{Living in the Moment...June}

Lisa and I went to D.C. a while back.  It was so much fun.  I have so much more to share but for this month's Living in the Moment post I wanted to share my try at "street photography".  Some of these are ehhhhhh and some of them really impress me.

Sites like the FB pages Humans of New York and Portraits of Boston are inspiring to me because it's something I could never do.  I could never go up to a stranger, have a conversation with them and then ask to take their picture.  I'm so very shy.

Most of these were take from the trolley or the car.  All of them were taken with my stalker lens so that none of these people knew I was taking their picture.  Someday I hope to visit the city and do more street photography.  It really moves me.

We saw quite a few homeless people sleeping in the city.  We even saw a woman dying her hair in Freedom Plaza.  During our trolley tour we had to take a detour due to traffic and our guide told us that the shelter we past was the largest in the country.




That sweat stain, yuck.














I know this is grainy and gross but Lisa and I came out of a hotel after drinks and there were multiple couples in Freedom Plaza doing the tango.  It was by far one of the coolest things I've ever seen.  I looked it up and something came up on Yelp for it saying it was free classes.


It was Pride week while were there.  I wish I could have gotten a better shot of her but I love that I got the guy taking their picture in there.


He is just too cool for words....


I loved her suit.  It was just so awesome in all the black and grey.






I adore this man peeking out of his flower shop.








I think these last two are my favorites.  They look like they could be camera ads.  These were taken at the Lincoln memorial.




Which was your favorite? Do you love or hate street photography? Find it inspiring or creepy?

Please go check out Anika's LITM post for this month.

{He Did It!}

Our sweet Bailey Joseph graduate eighth grade! Those that know him know that his was no easy feat for him. We couldn't be prouder that he pulled through and made it.



Doens't he look so grown up?




I have a million pictures of the back of his head because I was joking with him the day before telling him that I was going to embarrass him and he believed me so he refused to look for us and make eye contact with us. 














He even shook his arch nemesis' hand!  Good boy!










A smile!  He's proud of himself.  :)




Ha ha.  Lisa made him look over at us. 










I have since dyed my hair but I probably should have done it before our used photoshop or...something.  geeesh.








Bailey, once again, we are all so very proud of you.  We love you!  xoxo

{Insta-Friday...6/28}

Summer vacation is here. Yay? I proclaimed publicly on FB the other day that I was oh so excited to have the kids home for the summer and that I couldn't wait to have them home all day. Well they are testing that today let me tell you. Fresh on top of fresh on top of fresh. They're making a fresh pyramid today.

These are from over the last few weeks, cause, well, I've been slacking on the blogging front.

I chased the sun a couple of weeks ago.  I kept moving my chair until the sun was completely gone.  It felt good.


I love this mickey shirt so much but it's like one of those super thin worn out shirts and I'm worried it's not gonna last long.


This is from New Year's Eve but I posted it on Father's Day of me and my Daddy.  :)


This kid just turned four.  FOUR.


And this kid just turned FOURTEEN.  They are ten years and one day apart.  She was due on his birthday but was nice enough to wait a day.  That's when her niceness wore out.  ;)


How high is too high?


Back yard serenades are becoming one of my favorite pass times.


I brought Ian to a birthday party last weekend.  I know it looks like that puppy is on the 4 but I hit the 1,000!  He was very excited to get lots and lots of crap to take home.


I think our kids are the only kids that are given free reign to the back yard for the first time without adult supervision and grab yoga mats and board games.  lol.


This kid right here just graduated eight grade.  We are so proud of him.


I love this girl.  She's just perfection.


We went to the beach the other day for the first time.  This was the kids snack break.  Popcorn at the beach, yes please.




Jen and I went for a walk and stopped for ice cream.


Gosh isn't she just the cutest thing ever?




We went and watched Lisa's store play my store in softball on Tuesday.  Lisa's store won 8-1.


Another backyard serenade.  Sort of.


Bailey finally got his iPod back.  That's a long story.  But he sent me this picture.  There might not be anything cuter than getting pictures and texts from a 14 year old.


Such a diva!