Kelly at the cottage

Fun with Glow Sticks!

We recently took a vacation to Blackmore Pond in Wareham, Ma, where we enjoyed great weather, great family time, great food and great fun. One of the nights I opened up the 100 piece container of glow sticks that I brought and the magic began!
It was kind of buggy outside so we played with them in the dark cottage. Below are the kid's names written out in glow sticks (but I guess you could probably figure that out on your own :-).



Jeff kept the shutter open longer on the camera allowing this image of the kids and I waving our glow sticks in the air.

If you look at this closely you can see that I've spelled out "I *heart* U" in the air with glow sticks. Very cool!

Nana's 90th!

We love you Nana!

Cheers to the birthday girl!

Nana's children and their loves!

Me :-) with several of my cousins, their spouses, and one boyfriend :-)

Some of Nana's great grandchildren having fun on a rock!

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Just wanted to let people know that if a picture is too small for you to see clearly, you can click on it which will enlarge it :-)

Michael McNamara - The Cute Criminal

Take a good look at this beautiful little boy, but don't let those adorable cheeks fool you. Little did I know that less than one hour after this picture was taken, Mr. Michael (who is my cousin Bridget's son) was going to commit a crime of epic proportions (okay...maybe that's an exaggeration). Want to know what happened? Read the next post.

A Little Boy on a BIG Mission

This past Saturday we celebrated Nana's 90th birthday. The Nana was glowing, the wine was flowing, the laughter was contagious, the joy was immeasurable, and the food was out of this world! The day was as close to perfect as any day can be. However, little did we know that lurking among us was a sneaky, small, quick, and completely adorable toddler, who would do his best to deprive The Nana from her one true source of stability.......her cane (well, I guess her "true" stability is leaning on others when walking, and her cane is merely a prop...but for the purposes of this story, let's just say she can't walk without it :-).

Pictured below is the the victim: the ever gorgeous Dorothy Rafferty. If you look closely you'll notice that she is not smiling and acting carefree as one should during their birthday celebration. Something had gone awry. She could sense that something of hers, a crutch of sorts, had been taken from her.

Pictured below is the villain himself (clearly his mother's son, but don't call him Roger...that's an inside joke), caught red handed with The Nana's cane. Sure he's cute, sure he's little, sure he's probably unstable on steps and I should have helped him rather than take his picture....but he DID have a cane for crying out loud (and he appeared to know how to use it!).

He's almost there....

Here we have a Kelly in the foreground (eating a cupcake), part of our villain off to the left, and what appears to be the stolen merchandise, which has now served it's purpose, and has been tossed aside for anyone to trip on (again...I could have helped by moving the cane, but I was very busy taking pictures).

So, what was the purpose of this crime? Was there a victory treat at the end of the road for this little man? Oh, I think there was! One can only hope that those squeezable cheeks were filled with cookies or cake, and NOT the contents of the empty Corona bottle on the bench behind him.


The jury is still out on whether or not my two daughters, and half of Michael's sister, Maeve, are guilty of any crimes that enabled them to make it to the dessert tent. But one thing is clear. The dessert tent was the place to be, even if it meant stealing from the elderly to get there.

Green, Brown and Blue - Beautiful!