freakin photobooth friday y'all

here's another good high school one, in honor of my boy denny's 30th birthday. here we all in all our high school sexually charged glory. me in my kool aid rainbow hat that i used to think was really cutting edge (ha!) and shanna again, and denny, who wants to have sex with the world. denny is known for coming to my house randomly, sitting on my couch, staring at the womanly painting on my living room wall and walking me through his fantasies about her. the naked lady in the painting that is. denny is a special duck. an old boyfriend who's still around. that takes a special kind of ex-boyfriend, wouldn't you say? and a special kind of husband to deal with the whole mess, i guess. i hope denny is always, always around...surprising me at my screen door when i haven't brushed my teeth, reminiscing about the way things used to be, and speculating what it would be like if we got married (um, no thanks). for all of you that know denny, you're laughing to yourselves right now, because he is a character. i could go on and on but i won't in fear that someone somewhere will take it the wrong way. i love you denny (he in no way reads this or ever will)...i'm proud of everything you've become, your wife, your family, your job, your heart. and i love that you weren't afraid to eat dinner at my house uninvited every single night of my high school life.


to add to the randomness, i offer you part of a definition from wikipedia.com:
"The Care Bears' ultimate "weapon" is the "Care Bear Stare", in which the collected Bears stand together and radiate light from their respective chest symbols, combining to form a ray of love and good cheer which could bring care and joy into the target's heart. The "Care Bear Stare" has several different looks. One has a beam coming from the tummy being made up of several replicated images of the symbol. Another variation forms a rainbow when multiple Bears and/or Cousins are involved. A yellow beam with red hearts is sometimes seen as well."

i can't help but imagine all us bloggie sisters in a big cyberworld care bear stare.

and more appropriate thanks to come, but in the meantime, thank you danielle, alison, mindy, and angela for all the OVER THE TOP mail love. i'm in a mail-induced coma, totally overwhelmed and surrounded by your care bear stares. thank you thank you thank you to all my lovely ladies.

gotta run...i just finished mowing the lawn for the first time ever and i'm covered in sweat and grass...going to go wash.

meow!

oh the things i love thursday, and every stinkin' day!

for more love and thursday goodness, check out the flickr group
and thanks to love green dog for introducing me to the idea!

there's a bunch of things today:

gray falling asleep in the car yesterday after a really hard day of refusing everything, saying "no" and meaning it, and just being an all-around piece of work (POW). it was a good 30 minutes of me being able to sing and dance in my seat, dodging puddles and hydroplaning around town. of course, these adverse weather conditions did not stop me from whipping out the camera and snapping a shot of the peacefulgoodness.

gray refuses to wear "pannies". no, seriously, she does. i spend a large portion of my day re-putting-back-on her underwear. and she always manages to find a way to take them off again and hide it from me. i find her underwear stuffed in the strangest places...like her wonder woman lunch box (thanks HALA!). so basically lots of people have seen grace naked. it doesn't bother her one bit. it makes for interesting dinner conversations, like last night when my mom politely asked her to remove her "chaunna" (what i used to call it) from the table, followed by boo informing her that she had a piece of feta cheese stuck to it. i'm not kidding you, this stuff really happens.

my little potting bench outside our slider. metal lanterns, some pansies that gray (with the help of nana) bought me, a shell, a clay birdhouse, and some crazyold rosemary.

my garden. it really looks like poo right now and will until everything starts to grow. all those little white things you see all over the place are what we like to call "cotton". our neighbor (in very close proximity neighbor) has this huge tree that spews what looks like cotton all over our yard. our grass is nearly invisible right now, covered in cotton. so our my rugs. and my garden.

my girl tracy. seriously. this girl is good people. spending the afternoon with trace yesterday, i realized (not for the first time) that she's one of those special people. she is so good with my kiddies, and is going to be the best mom. she's in a really really special relationship with her man. her house is clean. you could eat off her floors. she puts out carrots to snack on and has a basket of toys. she trusts grace with permanent markers on her carpet. seriously. tracy. good stuff.

