Amanda on October 17th, 2012

This year is the first year that both boys have attended the same school and started on the same day.  It was nice being able to do all the first day festivities at once although the timing is always terrible for me work-wise (during August month end close). Ian was first to go to school […]

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Amanda on October 16th, 2012

The last full day of our trip was to be spent on a beach along the Jersey shore but the day had a lot of hiccups. Everyone woke up completely cranky because we were all over-tired.  Mike locked the keys in the car while packing it up.  Matthew got sand in his eye at the […]

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Amanda on October 15th, 2012

The next day in NYC was another full day but didn’t start as early.  We were able to sleep in a bit and start the day slower which was definitely needed. We planned to spend the day at the American Museum of Natural History but it wasn’t open when we arrived.  We walked across the […]

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Amanda on October 14th, 2012

When I last left you, we were on the ferry and headed to Ellis Island…. It was a short ride over and soon we had arrived. If you can’t tell from the picture above, we started losing Matthew at this point.  He just didn’t care about the exhibits and was tired and bored. This computerized […]

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Amanda on October 8th, 2012

I actually took so many pictures on this day of our vacation that I’ve decided to blog about it in two parts.  🙂 The first day of sight-seeing started pretty early because we had tickets for the 8AM ferry to the Statue of Liberty.  I had done enough research to know that trains into Manhattan […]

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