A Night at the Museum!

Katie's Girl Scout Troop spent the night at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC! We had a wonderful time! Dinner at Chipotle, a little shopping, cupcakes at Alice's Tea Cup, and then a night of fun activities at the museum!

Beautiful Butterflies...

Crafts...

Live Raptors... Falcon, Red Tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl...

Exploring the dinosaur exhibit by flashlight!

It was finally lights out at midnight! We slept in the room with the giant blue whale and next to the dolphins! This was an exhausting adventure, but something I will never forget!

Super Sledding!

NY has never had this much snow in January! This is one for the record books! We have been hit with storm after storm! I can't remember what I saw on the news, but I think we have gotton over 50 inches of snow this month! It's snowmegeddon! NY is the snowpocalypse! So what are we supposed to do with all of these snow days? Go sledding! Here is a video of me sledding down the hill by our house. Check out the ramp the neighborhood kids built out of snow!

More Snow...

...not much else to say...how many pictures of the kids playing in the snow can you have? I know you can never really have enough...just another snow day spent playing on the sledding hill with friends!

Sledding...

...a favorite LaGrange family activity! Sometimes we just go on the big hill by our house, but when we want to to some serious sledding we hit the hills on the West Point Golf course!

All kids ready to try out the tube together! You really fly on this thing! Watch out!

Snow Day!

It was a good thing they called off school the night before because we did get at least a foot of snow! Katie spent the day playing at her friends house, so the boys and I did some sledding with friends and a LOT of shoveling!

Sleepover...

Katie's friend, Cora invited her to spend the night, since school was canceled the night before because of the snow storm we were expecting the next day (yes, more snow). This was Katie's first official sleepover with a friend! Very exciting! I am not sure what all the girls did that night, but I know that there was lots of silliness & giggling! Thanks to Becky for taking some pictures of the girls being silly! Katie came home exhausted the next day! She was so tired she feel asleep on the couch by 5:15pm.

The famous snowman pancakes they had for breakfast! Katie is still talking about these pancakes!

I ♥ NY!

There are a lot of great things about living in NY and being so close to the city. I recently got the chance to go to see The Martha Stewart Show in NYC! I was the first live show of 2011. It was so fun to see all of the behind the scenes stuff! It was a really neat show, we had awesome seats, and we even got an new Breville Juice & Blend for being in the audience that day!

Me, Renee, & Sarah...
Martha's crafting area...

Martha answering a few audience questions after taping the show...

Taxi to Rockefeller Center...

Sarah's father-in-law arranged for us to have a delicious lunch at Ben Benson's Steakhouse. What a nice surprise that was for us!

We also got lucky and were able to get seats at the afternoon taping of Martha Stewart's show! The live show was way cooler, but we did get to see some neat crafts that afternoon!
Another thing about NY, which I am not sure if I ♥ or NOT is all of the SNOW DAYS! We missed the blizzard while were in Florida, so the kids were very excited to have a snow day! Luke sat at the window most of the morning watching the snow fall...

I kept the kids inside as long as I could, but they WON and we headed out to play in the snow even though it was still coming down! They were the big wet flakes that are so pretty! Being a Texas girl, I still get excited everytime I see it snowing and I do ♥ sledding!