The Lawrence Family

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

the big apple!

I was blessed enough to take a trip to New York City with my fabulous mother and sister-in-law. We had a blast! It was so cool to visit someplace that I have want to visit my entire life. We went in on a Friday and left on a Monday and we jam packed so much into that trip! Friday, we went to see the Lion King (my Broadway choice) and it was fantastic! Saturday, we took a tour bus around the city and saw so many things; Strawberry Fields, Central Park, the Empire State Building, a cruise around the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street and the 9/11 memorial grounds. It was fascinating. Of course, I LOVED the shopping as well! We shopped each day for at least a little bit :) Sunday, we went to see Wicked (Amy's pick) and it was magnificent. I think I liked it the most. What a fantastic trip with two of my favorite people in the world!

In the taxi on the way to our hotel!

Times Square!

Rockefeller Plaza

View from our hotel down onto Times Square

The Lion King!

I missed my girls, but they had a great time back at home :)

Tour day and NYC pizza!

Wicked, Grand Central Station, and the Library

Friday, June 13, 2014

strawberry patch fun!

With our bestest friends being out of town the first week of summer, Ellie and I were on the hunt to do some fun things. We ended up going to Huber's to pick strawberries with Jess and Erin and had a wonderful time! It was a lot of fun going out into the field and seeing Ellie Bear try to get the best berries.

and of course some ice cream after :)

Saturday, May 24, 2014

ellie turns two!

Ellie is TWO!

How can our precious baby be two years old? Mommy didn't take off work this year because I was off so much with Grandma Mary in the past few months, but Aunt Lisa and Bailey made sure she had so much fun that day at Chuck-E-Cheese. We actually had two parties for Ellie since my grandmother's passing happened really close to her birthday. We had our close friends and family over on her actual birthday for pizza and party hats, and then we had a bunch of our friends and family over for her themed birthday party. Pretty sure this momma isn't have a big birthday party for a while :)

Our original party date was supposed to be the 10th, but we pushed it back a couple of weeks to give my family a little time to recover.

One of her two year old portraits :)

She made everyone wear party hats.

Love this little munchkin to pieces!

Saturday, May 3, 2014

we love you, grandma mary!

Grandma Mary had been in the hospital for the most part of the year, with only a few days at home. She was getting sicker and sicker. On February 17, she had open heart surgery and a quadruple bypass. She was diagnosed with congestive heart failure back in December, and nothing really positive happened since then. It was so hard to see her in so much pain for most of the time. At one of her many stays in the CVCU (Cardiovascular Care Unit) in Floyd Memorial, we sent Grandpa Bud home and I spent the night with her. I will always treasure that night and her waking me up every half hour because she had fallen down in the bed and her toes were on the edge. After Easter, it was decided that she would go home under Hosparus care and out of the continuous hospitals and rehabs. I spent the next week pretty much working, and then staying with my grandma. Finally, on April 30, she took her final breath. I am such a much better person for knowing my grandma and for her helping raise me. I will never be able to thank her for everything she did in shaping my life, but I know she knew I loved her with all of my heart. The days were really rough, but I have such an amazing support system of family and friends, and her funeral services were a testimony of how much she was loved. We truly are a blessed family unit.

At my baby shower in March 2012... She loved Eliot so very much.

Monday, March 31, 2014

reds opening day!

A lifelong dream of ours is to go to the Opening Day ceremonies and game for the Reds. It is no secret that the Reds are our favorite professional baseball team, but tickets are so hard to come by for Opening Day, a huge tradition in Cincinnati. Usually, we are in school, but with our new balanced calendar, we were off! Nick and Chris took an extra day off of work and we headed to the game thanks to our good friend Ozair. His law firm wasn't using the tickets, so we got them. Score! We dropped the girls off at their babysitters and had a fun day planned. We went to the Moerlein House and had drinks and lunch and then got to the ballpark. I know it is a moment that we will not surely forget anytime soon!

Pretty decent seats :)

Our main man, Johnny Cueto!

Monday, March 24, 2014

disney world 2014!

Spring Break is finally here and that means that our trip to Disney World has arrived! We were so excited to share in our love of Disney with Mamaw and Papaw. We flew out of Louisville early, early, early, and had a layover in Atlanta. We finally got to Disney around 11 A.M. and got checked into Pop Century and then headed straight over to the Magic Kingdom. We had a magical time for all five days and cannot wait to go back!