…electric.
More to come, but the hipstamatic run down of this amazing city and all that I love in it is as follows…
Hot bagels from street carts, store fronts, the charm of rain-spattered streets, subway newsstands, Nella ridin’ the E train like a true city baby, managing the streets and trains and cabs with a baby, hot pretzels from corner stands, the skyline from the taxi, the rumble of a coming train, city window boxes, my dad’s newly acquired NY style (red plaid shoes!), people watching, peeking through gate posts at kids playing at a city park, walking with the view from our clear umbrella, my dad’s NY style take two (a hat!), and my red boots which proved they truly were made for walkin’.
Home, snuggled, family complete but much more to share from our beautiful travels.
Let me just say NY had me at ‘Hello.’
Oh, New York, I’m in love.
To be Continued.
Gorgeous photos! I’m glad you had a great time – can’t wait to hear more!
can’t wait to see more photos !!
Oh MAN, you are SUCH A TEASE!!! Can’t wait to hear all about it!
Oh i can’t wait to hear more about this trip to NY. I think we all missed you while you were gone 🙂
well these teaser photos are great- Glad you had a fun trip.
He does look very NY hip!
OHH…More, please!! I have been waitin’ for this post! Such a teaser! 😉 Lovin’ Poppa’s shoes and hat..so dapper! Can’t wait to hear about the trip!
~Deanna
Glad to hear you all had a great time! Traveling with a little one can often be exhausting & stressful. I sure hope sweet Nella did well.
~Debra at http://ourimperfectlife.blogspot.com
YAY! Welcome home! Can’t wait to hear all about it and see more pictures!!!
Thank you for introducing me to the Hipstamatic app! I lurve it!
Great pics! Glad you had a great time…
*Hint- When you wear Nella she should be heigher up on you. She is riding way to low*
I love NY too! But have not visited the Big Apple with the twins yet. I think maybe in another year or so we will take the plunge!
I always knew u were a city girl
Oh… thank you for a little glimpse of your trip…I am trying to wait patiently for a big post! Thank you for blessing my life in so many ways…
Me too! I’ve been many places both domestic and foreign and I have to say that NYC has me too. Nothing like it at all.
I’ve been waiting on pins and needles to hear of your adventure. Thanks for the peek, looking forward to some more.
Teri 🙂
Kelle!
I love the hipstamatic rundown. I wish I could capture my whole life in hipstamatic, but alas my battery doesn’t want to last that long. This is my nugget of goodness every single day when I come home. Love you and your blog!
Your photo processing captured the grit and pulse of NY SO well! Looking forward to more…
I have been checking and checking for you NY photos. I went there over the summer and put up my own photos of NYC in my blog. I can’t wait to see more pics and hear more about your trip. Gotta love the MECA!!!!
“NYC…What is it about you?”(from one of my favourite musicals ANNIE).
I think you did a great job of answering that question Kelle with wour wonderful descriptions and photos. Look forward to the next instalment!
Yay for NYC!!! Looking forward to more pics and those red plaid shoes!!!
😀
Kelle,
I have been in withdrawls without your updates! You must update again soon!!!
Glad you had fun!
Kim
Welcome back! You were missed. Seriously.
Can’t wait for pictures!!!
Looks so fun – can’t wait to see more. Poppa makes a great hipster!
Hooray, the red boots hit New York! Love the images, looking forward to hearing more. For some reason it was briefly bizarre seeing you guys out of the bright Florida colours, which I know is stupid considering you are from Michigan – these pics are every bit as cool so keep them coming! Your dad definitely wears the hat well! I bet the trip was fantastic, but I’m guessing the most bliss was giving Lainey a big hug when you got back!
great phtotos! i love hipstamatic!
I LOVE your Dad’s shoes.
Love. Love. LOVE them.
And I love your fun pictures.
You are the cooliest!
ps I hope you’ll come to London and photograph the trip, because then maybe through your eyes I’ll be able to see it in a new and better light even on the greyest winter days its bound to bring us this year.
Super cool hipstamatic peek of NYC. I love using that app. My fav his Poppa rocking out his oh so cool NY style red plaid shoes-LOVE IT!! Looking forward to more-more-more…
New York had me at ‘Hello’ as well…can’t wait to take our kids there…
Thanks for sharing. I so look forward to your blog. It is by far the best ‘book’ I have ever read!!!
Happiness to you always…you so deserve it!!
Cheers!
