Monday, October 3, 2011 at 2:16PM |
Brejer holiday cards can now be found exclusively at Shutterfly! We're so happy with how they've turned out and wanted to share them with you. A special thanks to all our wonderful friends at Shutterfly! Check out both our contemporary and classic designs and please feel free to spread the word. Great for sending holiday cheer. See the full selection here. |
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 9:04AM The other week Jeremiah and I opened up a big box that made us smile! Our scrapbooking samples arrived and they turned out fabulous! We're excited to announce that they're now out on the store shelves! We worked closely with Momenta to produce the "Family Forever" collection that includes stickers, albums, papers, and embellishments. We'll post more in the coming weeks to let you know where you can find our products. We're so happy with how the finished products turned out. The papers are so vibrant and all have beautiful details that make them extra special. From foil finishes to glitter to embossed pages, the quality of the papers stand above the rest and will really make your scrapbook stand out. If any of you are using these products please let us know. We'd love to see what you've dreamed up!
We love the album! It comes with stickers, embellishments, and lots of fun pages.
Here's a sampling of the pages that are included in a few of the paper kits. They all coordinate so nicely!
Lots of fun stickers to add to your pages. This collection is perfect for highlighting memorable family moments!
PS- If you're a retailer and would like to carry anything from the "Family Forever" collection let us know and we'll get you in touch with our friends at Momenta.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 10:45PM Every year in the city they have an event called Museum Mile on 5th Avenue. All the museums are opened up for free from 6-9pm. We headed over to two museums we've never been to before. First- El Museo del Barrio. The museum includes Carribean, Latino, and Latin America art created primarily from NY based Latino artists. It's a smaller museum but worth a trip.
The next museum we went to was on 103rd and 5th Avenue called The Museum of the City of New York. I enjoyed the Moveable Feast exhibit about the NYC Green Carts and the NY Interiors exhibit that gave us a peak into the furnishings in the city from the colonial era to the 20th century. My favorite thing of all though were these miniature doll houses they had on display showcasing what a NY City interior looked like hundreds of years ago. They were fully furnished with photos hanging on beautiful wallpaper, bedding, kitchen, dining area, etc. It made me want to make to a) live in that house and b) make a doll house for Kenna!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 10:04PM It's a good thing I ran the NYMini 10K in the morning so I could fully "FULLY" enjoy the Big Apple BBQ in Madison Square Park.
Early Saturday morning I jumped out of bed, laced up my racing flats and warmed up to the starting line 2 blocks from Columbus Circle. It was really neat to have all of Central Park blocked off for our race. It was the 40th annual New York Mini 10K and this year it was in honor of the legendary runner Grete Waitz who passed away on April 19th. This race always has a huge turnout (this year 4500+ runners) with many professional athletes who travel in from South Africa, Kenya, Australia, Canada, South America, Japan, etc. Our race included 13 Olympians...who all ran VERY fast! All in all a great race!
Later that afternoon we headed over to the Big Apple BBQ in Madison Square Park. Each year we somehow seem to miss the event...but thankfully a friend let us know and we made sure to make it over. We will be back! The best BBQ restaurants from around the US gathered all around the park grilling up the best ribs we've ever tasted.
Jeremiah didn't really eat all those boxes...just in case you were wondering!...although he wishes! there were many BBQ enthusiasts there eating away.
This place above, The Checkered Pig, was incredible...we especially loved their sign!
Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 10:19PM I ran my first Brooklyn Half Marathon on Saturday. It went much better than I expected! My mileage isn't high right now so I was pleasantly surprised to see what I could do. It was a great race...beautiful weather (first day it didn't rain all week).
It was fun to run the race with 10 friends from my New York Athletic Club (NYAC) team. I asked a few of the girls for advice before the race on running a half marathon. They all said don't go out too fast...My coach said the same thing to me...so I took the advice to heart. I ran conservatively the first half of the race which was in Prospect Park. Since I hadn't run a 13.1 mile race before I didn't know what I could do...but after exiting the park and heading out to Coney Island I picked up my pace and ran consistent splits and starting passing people. I felt great the whole way. It was especially great to be so supported there with my parents, Jeremiah and Kenna cheering for me at the 1 mile, 4 mile, and 12 mile mark on the course. It was actually a little emotional for me passing the 12 mile mark where they were cheering loudly for me. I felt so happy to have my family there for me. In these pics I was actually smiling at the 4 mile and 12 mile mark because I was so happy and felt so good inside.
I finished the race in 8th place overall for the women with a time of 1:22:30 and averaged 6:17 min pace. I'm looking forward to getting into my marathon training and running my first marathon in October- a week before Kenna has her first birthday! My goal is to qualify for the Olympic Trials in the marathon which will be held in January of 2012! I will need to run a sub 2:46 marathon...I have a lot of work to put in to reach this goal but I know I can do it! Thank you to all of you for your support and well wishes to me in this endeavor and to my husband and little girl for helping cheer me along everyday! It means so much to me!
4 miles into the race in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
At the 12 mile mark...happy to see my family, happy with how I'm running and looking forward to reaching the finish line!
Hanging with Kenna at the finish on the boardwalk in Coney Island.
Friends on my team, Mia and Heidi