Becky's photoblog

Somebody missed their mommy …

Becca took us to one of her favorite places to walk … we walked the whole way around Beaver Lake, then wandered through the bird sanctuary before heading back to the house to relax.

Visiting Becca usually means singing after breakfast 🙂

Our visit to Asheville began with a delicious dinner at a bbq restaurant (can’t remember the name, but it was awesome!) Good food tastes better with old friends 🙂

Merry and Jeremy hosted a lovely summer bbq to celebrate the sixth anniversary of me and Merry turning 29 earlier this month. We’ve been celebrating our birthdays together since circa 1992, and it was really nice way to spend a cool Memorial Day weekend afternoon. Plus it’s always fun to play with Liz and Jen’s girls. I was a lucky auntie when two little girls climbed onto my lap to play a bizarre game of pretending to bite each other and giggling about it. (thanks to Brian and Lee for the photos)

While we were in Maryland celebrating family occasions, we were able to take advantage of a little bit of down time at the hotel on Friday afternoon … Hannah brought her son to visit, which was so lovely because we hadn’t seen either of them in too long! Who knew that watching a two-year-old explore a hotel lobby could be so entertaining!

We had the honor of joining friends at their wedding food tasting … we got treated to a delicious meal, we got to help them make some decisions, and we got to see the gorgeous venue where they’ll be getting married in a few short months! A lovely evening with good friends

Testing out the bounciness of IKEA chairs

Liz hosted a party for her and Jen’s birthday a month late, and a bunch of old friends got together to play with the kids, play in the snow and decorate cupcakes 🙂

We had a delightful New Year’s Eve with a few friends who are all planning to celebrate wonderful milestones in 2016! And it was lovely to see our friend’s mom … it had been too long

On the drive home, I took a handful of terrible photos that show the Prudential Tower lit up with ’16’. Welcome 2016!!

The girls took a short break from playing with their Christmas presents to listen to Uncle Brian read a story.

The best kind of dinner party is when your friends come over and make amazing food in your kitchen, and all you have to do is clean up 🙂

Mel has a strict policy about not working on her birthday, and I felt it was necessary to support her in this endeavor. We checked out the brand new Boston Public Markets, we wandered the Greenway, we spent 90 minutes wandering the harbor on a sailboat, we had a delicious dinner at Back Deck, and we saw Kinky Boots at the Opera House!

It’s always wonderful to see a dear friend, especially one I only get to see every other year or so! We spent a lovely pleasant weekend in New Jersey hanging out with Jamie and her adorable kiddos, and Other Becky who also traveled to visit. We ended the weekend with an awesome meal and Benihana’s, and little T was absolutely captivated by the table-side cooking extravaganza!

Who knew there was an incredibly pleasant Mexican restaurant with awesome outdoor seating down a weird alley in Newton Center? Deanna and I caught up over sangria and delicious food … I love our date nights!

When one of your dear friends get married, and it’s someone you’ve known for 23 years, you can’t possibly hope to capture all of the wonderful moments of an incredible day … so thank goodness for wedding photographers! I got a few random shots, but this hardly captures a wonderful evening full of old friends, good food, great music, lots of dancing, lots of laughing and maybe a few tears. We couldn’t be happier for this incredible couple!

I love it when last-minute plans work out perfectly! I had plans to spend Saturday afternoon visiting Liz and Lee, and their girls who just turned 1! When I found out that an old friend was in town, we made plans for her to come too, without telling Liz! It’s always amazing when someone you’ve been friends with for nearly 20 years shows up at your doorstep 🙂 We spent a perfectly pleasant afternoon hanging out with squirmy squealy happy little girls, and catching up.