last weekend husbands niece lexi & her husband + two adorable little girls came to visit us for four days! we had a blast cruising around the city, and just hanging out at home with them.
{all photos by me.}
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we are not a very outdoorsy family by most definitions of outdoorsy.
we are a sportsy-active-family, but we avoid most camping/hiking/biking/anything that has’t to do with the REI-store-in general.
it’s just better that way. most of the times we’ve attempted river rafting, camping, biking – it ends in some sort of disaster.
having that said, i will still get the occasional itch to do something outdoorsy.
this time, it involved me BEGGING my family all day to go on a bike ride.
no one wanted to go.
husband actually told me in the middle of the afternoon,
“it just sounds so difficult & inconvenient…”
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we have become pros at getting last-minute-cheap-really-great-seats to the red sox games.
because, husband watches the prices plummet on stub hub when the weather reports rain.
lucky for us, the sox still play when it rains!
nancy, my life-saving-sister-in-law who drove across the country twice for us this summer…
yes, TWICE.
she totally deserved a night out to a game after her second arrival.
and, rain was in the forecast.
not only rain, but a hurricane!
moi/husband/nancy
{shorts + rainboots have become a staple outfit for me here in the warm-wet weather}
i’m sure i’ll post about this all the time…
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our family spent much of the summer *scattered all-over the world. when kiana and i headed to nyc for dance nationals, we were there almost two weeks before we took a train to boston to continue our house search. husband went to the philippines for a three week work trip. sela, kj, and myla headed off to southern nevada with family. these younger three spent time jumping between auntie’s and uncles homes, then eventually their aunt nancy drove them across the country in my suv to meet up with kiana and i in boston. {best aunt ever, eh?}
the week kiana and i were house-hunting i put an application in on the second home we tried to get here.
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right at this moment: i feel completely american, one hundred percent, from the top of my head to the tips of my toes with shivers. i always get that i-think-i-might-cry-about-anything-patriotic- feeling leading up till the fourth. actually, i feel this way every day, but much more intense leading up to the fourth. i always tear up during the national anthem at baseball games… and, also during the olympics.
i see soldiers, in uniform, and i could cry. i see flags, cry. i hear our national anthem, more glossy eyes. i feel the planes fly overhead as our local parade begins. tears.
i love driving around town and spotting all the temporary firework shops,
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to everyone who helped us with the yard sale! we had help carrying items from in the house to outside; pricing items; setting up the yard sale signs we got from somewhere like Super Cheap Signs; taking pictures; help with adding up people item’s and collecting the cash; help cleaning up; help carrying items to people trucks; and on and on and on!
*thank you to everyone who bought our stuff! we had two-days of complete chaos + complete success!
*thank you to our neighbors who were very very patient with the huge traffic jams in our neighborhood.
with everything said and done, we feel like we are one more big step closer to our move.
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