my little stinkin' grad-i-ated bro. seriously cute.

slurpin' noodles with the fam at fresh city. although we're never going there again, because that place is seriously overpriced for sh*t i could make at home way better. but i'm adding it to my list because we had a nice time because the crazy gilberts at a "restaurant". although it's hardly a restaurant. it was joey's first time in a big-boy's high chair. only after our visit, when i was telling my dad how the place was strangely not busy, did he inform me that it was recently on the front page of the paper for being closed down for these gross health code violations. awesome! now that i'm thinking of it, it really shouldn't be on this list at all. except i like the picture.

my stinkin' basil. i was some pesto in the worst way. can't wait to bust out the blender and force feed everyone around me my pesto concoctions.

old maps and scissors. these purple ones are on their way out. i must break down and get a new pair. someone (cough cough) must have used them to cut some sort of uncuttable metal products, or their pubes, or something. because they are having a hard time cutting through string. yes, string. i need new scissors.

randomness galore!

i know, i know, the sideways pictures are killing everyone. but i'm too lazy this morning to rotate this one...i'm posting it because it's so rainy and chilly out (i secretly love it!) and i took this during one of our weekend letterboxing hikes a couple of weeks back. this tree is called "the three graces". could we have stumbled upon anything more perfect in a mosquito-infested forest? i love how the trunks are keeping eachother company. a tree family. the three graces.

and here's a little pic from out dinner out on monday night...fire and ice in cambridge. look at my girl steph's twin-filled belly! i have that vacant zombie look in my eye when i have a coctail or two. the mussels were to die for and i loaded up on the goodness. happy birthday amy! (she doesn't read this but it can't hurt). it was fun being an adult out on the town for a couple of hours, without worrying about the wee ones. joey did spectacular with my dad, fell asleep by 7:15p and woke up at 5:30a to nurse. i really don't know how he lives without his milk but sometimes he manages.

trying to figure out my pride parade boston details for the weekend. of course sat. is proving to be one of those days when 5,000 things are going on. i was going to march with joey in the pack (with madfemmepride) but it's supposed to rain. basically i can't take joey if it's raining (miserable wet baby in backpack marching for gay pride) or too sunny (miserable roasted white boy in backpack marching for gay pride). so let's hope for an overcast day people! otherwise, i might cart my cooloo over to danvers for a tag sale to meet mindy. (btw mindy, i'd love directions if you get a chance) and then go to a birthday party in derry nh. oooooh, it's one of those weekends! if only gas wasn't three freakin' dollars a gallon i'd be all set.
in other news, john asked me out on a breakfast date for sunday so i'm also very much looking forward to getting my munch on with my husband (whoa, that's dirty).

ps, i'd just like to state for the record that i'm in bloggieparadise because of the recent addition of some of my favorite ladies to my blogging world!

hope everyone has a rainy but wonderfully spinachpieintheoven smellin' day!

self portrait tuesday: pop art me

here is me, pop art style. i honestly don't know much about pop art, but this is as good as your gonna get from me. i love the acidic quality of it- what i don't like is when you enlarge it it looks like i have black stubble on my chin. let me just state for the record that i do not have black stubble on my chin, ok?

happy self portrait challenge everyone!

my final post of the day, i promise

just a little video to make y'all smile:


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"it's a strawberry cake!" and helicopters and the big, big world again

check check check it out!

my new friend mindy (who i'm destined to meet sometime soon, i'm sure of it!) is working on a cool bloggie sisterhood project. if you're looking for something fun to get in on, go on over to pink sky productions and get a piece of the pinky action!

gotta love community spirit. go mindy!

eye eye eye

today's just one of those days. not enough time to do all the things that i'd like to do. running around getting presents ready (why can't i just give store-bought gifts?) and going to the library book giveaway (the last day of the sale is free day! lots of vintage finds that will soon be turned into children-themed notecards-). toying with the idea of opening a tiny etsy (etsy.com) shop to sell some handmade things. going to sell some items at my dad's booth at an antique fair on the 24th of june. going to the city tonight with the girls to fire and ice...been wanting to go there forever and never had the chance. cringing after the expensive weekend but trying to remember what john told me...you only live once.

you only live once!

