Sunday, February 26, 2012

A Week In the Life of the Granshaw Family!


 WINTER BREAK!
      Here on Long Island we have something called winter recess. The kids have a full week off from school! Being that I am a teacher, I am off as well! Eddie decided to take this week off too so he could be with us. We had a fun filled week planned. Eddie and I had 4 "Date Nights". We do a "Date Night" once a week but because we were both off, we got to enjoy each other 3 additional nights. We LOVE spending time together. We also had a lot of fun activities planned with the girls! The one thing we did was we took the girls into NYC and we spent 2 days there. We let Emma make the plans and she had a ball! We also got to hang out with friends. Emma had plans with friends too and I can't believe it is Sunday and the entire week is done. Well I guess.....time flies when you are having fun! Here are some pics from our winter recess!

           East End Children's Museum- Bridgehampton

Lyla at the museum

Emma pretending she is in a supermarket


Eddie wearing a "Dwarfism Awareness" T-shirt. He was representing!

Me and my sweetheart 

Eddie playing with his girls



Sisters

Lyla having fun in the mats

Eddie and Emma acting silly


Playing in the sandbox




Emma playing dress up!




Emma reading to us 

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           Dinner with friends- Mike, Dina, Greg and Lisa
                                                   
                           We pigged out at dinner and drank Sangria
Dina, me and Lisa

My handsome hubby

Eddie, Greg and Mike
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                                    Hanging with our Neighbors


Some of the neighborhood guys
Kevin, Eric, Chris and Eddie

Me and my love


Some neighborhood girls
Stacy, me, Kelly, Kelly's sis and Ann




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                             Family Trip to New York City
Eddie booked a huge suite for us





We went to FAO Schwartz toy store. Eddie told Emma to pick out ANY toys she wanted. She picked out: the snake
wrapped around her neck, a barbie, a book and a blue M&M stuffed animal. She picked out a book and a stacking toy for Lyla. Eddie and I keep making jokes about the toys because he thought her choice of toys was not very good but Emma loved her toys. Eddie wanted to get her a really cool toy and kept trying to persuade her to get something big and unique. Emma went with what she picked out and nothing else!




Dancing on the Big Piano






Out to dinner for some delicious Pizza




Yummy!!!!


Lyla loving her pizza


Family pic

Horse and buggy around Central Park




Emma feeding the horse



Eddie bought the girls these hats



Our hotel


Having breakfast at Ellen's Stardust Diner





Emma and Lyla loved the singing waitstaff

Ice Skating at Wollman's Rink in Central Park
Emma wanted to go ice skating. She saw all the people the night before when we did the horse and buggy ride.





Emma's first time ice skating-they didn't have a double blade. She is on a single blade


The two days we were there it was in the 50's. Beautiful weather!






She's doing it!


Climbing a huge rock in Central Park



Lyla was pooped!
The girls did great at the hotel and slept all night. Emma didn't want to sleep in her room though. She slept in our bed during our trip. We rented movies and snuggled in the bed together (All 3 of us- Thank goodness it was a king size bed!). Lyla slept in the living room and she was so tired from all the activities that she passed right out!
A BIG thank you to my hubby for taking us to NYC! 
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                     Emma had a play date at our house


Emily and Emma-friends 4ever


Doing some baking in our kitchen


Look at the concentration!
Emma enjoyed having her friend come over

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             Out to dinner with our friends- Joe and Christine


The four of us enjoying our dinner



After dinner drinks at the lounge 

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                     Hanging at Dave and Buster's


Emma and Eddie bowling


Lyla watching


Our friends Bill and Tara were there and Dylan and Emma played in the arcade the rest of the time!

This concludes our fabulous week off together! I couldn't take pictures of all our events but this was just a few of them. Now back to work tomorrow!