greener pastures

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Jersey Shore

This summer we made it to beaches on Long Island, in the Hamptons and on the Jersey Shore. Here are some pictures of a trip to Ocean Grove, a few weeks ago, with Kate's best buddy, Cooper.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sometimes I daydream about life in the Hamptons and then I remind myself - oh yea, that's not my life purpose. Oh - but it is SUCH a fun place to visit. Those verses of lust and envy and covetousness definitely hit home for me every time I go out there.

But, I digress.

A few weekends ago, we borrowed a friend's car and headed out of the City as far east as we could possibly go.

We passed through Southampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton (and every other Hampton in between) and kept on driving until we reached the end of land: Montauk.

There is something exhilarating about that whole as far as you can go on land thing. I highly recommend it. Here are some of my favorite pics from our day as a family.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Destination: Singing Hills Cabin

We just returned from nine days at the Singing Hills Cabin in Colorado. (well a few weeks ago now - where has the time gone!?) The cabin has such special memories for me, as growing up we would visit each year with the family and it's one my grandfather (and others in the family) built many years ago. David had not been away from the City since Christmas, so he was more than ready to embark on our family mountain adventure. To say I was too, would be an understatement. How thankful we were to have this opportunity.

This year was extra special because of three things:

1. Kate is now old enough to start really enjoying the cabin (& creek)

2. my WHOLE family was able to be together for the first time in a very long time and

3. our special, dear, sweet friends, The Roses, were able to join us!

Those Roses - they are part of our special NYC family. The kind of family that you can be real and raw with at all times. The kind of family that you never get tired of and look forward to being with again and again - even if it's the day after. The best kind of family, really, and we feel blessed and humbled that we also have the privilege of living life with them every day during this season of our lives. Little did they know what this vacation to the cabin was going to entail. They were troopers and we had a fabulous time together and a TON of laughs!

Speaking of...our adventure started out with a few laughs as we picked up our rental car, or should I say tank, below. (not planned) We city folks got a few laughs out of this during our trip.