Monique
One of your pics look like you took it standing on the platform waiting for a 7 train at 42nd Street- Grand Central Terminal station. Am I right? I am born and raised Brooklynite and it always make me happy whe folks travel here because there happiness reminds me of how amazing it is to live here!!! Cannot wait to hear more and see more!!
Is it bad that I want an Iphone just for that one app?
I still haven’t been to NYC even though we have a friend who lives there and has extended an open invite to crash at his place! Not fair!
Someone mentioned hoisting Nella up, I agree she is too low. Hoisting her will not only be better for her but better for you and your back.
I’m so excited to hear about your adventures!
Are you back in FL already?! Seems you didn’t get a nice dry day here in the North East for your picnic in Central Park 🙁 But it’s an amazing city no matter what the weather!! Rain, snow or sweltering heat it’s a great palce!! Hope you had a great trip!
Awesome pictures! So glad you had a good time and Poppa’s shoes so totally COOL!
Oh love, how I love New York City. It is the perfection of rush and calm.. I love the food. I think about the food on a daily basis. Nowhere else on earth can compare with the explosion of perfection inside your mouth whenever you eat there.. The sandwiches.. oh the bacon.
Broadway is the reason I’m in love. Glad you got to go.
Hey, that’s my city! Can I call dibbs on babysitting duty?
Glad you had a great trip! I love NY. 🙂
We missed you and can’t wait for more!
Can’t wait to read about the rest of your trip. I LOVE your red boots by the way.
Makes me wish for an iphone so I can try out the hipstamatic app! Looks like loads of fun!
Can’t wait to hear more about your trip. We are counting the days until we get to come visit in Florida! Just 12 days to go! Hooray!
~ The Bells
Can’t wait to read more!
Glad you had a great trip.
Can’t wait to see the pics!!!
Looking forward to more, like everyone else –
Love love love hipstamatic – it makes everything in my life look so much more vintage-edgy-cool-hipster – but you were actually in New York. Very edgy-hipster-cool.
Thanks again!
simply the best!! glad you enjoyed “my” beautiful city…i get to love it every day. I have lived in NY all of my life and it never gets old…if you really want a treat, come back at Christmas..there is nothing like christmas in NYC..your christmases (?) will NEVER be the same again….hope you can make it back when the real magic begins!!!!
simply the best!! glad you enjoyed “my” beautiful city…i get to love it every day. I have lived in NY all of my life and it never gets old…if you really want a treat, come back at Christmas..there is nothing like christmas in NYC..your christmases (?) will NEVER be the same again….hope you can make it back when the real magic begins!!!!
Oh it all looks fantastic! Can’t wait to visit it myself one day 🙂
Welcome home city chick…
I love this iphone app! Great photos, looks (and sounds) like you had an amazing time! Can’t wait to see and read more 🙂
Ah the way i feel every time i venture to the great city! Thanks for the taster! I Can’t wait to hear more!
New York City!!!!! I can’t WAIT to see the extended post! You inspire me to run out to MY favorite city. tickets to seattle being searched for…NOW.
xox
Melina
OOOOOOO I just can’t wait! Love the collage of pics! I love rainy days…and new York… Put the two together? Oh jealousy.
Welcome home!! Lookin’ forward to more NY posts.
cant wait to see and hear more.
Love your boots! And your photos! Glad you had such a great time!
What song will you play on your blog when you come to Montana?
You do love those boots!! Glad you had an awesome time. 🙂
I can’t believe the nerve of posters who criticize the way Kelle carries little Nella in her baby carrier! Haters! She is a perfect mama. Jealous much?!
Oh, Kelle, YOU had ME at “It was..electric”! Your Blog mama here is SO glad, like everyone else – glad to see a post, even a sort one! Glad that you and Poppa and Nella seemed to have a great time in NYC – you sound like the song “I’m in a New York state of mind”. Oh POPPA, lovin’ the shoes and hat! Woohoo! Thanks for sharing with us, all you do. I bet Lainey and Brett and the boys were so glad to see you and Nella return (and visa versa). Look fwd to a longer post, WHENever you have the time! Welcome home~
To Anonymous, who posted above me. I really dont think anyone is a hater or jealous. (re: how low Kelle carries Nella) They were just offering a wee bit of helpful advice/info to Kelle. I think Kelle, being the kind of person she is, would take it in the spirit intended too. And of course, it is up to her what she does with any advice. I really think there comments came from kindness.
