My new car!

I have been at my job for awhile now and Rhonda the Honda has just given up on me completely. I have been driving my brothers truck (big shout out to Nate for letting me borrow your truck and you not have one at all...best brother ever!) to work now since the day I started. I'm sure he is ready for his black beauty back so it's that time in my life....to purchase my first new car and start making car payments! Chance and I did a lot of research and searched around everywhere. We were at dealerships every weekend and we finally got it down to 2 contenders....well not specific contenders, but it was either a coupe (G37, BMW, Lexus etc) or an SUV (a good mom car!) and I have decided on.....DRUM ROLL PLEASE....a 2009 Toyota Highlander!

I went with the mom car! As much as I would love a small little car (and the gas payment on it), I want to have this car for many many years to come and getting an SUV will just make having a baby in a car seat so much easier.

And had I gone with the small car, Rylee wasn't allowed in it because of the leather seats...and she is my baby so that wasn't going to work. My SUV is leather also but there is a perfect section for her all the way in the back that is carpeted :) So she rides back there, Chance and I ride up front, and all of our bags and stuff ride in the middle seat. It's perfect!

I went with one that had a navigation screen, which also turns into a camera when I am reversing.

I have all the controls I need on my steering wheel so I don't have to look down at the radio = safer driving :)

Leather seats throughout

Push to start...which I thought was cool because my keys are always buried in the bottom of my purse, but it's kind of a pain sometimes because when you get home you have to dig for them anyways to find the house key.

Heated seats for those cold Winter mornings!

Out with the girls!

Girls Night Out!

 

So excited my gf's from Austin came in town.

 

 

Alesia, Jocelyn, me and Rachel

 

 

Love Rach!

 

We're the 3 best friends that anyone could have....

New York City with Chance

Departing: Dallas
Destination: New York City, NY

Dec 28:
Arrived in NYC!
We grabbed lunch at an awesome burger shack....I highly recommend it. We took it to go and ate in Central Park.

After walking around for a bit we decided to stop into the Museum of Natural History. A few tips: (1) you do not have to pay the full price of the ticket, if you read the fine print it says "suggested price", a lot of museums do this so if you are traveling on a budget you should know that you can still visit these awesome museums! (2) know that you could literally spend an entire day in here! I didn't read half the stuff, although I would've loved too, there was just too much. We only saw about 1/4 of it and were there for a few hours. We didn't even get to every floor!

That night Chance's uncle Kevin took us to dinner at Mario's for his birthday (it's the 29th).

Dec 29:

Happy birthday babe! Today Chance and I relaxed for his birthday and then I had big plans for us that night. We had a cab take us to the train station, rode on the train for a bit and landed in Manhattan. We had dinner at SushiSamba (so yummy!) and then walked down to this hole in the ground, most awesome comedy club (EastVille Comedy) either one of us has either been to. It was pretty small and the comedians were making fun of us the whole time which made it even better!

After the comedy club we went down to Webster Hall and had a blast!

I wish these videos didn't post side ways, but I thought they were really cool so I wanted to post them. The entertainment at this club is insane!

 

While there we ran into our friends from Denton!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dec 30:

This day we (Chance) needed to "rest" haha. Kevin had to go to work and Louie just had gotten back in town so he took us to Downtown Huntington Station, which come to find out is where they taped most of Royal Pains! For dinner we ate at this cute restaurant/bar called Sapsuckers.

Dec 31:

We decided not to go into town tonight because it's just too crazy! Instead, we hung out at his uncles house and they had a party!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 1:

We relaxed today and welcomed the new year in Long Island. For dinner we went to Louie's sisters house, Rodi. She cooked an awesome meal!

Jan 2:

Louie's brother, Joey (Rachel Rays make-up artist!) came and hung out for the day. Kevin cooked some great chili and then we went bowling for a few hours!

Jan 3:

Today Chance and I hung out in the Upper West Side and ate a neat sandwhich shop.

Columbus Circle....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, Central Park Zoo...Chance really wanted to see the penguins :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we met up Kevin and hung out in Times Square...

Chance and I on the Big Red Stairs!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ball that had just dropped a few nights before!

And Rockefeller Center...

St Patricks Cathedral....always stunning!

Jan 4:

Today Kevin took us to his work. He works flight control for the government. It was really cool to see him working and talking to so many pilots! *no pics since we were inside a government building.

Then he took us by the real Amityville Horror house since we had watched the Ryan Reynolds version of it the night before. So spooky!

Jan 5:

Today we drove to the city since Chance's ankle was hurting him :(

We went to Chinatown...

 

Brooklyn Bridge....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wall Street.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9/11 Memorial....

Dinner at De Gennaro in Little Italy....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Washington Square Park....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elf Musical....Which Chance loved by the way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cafe LaLo for dessert....Met Joe here!

Jan 6:

Today we relaxed since Chance's ankle was really bothering him and went to see a movie (Zero Dark Thirty- so good!) In NY you pay extra when you buy cans or glass bottles and then you recycle them at the grocery store in these big bins, it prints a ticket, and you take the ticket to the register and they give you the money back that you originally spent. It's about .5 cents per can. So we were able to experience this with Kevin.

Then we ate some pizza and watched the movie Elf so the guys could see all the differences between the musical and the movie.

Jan 7: flew home :(

After getting home, these beauties were delivered to my office. They are beautiful "Thanks for everything" flowers! I hope you had a great birthday week babe! Love you.