9 days with the in-laws: NYC

October 21st-22nd
This is taking me way to long to post, but I started so I will finish it. After a late night we decided to take it a little slow Wednesday morning. We slept in and took our time getting ready.
Then we took a little walk down the bike trail near Randy and Ann's house while we waited for Jared to get done with his half day of work.
The trail leads to a nice little bridge and the leaves were so beautiful in all their different colors.
Once Jared was done with work we left the babies with Ann and headed down to the city. Jared had a lot of fun can't you tell. I think he was just bored of my pictures. I had fun taking pictures in Central Park. It was the most perfect time of years for pictures in the park. Here are a couple of my favorite.


Then we headed down to time square and found somewhere to eat before we headed to our Broadway show. We went to South Pacific. It was fun I ad never been to a Broadway show on Broadway. I don't have any picture from inside the theater because our mean usher lady threatened to take my camera away if she saw it. This lady took her job a little to serious. She told us we couldn't lean forward in our seats with our elbows on our knees.
This cool fountain is out side of the Met opera house. I had idea for a oool silhouette picture isn't it cool.
The next day we all went back to the city and took the ferry over to the Statue of Liberty.
Addi enjoyed her hat and glasses I bought her.

This is the original torch of the Statue of Liberty.
We got to go up to the top of the statue pedestal. It was a lot of steps and my legs were burning from carrying Addi up so I am glad we weren't able to get tickets to walk up to the crown I don't think I would have made it.
I know I look rediculous with Addi's sunglasses on Jared took a picture just to show me what I looked like but it was a very sunny day.


After the statue we went over to Elise Island. It was pretty cool. We had fun finding our family names on the big wall.
It was a very long and tiring day and Addi had no nap so we after getting some dinner we decided it was time to head home. Thanks for the fun times Mamma and Bampa.

9 days with the in-laws: Upstate NY

October 19th & 20th
After a weekend in Philly the dads had to go back to work so Addi, Kiason, Cryssi and I joined Peggy and Jim for a trip to upsate NY.
After many hours in the car, during which the kids were surprisingly good for, we stopped at the Whitmer farm. It is one of our church history site. I was really glad we stopped here I enjoyed it and learned a lot.
In the visitor center Addi kept climbing under all the furniture.
Cute mother son picture in front of the Whitmer's home.
There was a big corn field on the farm and the kids enjoyed walking throw the corn.
and playing in the beautiful leaves.
I took advantage of the beautiful trees and snapped a few photos of mana and bampa.
After playing at the whitmer farm we got back in the car and drove another hour or two to Niagra Falls. I loved the falls at night it was so cool hard to get pictures in the dark, but I enjoyed it. When Addi first saw the falls as we walked up to them she said "whoa".
We stayed the night at Niagara Falls so we could see it in the day light and take a ride on the Maid of the Mist.
They give everyone a poncho as you get on the boat and they even has little ones for the kids. So Cute!
It was fun seeing the falls from down on the water and they got us pretty close.
I don't think Addi enjoyed getting wet, but I had fun.
After seeing the falls up close we got back in the car and headed to Palmyra (more church history sites).
Grandma showing Addi the Angel Moroni statue at the Hill Cumorah.
Addi and Kiason had so much fun together on the trip.
We saw the smith home and farm. Here is the gang in front of the Smith's second home.
This is the Palmyra temple and you can see it from the Smith farm and it over looks the Sacred Grove.
Here are the kids with mamma and bampa heading for the Sacred Grove.


It was so peaceful and calming in the Sacred Grove.
Caught mamma and bampa stealing a kiss.
Isn't Addi's cousin so cute. I took lots of pictures of him on this trip.
Addi loved having Bampa here to visit. Everytime he came in the room she would yell Bampaaaaaaa!

9 days with the In-laws:Philidelphia

At the end of October Jared's mom, step-dad, grandma, and grandpa came to visit for 9 days. They had this trip planned before we even knew we were moving to CT. Jared's aunt and uncle live in Carmel, NY and his step sister lives in New Jersy, it was just an added bonus that they got to visit us at the same time. The first weekend they were here we went down to Philadelphia. We had to reasons for this. One just to see Philly and the second was to pick up Cryssi and Kaison. The first thing we did when we arrived in Philly was take Addi to the Children's Please Touch Museum.
It was a very large children's museum and Addi and Kaison had fun. Addi really liked the water area they even had little aprons for them to wear. Addi needed to be just a little bit taller to fully enjoy it.
No matter what your size everyone had fun at the giant piano.
Addi loved shopping at the grocery store. She has 2 toy shopping carts at home. She loves play food.
Jared taught some random little girl about teeth at the play hospital.
Grandma and Grandpa took the kiddies on the carousel.
Jared was proud of this picture everything in motion and out of focus except Addi.
Don't think the kids liked us forcing them to stick their heads in these holes.
But Grandma and Grandpa enjoyed it. Suits them don't you think.
They had all sorts of different rooms to play in. The kids could have played for hours more, but the adults were exhausted after 2 hours, plus the museum was closing.
Of course we had to get philly cheese steaks while we were in Philly. After the museum and dinner we went to our hotel stayed up late playing games and enjoying each other.
The next morning we started our day off with a nice breakfast at the Cracker Barrel. We needed a hearty breakfast for our day ahead.
We had a tour of Independent Hall. It was pretty cool.
This is the same hair that George Washington sat in.
We saw the liberty bell of course.
And before we left Philly we had to take a run up the Rocky steps.

Happy Halloween

We had a fun Halloween week here at the Sorensen house. It started with halloween playgroup at our house on Wednesday where we had mini cupcakes and witches fingers and make furry spiders. Then on Friday night we had trunk or treating at our church. Then Saturday we finally went and picked out a pumpkin and dressed it up to match Addi. Then we all got dressed up and went Trick or Treating and a few of Jared's co-residents house. We only went to 3 house, but Addi's bucket was at least half full.