Happy New Year!! 2013

 A few days after Christmas we drove to New Jersey to spend New Years with my sister, Ruth Ann.  The kids just love getting together with their cousins.  And we, of course, love getting together with my sister and her husband.  We played lots of games, watched lots of scary movies (That's kind of a fun thing we do with them) and we ate lots and lots of yummy food.
On Saturday (two days before New Year's Eve) we went in to New York city with Jake and Ruth Ann for the day.  Some day I think it would be very fun to go to Times Square on New Year's Eve...maybe.  Didn't want to even attempt it this year though.  Maybe once our kids are grown:)
It was such a fun day.  We went to Macy's.  All 7 floors of Macy's.  We went to Guy Fierri's new restaurant.

 They had all the Christmas shops set up, so we did a lot of window shopping.  SO FUN!

 One of my bucket list things is to go ice skating at Rockefeller Center.  (This wasn't Rockefeller - that ice was way too crowded) I was tempted to go skating, but no one else wanted to and I wasn't about to have them just sit and wait for me to go skate.  So this time I just did a dorky pose and pretended to skate.

 Next we walked over to Rockefeller Center and saw THE Christmas tree.  BEAUTIFUL!  It was HUGE!  It was so awesome to be there.  We went to the NBC store and just had such a good time shopping and hanging out.  Next we went to Ruby Tuesday's and got some Hot Chocolate. On our way walking back to the subway we saw a huge crowd.  Naturally we had to see what was going on.  Ryan Seacrest was there filming something - I'm sure it was a spot for the Rockin' New Year's Eve special.  Pretty cool to see it.

Mr. Ryan Seacrest:)  Seacrest.... Out!

 We took the subway over to Hoboken where we parked the car.  Jake and Ruth Ann took us to this little park that looked over to the city.  It was beautiful!  It was so quiet, the snow was gently falling.  Great way to end a great day.

We had a fun party at Jake and Ruth Ann's house on New Year's Eve.  We watched movies and played games.  The kids were up WAY late and loved every minute of it.  On New Year's Day we got out of the house and went on a great walk on the trail into town.  We walked to a cafe and got some hot chocolate.  Rebecca decided she wanted to stay home and play with her cousins instead of coming in the cold.  That's why she isn't in the pictures.  

Such a fun trip!  Here's to a great New Year!  (Now that it is 1/2 over as I'm finally getting to writing this)