I wanna be a part of you, New York, New York!!!

 For our 38th Wedding Anniversary, Frank gave us a trip to New York City and Washington, DC!

The "anticipation" was from August 8th till October 26th when our trip began!   New York City is a crazy, crowded city that just hums with engergy and life!   There is much to see and do!   The crowds were crazy and I didn't like the feeling of being stuffed into the packed streets but am so glad I got this one chance to experience New York City!

We loved visiting the Statue of Liberty!   I have so many pictures that it is hard to narrow them

 down to just a few but will try!  

 As a Family Search Support Missionary, I loved Ellis Island!   This is were so many of the people of the United States imigrated into the U.S.

 The New York City skyline is a gorgeous sight!

 Ground Zero.... where the twins towers once stood.... before 9-11 was a must see for me!

They are now building a Memorial here...

 These are some of the people who were killed on 9-11!

We had rainy, cool weather one day while in N.Y but everyone was prepared for it!

 

I am a Today Show fan, so I was anxious to visit the set of the Today Show.  It was not easy getting Big Bear out of bed to head there at 6:00 a.m. but he kept saying "This is YOUR trip!" so he was a good sport about it!

We got to see all the stars!

And even made it on TV so this excursion was a success!

Next on the agenda was a bike ride around beautiful Central Park!

We caught some beautiful glimpses of the fall follage!

The Trump Tower and Hotel...

In the evening, we watched the ice skaters at Rockefeller Plaza!

Attended a session in the Manhattan New York Temple.   Not too much to look at on the outside but a stuningly beautiful temple inside!

Stood in line for a LONG time to go up the Empire State Building... only to realized we were gonna be late for Wicked and left when we got to the 80th floor so never got to see the view from the 102nd floor!

Saw the Broadway Show, WICKED, which is what I had been waiting for for 4 days!

Loved it!

So there you have it in a nutshell.... our trip to THE BIG APPLE!

 A nice place to visit but I felt sorry for the people who live here!

I wouldn't trade them places "para nada!"

UNA RAZON PARA SONREIR!!! ( Something to smile about! )

 I love to see other's suceed and progress in life!   Lamoni and Jasmine were in school about the same time as Preston, Angie and Brandon!   After serving a mission in Monterrey, Lamoni went to dental school in Cd. Juarez.... while Jasmine was studying Psychology at BYU!    After they were married, Lamoni went to work with a Dentist in Utah while Jasmine got her Doctorate at BYU.   A few years ago, they moved back to Dublan to set up their business here! As they get the money, they have been slowly working on their office building.   Lamoni told me that it is going slowly but that they don't owe any money on the building.     When I drove by today I noticed they had installed these new letters to announce they business!  It looks so cool!!!

While Olivia was here last summer she developed an infection in one of her molars!

It was causing the whole side of her face to swell.

So, she got to sit in this chair (lucky girl!!! lol!) and

have her tooth pulled by Dr. Vizcaino!

Lamoni's wife, Jasmine, is the daughter of one of my best high school buddies, Anna Lue Taylor!   We are also so proud of Jasmine who sees her patients

at an office adjoining Dr. Vizcaino's!  

Jasmine studied 5 years at BYU and then did five more years to get her Doctorate, also from BYU!   (The thought of 10 years of schooling makes MY HEAD SPIN!)

Way to go, Jasmine!  Jasmine was one of MY Young Women when I was the Ward Young Women's President!  I have had my eye on her for a long time!

They have a darling little family.... two kids, Bella and Taylor.  

Bella was at school and so wasn't available for our picture!

You can be sure if Big Bear and I need any dental work done, we'll be right here, under the careful hands of our favorite dentist/orthodontist!

You never know... we could also need Dr. Jasmine's counseling too at some point in our life!   

I imagine they both find their careers very rewarding!

We are so blessed to have the Vizcaino Family

living in our community!

I'm glad that I live in this beautiful world....

Today I was on the internet, looking for a pretty "Fall Screensaver" for my computer!  After not finding anything that really excited me, I remembered the beautiful fall follage I had wittnessed firsthand when Frank and I went back east with Tony and Chris, Rick and Lynnette and Dana and Trisha!  "I have better fall follage pictures than these!" I thought as I went to my photo album. As I flipped through the pictures I was aw-struck by the beautiful scenery we had seen when we visited New York, New England, New Hampshire and Vermont back in 1999!   As we traveled along, we began to come upon breathtakingly beautiful fall colors!  One of us would holler out... "Kodak Momment!!!"  and we would pull off to the side of the road and  all scramble out of the two cars we were traveling in to take pictures!  We didn't make it very far that day because we had a "kodak momment" about every 100 yards!   Here are some of our pictures!   And REMEMBER.... the pictures never are as pretty as the real thing!  This trip was a once in a life time experience and it was so fun to share nature's beauty with people that I love!!!



On this trip we also visited Niagra Falls, the Hill Camorah, the Sacred Grove,

Massachusetts, and Main!  There is something special about wittnessing the beauty Heavenly Father has created to "please the eye and gladden the heart!"  I felt a special kind of reverence and aw as my soul drank in the beauty of nature and an added measure of my Heavenly Father's love for me!

Frank and I have planned another trip back east soon... to New York and Washington DC.

I am hoping that we planned it just right and again will wittness the magestic beauty of fall colors! 

There's nothing else quite like it!

I'm glad that I live in this beautiful world...Heavenly Father created for me!!