(so eat all the chocolate and drink all the coffee...no need to worry about the little soft bulgie belly that gray keeps poking at saying "mami, it's so sooooooooft!")

weekend poopshoot

woman with lace, originally uploaded by Nina Marie Gilbert.

this is one of my newer vintage finds...the tag read "woman with lace." i love the little look on her face. i love how her face reminds me exactly of the face of the woman who owns the antique store where i bought it. i love her crazy bangs and the way she's looking off into the distance. what's going on in her mind?

this weekend was kind of a poopshoot. not much going on, not too much family time. i just finished reading a fabulous book...ariel gore's "The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show : A Novel". super good except now i don't have a book to read because i'm on hold for francesca lia block's new one at the library. you think after the book sale i'd have something to read, but i don't buy grown-up books, just kiddies.

yesterday john was at a bachelor party (hi chris and erina!) and i was left to my own devices, which included throwing joey in the pack (gray was with puppa) and going all over the place. uneventful thrifting and grocery shopping and talking to lots of strangers. boo and jason came over and took caramel...made me delicious food and emptied my dishwasher and had coctails with me and watched bad alien tv. and looked at my boobs. even though they probably didn't want to. there's a lot of lovin going on between those two boys...and with john gone, i was feelin' a bit lonely watching the lovefest. i wanted in on the action. but not their action.

today i spent most of my productive day at my little bro's graduation. the most BORING graduation i've ever been to in my life. and i'm pretty sure he doesn't read this, but tingy...i'm so proud of you. to graduate with your engineering degree summa cum laude...and to be going on to get your masters...damn boy. you've come a long way from the big pants and leaving bowls in the back seat of my honda. love you!

hope all my peeps had gooder weekends than i! and swapladies, if you haven't already gotten your treats...you should probably be getting them tomorrow! glad you liked yours, mindy! i'm still thinking about my song, and will post a thingie about your cd tomorrow when i can get my head out of my water-logged bum.

meow!

almost forgot: photobooth friday

so here we are...friday again. i would've forgotten about photobooth friday if i hadn't checked out love green dog and seen her cool pics. anywho, here's my humble contribution...i love these because of the plastic ice cream spoons. priceless. this is high school...me and a friend shanna. i have no idea what happened to shanna. i know that she was the only person from my high school to go to my college (clark university in worcester MA). we were tight in HS but didn't really even talk in college. strange. i don't know what happened to our friendship. or happen to her. she was a cool girl...we both had snakes. strange times. someone told me she smelled like pee in grammar school, but i never believed it. she was good people.

maybe someday i'll find her again. (except she'll probably be mad at me for writing that bit about the pee thing. oops!)

he's going to kill me for posting this!

photo by gray

john read the love memes (or as he likes to call them "memeres") i wrote about him. he loved them, of course, and questioned me about every one of my answers. i encouraged (read: forced) him to respond by doing one for me, and he did. he says that he can't remember his blog password (adventures in googledom) so he can't post it, so i'm posting it here. i can't resist. it's the sweetest. some of you that don't know john personally may think that he's a pig and offensive, but he's just a big fat kitty cat and a jokey joke guy foolin' around. i especially love how the font is all messed up (he did it at work and tried to send it to me a million different ways) and one question is in size 800 font. (i attempted to fix some of it- still kind of messed up)

here it is...sorry piglet.

