Kindergarten

Merrick started Kindergarten this year at Canalino Elementary School in Carpinteria, California. He has Mrs. Keturi and she is the SWEETEST teacher I have ever met. She has a piano and a guitar in her class and uses music as a form of teaching. Merrick has just barely started making friends with some of the kids in his class ( Miguel and Isaac) and I am so glad because for a while I thought he was going to boycott all things Kindergarten, he really misses his friends in New York, so do I :0(

Mafia Car

This little beauty is the car we're driving these days. It was a hand me down to Sean's parents and so when family comes into town this is the car they get to drive. It's suppppperr long and the trunk is humongous. We joke about it being a mob car.

Sean hates it but I told him that maybe with a car wash it might not look so bad.

Here it is with a car wash. DRAMATIC difference, I know.

MOOD-New York City

Ever since I moved to New York I've had two BIG things on my bucket list:
One to visit Purl- Soho and Two to visit MOOD. I went to Purl last year and finally, FINALLY got around to going to MOOD this year with some of my girlfriends. We had a great time and to top it off we met Anya from this season's Project Runway ( she's definitely my favorite contestant and I think she's going to make it to Mercedes Fashion Week). Thanks ladies for the best farewell girls night ever.

Brooklyn

We met up with some friends in Brooklyn yesterday and had yummy Grimaldi's pizza on the grassy knoll where the kids could run until they were tired.

Then we got ice cream by the water and watched the boats go by. This is our first family shot with Princess Leia in it.

Leia.

The boys.

Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory.

Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Good Times.

Grandma comes to visit

The kids with Grandma Hewitt. Merrick would not stop making funny faces so this was seriously the best picture out of the group. Little Leia being cute as usual.

WHO is this kid??? And why does he look soooo big? I mean I know he's 5 years old and getting ready for kindergarten but where did the time go? I love him he's my bud.

Oh Memphis, you just melt my heart.

Dear Mom: Thank you for taking the boys to California for a few weeks, they haven't stopped asking to go back ever since. We love you sooo much and can't wait to spend a little bit more time with you before the big move to the Caribbean.

GRENADA

Grenada= Gorgeous!

Medical School here we come.

That's right folks Sean was accepted to St. George University on the Caribbean Island of Grenada. He starts in January so we're heading to California for a few months and then off to Grenada at the end of December. We are so proud of Sean and we just know that he is going to be a GREAT doctor.