Oliver and Henry-Thanksgiving

The Hays Family, Oliver and Henry got to go to a parade for Thanksgiving and visit the Children Museum.  

Thanksgiving 2013

 Relish tray that looks like a turkey.  My only culinary creation. I forgot to take pictures at the dinner.  We had the Barney Family, Ashley and Grandpa Landon plus 2 University girls, Katie Howell and Taylor Nelson, join us for dinner.

 Lily helped her mom make the rolls.  She is a pretty hard worker.

 June is growing so much.

 Family that was here for a few days for Thanksgiving.

 Grandpa and ma Landon, Great-Grandpa Landon (Lily kept calling him 'New Grandpa') and 5 of the cousins.  We are missing the Hays Family.

Girl cousins.  Kinsley, Lily and June.  

Melanie- 39 years old

Melanie turned 39 years old on November 28, 2013.  (Thanksgiving Day).  She was born on Thanksgiving day at 1:52 pm.  I can still remember smelling the turkey cooking at the hospital.  What a joy she has been in our lives.  These are pictures of Melanie at 1 day old, 9 months old, and 5 years old.  

New York 2013- Day 6- Sunday

 Herald Square right out by our motel.

 We ate at the Martinique Cafe the first night we arrived and wanted to eat lunch there on Sunday before we left.  The food was amazing.

 Macy's was right by our motel also.

 The Christmas windows were decorated for the holidays already.  They are always so unique.

 Inside Macy's.  When you get to the fourth floor they still have the old wooden escalator. On the top floor is a mail box to mail your letters to Santa.  Macy's also has there own Post Office on the top floor and their own Zip Code.

 Outdoor food booths.

Good-bye New York.  A taxi cab came and got us and took us to the Kennedy International Airport to fly home on Delta.
We had a wonderful time, saw lots of sights, and plays, and enjoyed Lori Hansen's storytelling event. It was great to be included with the group of ladies that went to New York.
GREAT MEMORIES.  Thanks Ashley for going with me.  

New York 2013- Day 5- Saturday

 We took the Brooklyn Tour, lots of great bridges too see.

 We crossed into a Jewish Community.  It was Saturday so it was their sabbath.  The men were walking to the synagogue.  They live by the Mosaic Law so they can only walk so many steps on the sabbath.

 Sights in Brooklyn and when we returned to lower Manhattan.

 World Trade Center.  It was very cold but a clear day so the picture is awesome.

 We went to the matinee and saw the play "ONCE"

 CHRISTOPHER WOOL was the featured artist at the Guggenheim Museum

 I love the way it circles around and around and around.

We went to the play 'Spiderman".  It was a rock n roll musical with lots of acrobatics.  A fun show to see.

New York 2013- Day 4- Friday

 We spent lots of time on the subways getting to and from.  Ashley was great on getting us where we needed to go.

 The group of ladies we went with.  Laurie Parker, Pat Parker, Rachel Christensen, Laurie Christensen, Lori Hansen,Susan Landon, and Ashley Landon  ( Not pictured but came also.  Omar Hansen and Lori's sister and niece.)

 One of the pools at the 911 Memorial.  There were 2 pools where the original buildings stood.  Water flowed from all four sides down into a hole in the middle.

 World Trade Center but the top was cover in clouds and it was raining this morning.  Tallest building in the United States.  Also the Survival Tree.

 911 Memorial

 Wall Street

 The "Bull" on Wall Street

 Pictures from lower Manhattan.

 United Nations Building, etc.

 We rented this bicycle and a young man peddled it around Central Park.

 Central Park

 Our Hop-on, Hop-off tour went by the Manhattan Mormon Temple.

 Scenes from Harlem at night time.

 We saw the play Newsies.

Time Square has all kinds of people dressed up waiting to get their picture taken.

New York 2013 -Day 3- Thursday

 The subways are always interesting in New York.  I love the music that is played while you are boarding.

 Mary Anne, Ashley and I headed for the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art) first thing.

 Lots of interesting art to see.

 More fun things around New York to see.

Next we headed downtown to meet Tom for lunch. He works at CancerCare.  His office is on the 24th floor.  The view was amazing.  You could see out to the Statue of Liberty looking one way and then to the Empire State building looking the other way.

 We ate lunch at Chipolte's.

 Right by Tom's office was the City Quilter.  It had a few interesting quilts to look at.  We also browsed through some stores in the garment district.

 The old catholic churches are so neat to  see.

 There are bikes all over town that you can rent at one place and drop off at another place.

 Ashley and i went to the MoMA.  (Museum of Modern Art)

 Amazing

The reason we came to New York at this time was to see Lori Prescott Hansen perform her storytelling.  She is part of the UNITED SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL group.  It was so fun to show up and watch her.  She did  'Becoming an Honorary Crone.  The Journey to Wise Women'.  Using folktales and personal stories of struggle and triumph, Lori guided us down the path of the Crone: that elusive climb toward inner beauty and wisdom.  What a great night.