Two for Togetherness

2 things you compliment your wife on while in her presence.
1. Her hair
2. His post baby weight loss

2 compliments you make about your spouse to your friends.
1. she?s the smartest person I know
2. she?s the best Mom in the whole world

2 traits you married him for.
1. her inability to get mad
2. her care-free spirit
2 days you cherished the most with your husband being together.
1. Any time we ?talk without talking?
2. every stinkin' weekend!
2 material things you could give your husband if you just inherited a fortune.
1. A spa/women?s prenatal wellness center
2. any crazy necklace she wanted
2 things you would miss the most if she/he left for two weeks.
1. Her rubbing her sandpaper foot on my legs during the night
2. Her constant proddings to get me to go to bed at 7:30 on a Saturday.
2 things that crossed your mind when you first met/saw your spouse.

1. 7^th grade: "Holy tits! That's jerk off material for at least the next 10 years!".
2. College: That peasant/hippy look is so sexy . . . holy tits, they're still hot!?
2 favorite dates
1. Todd Farm in the FALL.
2. Any drive started before 8:00am with coffee and sesame seed bagels (another thing she opened my eyes (tastebuds) to.
2 funny odd things you love.
1. Her dancing and singing.
2. Her little calves- mooooo.
2 two places you have lived with your spouse.
1. watertown, NY
2. South Boston on the water in the disguised getto.
2 favorite vacations
1. The Cape
2. Ithaca, NY

if she were a virtue, which one would he be?
She would be patience, love, giving, caring, unselfishness.

where were you when you had your first kiss?
First time: CGS parking lot before school began for the day. I believe I complimented her fab 80's earings and went in for a cheek kiss. I was definitely too fast for her- she dumped me. Second time around: Halibuts Point State Park in Rockport, MA. Still one of the nicest places in the world.

what school subject is she?
Womens? studies.

what is her favorite piece of clothing?
Her hideous but perpetually cute sweater vest

which side of the bed does she sleep on?
the left side, but but by morning she?s completely taken over the entire bed and I usually end up close to falling on the floor.

would she rather bask in the sun or stomp in the puddles?
She would rather be in the puddles, she ?hates the sun? enjoys dreary days because its often cause to snuggle, make shmores and tea or craft.

what was the most wonderful vacation or adventure you had together?
I love all of our adventures but I especially like

what's his sign?
i have no idea. her bday is Aug 18th

what is her favorite dish to cook?
Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff.

what is the biggest surprise she ever gave you?
She?s good at giving gifts and remembering things from 5 years ago to surprise me with. She?s the most unselfish person I know. The biggest surprise would have to be my favorite blue ceramic mug that she bought me for no particular reason.

what little thing does he do that you love, and has no idea that it makes you so happy?
Calls me 1000 times a day to tell me little things like ?Grace just said poop? or ?Joey just smiled?. The way she always says, ?can we talk about the weekend??

what does she drive and what does it say about him?
a white 99 ford windstar. It says that she is practical, secretly hates being ordinary (she put two hip mama stickers on the back just to let people know that she?s not as uncool as the car would have you believe) and that she could care less about cars as status symbols.

does she read your blog?
yes. Although I?m the worst blogger ever.

if she is reading this now, what message do you want to send?
piashire, I miaaaaasss you and love you. It?s almost five years! Meow.

how stinkin cute is he? i've realized lately that i rarely ever blog about johnnyhusband...maybe because things are always so good, so solid. he's just there, being johnny. there's nothing ever scandalous or debriefable about it.

i also love how all the quotes came out as question marks...makes him look like he's all uncertain about everything. like...i love you? anyway, i had to share. i've got myself a good one.

we're all about the buttons

we're all about the buttons, originally uploaded by Nina Marie Gilbert.

well, peeps, the swappie swap went off successfully yesterday. and to all my sisters who "won" the treats, be checking your mailbox soon. no worries about reciprocating or "is it good enough" or anything like that...that's not what this whole thing was supposed to be about! i really such wanted to share a piece of myself with you- that's the important thing.

i hit the motherload of vintagey childrens books last night at the library book sale. haverhill public library has this massive sale twice a year and i have to admit that they are two of my very favorite days of the year. i will post some of my finds when i can get my camera act together. oooh, and a 1979 cookbook that completely rocks. and my all-time favorite book from when i was a kid. the sale was made even better because boo met us there...and i got to buy him some trollish witch books, etc. classic boo material.

