There is Sunshine in Our Souls!

Last week after the Revlon Run/Walk Tyler and I couldn't resist spending some time in Central Park. It was a record 90 degrees...in APRIL! It was great to enjoy the incredible beauty of the park.

Tyler had been in the Financial District for work and came across this cool street. Stone Street is said to be the first paved street in New York City. It still has the cobble stone road and charm but has been brought to life being lined with restaurants. It was a way cool vibe and the food was DELISH!

After our Stone Street adventure we came upon the Romania Festival! We spent the next 3 hours roaming from vendor to vendor looking at all the gadgets and smelling the wonderful food.

A race from Times Square through Central Park, strolling through the park with hub, enjoying an enchanting historical street, and hours at the Romania Festival, all in a day's work!

We LOVE this city.

Drake Pride

Jamie is featured on this national ad campaign by Benjamin Moore. Look for the advertisement this month in national editions of
Elle Décor and House Beautiful; and, that same month, as a single-page horizontal in Country Living, Traditional Home, Real Simple, AND....

ON NYC BUSES!!! How fun is that?

There's also this cool video on facebook.

We Did It!!

There were over 25,000 people crammed into Times Square, all picking up bibs, t-shirts, goodie bags, etc. Then a little after 9:00 the confetti gun blew and WE WERE OFF!

I heard the celebs, but didn't quite see them...next year!

Our sparkle skirts rocked! Everyone loved them.

I think it was the number and the sparkle that gave me motivation so once the race was done, I ran 3 miles back!

Running was fun today!!!
(I'm feeling it now though)

Thanks to Kage for most of the great pics of the day!

What Do These Things Have in Common?

EIF Revlon Run/Walk For Women

I'm running my first race!

Ok so its only a 5k and I'm doing it with a broken foot recover-ee and some 8 year olds so we'll emphasize the "walk" aspect but I am excited nonetheless!

Publicolor 2010

Its Publicolor time again! After all the fun we had last year, Darrin and I didn't hesitate to volunteer to represent Drake Design at this awesome event. Publicolor is a non-profit that improves education in youth by promoting an imaginative use of color in schools. They recruit disadvantaged students to paint the walls of their schools and provide life skills, career exposure workshops, college counseling, summer job placement, tutoring and mentoring.

The event was filled with great designers and famous peeps. A few were: designer Brad Ford, Mayor Bloomberg, Christo, and performances by the West Side Story Cast. I sat at the same table as Christo at dinner, COOL!!

There was a lot of press on this event, it was covered here, here, here and here.

This was our non-purposeful pose of American Gothic. Notice Jamie was voted one of the 10 most colorful New Yorkers!

The theme this year was Color is Energy. We took an "energy of life, love, heartbeat" kind of approach...

Good cause, fun night!

Its Raining Men!

www.madisonsquarepark.org

I was out and about shopping for work the other day but had to take a break for some Shake Shack (obviously!) and had to admire NYC's latest public art exhibition. Artist, Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon consists of 31 life-size body forms of the artist cast in iron and fiberglass.

These are located throughout the sidewalks and rooftops of the Flatiron District. There is even one on a 26th-floor ledge of the Empire State Building.
COOL!!

Happy Easter!!

Breakfast in NYC, Lunch in Philly & Dinner in Baltimore

My friends had birthdays and we celebrated at the MEGA Anthropologie in Philadelphia. We got started early spent the drive chat chat chatting! It was such a fun girls trip. I was more enthralled with with the architecture than the clothes. It was a BEAUTIFUL building!!

We then went to lunch at Continental which was recommended by one of the Anthro workers.

The food was great and the design was so fun. I loved these swings.

That afternoon Tyler picked me up and we headed to Frederick, Maryland to spend the weekend with my family. My cousin Paige left on her mission to Brazil today so it was great being able to spend time with her, her family, my cousin and my grandparents.

WONDERFUL EAST COAST WEEKEND!!

Elephants in the Midtown Tunnel

Elephants...Queens...Midnight...

Since the circus elephants can’t go up the Penn Station escalators, they need to get off the circus train a stop early in Queens and walk through the Mid-Town Tunnel, and straight across Manhattan to Madison Square Garden. So I ventured into the night with some friends to see the elephants walk through our area. It was so fun and random. One of the "Only in New York" moments that I treasure.

Could have been famous...

This video was filmed in my office the day before a presentation (you can see my schemes pinned up on the board!) I was invited to be in the shoot with Jamie and Darrin to show some interaction but not knowing I would be filmed and having worked already 70 hrs that week I did not look my best and opted to sit out. Now I'm regretting letting my vanity take over, it would have been fun to be in the clip! :(

Next time...

New Beginnings

I was recently called as the 1st counselor in the Relief Society presidency and in the Astoria Ward, means I am blessed to be the 1st counselor in the Young Women's presidency too! We had our New Beginnings last night and it was AMAZING! Each of the girls participated and made it a wonderful night.

I feel so blessed to be able to work with the women of my awesome ward. They have such strong testimonies and are not afraid to live the gospel in this rough and tough city. I have learned so much from them and have had my testimony strengthened so much from this calling.

We all got to have a table to display some things about us. YES I took my Jacob doll, YES I took Yankees hat and YES i took a picture of my dog! :)