Cooling Off

we moved here on the hottest weekend in recent nyc history...good timing, eh? it was 100 degrees with 100% humidity, which makes it feel about 110. we have found many ways to keep cool and the girls are eager to jump into every water fountain between here and manhattan.

we all spent the last day with everyone here visiting the statue of liberty and ellis island. after that, i took my mom home to catch a cab-which turned out to be the air-conditioning repair guy :) and clay and the girls went with his parents to the empire state building. i can't say i was sad to miss that one.

thanks to the help of both our parents we were able to unpack all the boxes, find a place for everything, and still have time for some sightseeing. i had planned on taking most of the summer to unpack, so now i guess we just have more time for fun! thanks moms and dads!

Getting Ready for the Big Move

we got the biggest budget truck we could find, loaded up all our stuff, went to the uhaul store to get a trailer for the rest of our stuff, and clay and his dad set off on a 2004 mile drive across the country to our new home in brooklyn, ny. this gas guzzler got 5-6 miles to the gallon, so next time we may just sell all our stuff and go shopping when we get where we're going!

time with great-grandma

Saying Goodbye

we're not much on mushie good-byes and we

thought the only way to make all of our wonderful friends happy that we were leaving was to give them a chance to hear us sing. we hosted an american idol kareoke sing-a-long with the wii our last weekend in albuquerque. our plan worked...we spent the evening laughing at (er with) one another and by the end of it, they were glad to see us go!