poor horizon-

how come nobody loves little stinkin' 'horizon'? i thought it was the best of the bunch! come on ladies! where's the horizon love?

swappers

lately i've been feeling cheesealiciouslygood about my bloggie community. like real, real good. and i just wanted to put that out there. it's like back in the day when i had a pen-pal, except maybe about 5,000 times better and now we can write about bigger and better things than new kids on the block!

so, with that being said: i have a proposition. anyone interested in a trade? if you know me, you know about my flower pins...using vintagey (i use this term loosely) fabrics and buttons and wool felt. they are nothing special but they are signature nina-style, and i like to mix it up and make little limited edition batches. i make them one way and then usually never make them the same again. so i made up a little batch of randomness recently and i was thinking i'd like to offer them up for a little swaparific lovins: i'm going to post pics, and if you likie what you see, email or comment and it's yours. what do i want? you ask...how about a little letter, a button, a scrap of you. nothing much. i'm not picky. i just like the idea of putting a piece of me out there, and getting back a piece of your life.

re: size...i should've posted coins or something so you could get an idea of how big they are. tiny peanut is the smallest of the bunch, maybe the size of a silver dollar? ahoy! and fiesty are the bigger of the bunch, but they are all relatively smallish. a cute way to spice up a summer tank.

email me or comment re: which one you'd like...first come, first serve. if this is a fun thing for everyone, maybe we can do it more often!

danielle b. and boho, you've got treats coming to you in the mail already, so you can't play! :)

so here are the goodies:

1. summer lovin'- "SOLD!" to mindy

2. fiesty- "SOLD!" to four sweet peas

3. croquet- "SOLD!" to jen c.

4. horizon- "Finally SOLD!" to la vie en rose

5. ahoy!- "SOLD!" to katie at little potatoes

6. wink wink- "SOLD!" to ani in NV (i'll email you soon-)

7. poolside: "SOLD!"

8. tiny peanut- "SOLD!"- love green dog :)


in other news: yesterday i went to two places that i would rather never have to go to again...1. kay bee toy store and 2. mc donald's. for a sweet cherubs birthday party. grace was great, but got bullied in one of those filthy tubes by two little girls...they didn't want to play with her, and then beat her up (poked her in her eyes three times!) she was more heartbroken about the fact that they wouldn't let her play. i got all upset for a while afterwards, thinking about how we can't protect our little ones from bullies, from the reality of life. there are just meanies, people who don't play nice, peeps that don't play by the rules. i just hope she can remain herself, remain strong, and resist the pressure!

last night we made smores with freakin' peanut butter cups. we'll, we actually ate all the ingredients separately due to a really smoky fire, but if you haven't done the whole peanut butter cup thing, you've got to try it.

(yes, we let grace eat four p.b.c.'s before bedtime. we pick our battles.)

finally, the other day i took gray to preschool to try it out. preschool! she's a big girl. she did wonderfully and the place had good methuenish vibes...accents and all. so she'll start in september. now the quest is on for the perfect lunch box.


love this poem by jane kenyon:

philosophy in warm weather

now all the doors and windows
are open, and we move so easily
through the rooms. cats roll
on the sunny rugs, and a clumsy wasp
climbs the pane, pausing
to rub a leg over her head.

all around physical life reconvenes.
the molecules of our bodies must love
to exist: they whirl in circles
and seems to begrudge us nothing.
heat, horatio, heat makes them
put this antic disposition on!

this year's brown spider
sways over the door as i come
and go. a single poppy shouts
from the far field, and the crow,
beyond alarm, goes right on
pulling up the corn.

whole lotta lovins

johnny and the buns...cookout stylin'

lots of love postin' going round these days, and i've been tagged by two fabulous ladies, love green dog and under a pink sky, to share about some of the gilbert love over here. so here i go!:

