Atlanta and New York Before Baby!

Tyler and I set out for Atlanta, Georgia for a trip. It was a little over a month ago, and I'm just getting around to blogging about it! It's a pretty easy drive. Only about 6 hours from Memphis.


Atlanta is home to the largest aquarium in the world. It holds 8 million gallons of water. The owner of home depot donated 250 million dollars to help open it.

Tyler was so proud of the picture below because he felt he caught a Kodak moment on camera as the fish kissed me! Kind of a scary looking fish though!

CNN was our next stop. I was quite excited for the tour. Tyler was excited to meet Wolf Blitzer.

CNN's headquarters are in Atlanta.

Next Tyler and I continue our tour of Baseball Parks around the country. It's our goal to see every MLB baseball park in the country before we die! HAHA! Here we're at the Braves game at Turner Field. We also got to see a no hitter, which is very rare to see in the game of baseball.

A week and a half later we met our parents in New York. I had never been to New York and neither had my parents. This is the first view I got outside our hotel window. Look at all those cabs!

And yes cute little flower shops on the street like this really do exsist.

Times Square was crazy! There were so many lights and big signs. Just a lot going on. It was very big and there was a lot to take in.

Next we were off to see a Broadway Play. We chose to see Mary Poppins. It was really good and everyone had a good time. By this time we had met up with our parents. The theatre we went to was over 100 years old.

Love this picture!

Night life in the city.

The double decker bus tours were a lot of fun and one of the best ways to see the city. Mom and Dad with the Empire State Building behind them.

We also stopped at the 9/11 Memorial. It was so sad. This is the plaque showing all of the firefighters names who died on that day trying to save other people's lives. There were alot of names on the wall.

Next Stop Statue of Liberty. We only had a few days so we didn't actually go up inside, but saw her from a distance.

Notice at the bottom of this picture the Coach purse. If you didn't know New York has all the fake name brand purses you could ever want. We had quite the adventures getting our hands on these purses. Back alleyways, stores with secret doors that led to rooms full of prada, guchi, Channel purses. You name the brand and they usually had it. Then you had to bargain with them. After I negotiated some bargains for my mom and mother-in-law, one of the "sales" ladies said, "you buy?" I said "no" she then said, "You have way to big of mouth, talk too much and no buy!" I just started laughing. HOW RUDE! Believe me, I eventually started buying.

Next we headed off to the Late Show with David Letterman. Let's just say that it's a little difficult to get tickets to his show. You have to apply online and then the day before we left for New York they finally called and we had to answer a trivia question about his show correctly in order to get tickets. Our question was, "what color of hair does Dave's announcer have? EASY....RED!!!

We then ate at Rupert's Famous Deli before we went to the show. If you watch Dave you know who Rupert is. We didn't actually think he'd be inside working at his shop. But him and his wife were the only people running it. Doesn't Rupert just look thrilled to get his picture taken...AGAIN!!! It was fun to eat in his shop though and the food was good.

The city night tour.

As you can see my parents really enjoyed the night tour! HA!

Bright city lights!

We got pretty good at riding the Subway.

We rode the Subway to the New York Yankees baseball game. Their stadium is huge.

Overall...this was one of the most fun trips I've ever been on. I LOVE NEW YORK!

Pregnant Lady Does The Weather

No matter what...you can always tell when a weather woman is pregnant. We have to stand in front of a green screen full body shot. DANG! I think anchors have it a bit easier when pregnant...they can hide their bellies behind the desk. No hiding it in the weather clip below...black seems to be a color I'm really liking lately, especially while being pregnant!!! Wouldn't it be funny if my water broke while I was doing the weather. I told my co-workers that if that happens I'll just skip right to the 7-day forecast. That's all people want to see anyway...right?!?!

YEAH BABY!

31 weeks pregnant...almost 32! Yeah! Getting big. Finally we started shopping for baby things. Earlier I had bought a baby baseball hat! I guess that wasn't enough! Tyler and I dedicated Friday night to getting baby things. Let me tell you Tyler was just thrilled...haha...we ended up having a lot of fun though. It was funny to see Tyler pushing all of the strollers around in the store. He looked cute test driving them. We've almost got everything. I can't believe how much baby stuff costs.

I made Tyler Take these pictures after church on Sunday. We just went out onto our deck and used the self timer. We haven't been out on our deck in a while and you'll see the surprise we found with the pictures below.

First I saw this wasp on the ceiling of the deck making something. I thought to myself...it looks like he's making part of a nest.

Then I looked over and saw this. YIKES! SCARY!

Tyler and I were in Utah this past month for baby showers and to visit family...oh yeah and my Dad took Tyler to the March Madness games which was the highlight of Tyler's trip. My mom gave me a baby shower and my Mother-In-Law also did. Thank you! They were so much fun!

My Sister-In-Law Tiffanie made me this beautiful blanket with cute animals on it. She is very talented. I love it!

Ashley and Stacey's girls...so cute!

Look closely and you can see that this is a diaper cake from the McMullin girls. So cute! It had onsies and baby wash and other things within the cake as well. So creative!

Lunch/Baby showers with the Margetts' girls!

This has to be one of my favorite pictures...and probably one of Tyler's favorite presents. Little Air Jordan Nike shoes from Ty's Mom and Dad. Aren't they cute! Tyler is already convinced that our little boy is going to be an athlete!

We also got a lot of baseball themed outfits and items.

This was the shower with Tyler's family.

Tyler with his Grandpa!

We got so many things from everyone at all the baby showers. I loved it all. When we got back to Memphis...I was going through all of the baby stuff we received and Tyler was laughing at me because he said I looked so excited like it was Christmas morning.

Tyler and I have also been following the JAZZ. Tyler is such a fan that we got NBA league pass on Direct TV which allows us to get all the Jazz games...a little bit of home here in Tennessee. We also like to go to Grizzlies games every now and then. Especially since seats are way cheaper here compared to in Utah.

I posted a picture of Tim Duncan because Tyler and I are dorks and lined up as the Spurs players exited the tunnel and put down our hands. Tim Duncan gave us a BIG high five. We were amazed at how HUGE is hands were!

Us on Beale Street in Memphis after the game. This is the most popular street in Memphis. It looks pretty cool at night. Not much to do though. There's a lot of bars and some shops and some good restaurants. Have you ever tried fried pickles??? It's a southern treat and you can find them right here on Beale Street. It's the first thing Tyler and I ate when we got to Memphis.