Visitors- 7

Tyler's brother's family came to visit us during February and we were so excited to have them come see where we live and be able to see them!! Layton and Ashley had everything planned out to what they wanted to see most, and where they wanted to eat. Both Tyler and I said that we think they were the visitors that got to the most places in such a short amount of time. It was lots of fun and very filling! 

The first day they were here we went over to Jersey to see the Cake Boss' bakery. I had never been there, but I'm glad I went with them because it was really easy to get over there, so now I know! This was where our boat taxi docked. 

The bakery stuff was amazing!! So many things to choose from, and Layton found out that Lobster Tails are little pieces of heaven (although I still think Ashley makes the best little pieces of heaven). It was fun to see all the variety and bring home lots to share with Tyler and Spencer. The line was long, but worth it.

This is their son who is sooo dang cute!!! He was happy with Spencer's toys of cars and trains, and whenever we were home he would just go right back to playing with them. Oh, and he also liked our dinosaur movies. It was just so cute when he would talk to us about it all. 

Another day we went to the Empire State Building, which we had never been to, but knew that we should go see at least once while living here. It was pretty cool, and we got there early enough that there was barely a line!!! 

 Look from the observation floor looking south towards where we live. Can you see our place?? It's amazing to me to see how much fits in this small city. 

Spencer and the view.

Another day we went out to dinner to the best Italian restaurant ever, and no it was not Olive Garden. It was Il Vagabondo, and it was DIVINE!! I went to their website before going so I could see what to eat, and Emeril Lagasse had a video from the show The Best Thing I Ever Ate and he talked about a dish at this restaurant...veal parmigiana. So, I decided if Emeril likes this...maybe I would, and I DID!! YUMMY!!!!

After dinner we took the subway home and started walking to our apartment, and noticed that lots of fire engines were passing by. We looked up ahead and saw at least 6 engines right on a street that is next to our apartment building!!!! I was so worried that something was going on at our apartment, but when we got closer we saw it was a building further down the street. 

 Kinda nerve-racking to see this while walking home. 

 We stayed outside and watched the firefighters for a while, but then started to wonder where the fire was, we could smell the smoke but could not see the fire anywhere. Going into our building we asked the doorman and he said it was a fire up on the roof of the apartment building across the way. We knew our living room window faced that way so we went upstairs opened the blinds and saw this:

There were at least 10 firefighters up there trying to get the blaze under control. Once or twice we saw big flames. It was crazy! The good part was that it was just on the roof garden of this building and did not go into any apartments. So that was some excitement for the night!! 

Could this face get any cuter?? I think not. 

 Cousins. 

We had a wonderful time with Layton and Ashley here with us, and their time here went by really fast. But no visit to Uncle Tyler is complete unless there is a wrestling session. Here are the boys wrestling together. 

One more thing, Spencer really got to know Layton and Ashley both more, but it seemed that wherever Layton was, Spencer was right next to him on the couch. It was really cute, and I thank Layton for being patient with Spencer. :) Thanks for the fun times family!!!!!