I'm Thankful for . . . Fuzz!

Happy Thanksgiving! I was sad not to be able to spend Thanksgiving with all of my family, but so grateful that ironically Fuzz was able to take his leave from Iraq so he could be here with me for the holiday! He had to take so many different flights to get out of Iraq, and then several different stops after that to get here. I was so excited to finally see him-- it had been 7 months! That's a very long time to be away from your very best friend in the whole wide world! I was waiting for him at the air train-- I'd been there long enough and giddy enough with every person that I talked to on the phone for the employees at the gate to start getting excited about who I was so anxious to see. They would see me get all excited every time a new train would pull up at the station. . . they'd watch my searching eyes scathe the masses exiting the train. . . they had to notice my nervousness as I impatiently waited for him. The station would fill with a crowd of strangers. . . and then quickly dissolve, leaving only me standing in the barren hall. . . train after train--- the suspense was totally killing them! haha silly giddy girl, I'm sure they appreciated the romantic drama as a mild source of appropriate on-the-job entertainment.

Finally! His train-- I felt like I was waiting for my missionary-- even though I've never actually had one of those before-- (7 months was insane, 2 yrs would've killed me)! He was the first one off the train. . . I could see him coming and wanted so badly to run to him. . . but the gate was in the way-- I could only just wait. He couldn't figure the pass thing out for a second or two, so one of my new buddies that was just about as excited as I was to finally see him, went and helped him out so he could finally cross through the gate~




We had a whole week together! I only had to work a couple hours one day, and the rest of the time was ours. We went to New Moon together. . . a date that had been scheduled about a year in advance, we went shopping at the American Girl Place-- I was in heaven! I had only dreamt of actually shopping there as a child. We were shopping for Fuzz's nieces that are all getting the dolls for Christmas- it was so much fun matching up outfits for their dolls that match their unique interests and personality's.


We wandered around New York a lot. The weather was awesome, so we were able to just take our time exploring, and shopping, and just walk around looking at all the glittery Christmas decorations that transformed the city.

Here we are in Times Square-- on our way to our show. . !



We tried our luck with the Wicked lottery. There were so many people there that we almost didn't even want to try. . . but we did, and we won! The show was fantastic- the company wasn't so bad either;)




We went down to see the Macy's Day Parade-- but there were so many people it was impossible to really even see anything, you have to get up really early to get a good spot there. We came home early and got a jump start on dinner. . . which was a good thing because it took us the rest of the day to cook it-- yes Fuzz too, at first he held back and just kept to washing my dishes and taking out the trash. . . and then he finally couldn't take it anymore and unleashed his mad cooking skills; everything he made tasted amazing! We didn't actually even eat dinner until almost 9:00, and it took us about 5 min for us both to get completely stuffed! We were so full that we didn't even have room for dessert-- and I always have room for dessert!



We explored Central Park . . .












. . . and meandered our way over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We went to the Chelsea Market, browsed a Burton Snowboarding sample sale, and then made our way over to the good ole must-see Union Square farmers market.

We piled on the toppings at our favorite Ice cream place-- 16 Handles. We had scooped up so much cookie dough and stacked up the Oreo's and Recess' so high that there was hardly any room for the Ice cream! We topped it off with lots of chocolate syrup and then literally inhaled it-- needless to say we both got major tummy-aches after that. It was so good though- totally worth it; every one of the 5000 calories, and the bloated bellies that we're still hangin' on to.

Nobody acts like they're in love in this city. . . so we got lots of stares and comments as we openly expressed a little PDA (Adults-- this is an acronym for Public Display of Affection) here and there. "Oh look-- Kodak Moment" or "Kiss kiss!!!" Thumbs up;) I took that as, "Way to be brave enough to let yourselves fall-- not enough people dare do that these days." or "He's a hottie! Congrats on your lucky catch!"



Fuzz got so excited when he found the NBA Store on 5th Avenue! He bought almost every piece of Utah Jazz merchandise in the store-- he even bought me a John Stockton shirt-- that I love!

Here's Fuzz hangin' out with his buddies he found in the store.



Goodbye's are always so hard. . . but only 5 more months and we'll see each other again!