To DIG THIS CHICK..Hmm..a song when she comes to Montana. I wonder, how about..well, wasnt there a song in the early 90s, “In a Big Country” by Big Country? That reminds me of Montana, the term used for Montana. But, maybe not. BTW, I’ve checked out your blog too and i really like~
The E train!!! Impressive 🙂
Welcome home hipstamatic-mama! Can not wait for more more more tales from your adventure.
Wishing you sweet ‘snuggled up with your family’ kind of dreams!
xo
Kate
This is kinda random for this post, but I really liked your page layouts for Lainey’s memory book and I was wondering if you would post links to her 1st and 2nd book and I am hoping you post links to Nella’s first year when that comes around. I thought after looking at yours and creating my own version in photoshop that I would be able to come up with my own for my other daughter, but alas my creativity level is somewhere in the negative zone. So here’s hoping I can steal some more of your wonderful designs. I have looked around for others, but I like the simplicity of yours, what can I say, I am a fan!
I love these pics, especially because I live in NYC myself! I might be wrong and/or sound silly, but the subway shots look like Bryant Park- 5th Avenue and Grand Central Station, on the 7. I’ve spent so much time in both, I’ll feel so silly if I’m wrong! Thought the Bryant Park station is so similar to every other underground station along the line.
I’m glad you got to enjoy our wonderful city with your beautiful, amazing daughter and wonderful, equally amazing father.
loved the pics, Kelle…do you know how your blog makes me smile?? hugs from MI…
jodi
NYC
born and raised and still livin in NYC! so glad you liked it here! sorry the weather was yucky..
rania in NYC!
Nice pics! Looking forward to hearing of your trip. I bet you are exhausted.
NYC is one of my favorite cities too, and it IS electric! The moment you step off the plane you feel the rhythm and buzz of the city. Your pace is a couple steps quicker,you speak and eat faster too.
San Francisco is also amazing. If you haven’t been, you’ll fall in love there too.
Ah New York, one of my favourite cities ever. It’s a pity I have to come all the way from Australia to go there, it’s kinda tricky, and now that I have a family of six, I don’t know when I will get to do it again. Love living vicariously through you, though! More Kelle, we need more! I’m hanging out for Poppa’s take on it too. AND of course, the reason for the trip! Ha, we know there is one!
You were missed, I kept checking in to see if you have posted something. Glad to hear you enjoyed NY(would love to travel to the USA one day and experience NY). Looking forward to reading all about your experience and seeing those awesome pics MWAH! Romaine(South Africa)
Love the pics and glad you had a great trip! Can’t wait to hear more details if/when you can share!
Don’t you love everyone trying to guess the “real” reason for your trip? Please forgive us…it is hard minding our own business when we are SO excited for you!
Since you have mentioned writing a book in the past, I hope it was book related. I am excited to someday rush out to pre-order a book by Kelle Hampton. Heck, what am I saying? I am waiting for the book tour…I want a signed copy!
Jill B. (Overland Park, KS)
so wanna go to new york!
Welcome back! I bet Lainey is glad to have her Mama home 🙂 cannot wait for the New York update x
Oh how cool, I was just in NYC too!
I can’t wait to hear your perspective 🙂
Also I need a Nella-fix!
Oh, how I’ve missed seeing your everyday happenings posted when I sign into blogger……I can’t wait to hear more! I’ve always wanted to go to NY! I always read your blog last, save the best for last, right?! I love your spunk and style! Welcome back!
yes, how can one not love New York. 🙂 I love it completely! Too bad i didn’t have my iphone last year when I visited there, these snaps are loving and totally catching the essence of this magnificent city!
Can’t wait to see & read more! Lovin’ Poppa’s New York style!
♥
I just got back from NYC too!! I bet we were there the same day 🙂 My daughter has an amazing doctor there who did her second and hopefully final surgery that she will need and although we were there for such a hard, nerve wracking day, NYC still brought some charm and excitement to our crazy day. Can’t wait to see the rest of your pics!!!
LOVE Poppa’s new style too btw!
Tara
can’t wait to hear all about it! i [heart] nyc!
This has nothing to do with your wonderful post, but I love this song for kids especially my Noah and thought I’d share. Makes me cry every time I see it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knm492yxMfo
NY is one of my most favorite places on earth to visit…a short jont from Philly, a truly magical place. Can’t wait to hear more about it!
you are fantastic!!!!your blog is very lovely and special!!!!
Sorry it rained here during your trip! It hasn’t rained all summer!
And you are a far, far, braver soul than I am to eat the street vendor pretzels hahaha!
