Tag: family outing

And This is Why I Love Living in NYC

On a random Saturday afternoon, my husband and I decided to take the baby and see what was happening at the Brooklyn Museum.  We hadn’t been there in a few years, and figured we would check it out.  We didn’t look up anything online, nor had we been paying attention to much anything besides getting through the day to day now that we are both back to work.  We were happy to have a free weekend in the city for which we had no plans.  Despite the frigid temperatures, we made our way there quite early  before all the crowds (and we had no idea the crowd that was to come).  Turns out the famous Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit was happening right then and there!  And we had just stumbled upon it!  Now let’s not get started on why the hell I am a fashion blogger and had no idea about the Gaultier exhibit practically right in my backyard.  Are you kidding me, Gina?  I will blame it on baby brain, and just move on to tell you how awesome it was.  Only in New York can you just happen to stumble upon something so amazing!  For those of you who don’t know Gaultier, all I have to say is Madonna and cone bra, and I’m sure this will ring a bell!  He is a French haute couture and prét á porter fashion designer.  He was also the creative director of Hermés for seven years.  The exhibit was complete with 140 ensembles along with interactive mannequins, sketches, runway footage, photographs, and so much more.  We could not have picked a better exhibit to “run-into.”  Unfortunately, I did not carry my camera with me this day, as we had enough to carry around, but I was able to take some snaps with my iPhone.  Enjoy!

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Hope you all had a nice weekend, and wishing you a great week ahead!

XO,

Gina

Pumpkin Patch

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This past Saturday, we celebrated the fall season by taking our first family day trip to the pumpkin patch.  We trekked outside of the city to Alstede Farms in Chester, NJ where we found a sprawling PYO (pick-your-own) farm littered with TONS of people.  The crowds were a bit overwhelming as we didn’t know what to expect, but once you got out to the fields for picking, it was a lot less crazy.  There were tons of crops for the taking including pumpkins, apples, corn, lettuce, eggplant, tomatoes, raspberries, blackberries, and more.  And these items were just currently what was in season.  Other seasons of the year you could pick strawberries, peaches, black raspberries, and so much more.  It was definitely a place for kids with a moon bounce, corn maze, hay ride, farm animals, etc, and even though Nico is still too small really remember the experience, you could tell he was enjoying himself.  He was looking around and in a happy mood the entire day.  This adventure was our first foray into sharing and experiencing the world with our little guy, and it only made us more excited for the future ahead.

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Nico’s Pumpkin Outfit: Absorba via Gilt

My bff, Meg, is arriving today to hang out for a few days and meet little Nico.  I am so excited to spend some quality time, since we rarely get the opportunity these days to hang out with just the two of us.  We head down to Maryland on Thursday to meet our new nephew Nathan, and to celebrate the wedding weekend of another one of my best friends, Teri.  It will be our first long weekend trip with Nico, and being the obsessive compulsive paranoid person that I am, I’m a little nervous about how it’s going to go.  I’m crossing my fingers that I don’t forget anything and that it all goes smoothly.  Either way, my new mantra is “just go with the flow!”

XO,

Gina