Christmas in New York!

We went up to NYC to see the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, hit the American Girl store, have dinner and oh yes, see the RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR!!  I have to say, spectacular describes it perfectly!  My aunt Connie gave us tickets to the show, so we skipped school and made a day of it!

On our way!

Radio City!!

These giant snowflakes were so cool!  They floated out over the audience and hovered there for a while.  So neat!

 

 

 

Checking out the window displays at Saks.

American Girl Store!

The dolls getting their makeovers.

Of course we had to introduce to the girls to Katz' Deli!  Emmi even tried some knish.  Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of her that were in focus.  :-(

Simple Circuits

Juli had to do a project for school where she was to build a simple circuit.  I know nothing about this stuff so luckily for her, Daddy was able to help her.

She decided to build a circuit that used a push button to light a lighthouse.  I think she did a pretty good job.  James helped her to layout the circuit on the board.  She designed and created the look and style of it.

And yes, of course, if there is something creative going on Livi has to be in on it too.  She settled for painting paper plates while they worked on the project.

Dutch Wonderland Fun!

We went to Dutch Wonderland for their Winter Wonderland event.  Everyone had a great time.  It wasn't crowded, which isn't surprising since it was pretty cold.  We bundled up though and the kids got to hop on the rides multiple times with no wait.

 

 

Pumpkin Run Car Show & Margaritaville

We took a ride down to Pumpkin Run Car Show to hang out with Poppy & Marema.  It was a huge car show.  They had all kinds of cool stuff including a pumpkin cannon shooting pumpkins into the side of an old abandoned truck/trailer.

We saw some gorgeous fall foliage on the way there.

Livi and the big hay bunny.

Going for a ride in Poppy's car.

After Pumpkin Run, we took a ride over to Atlantic City to have dinner at Margaritaville.  The kids love Margaritaville and we usually only go when we are on vacation.   

Silly stix!

Getting ballon hats.

Livi's School Halloween Parade

Today we got to go see Livi's school parade.  The little ones were so adorable in their costumes!

The book character pumpkins each kid made.

Livi's pumpkin is The Lorax.

Carving Pumpkins

Tonight we carved up some pumpkins for Halloween.  Good thing James was home because the inside of pumpkins makes me want to puke.

Apple Picking 2013

We had so much fun apple picking last year, we decided to do it again this year.  Hopefully we will make it an annual tradition!

Our little pumpkin.

 

Riding out on the wagon to the picking area. 

 

The girls immediately found a ladder to pick.  They were ladder obsessed.

Look at me! I'm on  ladder!

Livi's turn!

Daddy too!  He could actually reach and pick them from the ladder though.

Juli found a cool tree with a low branch they could stand on.

Of course, Livi had to try it too!

Emmi tried her hardest to eat this apple.  Without teeth, it wasn't haappening. 

Cherry Crest Adventure Farm

Last week we took a ride out to Lancaster to visit Cherry Crest Adventure Farm.  The weather was great and I knew they would have their fall stuff starting up.

 

Our little Corny Cobs checking their height to see which attractions they could go on.

We had a great time!  I didn't remember them having animals in a petting zoo type of environment, but they do.  They had adorable little goats.  The baby ones were SO cute.  I wanted to hide one in the basket of our stroller and bring it home!  The babies or "kids" jump the fence to come out and play with the human kids.  They really were so stinkin' cute!!  The girls also got to hold baby chicks.  They were super soft.  Juli said their claws felt funny on her hand. 

Feeding the kids.

Holding baby chicks

 

The Strasburg Railroad runs right through the farm.  We didn't get as chance to go for a ride, we ran out of time. Hopefully we will get a chance to go back and do that.  It was really neat to see though.

The girls did get to go for a ride on a little tractor train though... not quite the same, but still fun.

 Emmi loves being outside.  If she's outside she's happy.

They had these neat pedal cart things. The girls went on them a few times.  They were cute.  They also had mini ones in the middle section there for little toddler size kids.

Of course we had to do the Amazing Maize Maze while we where there.  We did the easy path, which was basically sticking to the perimeter.  I was afraid to try another route when I saw that some families had spent 3+ hours in there.  The record was like 6.5 hours.  NO thank you!

Before we left, we had to head back to say goodbye to these animals.  This llama was kind of crazy so no one really went near him.  James must have felt bad for him and decided to feed him.  Oh how I wish I had video.  It was hysterical.  The llama was trying to get the food out of the little machine with it's tongue before James could even get it out.  

This was a perfect family fun day!  We couldn't have asked for better weather and we had the best time!