Aliens Are Among Us!

Or at least that's what my husband said about the newest member of my sock animal collection. It's supposed to be a frog.  Rude huh? Yeah, I know. :) The other one is obviously a duck. I still want to do a giraffe, squirrel, octopus and a liger, but it is unfortunately going to be a few weeks before I get to them. 

Valentines

Back in February I wanted to make one of these felt heart garlands but never got around to doing it.  Flying down to Maryland and being sick and tired has made me push this off for 5 months.  No matter, that day has finally come and I'm glad to say I have finished it.

Yay! Now I'm just going to wait until next year to use them.

me think this is funny...

 and this...

The herbs I planted from seeds are doing pretty well, maybe my goal of making homemade pesto will finally come true!

 Revere Beach also had a sandcastle building competition which was pretty hard core.  I went with my new downstairs neighbors, Rachel and Job.  These things are at least 8 ft tall and super awesome!

And lastly, I was watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone the other day and I noticed that he actually had a nose in the first movie.  What happened?  I didn't read all the books so I'm not sure if they clear that up but who could look past this major plot hole... :) Isn't he supposed to be getting more and more powerful instead of losing a major body orifice?

July 4th-Fireworks

We decided to go downtown for the fireworks this year.  The city shoots them off on a boat in the middle of the Charles River and millions of people fight to get parking and waterfront seating.  We cheated the system this year. Thirty minutes before the fireworks started we left the house and drove over to the Stake Center in Cambridge. Luckily Job and Rachael have important church callings that gives them an all access pass to the parking garage so we just jumped out and walked a block to the river.  Easy peasy! (you can see Job letting us in the garage in this incriminating photo)

Plenty of parking here!

Our friends Brigham and Emily came too and we all enjoyed the fireworks from the Salt and Pepper Bridge. The funny thing about where we sat was the Red line would come cruising through every so often and block the view (which is what's happening in this picture below.) But it was still cool.

I love peonys