Trip to Hoboken

Girl's Trip to Hoboken to visit the famous Carlos Bakery-Home of the "Cake Boss. "

Peyton, Madison, Katie, Addison, Ella, and Riley, hanging out withile we wait in line.

Here we are almost there... We waited in line 1 1/2 hours for the delicious treats. Lobster Tail pastries, cannolis and cookies. Yummy!!!

Inside the Bakery-waiting for our number to be called-deciding what to buy so many decisions.

Admiring all the wonderful cakes.

Broad street run

Cheering for mommy!!!

What a great race ran with a great friend. We have trained for weeks and months. Both of us did best times. What a beautiful day to run 10 miles.

I am so thankful to have a friend that was there to push me to do my best. 10 miles-1:33 minutes. Looking forward to the Philadelphia Rock and Roll Half Marathon in September.

Video from Great Adventure

Here is the video of her jazz routine to Justin Bieber's "Baby". It has come a long way. They still have a month left to get the entire routine together for recital and competition. This was the first time that they did the routine without a teacher and in front of dance troops from all over PA and NJ.




Peyton is located on the left side of the video.

Dance pictures

Getting Ready for pictures. Ballet and Jazz

Dancing at Great Adventure

Peyton had a wonderful opportunity to dance at Great Adventure. Her competition team is made up of girls between the ages of 5-7. They did a jazz routine to Justin Bieber's "Baby"
They did a great job.

Today Show Video

Here is some video of our appearance on the Today Show. My next door neighbor was able to record it.

NY Trip Continued

American Girl Place in NY


On our trip we went to the American Girl Place. We had a great time. Peyton had asked for Kanani-The Girl of the Year for 2011. We had agreed that it would be part of her 7th b-day present. We had tea at the cafe. We were able to the displays for each heritage doll. It was neat to see and compare to the Chicago store. The NY store is smaller than the Chicago store and the layout is different, but the experience is the same-priceless. Peyton couldn't leave without an outfit for Emily-so we bought her a tap dance outfit.

After the American Girl place we headed back to the hotel. We stayed at the Fitzpatrick about 7 blocks away. It was a very nice place and we had a suite to split with Dave's parents. We were exhausted after a long day of shopping and walking in the cold.

The next day we had a few things planned. We wanted to go to Rockfeller Center so that we could see where they have the Today show and the skating rink. We were able to go to Rockefeller Center and Peyton and I got on t.v. it was a very neat experience.We also had a chance to go into Trump Tower. This was neat to see where they do the firing on the show Apprentice. We wnet back to the hotel for about an hour before heading back out to Ground Zero and a German Restaraunt in Greenwich Village. After that we went back to the hotel to check out and hit the subway down to Brooklyn to the 9/11 museum.