Visitors-2

So, one Thursday night Tyler came home from work and we all ate dinner together as a family. I was really tired so I decided to get my pj's on, so I could just enjoy our Thursday night TV line up. Tyler then told me that he saw we had a package downstairs so he was going down to get it. So he left to go get this "package" and then knocked on the door to get back in. I went to open it for him, and realized there was no package in his hands, as I'm about to ask him where this "package" was, I see a stroller coming around the corner to our door. At first, I'm like "oh great! he saw someone downstairs and let them come up and I'm in my pj's!" Then I saw the girl pushing the stroller:

Yep! It was this girl right here! I looked at her and then thought "She looks really familiar" and she just smiled at me, then I realized who it was. That's Laura!!!!! One of my very best friends from when I was growing up in Virginia!! Then another person came after her, Mickelle! then Emily! and then Sarah!!!!! 

I was SHOCKED! in AWE! and FLABBERGASTED! 

I have to let you know that these girls are so important to me, and growing up. We helped each other a lot during our teenage years, and had fun the whole time. We have an incredibly close bond with each other. For the past 16 or 17 years we have been best friends, after that long you know you can trust these girls. I love them so much and was so touched that they came to visit. 

Back to the story, I wasn't sure what to do, then they all let me in on the secret. Tyler had planned a girlie weekend for me and to have all the girls come to NYC!!! I was shocked, and just smiled and teared up that they were all there. It was so wonderful to have friends around me, and to know I had a whole weekend with them. They had been planning this for around 8 months too. My husband is so great and wonderful to have done this for me, and I don't know quite what I can do for him now. 

I also was a bit overwhelmed, because I had not cleaned the sheets from when my parents had been there just three days before, nor had I gotten to the towels being washed. Remember we had just gotten our stuff and so I was unpacking boxes first. 

Anyway....onto the weekend! We had a fun-filled weekend that was excellent and put on here with lots of pictures, so get ready.

Here we all are, oh and did I mention I had another friend Mary with her 5 week old baby come and see us too!?!?!? I have THE best friends out of anyone. :) 

Mickelle, Sarah, me, Mary and C, Emily with baby in belly, and Laura with B. 

Do we look a little tired? Most nights we stayed up till 2AM talking! 

Sarah relaxing while we watched movies one day. 

Me relaxing while we watched movies.

 Now this little boy I think we fell in love with, and when I say we I mean me, Tyler and Spencer. We loved playing with him and Spencer was so tender with him when he would try to wrestle with him. It was dang cute!

This is B getting stuck. I told his mom not to get him out until I got a picture. He kept going after these rolled up pictures we had that were behind all of these other pictures. 

The first night we were there. We were so happy to be all together. 

One of our friends couldn't make it so we Skyped with her, and so I took a picture with Andrea so it would look like she was there. :) 

One of the nights we decided to go to STOMP so Tyler could watch B and we could have a girls night out. We had a blast, even with walking 2 miles home. For some reason cabbies hate driving to where we live, so we enjoyed the lovely New York night air and had a pleasant walk home. 

Aren't we so happy?!?

 Another day we took the free Staten Island Ferry so we could see the skyline and also get a better view of the Statue of  Liberty. It was a fun ride. 

We also went to Times Square and walked around there, then went to lunch at Hard Rock Cafe. 

Here's Emily and Mickelle looking over the dessert menu. 

Us on the subway. 

 We were also able to go to the 9/11 Memorial. 

This is the new World Trade Center going up. 

A map of the memorial area. 

It's an incredibly peaceful, and beautifully done memorial area. I encourage everyone to go and then to the Visitor's Center afterwards. 

 This is the Survivor Tree. Go HERE for the story. Amazing! 

On their last day there one of my friends, Laura, wanted to go to the Today show. So I decided to go with her. She knew exactly what time we should be there, and we got straight over there, and waited for like 10 minutes before Matt, Anne and Savannah came out to do some news. 

Here's Matt!!!! He was shorter than I thought and also very skinny. 

They actually did the news RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!!!! We were so excited and told Laura's husband in Utah to watch the show and see if he could see us over in the corner of the TV, and guess what?!!? He did! He said he saw us for a little bit. How fun!

We were able to shake Savannah's hand and then watch them go around and talk to people. It was quite fun. 

I have to thank Tyler and all the girls for coming. It was a great weekend even if I felt a little overwhelmed with not having the house ready. But it was so fun, and wonderful. Thanks also to the girls for taking pictures and most of these were from their cameras, so thank you!