From New Zealand

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from New Zealand!

Hope you are warm, cozy, and enjoying friends and family this holiday season. The blizzard in New England is big enough news to reach the locals here in NZ. Neighbors told us today about  the terrible weather up there, so we watched the news to get caught up and unfortunaly they weren't exagerating. Hope you're all doing alright! Drink some hot chocolate and go play in the snow!

We'll be heading home in a few days, and will be back in CT sometime on the 31st (hopefully!). I'll post more details and pictures from the trip then!

Love you all!

Who invited the cookie monster?!

Can you see it?! The cookie monster snuck into my attempt at a nice christmas photo! 

Here's a close look at the evidence! 

A Fashionable Equation

Daniel LoVeD collecting Goodwill ties for his mission.

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Valerie LoVeS getting rid of things. 

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The missionaries LoVe their new ties!

Daniel decided to give some of his old goodwill mission ties to the Missionaries one month. The next time they came over, they were all wearing them! Here they are! Daniel looks so proud :) 

side note on the post title - i can hate thinking up titles and can never think of anything other than a one word summery of the post! this post title is a little extra silly though. maybe one day i'll get it right and strike a good balance :) just bare with me till then!

Visitors!

We love having visitors come up and see us! It makes us feel more connected to our friends and family who are so far away. Later this week we'll have a new arrival of visitors...Mike and Sarah, Daniel's cousins from Florida :)

We can't wait! Here's a trip down memory lane of our wonderful visitors from the past year.

 My parents were our first visitors! We take everyone up to the top of East Rock park to get a good view of New Haven and the sound.

Heather and David! What's a trip to New England without seeing a Lighthouse?! We bring our visitors to the light house for a quick look and walk along the jedi. 

Susan and Raquel! We give most of our visitors a little tour around Yale. This is inside one of the Medical school libraries.

Tina! When the weather is nice, we love to take people up to Sleeping Giant State Park. Here we walked up to the lookout tower to watch the sunset. 

Hoang, Amy & Lydia! We love taking guests into New York, and one of our favorite destinations is Central Park. We love exploring the park, and are always finding new beautiful places in there. 

 My parents came to visit in the fall this year. We took them to a new destination, the Gillette castle. It was beautiful! Definitely somewhere to bring future friends and family!

 

Don't you want to come too!?!??? 

:)