New York City in the Spring....Brrrrr

Don was asked to represent USA Basketball at the Jordan Classic all star game in New York.  Several of our USA players would be playing.  We flew to New York on a Tuesday and home on a Saturday - four days of theatre, eating out, sight seeing, and of course basketball.  We packed our winter coats because we had Yankees vs Cubs baseball tickets.  The game was rained out, but we were glad to have our winter coats because we wore them all the time we were in NY!  Instead of the Yankees game on Tuesday night we ate at an italian restaurant and we got tickets for a theatre night - Beautiful, The Carol King Story.  It was wonderful.

Enjoying the food at Amarone's

Wednesday morning we had tickets for the 9/11 memorial.

The museum wasn't open yet.
This will be interesting when it does open in the Spring of 2014

Wednesday afternoon we went to Motown.  We enjoyed the music.

We stayed at the Brooklyn Marriott which turned out to be a great location.  Just across the street was the subway.  The C trains took us "uptown" to the theatres, restaurants, sight seeing, and the Knicks basketball game at Madison Square Garden.

Times Square

Carnegie Deli - noodle and matzoh ball soup!

The Empire State Building

Knicks vs Toronto Raptors

Don spent Thursday morning at practice and then we were off on the subway to Peter Luger's Steakhouse!  A porterhouse for two!

"Kinky Boots" was our theatre choice for Thursday night.  It was very fun!

Friday we had reservations at noon at Carmine's.  We love this italian restaurant.  We had angel hair pasta in oil & garlic with shrimp.  YUM

Then we walked through some of Central Park.  Still in our winter coats but it was the best weather day we had in NY.

Off to the Jordan Classic Basketball game for the evening.  Then to NY's #1 pizza place - Grimaldi's where they bake the pizza in 1000 degree coal brick ovens.

It was a full four days and we had a fabulous time!  Thanks, Nike and USA Basketball.

Sir Owen Turns 5!

Wow!  Owen is five!  Funny, precious Owen.  The "knights and castle" theme called all of us to the Kahler's home on Saturday, April 5.  Brent, April and the boys came from Indiana so a sleep-over was planned to maximize the cousins time together.

Our five precious boys!

Creating their own shields

Sir Landon, 8

Sir Cade, almost 6

Sir Kasen, almost 4

Sir Owen, 5!

Sir Cam, 7 1/2 months

Sleep-over time
Owen and Kasen

Landon and Cade

bedtime story by Brent with birthday boy Owen and cousin Kasen

Sunday morning:  pjs and legos

March Madness in San Antonio

March Madness in Indy!

Two trips to Indianapolis during March!  Hooray for the Big Ten tourney and NCAA regional finals that were hosted there.  We don't really need an excuse to go visit Brent and his family, but when family and basketball intersect it's a bonus.

Don and Brent attended many games together!

It was my first time to their new house since they moved.
LOVE everything about the beautiful house.

Papa and baby Cam are good buddies.

It was the day after my birthday so a special celebration followed supper.

Many hours in the top floor play room.

Cam and Kasen at bathtime.

Cade got to attend one of the Big Ten games with us.

More play time!

Jump, jump, jump

In the family room hiding alphabet letters.

Pizza and movie night while Brent and Don were at a weekend evening game.

Cade!

We love our guest room complete with the murphy bed and
use of a beautiful bathroom.

Off to the Children's Museum

Florida for Vicky!