Weekend Out in the City

We have been busy the last couple weekends with getting settled in so we were excited to go out and explore this weekend. On Friday we went to dinner in Times Square which was fun, then we watched some sweet subway entertainers.

On Saturday we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, it was a beautiful day!View of Manhattan from the bridge

The bridge makes for cool industrial pictures
The New York City Waterfalls are four man-made, electrically-powered waterfalls along the harbor, one even rising as high as the Statue of Liberty. They are up until mid October so I'm glad we were able to see this amazing public art project.

Once in Brooklyn we went to Grimaldi's Pizzaria, super famous for their wonderful pizza and painfully long line! But we had to do it. We were in line for an hour and once we were seated we had to share a table with another couple, akward, and I swear the amount of people in that restaurant was not legal. But the food was great!

By this point we were sick of asking people to take our picture so we just took some separate

We had to hurry to get to our ward's annual cake auction. They auction off amazing cakes to earn money for girl's camp. They went for like $30 each. It was fun, we're excited to be making friends in our ward.

The New York Lynch Home

In this post we're going to attempt to give you a virtual tour of our new home. If you feel like this is not sufficient then you'll just have to come tour it in person :)

This is our kitchen, the front door is cut out of this shot but it is just to the right of this picture. Not a ton of storage space but we got quality rather than quantity. I should have taken a picture of our favorite part, the dishwasher!!

We call this our breakfast nook, our little table and chairs fit perfectly into this niche. You can only see the one wall but all 3 sides are windows, we love to watch all of the people in the morning migrating towards the subway. If you are sitting in the chair on the left you get to enjoy the Empire State Building which is lit with different colors all the time.

This is our living room, the kitchen is on the right side, so the whole space is open which we love.

This is the hallway that leads to the master suite, the guest bedroom is on the right and guest bathroom on the left but these doors are all you get to see of them for now :)

At the end of that hallway is our bathroom. I was so excited that we have a round shower curtain rod, I love those kind :)

This is our bedroom, we have a great big window which brings in a lot of light, its really nice. We are grateful to have a nice place to stay in and make our home.

This isn't home (thank heaven) but I thought I'd throw in a picture of my school.

Our Views

We are still working on the apartment but thought we would post some pictures of the beautiful area we live in. We are in Long Island City, right across the East River from Manhattan. We have great views and feel so lucky to be here!

This is our apartment building. The photo was taken from the pier across the street. If you know me, know that I love the water so I am very excited to have water close by. I love to walk out on the pier at sunset holding my honey's hand. Its actually really quiet and beautiful, so romantic. Have we mentioned that we love it here? :)

We took this photo from the pier.

This is the pool that is on the 9th floor and its view overlooking the river and Manhattan skyline. Unfortunately it has closed down for the winter so I had to borrow these 2 photos from the apartment website.

This is our church, it looks pretty small but it goes like 2 levels under ground.
We had to go in a tunnel to Sunday School. Our ward is incredible. You wouldn't believe how many Aggies are in it! We were having a hard time thinking about going from our married student ward to a family ward but were so greatful that the majority are young couples! We are so greatful for the many blessings that we have received during this transition period and couldn't be more excited for the opportunities that lay ahead of us.

Family, Friends and Packing

Its been a while since my last post and I'm sure you're all anticipating pictures from NY of our new apartment and stuff but you're going to have to wait until our place is "picture ready" give me another week or 2 and it'll hopefully be in good enough shape to show :). So this post is just going to give you a rundown of our time in Utah.

This is Ty and I saying goodbye to our wonderful little basement apartment in Logan. We look happy but it was sad. This was our first place and we loved it.

This is how I felt about our packing day. It was hard work! We packed up all our stuff with the gracious help of our family and loaded it into this lovely budget truck. In which we spent 36 wonderful hours crossing 12 states on our journey to New York City. (I will spare you the agony of the story about how we drove that thing, towing our car through New York, I'm sure you can imagine)

But before we left we spent a few fun days with our families. We love you guys and miss you already! Kira and I cheering on the boys in a mad game of sand volleyball.

Soccer what? This is a volleyball man!

Check out these good looking Lynch boys!

Golfing

Today we went golfing with Landon, Britt, and Eric Miller. Well, the boys golfed and we cheered them on from the carts. :)

It was a really pretty course and this was the club house in the background I thought was way cool.

Check out the sweet moves my honey's got. Nice form Ty!

