Peltzer Weekly News: Season 1 Episode 9‏

Dear family and friends,

guess what? we love you and miss you a lot!!! Here are a few things about our past week:

-Thursday: we went for a walk to Poland. We found a cheap store for our milk. That is a few blocks away and it's in a Polish neighborhood. We liked discovering what's near our house. We are a nice walk away from a dock that lets you have a full view of Manhattan and its high skyscrapers. 

-Friday: a new movie came out and Serena wanted to see it for a long time. So Mat surprised her and took her to a theatre in Manhattan to watch "The hunger games" as their date for the week. It was an awesome movie!!! Mat fell in love with it and can't wait to see the next sequel, that's why he's going to buy the books and read them!

 After, we went to Central Park to visit the Belvedere Castle and have a picnic by a pond with many paddle boats in it. 

It was a warm beautiful day and it was fun to see many weddings taking place right by where we had our picnic in Central Park. We ended the day with a wonderful temple session where President Garff (the Manhattan temple president) asked us if we could be temple workers without realizing that we were only here for a few more weeks. He said that he enjoys seeing us in the temple each week and called us "the couple in love" :) and encouraged us to continue acting like newlyweds the rest our our lives. 

-Saturday: Serena is like her dad. She loves nature, trees and flowers. She knew the magnolia trees would be blooming this week and it was urgent to have another visit at the Brooklyn botanic garden on saturday. It was beautiful and the colors were magnificent!

Saw this fun store near the exit of the Gardens! :)  Unfortunately we didn't have time to shop there, too bad!

 Then we went to the beach but realized on our way there that it was not a good idea since it was cold outside. We just wanted to check if it would be a good place to take our friends (Shauna Dennis and Erica Zaine) who are coming in a week!!! WOOHOO!!! We went as far as the subway would take us. we could see out the windows that it wasn't a very nice area. So once we got to the end of the line, we caught the next homeward bound train. It was a fun ride though with some dude who decided to take a nap.

-Sunday: Elder Jeffery E. Olson, a member of the Seventy, attended our district conference where they announced that our branch would now be a part of a stake rather than a district. It will bring a lot of new members into our branch and we've enjoyed making new friends at church and becoming a part of the choir.

That is our news. We hope you have a great week and we wish a happy birthday to Noa (Mat's niece) who's turning 7 on wednesday.

We love you,

Serena and Mat Peltzer.

Peltzer Weekly News: Season 1 Episodes 7 and 8‏

Hello Everyone!  We just wanted to say hi and update you on the latest and greatest in our lives.  We are sorry you haven't heard from us for a while, but we will be getting back to our regular weekly emails on sunday.  We just wanted to let you know that we are still alive and share some pictures of the fun we've been having.  

We visited the beautiful Brooklyn Botanical Gardens a few weeks ago and saw all the new blooms.  We are anxious to return soon, as the cherry trees are just about ready to bloom!  For March 14th we celebrated the date: 3/14...and had some PIE (tart) because you know....3/14, just like the number 3.14....get it?

We were able to see Serena's brother-in-law Josh (Heidi's Husband) as he was in town visiting his brother Jake who is working here.  It was a fun treat to see Josh and spend time with him.  We were able to go to Bobby Flay's restaurant Mesa in Manhattan.  Josh's hotel had a great view of the city and we were able to show him Central Park and the Temple.  He had a short stay and we were grateful he came.  

For Saint Patricks day, we went to 5th Ave and saw the parade and visited the stores and buildings there:  The Rockefeller Center and ice skating rink, Saint Patricks Cathedral, Trump Tower, FAO Schwartz, The Plaza Hotel, Bergdorf Goodman (Serena loves to go there and STARE at the $6,000 pieces of sparkly jewelry), Radio City Music Hall and Bouchon Bakery (no Heidi, we didn't buy the quiche...we didn't buy anything there).  5th Ave is like the Strip in Vegas or the Champs Elysees in Paris where all the big brands and fancy store are.

We are looking forward to having our first guests in our home in less than two weeks, Shauna Dennis (Serena's old roommate) and Erica Zaine (another of Serena's old roommates, she is from North Dakota as well).  We are so excited to see them again and spend a lot of time showing them the city and making memories (and feeding their faces) :).

We love our new apartment.  It is in a very nice part of town (we feel like we moved back to the U.S....everyone speaks english here, ha) and it's a newly updated apartment.  It is small, like a typical New York apartment, but is free from the clutter and cat hair we had in our old apartment.  We are loving the sunshine and warm weather.  

We will be in touch soon!  

Love you all,

Serena and Mat Peltzer

Peltzer Weekly News: Season 1 Episode 6‏

Dear everyone we love,

We had a fun week and lots of good food.  We are enjoying our time in New York so much and are preparing to make our next move.  Our sublet will be over on the 13th.  We have been praying to find a place to live that we feel good about.  We have found so many apartments but none felt right, and with the 13th approaching soon, it's been easy to feel nervous about where we will be going.  But after fasting today, we found an apartment that we feel very good about and have booked it.  It's still in Brooklyn, but more north.  The Lord told us this is the place and we are excited to move there.  It is simple and small, but clean and newly updated (which is not a common thing around here, since most building here are 100 years old).

This week we had some wonderful news from Serena's friends Rachel and Warren Powell who had their baby girl the week before.  We are very excited and happy for them.  Congratulations!

Wednesday, Serena had the opportunity to go with her first friend in New York, Linda, to a recording of the Martha Stewart Show.  Even thought Serena is not a huge Martha fan, it was a fun opportunity to go, see the studio and take home some very nice giveaways.  Mat was impressed with the giveaways and felt like going to the show as well just for the good stuff they give away.  Soon, one of her shows will be giving away 1 million dollars...maybe that's the one we will attend next and we will be the winners!  Who knows!

Friday is our date night.  We had planned a day out at Central Park, to see the castle, ponds and many beautiful sights there...but we didn't do that.  It was so cold, and so windy so we ditched out plans for the day, found a hot dog stand next to Juilliards, filled our bellies and headed across the street to the temple.  It was a great place to seek refuge from the cold.  

We hurried home and had some good food and watched movies...and that is how we spent the rest of the weekend.  It was too cold to go outside, so movies and food was the best option.  Mat made some Orange Chicken, we had Quiche, Potato salad, Hamburgers, French Fries...all homemade.  We were filling inspired enough to feed ourselves well and our big tummies are proof of that.  If you come to visit us while we are here, or wherever we live, we will be sure to feed you some of Mat's great Orange Chicken.  

We hope you are all beginning to prep your upcoming Saint Patty's day outfits!  We are hoping they will have some adventurous things to do here in the big apple.  

We love you all.  We hope you are doing well and know that we miss you.

Love,

Serena and Mat Peltzer