Halloween pt. 2

Tyler made it home from California just in time for our ward Halloween party. I was so glad to have him back and all dressed up with me! The ward had a chili cook off so we had lots of different kinds of chili (there was a chocolate chili even) and the best part....cornbread! Someone made this cornbread that tasted just like cake! There was a trunk-n-treat in the parking lot for the kids, even some karaoke.! We had a good time! We love our ward!

Isn't he a great pirate!! :)

Me and my nursery kids!

Tyler and I were just called as Nursery leaders in our ward. We are so excited to serve and teach the cute kids in our ward.

These are some of my favorite costumes at the party. The family of the cute "flower" baby were bees, they were my favorite family costume!

Halloween pt. 1

Alpha Workshops puts on an amazing Halloween party every year at the New York Design Center called the Alpha Workshops Masquerade Ball. Tyler was out of town still so I went to the party with a group from work. We started the party at about 5:00 when we turned the office into a zoo. We were all running around putting on make up and spraying hairspray, we got pizza and turned up the music! The pre-party was so fun!! Then we all hopped in cabs and went to the party. The tickets to the party were $125, kindly Jamie paid for all of us and our guests, we took a group of 48 Drake-ers! The catering was amazing! There were three open bars so I had all the white grape juice I wanted!! :) There were lots of people carrying around trays with super fancy versions of mac-n-cheese, mini hamburgers, grilled cheese sandwiches and fries, etc. There was cotton candy, popcorn, and pretzle machines. It was way fun! Our Drake Crew staked our our spot on the dance floor (taking up half of the room) and danced the night away! I was way bummed that Tyler couldn't be there but it was fun to bond with my coworkers!

Kira's Visit

Tyler went to California this week for work but fortunately I didnt have to be home alone the whole time, my sister-in-law, Kira, came to the city with some girls from her Salon to take hair cutting classes. After her classes and after I got off work we would meet up and play!

On Tuesday I met up with the group at Serendipity for dinner. Kira and I shared a half chicken which was way good and then the frozen hot chocolates! Kira had a peanut butter one, it was really good too. Then we went to Times Square and played in all the stores. In Sephora, Kira and I tried on a mood changing lip gloss, it kept changing shades of pink and red.

On Wednesday we met up and went to Dinner in the village at a mexican restaurant. Then I took her to my favorite gelato place L'Arte Del Gelato. After that we went to H&M and got a lot of cute baby clothes! It was so fun, I have been sad to not be there with her for this exciting time of being preganat so I was so glad we could baby shop together! I was so grateful for the chance to see Kira and spend time with her this week. We had a lot of fun!

New York Lynch Home: round 2

Tyler and I moved once again this past weekend. Pinnacle's lease was up, long story but now we are in our own place and will be here for a while. This is the 6th apartment we have lived in the year! We are very excited to stay put for a while.

As you enter the apartment, you walk into the kitchen. We have a lot more kitchen storage in this apartment than the last.

This is our living room, pretty tight on space but I love the light the windows bring in. We are on the 36th floor so we don't ever have to close the blinds and i love it!

This is the other side of the living room. This weekend i turned that chair around and sat and watched the lightening storm for like an hour. It was so awesome (and kind of scary)

This is our bedroom, just the right size for us. We even have a walk in closet!

This is the view of Manhattan outside of our window. It has been so fun to see the city at different times, morning, night, sunset, stormy, etc.

And this is the view of Queens from our window. Not as striking but we have Queens pride.
I heart queens
It kind of makes Tyler sick looking out of our windows but I could sit are stare for hours.

Last but not least, (ok maybe it is least) our bathroom! :)

We are very happy with our little apartment and feel very blessed to be here.

Bit of Randomness

We have had all of the keys to the apartments that Pinnacle had leased until October and since no one is living in them we went on a hunt for the one with the best view. This one was one of the few with a balcony, we loved just sitting and looking out the windows at this beautiful view. So one night this week we had take out delivered to this apartment so we ate and played cards. It was way fun, we had to take advantage of this apartment one last time before we turned the keys in :(

I had to lighten this picture a lot since night pictures are the hardest to take, sorry for the quality.

I walk past this little park on my way to the D&D all the time and I always thought that this was a phone booth until the other day the word "prayer" caught my eye. I think its awesome there is a place to pull down a stool and say a little prayer. I love the difference in culture here, so many different ways to look at things.

Tyler & Whitney Through the Years

So I was really bummed out that we didn't really have anything to blog this week, so we got creative and came up with a killer post!

Tyler and I when we met in high school 1952

This was when Tyler graduated college

Here we are enjoying the 80s, DJ Tanner better watch out

Here we are today, haven't changed a bit :)

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!