Here is a stop motion video that Chris created using our Christmas Village and his 76-year-old Nativity scene that belonged to his grandparents when they first got married:

And here is a video that Chris put together (in about an hour) of a festive fire truck that drove up and down the streets of Fort Lee, NJ on Christmas Eve:

Happy Holidays!

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Pretty

December 16, 2009 by kim.

Slacker! It has been almost two weeks since my last post! I have a number of things I want to write, but I’ve been busy since Chris started working. How that applies to me directly, I have no idea, but – there it is. Since I don’t want to leave you hanging until I get my act together, here are a few pretty pictures from Central Park.

These were taken back in mid-November at the pond that I frequent:

I could sit and watch the ducks here all day:

And this one was taken last week at a different part of the same pond. I really liked the reflection:

MAN – I LOVE taking pictures!

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The Tree

December 4, 2009 by kim.

I was lucky enough to have been working at Rockefeller Plaza for the past few weeks (oh yes – the same building that is in ‘30 Rock’ on T.V.), and thus able to document the preparation/erection of the huge Christmas tree for the tree lighting that you ALSO see on T.V. (how cool!):

The tree is under all of this scaffolding:

This is the star for the top:

Crane putting the star on top:

Tree with star:

Taking down the scaffolding:

Tree before the lighting:

We were going to go to the tree lighting on Wednesday night, but we didn’t really want to fight the crowd and then try to make it back to Jersey so we opted to stay home.

I did get to take a couple pictures the following day and night, though.

Tree with lights on during the day:

Tree with lights at night: