March recap

Wow March flew by so quickly huh? I can't believe it's already April!

Anyway, get ready for the most picture heavy blog post I have ever written...

Spring has sprung in NYC

To prep for Nic and Makena's visit I ended up dragging Chad all over  the Upper West Side hunting for material to make curtains and pillows and trying to find a futon cover. He got grumpy so I took him to Five Guys

I obviously had some too... it was so good and we decided that we like it better than Shake Shack.

While walking Batman we met Mr. Squiggles... a PIG! He was out on a walk and him and Batman totally became BFF

On the first day of Nic and Makena's visit we went to the US' largest Holi festival... supposedly Utah claims this... but the article I read said that ours was... and ours was more legit because it actually had mainly Hindus...

Everyone there loved seeing white people and putting color all over us

Right after we took this picture some teenagers took a picture with us  and then one of the grabbed me, picked me up and took a picture with me... it was super funny

Helpful tip... if you're sprayed with color and water it will stain your blonde hair.. I have pink streaks in it

Chad said if I punched dance down the street I could get a Shamrock Shake ... I did it, then I found a picture of someone else punch dancing

Later that night we took Nic and Makena to our favorite novelty pizza place... yum!

I can never get over how big it is

Nic was a big spender and got his with pepperoni 

We decided that it would be fun for us and Batman if we dropped  him off at doggie day care

Times Square! Honestly, I don't much care for Times Square but you have to go when you visit

at FAO Schwartz they have a part where you walk in and it's a Kaleidoscope!

Does anyone else remember these??? I use to LOVE them! They're at FAO Schwartz

We made Nic and Makena try the giant piano from Big!

They were hesitant at first... but then they loved it

GIANT candy!! Largest Rice Krispies treat and Gummy Worm!

Chad thought this was sooo funny... this is a baby seat when it's not on his head :)

I made everyone wear funny hats 

Twilight walk in Central Park

So romantical!

We went to Chinatown for some amazing dumplings, but we ended up eating them at Popeyes in Chinatown because there was no where to eat the dumplings! Sadly, we didn't take a picture of the cannoli we got after... Little Italy is right by Chinatown

We took the Staten Island Ferry for a bit of an adventure

It was pretty perfect out

fun views of the city!

That's Jersey over there!

On the stairs of the main branch of the public Library, that's my "I'm not tired face"

Empire State Building at night, not very awesome from this close

Museum of Natural History... That's a giant whale behind us if you couldn't tell

They have a giant clam shell to sit in!

It took us forever to get in there and take this picture... we made kids wait forever  haha

Do you recognize this? It's in a lot of movies... the park is PERFECT for people watching

Nic and Makena left a bunch of their stuff here since they were  flying back  from NYC so Chad was a sweet brother and fixed one of their bags that broke. He is wearing his head lamp and sewing with floss. The best part? We had some friends over and the boys were discussing how to sew while us ladies were sitting around giggling and eating

That's the end of Nic and Makena's visit, but I wanted to share these too!

That is an Audi R8 behind me! It was parked like 100 yards from our apartment... I was a creep haha

This is at the MET... we went with some friends and acted like 12 year olds. That's Chad in front of an Egyptian  wig

So that's our month for the most part... pretty action packed and exciting! We are loving getting out and exploring the city little by little. It's finally gotten warm enough to not want to be inside all the time and I am so happy about that, I can't wait for the summer now!

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Lacrosse

So I mentioned before that Chad joined the Lacrosse team/ club at Columbia recently and I went to his game... I will admit that I didn't see him actually play... I watched like 90% of the game.. but it seems like I wasn't paying attention when he did play, or I couldn't find him and then when I did he was back on the sidelines... very frustrating! I was using that other 10% of my time to catch up with a good friend... so at least it wasn't because I was playing Drop 7 or something....

Anyway, here's some pictures of him and lacrosse and what not.

Team huddle... I couldn't get my phone to take a non blurry shot!

This is practice... it didn't dawn on me to take a picture during the actual game

He's number 35... at least he was last night... I'm under the impression that his number will change weekly

I had to come to the shocking realization that I know very little about lacrosse last night... I kept texting my brother Todd questions. It's just a lot different from most other sports...

Anyway, does anyone else's weight seem to fluctuate like crazy? I don't actually know if it is or not since we don't have a scale... but this month I have felt very chubby, but last month I didn't... I don't know what it is... Anyway, below i put a picture of my salad for lunch today... and I'm really wondering if all my salad toppings negate my actual salad eating... Today I had grilled tofu, avocado, red onion, broccoli, carrots, feta and cucumbers. It was good and I enjoyed every last bite, but I realized something. I don't eat salad as an entity. I eat it as a scattering of many different things. Today for instance I ate all the tofu first. Sometimes I get a piece of lettuce with it, but didn't try to... then I ate the avocado, then the broccoli... I don't know why I do that... I think it makes me weird though

They forgot my walnuts... rude

Anyway, I'm trying to post more but when my day consists of sitting at a desk doing nothing for about 6 hours of the day then going home and making dinner and being quiet so Chad can study... there just isn't that much to say.

Nic and Makena are coming to visit this week though so I'm sure we'll have plenty of pictures from that to post! Also, in honor of their visit I'm determined to have our apt looking cute and fun and finalize so I might even have apartment pictures to show off too!

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