🙂
Glad you had fun!!! <3
I live here and love it and you somehow managed to make it look even more amazing! Have been following your blog for months and wish I could have met you- maybe next time! Can’t wait for the continuation:)
Love the photos!!! I am originally from CA but now I reside in NY. I fell in love with NY my first sight… Isn’t the city just full of energy? Can’t wait to see the city through your lenses.
So now you know why eventhough I am tropical girl and HATE winters (specially long ones) I made this place my home.
Xoxo
NY-er here! From Long Island, about a 45-minute train ride to NYC. So glas you had a great trip. Your photos are fabulous!
I’m sure you rocked it girl. Can’t wait to see the rest. NYC is on my bucket list;)
NYC is on my bucket list too! Seems to be on top these days. I get wrapped up in the whole TVLAND aspect of it I think. Between Sex and the City, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, You’ve got Mail…I could go on and on. I am glad ya’ll had an amazing time and I can wait to live it through your pictures and words! I am glad you’re back!!!
I love NY, too! I’ve literally only been there once with only about 12 hrs in the actual city, but ever since then I can’t get it out of my head! I’ve been begging the hubs for a return visit soon. 🙂
LOVE the boots – and that you included a photo of them.
,,,i “heart” ny,,,happy you had fun.,,,
Oh you made me miss New York so much. It is the place I always wanted to live in for a year but never had the courage. SO I visited often instead, but it wasn’t the same. There is still so much I have not seen and done there. 🙂
Can’t wait to hear all about it and welcome home… I have missed your posts. 🙁
🙂
YAY you’re back!!! Oh how I LOVE LOVE LOVE NYC too!!! My fav city on the planet! Love your hipstamatic shots and can’t wait for your next blog post!
Can’t wait!!!! Oh you are so New York 🙂
Ahhh, this was such a tease. I’m so jealous!! Nothing like that city!!! Can’t wait to see more pictures!!! 🙂
Oh if only you had stayed one more day!! It is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous here now! Sunny, a couple clouds of the happy variety and a slight breeze… it doesn’t get any better than this for visiting NYC!! 🙁 Doesn’t look like the rain kept you down at all!! Can’t wait to read and see more!
More, more! I love how – as I knew you would – you have left the standard NYC images (Empire State etc) aside and instead have given us all the small things that add up to New York being fabulous!
what a tease…
Your photos definitely ignited a desire to go back to NYC ASAP! I’m looking forward to reading more on this, one of my very favorite blogs:-).
Kelle how do you do that collection of square photos? Is it special software?
Kim
My one and only visit to NY was when we flew my son to Jersey for his spinal fusion surgery. We were able to visit New York city the day before surgery and it was amazing! Of course, it was also a bittersweet time as we were all so nervous about the surgery the very next day. But, it was still fun!
You’re my favorite.
I just found your blog today, through the e-mail of a friend.
The story of your family brought me to tears and I had to stop reading and started again 4 times.
I have an uncle who has down sindrome and he is one of the most important persons in my life!
I will be following your blog!
Filipa, from Portugal (mother of 2 little girls, 3 and 1 year)
Glad you loved our neck of the woods! 🙂
Glad you had a blast and truly enjoyed the simple things…
can’t wait to hear about it!
Your pictures, so cool! I have this ap on my phone as well and use it ALL the time. I have been checking this site everyday, several times a day…beginning to think I’ve got a little obsession, or something! 🙂
Please, post soon! Am waiting anxiously (like everyone else) to hear about your fabulous trip! So glad you had a great time!
Poppa,
You look so cool! Love the shoes!!
NYC is my absolute favorite city in the world! Well, make that second favorite–my first is Taitung, Taiwan because that is the birth city of my daughter…..
But oh how I love the Big Apple! I have visited on 7 different occasions. If you get the chance you HAVE to go for the Thanksgiving Parade–and Christmas time is so magical! Ice-skating in the park, catching snowflakes on your tongue, and oh how I LOVE the Christmas window displays!!! I highly recommend New York at Christmas time!!
It’s so fun to see your photos from NY! My husband and I were there just last week for the first time on a before-#2-arrives getaway. We had a magical time and your pictures bring it all back. Thanks for sharing your life!
Oh please hurry and show more. I’m having Nella withdrawal. 😉
Loved your pictures and comments on NYC. You might enjoy my review of the movie- Eat, Pray, Love from the view point of a mother of 3 kids with Down syndrome. Check it out here. http://aprilanecdotes.wordpress.com/