i'm pathetic

so its officially become a little pathetic that i haven't posted anything in almost a month... oops. 


West point- I never posted about the west point ball that i went to. (for those of you who don't know what west point is, no worries i didn't either until i came out here. It a military college that is super hard to get into, its GORGEOUS beyond all reason, and you have to have government issued ID's to get in! They even search your car! and place looks like hogwarts!) I went with this guy that I met a a few weeks before and wore a stunning salmon colored cocktail dress. The dinner was delicious and uber fancy. I'm pretty sure I had at least 5 different forks, and three different cups to drink out of. Talk about confusing... After dinner we went to a play called "100th night". This play is a tradition that they do every year for all the seniors when they only have 100 nights before graduation and they all leave to start military jobs all over the country. The play was hilarious! 
 I'm sure my mother will be horrified when she reads this next part but, I did not get any pictures that night. I know. What was I thinking? But to be honest I was so overwhelmed with everything from that night that it didn't even cross my mind...


NYC- the city is beautiful as always. I went there a few times over the past month and here are some highlights.
I went and saw the Rockefeller center ice rink

 Went to the Manhattan Family ward in the city and saw this building when we were leaving. If you know why this building makes me extremely happy then we can be friends.

 And can I just say that NYC does breakfast right. This pizza was SOOOO good!

 I finally went to FAO Schwarz. If I could have gone there as a kid I think I would have died and gone to heaven. It was pretty sweet! They had this foosball table made from barbi dolls. If I had 5000 dollars to blow and a place to put it I would have bought this baby in a heartbeat! 

Lastly, for one day the weather actually got above 65 degrees and so Richard and I had ourselves a little picnic! 

best. day. ever. 
Unfortunately the next day he got the flu and then a few days after that Bella, Julia Rose, Dawn, and I all got it the same day. Talk about miserable.... 


On a happy note Richard got his yellow belt (richard is the youngest out of three of the kids I nanny for he is my good buddy because while the girls are in school we spend all day together)

and he didn't stop smiling for three days haha


He also says the most RANDOM things! Here are a few quotable Richard moments this past week. 


Janell-"hey richard what are you doing on your dvd player?"
richard-"i am lookin up a recipie for fish."
janell-"oh yeah what does it say?"
richard-"we need to cut down all the doors with toads, fill all the toilets with our spit, and then we need some lemons for taste."


Richard- "but is it as cool as a monkey eating parmesan?"


four year old richard " uh janell... i just wanted to let you know that i am having a baby next saturday and i hope you can make it"


here's one from julia rose who is six


janell "julia rose did you finish your spelling homework?"
julia rose " yup! i`m d-o-w-n, done!"






p.s.
there was a mariachi band in my subway car last week. best. ride. ever.

latest happenings

well I haven't posted about life from the big apple for quite a while so here goes...
two weeks ago we had a 3 day city in the conference for all the YSA (young single adults) in the area at the new york city church building. On Saturday night we took a train into the city and walked around columbus circle for about 45 minutes asking people if they knew where the "mormon temple" was because none of us had ever been. It was FREEZING outside! The wind was blowing so hard and I'm pretty sure I lost all feeling in my entire body because it was so numb from the cold (on a side note I definitely got wind burn and my face was red and blotchy for like 4 days! thank you new york...). After walking around aimlessly for about 40 minutes we almost gave up but we decided to ask one last person if they knew where it was. This time I after someone asked for the "mormon temple" and he said no I looked at him in desperation and said "It says 'Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' on the side in huge letters" to this he of course replied "well yeah that building sticks out its only two blocks that way". Relieved we pretty much ran to the temple. That night we met the main guy from Jericho Road. Here is a pic of Sarah with him

That night when we got to grand central station to catch the train back we literally ran to the terminal and watched the train leave the station right as we got to the platform! Since it was now midnight and the train schedule was reduced we had to sit in grand central until 1:40 waiting for the next train! yuck!

The next morning we went back to the city for church at the conference and this time we walked right to the church building instead of wandering around forever.

As I'm posting this pictures I realized I never introduced my friends out here! These are my girlies! The one with the hood is Krista who is nannying out here from American Fork. In the back is Melissa who is also a nanny from St George and lastly Sarah on the right who is from Salem, Ut. Love love love these girls!

 Just livin it up in the subway with the awesome bands!

love them :)