Happy Thanksgiving

We have been to the park and it is a gorgeous day in the city. We are anxiously awaiting our fun family...enjoy our morning photos.

Thanksgiving Eve...

I think this is a celebration we should all start to enjoy! I love Thanksgiving Eve in NYC. The streets are empty; the people left are frantically running to the grocery store and wine store to stock up for Turkey Day. All the dogs are excited because they know what tomorrow brings...a nice relaxed day with some definite park time.

For us NYC transplants tomorrow brings great Southern family. We are so excited about their visit and creating a new Thanksgiving memory. This is our third year to do something completely different and new for Thanksgiving in NYC. Orie's first...we went to my aunt beth's house for Thanksgiving day; Orie's second, my first...we last minute decided to cook a traditional Turkey dinner and ditch our upscale dinner reservations; Orie's third, my second...we have great family and friends joining us for a great Thanksgiving night - we are so looking forward to all the fun.

We wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving and much fun with your days off from work!

WOO HOO

I am so ready for some family time! My mom, dad and sister Kat are headed to the big apple on Thursday and I am so excited. We are going to have a great time living it up NYC style for Thanksgiving. Family and friends are so important to me and Orie and we are so excited that some fam is making their way to visit.

Good laughs and times are sure promised to come our way. Much happiness and thankfulness to all our family and friend during this Thanksgiving time!

too bad for the tigers...:(

What a let down of a football game...at least we're still smiling! Our Tigers sure couldn't pull it off against Ole Miss. However, we had a great time watching the game with fellow LSU alum! Legends was really a nice place and the crowd was great. They played the fight song and lots of other LSU/Baton Rouge music. It was fantastic and felt almost as good as being in Tiger Stadium. We had a blast!

Sunday was spent running some errands and hanging out with Grace. Her park trips are still nice family outings but now we are FREEZING instead of enjoying the pleasant weather with her!

We hope you all had a great weekend - enjoy some pics and have a great week!

Geaux Tigers!

We are headed to Legends today to watch LSU take on Ole Miss with the alumni group. We are really looking forward to going since the view in switched to this new and bigger locations. Enjoy your day and we'll tell you all about our day soon!

Also...I thought I would add this. My dad e-mails it to me every week from his good friend's daughter. She is quite a clever writer. Enjoy her thoughts on LSU vs. Ole Miss


IT'S GAMEDAY!!!!!!!!

Congratulations and Many Thanks to our outstanding Seniors!

91 Charles Alexander, 40 Caleb Angelle, 30 Chad Baniecki, 48 Darry Beckwith,2 Demetrius Byrd, 38 Brady Dalfrey, 6 Colt David, 99 Marlon Favorite, 17 Josh Graham, 94 Donald Hains, 74 Brett Helms, 93 Tyson Jackson, 79 Herman Johnson,45 Quinn Johnson, 47 Tremaine Johnson, 63 Ryan Miller, 5 Chad Moody, 50 Phillip Pigott, 49 Kirston Pittman, 27 Curtis Taylor

Go to Hell Ole Miss, Go to Hell…

Wild cats Wild hogs and Wild rebels
That Nutt is one wild and crazy guy
So crazy he's now found in Mississippi
The place where coaching careers go to die

They say the runts are feeling frisky
They're all dandied up and ready to fight
But kind of like those guys in West Side Story
They'd really rather pose and dance all night

A week removed from the craziest comeback ever
Kudos to those that cheered the team and stuck around
Your spirit helped them never stop fighting
As the score went up and the clock wound down

We're left again with more questions than answers
Who will show up, Dr Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?
Let's see our Death Valley home team
Take the pipsqueaks for an all too familiar ride

And so we will honor Billy Cannon
Who dealt the Tigers most famous blow
He ran the stake into the heart of those Rebels
For that alone, he deserves a standing O

It's Senior Day in Tiger Stadium
When school and heart and family shines through
One last, sweet win
One last, sweet song
Forever LSU

Jill Savoie

Brrrrrrrr!!!!

Wow - it's cold outside. Today on my walk to work...it was a breezy 16 degrees outside!!!!!!!!!

YIKES it was so cold. I was talking to mom and she was running down the list of things such as a hat, scarf, mittens, etc. I should have. Of course I had all of that; it is now part of the daily routine.

We are hoping for some warmer weather next week when some southern family heads this way!!!

Love and hugs to all. Stay warm and take care.

Brooklyn

Oh yes...we went to Brooklyn again. Wow - this is now my 3rd time for a social event. At least this place wasn't that far - only one stop after leaving Manhattan. We went with friends to Brooklyn Brewery and had a great time. It is a real working Brewery that opens up on Friday nights for people to hang out. They set up picnic tables and people bring games and stuff to play. We played cards!! Crazy eights, Cadillac and some game Orie made up!!! We had a great time.

Orie even showed off his style with our friend John's golf hat. We both kind of liked the look!

After the brewery we went to an arcade type place - pretty crowded and we were still in Brooklyn but it was fun.

Saturday Orie went and worked on a project with some friends and I did a little shopping. That night we went to Geoff's to watch LSU on Gameplan - a disappointing first half. The boredom made me fall asleep. Orie must have done a nice job cheering them on because when I woke up we were winning!!!

This weekend a cold front came through so we had some rain on Saturday and much cooler temperatures today. This weeks should be pretty cold!!

Today we just hung out relaxing and enjoyed a lazy Sunday - hope you all did something fun or relaxing too!

Enjoy some pics from Friday night!

Fall is here!

We had a great weekend. Friday was an evening of nothing for us. Really relaxing and I caught up on some sleep since I wasn't feeling very well.

Saturday we had the pleasure of locking ourselves out of our apartment about 30 minutes before the start of the LSU game. We had to call our super to help us out and he was so rude about it. Has really been rude since then also.

We finally got in our apartment and enjoyed having Geoff over to watch the game. Too bad we lost. I can't believe that we keep losing like this and our quarterback is so terrible! After the game we went and played some pool at a neighborhood spot. It was fun - I have to say I am the better player out of this duo!!

Orie had the day off today and so I took off to hang out with him. We enjoyed a nice day in the park. It was GORGEOUS! What a fun day for all of us.

Enjoy some photos!

New York City Marathon

No, we did not participate in the marathon but we did watch some of the runners go by. It was a little early in the race so the streets in the photos aren't nearly as full as they get further into the day. It runs right down 1st avenue on the UES, which is where we live, and was very exciting. It interfered with my shopping plans today (I couldn't cross the street to go up to the subway) but I made do by taking the downtown bus to 57th street and hopped on the subway there. The police told me that if I wanted to cross the street I would have to go down to 58th street or up to 1oo and something. NO THANKS on foot so I hopped on the bus!

After checking out the marathon we strolled over to the park where Grace had a little squirrel hunt. All in all a good day! Enjoy some pics

Happy Halloween

We spent our Halloween evening on Pier 92 celebrating Brewtopia. It was a beer tasting festival that Orie and our friend Geoff enjoyed last year. It was pretty fun. Lots of people in great costumes and full of character. We enjoyed beers from New York and all over the world. Enjoy some photos!