World's Cutest Caddies

Pirates Game

photo courtesy of about.com

On Saturday we went with the office to a Pirates baseball game. It was so much fun! The stadium was amazing right on the water, surrounded by skyscrapers. They do this Skyblast Third Strike Concert series featuring Zambelli fireworks and Phil Vassar was the performer. It was an incredible show. Phil Vassar did a couple songs then they'd do a firework show, then he'd sing again, then more fireworks so we got like 4 firework shows with fireworks being set off from the field, the bridge, barges on the water, even on top of one of the skyscrapers. It was so awesome!

Landon & Britt Wimmer, Whit & Ty Lynch

Kennywood

Chanthoeun Barrus, Brittney Wimmer, Stacie Dorius, and I went to an amusement park here in Pittsburgh called Kennywood. Besides Britt getting sick, Stacie's phone flying off a ride into a lake, and Chanthoeun loosing money on a ride we had a blast! It was pretty much like Lagoon, same type of rides and stuff. They had the oldest wooden roller coaster in America. Pretty cool!

National Aviary

Today I went to the National Aviary with April and Ava Toone. We had a lot of fun looking at all of the different birds they had. These are some of my favorite onesThe flamingos were my favorite, half cause they're pink and half cause they're so petite and graceful. There was a baby flamingo walking around outside, (bottom right) I learned that they are born gray and not hot pink. The one on the top right I liked cause of its sweet hair do!
Ava was trying to talk to this bird. She's so cute. I liked this bird until I found out its a breed of pigeon!
Here we are waiting for the bird show to start, by the look on Ava's face it had better start soon! :)

Pool Day

I thought I'd post a sample of a more typical day out here in Pittsburgh which includes one common factor... the pool!

It's actually not normal for Ty and I to get some pool time together so one morning before the guys went out a group of us went for a swim.

Ty & Jordan Woods having push-off races

Of course once the boys head out for the day we come back. :) This particular day I started the 4th Twilight book, Breaking Dawn...

12:00 pm...

2:00 pm ...

4:00 pm...

What a life!

Pittsburgh Beauty

We pulled over on the side of the road to play in this beautiful flower field. I have to give props to Chanthoeun for taking these great pics since my camera died.

Cute girls!
Brittney Wimmer, Whitney Lynch, Chanthoeun Barrus and Stacie Dorius

Logan-New York-Phoenix-Pittsburgh

Since the last post plans have quite changed. I dont want to babble on about our whole summer but some explanation might be necessary as to how we got to this point of living in Pittsburgh and planning a move to New York City.

As was posted before, I was interning in New York this summer, well that internship turned into a job offer. So once Tyler and I were together and able to talk and ponder about this together we've decided to go! I start Sept. 1 so we'll be moving at the end of the month.

I was so excited to join Tyler in Phoenix but I was only there 5 days before Ty suggested we move to Pittsburgh! Pittsburgh has been a gold mine for sales and we wanted to join in! So after packing up all of our things (that I had just gotten settled a few days prior), and a million dollars in flights we were in our car headed to Salt Lake City to drop off our things and fly to Pitt. We made it to the Hoover Dam and apparently its really beautiful there because our car refused to leave. We had to get towed to a small town outside of Las Vegas where our car had to spend the night until it could be fixed in the AM. My uncle Randy and cousins came to our rescue and we spent the night playing games and catching up with family! The next day Tyler had a flight to Pitt at noon and we were still in Las Vegas so another million dollars in flight changes later, he flew from Las Vegas to Pitt and I was left with a broken down car full of all our stuff. Luckily our car was fixed and I made it to my parent's safely.

I spent a wonderful week with my family before Ty came to Utah to see his brother and sister-in-law get sealed in the Temple.Then we flew back to Pitt together. We have really enjoyed it here, the weather is great (especially compared to Phoenix) and we're here with a lot of our good friends so its been way fun. The other night we went on our first date in a long time due to the fact we've been apart most of the summer and since we've been back together we've been traveling across America. So it was so nice to sit down and talk, the amazing food was a plus too :)
There are a lot of married couples here so while the guys are out working hard we get together and play hard. We went to the Carnegie Science Center the other day. It was way fun and I even learned some new things. I even got to explore a real submarine. Yesterday we went to Falling Water, a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It was so amazing and so beautiful. The design and construction was so unique. I loved it!I never thought I would be standing in that spot and take my own version of this infamous picture.

The way he designed this house was to have as little separation between the outside and the inside as possible. Like having the glass die into the rock wall, there is virtually no separation from the outside. It was so ingenious.

That brings us up to date! I'll try to do better so the posts are not so long and spread out.