Two for Togetherness

2 things you compliment your husband on while in his presence.
1. His lobies
2. His fanny
2 compliments you make about your spouse to your friends.
1. sooo dedicated and such a hard worker
2. i've been known to say "he's the best" every chance i get
2 traits you married him for.
1. his love for my mundane activities
2. his "what you see you don't get"ishness...the supreme case of "can't judge a book by its cover"
2 days you cherished the most with your husband being together.
1. honeymoon...pulling the bed covers onto the balcony
2. every stinkin' weekend
2 material things you could give your husband if you just inherited a fortune.
1. a nicey nice bike of his choice
2. early retirement and a home in ithaca, ny or somewhere in backwoodsy maine
2 things you would miss the most if she/he left for two weeks.
1. the usual routine
2. his stinky ass in bed
2 things that crossed your mind when you first met/saw your spouse.
1. this one's complicated...we've known each other since 5th grade, but rediscovered each other junior year in college...when i "remet" him in college, i thought "wow, what's up with his big ring? he's possibly a complete douchebag." he was wearing a big huge military college ring, and flicking his wrists all weird. i had never seen anything like it. very different from my pot smoking buddies at clark.
2. wow, that was a social trainwreck. i need to see him again and redeem it.
2 favorite dates
1. forest exploring, letterboxing, iced coffee
2. farmer's markets, little bookstores, ice cream
2 funny odd things you love.
1. watching him poo on the toilet (you asked)
2. peeking in on him when he's in the shower and he doesn't know it.
2 two places you have lived with your spouse.
1. watertown, NY
2. san antonio, TX for three horrible months
2 favorite vacations
1. watertown, NY (we're dorks...jen, don't you love that we consider your home our ideal vacation spot?)
2. anywhere VT
people I tag
1. erina
2. jen (except you don't have a blog...get on that, sista!)
3. mama al
4. auntie em
5. femiknit

and here's meme #2
(i usually don't do these thingies but i love love and i'm a sucker for lovish memes, and also a sucker for being tagged!) and sorry mindy and angela, but i kept your font and formatting because i'm too lazy to change it-

if he were a virtue, which one would he be?
i'm not familiar with the virtues, but he would be something like aloof diligence (i'm just writing this so he will harrass me later for it...his mom said he was "aloof" once (it's true) and he's still worked up about it.

where were you when you had your first kiss?
well, he kissed my best friend steph on my washing machine in my parents basement back in about 7th or 8th grade- we had our first kiss at some point junior year in college...i want to say either in his old beat up bmw that he bought with his saved up money from a little old lady (i loved it because she had hot-glued light blue rick-rack to the door panels of the car-) or maybe at halibuts point in the gloucster area? john, help me out here. you know i have no memories.

what school subject is he?
um, architecture?

what is his favorite piece of clothing?
we're not too attached here to clothing. i have no idea. whatever's clean and folded? well, maybe not folded.

which side of the bed does he sleep on?
the right side near the windows, but slowly creeps over until he's completely over on my side by the morning. (i just said the words, "GRAY, GET YOUR BUTT OFF HIS FACE!" the things motherhood will make you say.)

would he rather bask in the sun or stomp in the puddles?
we're not picky...he will take whatever's given to him.

what was the most wonderful vacation or adventure you had together?
i'm not kidding you when i say that we make every weekend and any time together a vacation or adventure.

what's his sign?
i have no idea. his bday is may 1st?

what is his favorite dish to cook?
large quantities of meat.

what is the biggest surprise he ever gave you?
our babies.

what little thing does he do that you love, and has no idea that it makes you so happy?
sends me emails, calls me, checks up on my blog while at work, talks about how weird i am to people that don't know me (i.e. "last night we had INDIAN food"! and all the people at work ooooh and aaaaah. you know, because indian food is so frickin weird.

what does he drive and what does it say about him?
a light blue honda accord with rust. it's like from 1980 or something. it says that we're frugal and don't care too much about cars.

