Amherst, New York. Home.

So here we are, home sweet home in Amherst New York. So far we really like it. We are floored by how much space we have in our little duplex, and amazed by the kindness we have received from our ward, neighbors etc. We are slowly putting our house together and making it a real home. We love the trees, the squirrels, the birds...it's all so different to us!

I wish I had a better picture of our little home, but this is the only one where I had Edison sitting still. It 's a great little 3 bedroom duplex, and I promise to get more pictures of it once we piece it together.


And of course Edison loves our backyard. The people before us put in the swing set and slide and even left this great little truck that Edison spends HOURS playing in. It's great for when I'm making dinner!


Here is Niagara Falls! About 20 min away from us on the New York side. Canada is just a walk away, and we plan to visit that soon.


Edison loved the "BIG water fall" as he called it. It really is a sight to see!



We found this great ice cream shop (love that the shop was a big ice cream cone) called "Perry's" with the most delicious ice cream. If you come to visit us, chances are we will take you here.

We live in a place where Buffalo's have wings.

This picture was taken on one of our "exploring" drives. All the houses are super classic Americana, which I love. I love even more that a lot of them put these fake candles in the windows! It creates this really nice, warm "home-y" look.

Our drive led us to more ice cream! We need to get our share of anything with the word "ice" in it before we start detesting the word. We found this great ice cream shop called "Uncle G's Ice Cream". To top it off there was even the Niagara Frontier Fiddle Band playing outside. It was too classic to pass up. I live for this kind of stuff.

We settled for the Fluffer Nutter ice cream Sundae. I have never had anything like this in my entire life. Marshmallow whip, peanut butter sauce, custard ice cream. Oh. my. goodness.

So, thus far we are having a great time (eating a lot of ice cream), and getting back to our American roots. We can't wait for all the adventures that await us! Stay tuned!

Leaving Hawaii and the Journey East

Here is our very long post about our very long journey to Amherst, New York. For those of you who don't know, Nate is going get his masters in Economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It was a big and expensive decision, but it felt right so we went with it. Here are the pictures of the highlight of our move!


First, we had to soak up Hawaii before we left, so here are our pictures of our last time in Laie. *sniff*. It was such a good place to us!

Thank you Hawaii we love you!!!

Packing our stuff up to ship to New York....ugghhhh. What a mess. At least little Edison knew how to make fun out of it. This is the time I found him caked chocolate that he got off the counter. There were so, so many more incidents like this. I will end there.

ROAD TRIP.....

Here starts our road trip. 4, 10 hour driving days from San Diego to Amherst, New York. Thankfully Edison stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Alexander in Utah as to spare us the stress of driving with a 18 month old in the back seat of the car.

Pretty Park City

Wyoming

And then it all turned into this after that....

Lots of it...

And then, Ta Da! We made it to Buffalo to feast on our first real, authentic Buffalo Wings!!!! I have to mention as well that after we made it to New York, we flew back to Utah, went to Nate's sisters wedding, picked up Edison and flew back. I think I must of been too tired to take pictures, because I have none!! But more posts to come on settling in our new house :)