My Life in Pictures

Instead of a boring and long narrative of the adventures I've recently undertaken I will endeavor here to portray my life in pictures.  I will give brief explanations, but expect nothing more.  This will cover the last 2 months of my life... here goes nothin'!

Boston Harbor Islands with my friend Amy Stuart:

A little more of the Freedom Trail with my friend Alexandra:  (we really only made it as far as the canolli and then we played with the string from the box and then it started raining :)

Sailing on the Charles River: (unfortunately Alexandra's phone went for an eternal swim on this particular outing, which was also my first experience sailing.  I quite enjoyed it.)

Funny note from Carter that I found on my wall one Sunday when I got home from church:

Beach trip #1, Hampton, NH:

Alpha Male: My friends seem to think that it's necessary to compete for the title of "alpha male"  It really is quite humorous.  This was the footrace/ "sword" fighting round.

Boston Public Gardens with Amy: (the statues had on Bruins jerseys in honor of the Stanley cup)

Beach Trip #2, Cape Cod, MA with the Preece's and co.:

With mom and Dad at Young Women's camp in Greenville, SC:

Visiting with the Adam Leckie crew in Orlando, FL:

Crazy Milton kids and a cozy car ride up to Tallahassee, FL:

Beach Trip #3, Panama City, FL with the Shields:

Blueberry Picking with the Miltons back in Tallahassee, FL:

My great exodus from South Carolina, as I began my longest solo voyage back to Boston:

Enjoying the 4th of July and the amazing fireworks along the Charles River:

This is obviously not an exhaustive list as I did leave out the less exciting things, like packing up my room at home, but I feel it paints a fairly accurate picture of all the good things that are going on in my life.  

Casual Conversation with a 6 year-old

Carter: Have you dated anyone?  

Me: nope.

Carter: You should date someone.

Me: You're probably right

Carter: After you know where you're going to be you should find someone to date.

Me:  Yeah, I'll think about it.  

End of conversation. 

Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays!

The girls turned 4 on May 8th and they had a very cute fairy themed birthday party: 

I turned 26 on the 16th and had  a very cute big kid party :)

MIT

 A couple weeks ago MIT had an open house.  I saw some really cool stuff: wind tunnels, robots, cool computer apps, you name it! But one of the coolest things was when they dropped a piano off a building- a tradition I don't really understand about the drop deadline for classes.  People flocked like vultures to get a piece of the piano (which didn't really splinter like I'd imagined)  that had been dropped.  It was a funny experience.

The following day, Sunday, I went for walk with my friend Amy Stuart and we wandered a much emptier MIT Campus and enjoyed playing in the Stata:

with the MIT Mood Meter- very fun face detection:

 and the giant chalkboards that are available for anyone to grafitti:

It was such a lovely Boston day!

Cute Kids at the Zoo

These are just a few pictures I took at the zoo the other day- I just think they're so cute that I needed to share.  Enjoy!

Talent Show

Back at the end of April my ward had a talent show.  I participated in two different acts- both of which confirmed where my talents are... or aren't.   My friend Alexandra studies Dress History and Museum Studies here and as her talent asked me and about 10 other girls from the ward to model some of the dresses she's made.  I got to be a swashbuckling maiden although I discovered that a model I most definitely am NOT.  It was fun though.  

The other act, which I REALLY wish I had a recording of was an acapella group of girls singing a cover arranged by Sarah Houghton (my visiting teachee) of "Always be my Baby" originally by Mariah Carey.  Here's a picture of that group:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150153178798751&set=t.17806456&type=1 
and a snipet of sounds from the talent show by a fantastic gal in my ward (Colleen Kelly) who does this kind of thing (the last 25 seconds or so are me and the other ladies):

http://www.theinfamousdance.com/1/post/2011/04/the-sunday-sound-a-mormon-saturday-night.html