Boston/kitties/more pics than I know what to do with..

An excessive amount of pics..but really, how do you edit such a great trip?! Geof. and I were able to fly up to Boston for three days US ONLY time. So nice.  The pics below only show ONE day in Boston. My camera's battery died after day one and I forgot the charger. Check Geof.'s facebook pics to see our day trip to Maine and New Hampshire's coasts (beautiful!) and our Celtics/Heat basketball game (I didn't realize how fun watching bball could be..)! We stayed at our friends' Jonathan and Libby's and they spoiled us rotten with a beautiful guest room, seafood galore, and a good deal of driving us around! THANK YOU, Wakemans!

 Here I am at Harvard begging them to reconsider my application..?

 Harvard..we took a train from Boston to MIT and when that proved to be disappointing, we walked the mile and a half to Harvard's campus. It felt like 100 miles--to both of us--maybe that's because we'd already walked all over Boston? Didn't drink enough water? I dunno..

 Benjamin Franklin

 Old State House

 Street performers. If you've ever been to NYC's central park, this was almost exactly the same thing. Fun..but we didn't give them the $20 they asked for BEFORE showing us the flip-over-five-girls trick.

 Fresh market-CHEAP produce! We bought raspberries and cherries for nothin'!

 We were told we HAD to try out Italy's famous cannolis in a restaurant in the North End of town where you literally feel like you're IN Italy. The cannolis proved to be DELICIOUS and we only wish we'd bought more. The people were great--out on the street talking with their hands and gesturing just like you imagine Italians to do. So cool. We even walked up to a group of them and tried to have a discussion. I don't know how much they or we understood. Awesome.

 Paul Revere's home

 Waiting in a restaurant for take out pizza. SO GOOD.

 Paul Revere and the Old North Church in the background.

 This was Geof.'s face pretty much the entire trip. Do you think he enjoys history/travel much? The Old North Church housed the nation's first organ and oldest clock..cool, huh?

 Revolutionary War Era graveyard. Graves as old as the 1630s!

 View from atop the Bunker Hill Monument. 294 winding steps we "almost" ran all the way up..

 U.S.S. Constitution, the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat (my words, not the "official website")...

 Three levels down..where they packed in 450 crew members! They had to rotate sleeping downstairs and keeping watch on deck.

 There's that face again.

 Train ride to Boston. A bit tired..

 Dayne with fuzzy kitten (before we realized they had fleas).

 I don't know who taught him that (see below).

 Love this face.

 And these faces, too.

Good momma

Thekids

Some of those pics from my kids' modeling shoot (just a photography workshop that was being held here in Richmond) are starting to trickle in from some of the photographers who attended. These are my favorite, so far. Click on pics for closer view.

April and May

My kids were asked to be models for a photo workshop that a well known and pretty impressive Utah photographer (Nichole Van) put on out here in Richmond. They were looking for older models (Cole's age and up) but were happy to have any at all when I showed up with my brood.

It was a lot of fun to watch and the setting was of course beautiful. Maymont Park..I've mentioned it a few times.  ;)

There was about 8 photographers and Nichole told me that I should be getting all the pics from the shoot. I'm still waiting..

June in a sunny spot eating Pirate's Booty. Happiest girl ever (notice the tissue shoved in her shirt? Her allergies were bad that day and I was sick of wiping snot when she sneezed..).

On our way to VA Beach.

A little ombre look for ya..

Dayne all pretty on her 7th birthday.

June singing "Castle on a Cloud" for the 50th time. She's all ready for next year's talent show, have ya heard? ;)

We couldn't be happier with this dogwood tree in our front yard. It scoots right up to our front porch, giving us a little more privacy, and the kids have a ball climbing it and hanging from its branches.

Nice, Dayne. June prefers Dayne to do her hair over me.

We had kittens. 5 of them. I walked in my closet last week to put clothes away and Lizzie had JUST given birth. What a surprise (knew she was pregnant..but didn't know she was ready!). Tried to keep it a secret from the girls until they were a little older..no chance. Dayne found them on day 2 and came running out of my room with a little one in her hands screaming, "We had kittens! We had kittens!". So far, she and June have done better than I'd imagined (I imagined the worse).

Dayne dropped June's necklace into a garbage can at Cole's soccer game. She tried going in after it by jumping off the top of the bleachers IN TO the can..hitting her mouth on the bleacher on the way down. Lots of high-volumed wailing from this girl. Not happy.