The Planner, bride, host & maid of honor.

Congratulations SJ!

I had the honor of planning my friend’s bridal shower.

I cut some flowers from my garden, found a branch and voila!
Super easy to put together and makes a beautiful backdrop.

This afternoon, we are at our friends backyard celebrating a birthday. 

Oh kids…

Happy birthday Amy!

My friends are moving to California this summer and I’m glad we got to have some extra time with them last night. The kids stayed up way past their bed time and had the best time together.  We’ll miss you guys~~ :*(

Goodbye…until we meet again.

We’re having our friends over for a BBQ today!

Flowers from our garden

Today’s cocktail: Lillet rosé

Guac and chips

Corn on the cob, sprinkled with chili powder, cotija cheese, cilantro and lime juice.

Watermelon salad with mint

Farro salad with red cabbage topped with feta and pomegranate seeds

My juicy burgers

Rosemary garlic chicken

Grilled pineapples

My besties from NY…though one is moving to Cali…

Kids are having water fights

Chloe got all the boys!

Our backyard is about to turn into a pond…

then onto destroying the basement…

What a fun day we had! Thank you for coming over!

Shane went his friend’s house for a play date this morning. I always feel bad that I don’t really get to schedule play dates for him as I do for Chloe…one of many “working mom guilt”. So I took today off from work and was able to drive kids to different play dates.

So happy Shane got to have this time at his friend’s and the mom sent me these photos and the video. Thank you Diana!

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Happy Saturday!

Kids joined our town’s Rock N’Roll Run for Education this morning.

Tons of crawfish!

We were invited to our friend’s annual crawfish party in their backyard last Saturday. I’ve never seen so many crawfishes in my life before.  They had mountains of these on every table and the refills kept coming out.

Delicious!

we coincidentally ran into our friends from Church back home at Quincy Market yesterday! How funny. The highlight of our Boston trip!

Great dinner at Mare

For dessert, we went to Modern Pastry to get some sweets.

Chest bump?!

We had so much fun with them~