Prendre la vie comme elle vient: March 2007

St. Patty's Day Fun

Who better to celebrate St. Pat's with than Eli & co? In a round about way, we ended up at the Great Nabob.

Group pic! James, Eli, me, Derek, Mike, Zach, Jason

Mike, Eli, James entertaining the camera on our walk down 1st...

Don't quit your day job, honey.

Slap fight!?

Thumbs up from Mike, Kerri and Jason

Night Out with Eli, Glenda & Co...

We joined in the celebration of Glenda's homecoming at Umi Sake House... and here are the pictoral results:

View down the table...

Thumbs up from Glenda...

Bottoms up for James...

Eli & Derek playing with the fish.... trying to look tough??

...yes, this broke the flower

Adventures in Dog Sitting

Madison's mom and dad went off for a fun vacation and she got to visit her aunt, uncle and cousin.... whether she liked it or not! :) (Aw. But she liked it. Right?) Not pictured: hilarious documentation of two dogs teaming up to wake a sleepy Uncle Derek... just because I love my fiance too much to (overly) embarrass him on the Internet...

Hello, Madison!

Walking in Golden Gardens... Madison doesn't understand the rules of auntie photography quite yet.

Kobe loves to run at the DP

...which gets him muddy -- which, consequently, gets him hosed.

Is she looking? I can't tell... she's just a black blur! A happy black blur, though...

It takes 2 people to walk 2 dogs... trust us.

Shiri & Gaby come to town

Wedding stuff's not so bad when you've got a best friend and her adorable baby by your side. These pictures aren't from our day of searching, just the before and after baby gawking chez Armitage.

Things that make you go aww...

Gaby meets Trish...

...and then Glen

She's not frightened by her own reflection in the mirror, but that big scary man is another story....

"Mommy, why are you pointing that thing in my direction and who the heck is this strange lady holding me?"

My two favorite ladies!
(although Gaby's feeling's not mutual...she clearly wants her mom)

No, Mom & Dad... you'll have to wait a little while longer...

February Friends & Family - RI

February's trip home to RI was meant to be a focused search on wedding venues. But who needs productivity when you have friends and family to entertain you?

In South Station, after a lovely day of shopping with Jill, despite the cold. (Who takes vacation in NE in February? Smart people like me, that's who....)

Josh and Gwen (Danielle's pup). This is not a self-pic... Josh is just trying to help my people-pet photography efforts by snapping in the general direction of the camera. This attempt worked (!), but the family pic of Danielle, Derek and Gwen did not (:().

Danielle, Jill, Diana and Josh after dinner at Grille on Main... somewhere I never visited before I moved away but somehow has become the regular place to go when I'm in town...

Wa....wa....wa..wachusett....Wachusett Mountain, a mountain playground, just minutes away...
(I think that's how the song goes).
Noah and I, "atop" Wachusett Mountain.