The Class of 2012

On Saturday, we celebrated this handsome guy’s high school graduation!!!

After a lovely ceremony and a car ride to pep boys and back because my car got sick, we headed back to Mark’s to celebrate with meatball sandwiches, primos, and my personal favorite – chocolate covered strawberries! It was nice to spend time with the two sets of grandparents that live out of state. Telling old stories always results in some unexpected details and bouts of laughter. I am so happy for C – he worked really hard through high school and really enjoyed his time there with his friends. Congrats!!!

Moments Worth Remembering

1. Spending a lot of money to fix your car and then you realize it’s still sick.

2. Realizing your boyfriend fell asleep on the couch next to you.

3. Watching your surrogate brother give his momma a hug and seeing her eyes fill with tears.

4. Laughing hysterically as your boyfriend swim-chases a frog around your pool.

5. Rain starting to fall the very second everyone is finally settled at the table outside for a cookout.

6. Walking back through my old room in a house that soon won’t be ours and crying like a baby.

7. Getting caught red handed at the chocolate fountain.

8. Taking time to remember the family we have lost.

9. Dad getting his umbrella out so he can see the double rainbow better than the rest of us crowding at the edge of the garage.

10. Reminiscing about all the fun we had growing up in the old house with my sister.

3 Day Weekend

1. Twins

On Friday, I parked my car after driving home from work and looked up to see these two beautiful babies in my backyard. The sad part about it is that they don’t have a momma. Earlier this week someone hit a deer and it died in our front yard. It was pretty gross – all stiff with her tongue sticking out. Anyways, we could tell she had been nursing, but by that point, we hadn’t seen the babies. And now it’s just really sad to me that they’re all alone. But aren’t they adorable??!!!?

2. Birthday Dinner at our favorite place…

The sushi was delicious. The music was my very own personal soundtrack. And everything was going quite swimmingly until I dropped a mostly full cup of water all over my lap. True story.

3. Patriotism

I was a little bummed when I saw this…

“Hey Dad, nice flag!”

“Thanks, Bec!”

“…That’s what I was gonna get you for Father’s Day….”

“Well, scratch it off the list!”

“I didn’t have a list”

“Oh…”

4. Vintage

I was rummaging through my closet, stalling the whole bedroom clean-up thing, and I found a garment bag that I didn’t recognize. Inside was a perfect off-white dress. This is my grandmother’s wedding dress. I put on the pearl earrings and ring she gave me and waa-lahh. I was a 1950s bride. Don’t you wish we could go back to this? When collar bones, hips, and class were sexy? Instead of teeny-tiny women, see through lace tops with hot pink bras underneath, and low moral standards? I do. I definitely do. This dress is perfection.

5. White

There is NOTHING like clean, crisp, new, white bed linens. Nothing.

6. Chores

Like helping Dad disassemble the backboard and rim. At 9:00 a.m. In the baking sun – which was wicked hot for being so early. Clearly Sarah was thrilled to be on ladder watch.

7. Crystal Blue Water

We were fish. In and out and in and out. All weekend long. I love this pool.

 

Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend!

Dance Party

This past Saturday I woke up to find out that six of Sarah’s friends were going to be coming over in twenty minutes. That was a bit of a shock, to say the least. Then I found out  I was on lifeguard duty, ‘cause I’m such a strong swimmer, and all - not. And that made me not so happy. But I figured it was an opportunity to lay in the sun, so whatever, I’d make the best of it. I overheard them struggling to figure out a routine for their song. Sooo I stepped in to help – it was the right thing to do right? I do have some experience in this department – there’s video footage somewhere of my friends’ and my middle school exploits. Bad hair cuts, ill fitting clothes, braces – you remember :)

We had such a fun time dancing our way through the song and then putting it all together. I love their age. It’s a bit awkward, for sure. But there’s still a bit of a lack of self awareness and they still like to have fun. They didn’t want to be the cutest girls or get the boys’ attention. They just wanted to have fun together and enjoy themselves. I loved it.

They picked the perfect song… So happy summer, dear readers. Go have a dance party :)

This is what…

 

… happy looks like.

… waiting looks like.

… the beginning of summer looks like.

happy happy

Today is my best friend’s birthday.
And even though he’s sitting in summer class we’re gonna party-it-up this weekend. I was looking at pictures yesterday and decided a little trip down memory lane was in order. So many memories…

Thank you for always making me laugh.

Thank you for always listening and never ever giving up.

Thank you for always working so hard.

Thank you for three wonderful years. I can’t wait for all that’s ahead.

Mark Ryan – I love you. Happy 21st Birthday.

The adventure begins here…

This past Saturday was my cousin’s wedding in Reading. It was adorable to see how excited they were to finally be married – and it was wonderful to see such supportive family and friends . The reception was held at a beautiful barn and was filled with family – oh and polka dots, too.

Nothing like a spring, country wedding :)