does he read your blog?
yes. he's a secret blog whore.

if he is reading this now, what message do you want to send?
piashire, you butt...it really stinks. i miarse you, and i love you. can you come home and take caramel? we neeeeeeeeeeeed you. snuggletakkies tonight!! meow!


thanks peeps for indulging me! meow!

i like vagina

i like vagina, originally uploaded by Nina Marie Gilbert.

nuff said.

forest love: self portrait tuesday

forest love, originally uploaded by Nina Marie Gilbert.

around here, we love the forest. the forest requires nothing, asks nothing, has no expectations. we go there, we walk around for a bit, and all is right with the world.

i should've been born a gnome.

and one more thing before i go...

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"a funky dance...and a funky dance...and a funk, funk, funk, funk, funk!"

oh how we love how "funk" sounds so much like the other f word.

i love the weekend.

droolie-moolie in his overalls...must.be.kept.out.of.direct.sunlight

castle castle castle exploring like trolls-

john's the best letterbox-finder...i refuse to tramp through the brush and poison ivy to get them.

pummie's first letterbox!

i'm always snapping pictures without poor johnny knowing...look at the attached earlobes! love them.


so much goodness and lovins to post. first off, today was the best day ever. it was one of those days when everything aligns and john and i are on the same page about the things that we want to fill our day with. it started off with me waking with having an almost full night of sleep...joey's been power sleeping these past couple of days. then i called my dad and dianne and had them over for breakfast...cinnamon buns and fruit salad and coffee. then they whisked off gray, so john and pum and i were left up to our own devices...what to do? letterboxing! let it be known that john and i are complete dorky trolls who find enjoyment in letterboxing. if you haven't done it yet, i seriously suggest you give it a try..it's given our family endless opportunities to explore places very nearby that we would have missed otherwise. lots of forestly mosquitoey goodness out there to explore! so we did this really cool letterbox in a nearby town...explored crystal lake in haverhill. when we finished finding that box, we still wanted more forest, but less mosquito bites, so we trucked back to methuen and explored the old tenney castle ruins, which are actually not ruinous anymore, and quite beautiferous. this, people, is why i love my husband. first, he compliments me on my "peasant skirt" attire, and then totally immerses himself in forestlike activities with me all day long, then treats me to special iced coffee.

yesterday rocked too. we got up ultra early and trekked to todd farm antiques in rowley. i spent $13 dollars and got the best things...some buttons, two old bird identification books and a shell one, too, and an apron- it doesn't take much to make me happy. we met boo and jason and afterwards spent the whole day in the yard pretty much eating our heads off and doing random activities while watching gray run around nekkid. welcome to the family jason! when it got late enough nobody would make me smores (schmores) because i had too many drinkies and the night was officially over.

the day before that we found out that SHANNON IS EXPECTING #4! mind you, peoples, that her oldest just turned three on saturday. yes, you read that right. shannon is a supermom, a superfreak, and i can't think of anyone better to manage and mother a crew of little ones. i have some serious happiness going on in my heart for this mama. she's happy as a clam, and prolific as a damn rabbit.

we spent part of the day at c's third bday party, catching up with nice peeps and watching the little ones run around kicking and throwing balls. john laughs like a big dork when he hears that word "balls", which is highly inappropriate at a child's bday party, but this is yet another reason why i love him.

balls!

hope you all had wonderous funtabulous weekends, filled with bouncy balls (thanks boho for the great ball post, btw!) and goodness.

photobooth friday friday friday!

back reads "8/22/91"

breast buds, spaces between teeth, wearing dad's tank top. sweet sweet innocence.


happy friday and happy weekeend everyone. and just because y'all love the video thing so much, here's just one more:


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"the phone, the phone is ringing...da da da da da!" and gently, carefully sitting on our new chair. notice puppa half naked in the background.

my life

testing this out to see if it works. if it does, this is my life in a nutshell...gibberish, silliness, and nakedness:


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