New York City Marathon 2013

Well, Keven finally got to run the New York City Marathon! He has been planning to for five years! They did have a lottery to register and if you did not win the lottery for three consecutive years, you were automatically in the fourth year. He was supposed to run it last year (2012), but unfortunately, the race was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. We took the kids and met MomMom and PopPop there. It was lots of fun! We went to the race expo, had lunch at Carmine's, went for a carriage ride in Central Park, rode the Ferris wheel at Toys R Us, had dinner and cheesecake at Juniors, and went to American Girl Place where Kaitlin bought a new American Girl doll, Kit. She has been saving her money for several months and we are very proud of her! The highlight of the trip for me was seeing some old friends from high school. My good friend Kristin and her family came over from Hoboken, NJ and Keven's good friend Annie brought her family to visit from Connecticut. We walked down to Central Park and let the kids run around and climb on rocks. We hadn't seen Kristin and T.W. since their wedding over 8 years ago so it was really nice to see them. We also met Annie's girls for the first time. Kaitlin and Adenine were fast friends! Kaitlin was so sad that she had to leave her new friends for lunch.