The Brown Brick Road

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We were up and going early Saturday morning and had a great brunch at Blue Dog Cafe. Samantha got the Pretty in Pink Pancakes! Perfect!

We then headed to Nordstrom where we did quite a bit of shopping. We even found this perfect coat for Samantha! While we wish we had seen it the day before, it was too good to pass up.

Samantha even got to get her fortune told by a giant silver pigeon. Only in NY!

Her fortune was for “glamour” and then she got to go upstairs and put the coin into a machine to get a ring.

My big city girl….

heading to Rockefeller Center!

We saw the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City and it was fantastic as always! The Rockettes are the very best and we loved hearing the Mighty Wurlitzer for Daddo!

Part 2 of day 2 tomorrow!

NYC

When we realized Samantha had a weekend with no basketball games or activities, we decided a little girls trip to the city was in order! We flew up VERY early on Friday morning…

and were in the city walking around by 11am!

I’m wondering if Trump was in NYC because they had half the street in front of Trump Tower blocked with a line of garbage trucks. Interesting!

Louis Vuitton looked like the Paris store!

Of course we had to have lunch at Bergdorf Goodman!

But major disappointment – they changed the menu in the downstairs cafe and took off the gotham salad! Travesty! We still had a good lunch though…lobster ravioli and a fantastic lemon tart made up for it!

It was COLD in the city and Samantha’s legs were freezing in her short jacket. After lunch we went shopping for a longer coat for her. We didn’t have much luck…

and ended up getting this inexpensive polka dot one that Samantha was NOT a fan of…but it was warm!

A trip to Sephora made things better!

We then went all the way to the Upper East to try and get some Roller Rabbit pjs but didn’t have any luck. We then headed back to the hotel to rest a bit before our show that night. All bundled up in Times Square…

and ready for Six!

The show was excellent! Divorced! Beheaded! Died! Divorced! Beheaded! Survived!

It was a great first day in NYC!

Merry merry!

Ho Ho Ho

Sunday night we put in our requests to Santa! Well, we took a picture with Santa at least!

ho ho ho

Santa and I even dressed like twinsies! ha!

It wasn’t easy to get there but we made it happen and I’m so glad we did. It was a fun night up at the club with lots of friends!

Merry Christmas!

Spelling Bee

Last week Samantha made it to the school spelling bee!

She came in first place in her class so got to move on to the school bee. I was so incredibly proud of her for getting up on the stage in front of a lot of people and speak confidently and clearly! She handled her practice word of “jazzy” just fine! Hooray!

But, she got a toughie for round 1. “Infinite” She was close but said i-n-f-a-n-i-t-e and got dinged so was out in round one just like Spencer last year. That’s ok, I’m still infinitely proud of her! It took courage to get up on that stage and she did great!!

My cutie smarty pants!

spruced up!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Nothing better!