Violent Femmes

A couple of weeks ago the Violent Femmes had a free concert in the Harbor. I love the Violent Femmes, we went and saw them in concert last fall. They were great! They had a lot of guest musicians, which just made the show so much better. It was an older crowd (surprise), so it was a lot more laid back. We were excited about this show, especially since it was free! Here's a picture from there....
The group picture is all our friends from kickball whom we met up with there.

Peaches

This past weekend Tony and I went peach pickin' at Baugher's. It was a lot of fun but making the preserves has been a lot of work! So far I've made about 20 12 ounce jars and a few 6 ounces jars, and I probably have enough to make about 12 more jars. I'm not sure if I have it in me though....

Bloodymary Time

Ok, this Bloodymary gets 4 out of 5 celery sticks (I'm searching graphics for this depiction). It was beautiful, just a beautiful drink. I was very impressed. I got it when we went out to eat our last day there with Tony's family.
The flavor was great, could have stood to be a little hotter though. The vodka wasn't overwhelming and the mix didn't taste generic. You can see from the picture that it was garnished with a beef stick, a pickle, a celery stick, an olive, AND A CHUNK OF MOZZARELLA! The mozzarella looked better than it tasted, but it definitely added something to have it on there.

Minnesota

Tony and I flew to Minnesota for the week of July 4th. Of course we had the usual Northwest trouble of the flight being about an hour late, freaking out about missing our connector to Duluth, but everthing turned out ok and we made it in late the night of the 3rd.
The best part of our trip was getting to meet our sweet new nephew and Godson, Connor Joseph. He is AMAZING! So beautiful and just perfect. It was love at first sight! I couldn't get enough of him. It's another huge reason it's so hard to live so far away from all of our family...kids grow so quickly, and only seeing them once a year is not enough. I know the next time we see him he'll be sitting up and he'll just be so much bigger. It's too hard to think about. Hopefully something will work out soon to where we can be closer to both of our families.
We went to Tony's aunt's cabin for the day and night of the 4th. It's a really cute cabin and the lake is really nice. We boated during the day and then grilled and shot off fireworks that night. The next day Tony and I went canoeing, which just reinforced our desire to be somewhere where we can canoe as much as we want.
We also got to go up the shore a bit to Tony's parent's land and got to see the new cabin they're building. It's going to be so nice to have a place the family can go to get away from the city. Tony has great memories of 'the land' from when he was a little boy and they would go up as often as they could. Tony and I slept out under the stars that night (I was hoping to see the aurora borealis) and it was just beautiful. Tony fell asleep with one of his arms outside of the sleeping bag and woke up with 27 mosquitos bites on that arm! But spending time with Tony's family was the best part of the whole trip. It was great to play with the kids and visit with everybody. Tony's friend Whalen came up to the land the night we were staying there and it was great visting with him as well, Tony hadn't seen him for a few years.
I'm going to have to put all the pictures in some sort of album, after I find which one I want to use, but I'll try to post a couple of pictures now.

The first picture is of me and Connor.
The second is of me and Tony up on the land.

The BIG 2-6

I know i'm posting this about 2 1/2 months late, but I wanted to post a picture of my birthday party. Some of my friends came to the city to help me celebrate! We went to a tequila bar (always a fun way to start out the night), then went on to another bar. I had so much fun and it was so nice of my friends to come out! There wasn't too much debauchery (sp?), and only one drunk dial to JT, instigated by Sean.
From left to right is Craig, Jen, Adam, Bernadette, Sean, Heather, and myself!
One of the funniest memories of the night were the people dancing in the street beside Lime (tequila bar)...it was south Baltimore's finest. Very good entertainment!

More adventures

While my mom and sister were visiting we also went to Gettysburg. The 5th of July is the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, so the place is always hopping around that time. We walked around and drove some of the battlefield. We also hung out down by the Harbor and went to Little Havana for brunch!!! ( i love Little Havana!) We had a great time, and I was sooooo glad that they came out to visit me. (hopefully the next time they come to my house to visit it will be in Colorado) Look closely at the picture in front of the Farnsworth House, there are bullet holes from the battle. I'm also going to try and upload a picture in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on the steps where Rocky ran up.

Going to the Opera

Here's a picture of me and my mom and sister on the balcony of the Kennedy center. You can see DC in the background. We saw the Phantom of the Opera. It was awesome! It was so special to be able to go to such a fancy place together, to get dressed up and enjoy the theater. That night was something I will never forget.

Friends

Here's a picture of me and my friends...I don't really keep in touch with people from HS very well, but these three ladies I have remained close to. We just don't get to see eachother very often!

New Mexico

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time, but I've been busy. I took a trip to New Mexico and then my mom and sister came for a visit. We just got back yesterday from Minnesota. I'll probably post all the pictures I have in different posts.
I had a great time visiting with my family though, I haven't seen them since Christmas! We just relaxed and hung out. I did go get a pedicure though, my first, and it was AMAZING!! I went with my mom and Amy. We also went to Bottomless Lakes and swam around. The best part of all was just getting to be with my family...and it's never long enough. On top of all of that I got to see my friends. Friends that I rarely get to see because we all live in different cities.
The picture above is of me and me padre....