new york, the third time.

09 was an amazing year as far as visiting new york went! we got to go three times! this final trip was early october for a friend of mine, chris's, wedding. he married the beautiful jessica on a fabulous fall day...

steph met us at the airport with the rental car & we drove up to the bay. before leaving we stopped at the panera bread for a late night dinner. the lady that checked us out last time loaded us up with free bagels, bread & cookies. so we thought we'd go back there. it was de ja vu. she was there, checked us out & gave us at least a dozen bagels, a loaf of cinnamon bread & a few cookies. so NICE!

steph & jeff's friends let us stay in their cabin. it was so cute! cold, since we couldn't figure out how to turn the heat on the first night- so we all wore layers & layers & huddled together for warmth!

then, the next morning we had the genius idea that maybe we needed to turn the breaker on. yep, problems are that simple to solve sometimes.

during our day of traveling i took some cute pictures of finn. i'm going to submit them to southwest & see if we can't get published :)
my toes are like puzzles...
hi mama. i'm wearing an appropriate bib.

our first day at the bay. we went for a short walk around the neighborhood. it was chillllllly.

the birch trees here at the bay were the inspiration behind finn's nursery.
then we headed into saratoga to meet up with jeff. he came up after work to spend the weekend with us. we had dinner with some friends from the bay.

jeff : mo : finn : zach (mo & cat have since had their beautiful baby girl!)
mama's favorite. well not the toffee. but the brand, for sure.

the next day was the wedding. on sunday jeff, mo & i went for a hike. my first real one in almost a year. i'm going to have to dedicate a post all to that hike... it was fabulous.

on the last day we met carolyn for breakfast at this cute lil diner.

finn munching on uncle jeff's thumb. he loves his uncle jeff. he's in his penn state shirt that barely fit! bryan was not a fan of that shirt.
isn't this a cute picture of my sis?
one of my favorite peops, carolyn.
i'm giving these two maybe 7 months once their married... no pressure. that's just my guess.

then we headed to the airport. we were early so we got some lunch & decided to have a picnic at the amish farm nearby. it's no longer in working order -the only thing still there really was a museum that was unfortunately closed.

finn was a sweet baby boy while we ate at the picnic table... he just laid on the ground laughing at the clouds.

i did a mini session for them...

& then jeff did one for us. it was pretty comical. he's never used my camera & he was holding finn. but he did a purty good job.
thanks jeff & steph for coming up to help me with finn!

we've unfortunately got nothing planned for 2010 at the bay... but i'm sure that will change.