At Papa's house before the big game. We had a great time. Aidan loved the game but beating Papa and Judy at scrabble may have been the highlight. Seeing Varitek up close and seeing Ortiz steal a base came in a close second i'm sure.

Chris doing his best impression of a daddy duck

all my boys playing cards @ Echo Lake.

sweet little family. Little ? still snug in his mommy. not quite ready to join us yet.

Sammy about to ask a question. one of is many questions. he is so very curious about everything around him!!!

this is how Ziggy listen to Susie and Banshee's Peeka Boo! He and Sammy kept asking for Joelle to play it. they'd hold hands then when it came on Z would cover his face. then sing!

Ari and Big Papi

It really was pretty cool to have Big Papi in Portland


some of his biggest fans were there

but really... it was the little guy at the end of the line who stole our hearts.

Here you can see him watching. he is to the right of the dugout wearing a batting helmet

and here is doing his best to ignore the giant man walking by him. He like to keep it cool.

When ever he ran onto the field the crowd went nuts. at least our row and a bunch of his friends who were at the game.

we now know for sure that nobody picks up bats and delivers ball like my boy he's a true SUPERSTAR

I will eventually post photo's of the Ari/Ortiz game. i have having some camera problems. problems meaning it is broken and I have to send it to Nikon to be fixed. mildly stressful. 

I am sure I have more to report. but not now.... it's 12:20am.. I can't sleep but not awake enough to think.

night

Unbelievable

when in Hannafords I entered Aidan, Ari and G in a contest to be the bat boy for the Sea Dogs. 

Well... this evening we heard that Aaron won. He will be the bat boy for the Sea Dogs on Tuesday.  A NIGHT BIG PAPI IS PLAYING!!!

this is so very big. 

How awesome is this

for non Portland people... this is my friend Karen's cover photo.

And today's downer is.....

Trader Joes = German Walmart. It's owned by Aldi Group .


On a brighter note... Ari is spreading his love of origami. I picked him up from his metalsmith camp yesterday and saw kids walking out with origami pieces. He was giving mini lessons.

sad bowe boys

David Ortiz is playing in Portland on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of July. I just tried to get my boys tickets but they are already sold out. sadness....

Here is a photo of Aidan's all-star jersey. 

I had a dream I was pushing a chunky little baby girl in a swing. she was so very cute... I was play biting her knees to make her laugh. Joelle's baby (Benji) is due in 3 weeks but the ultrasound said boy. odd.... 

emmy + john 4-eva

Doesn't J.T. look like he is about to tell nick and roger that he is leaving the band for the love of  his life.  See, He has been searching ever since he saw a glimpse of her at a concert in New England. And to think he finally found her in Florence Italy. What a world!

Now that my mother has quit her job at whole foods I can say how much I hate that store. Not that I never go there. I do, because I have no other choice. 

phew.. that feels better.  thanks. 

G's birthday went well. He was so surprised!! 

Hi Dad!!

So... Today we are having G's (ssshhhh) surprise birthday party. He thinks it's on Sunday. So very exciting. Here's the plan. Chris is going to bring him to pick up Aidan from camp while I meet his friends @ the park. Can't wait to see his face. The only tricky part is baking his cake choice, pineapple upside down cake, without him getting suspicious.

I'll let ya know how it goes.

Happy Birthday G!!!!

Here are some images from Venice & Murano from my Holga.

In typical film fashion I waited 8 months to develop.

I wanted to take a photo of Max walking into this first college class last night. Of course it would have embarrassed him beyond repair so I didn't. I will say I got a little choked up.

We are all very excited round here about Obama. Also very annoyed with Hillary but I won't go there.

you need to know this

Mercury is in Retrograde for the first 3 weeks of June. It is not wise to spend large sums of money, sign a contract or give verbal agreement to any important new venture. Do not try to speed things up or force matters. Be patient- if there are delays, let them happen. 

it's been a crazy week. I am 3 jobs under so I havent' had time to edit any wedding photographs

but here are a few that will give you an idea about Dad and Judy's day.

Love

Beauty

yikes..okay I lied.. there are just two photo's. I added the wrong images and need to get to baseball. will fix later.

Tonight my friend Karen and I are shooting a local Prom. She has all sorts of fun/tacky old prom dresses for us to wear!

Dad's getting married in 3 days!! Crazy.....

a good site . some of this I knew but Lead in lipsticks was a shocker. to get to the page to find specific product information go to .

sad

I have finally figured out what I like the least about staying in one location for so long. You start to know people, a lot of people. The newspaper headlines start to be about people who are part of your life. When you are new to an city, those names involved in tragedies are just sad stories, not personal loses. This has been a tough month for my sons group of friends. A few weeks ago they lost a good friend in a horrible highway accident and just recently a friend lost his Dad.

Our family has also recenetly lost a member. My Uncle Louis passed away a few days ago.

for music and book lovers

Deb started this blog as a companion to her next two books.


enjoy!

Sono jealous

Right now Karin is in Florence. She should have arrived sometime yesterday after a grueling 5 hour layover in Paris. (I hated the Paris airport. It made me sneeze)

yeah Karin, Emmy and Eddie!! Sono Jealous!!!!

What's in your living room?

                                   a giant lego using frog?  

                              a score board? 

       no? that's odd. 

now that we have a giant score board of our very own we need to figure out what to do with it. Chris and the boys want to bring it back to it's original beauty and hang it on the wall.