amazing how well they traveled.... coming home was not so wonderful since we left at 11:00am from New York to come home, and finally got in at 1:00am to Charlotte, only to have to continue the next day down to Georgia.  (When we found out my car wouldn't start and it needed a new battery!)

The one day we went into the city we saw a ton of stuff (July 3) - we went up in the Empire State building, saw an amazing Toys-R-Us, visited FAO Schwartz, played in Central Park, saw Rockefeller center, went to the 9/11 memorials, took a ride on the Staten Island ferry and saw the Statue of liberty, went by wall street, and the steps where George Washington took office, also went saw the Pub he liked to drink at, got to walk around Grand Central Station and take the train back to connecticut. Thanks to my amazing Cousin Stacey and her husband Paul for being our tour guides, we never would have made it around the city so fast!

                                       9/11 memorials were beautiful

 Katelyn was a great help on vacation as a extra set of hands, and was a great babysitter at the wedding so we could continue enjoying the festivities late into the night.

We had fun playing in the pool at Uncle Richards house.  Kale tried to learn to surf on the kick board with Tim, and had a blast.

 Ayla got her nails done at the nail saloon for the wedding.  I had gone with my cousins to get a mani/pedicure and Ayla came too.  She sat so still as they painted her little toes.  She also liked to stick her feet in the water when I got mine done. She would wiggle her toes in the water and watch it change colors and just giggle.

July 6th my cousin Megan got married at the Thayer Hotel in West Point New York.  Ayla was a precious little flower girl, and Kale was the ring barer. The two of them had a great time, and both did very well in the wedding.  Kale walked down the isle, and little miss walked half way down the isle then stopped and started to spin around in her dress as if she was saying "look at me!!" It was absolutely adorable. Here are some fun pictures for you to enjoy from the wedding and from the vacation!