Birthday at Fenway

Yes, I'm still catching up on posts
and pictures.

This one is from Wednesday June 10, 2009.
The day I turned 29!
Sounds OLD doesn't it?!
I'm not the type to be bothered by the numbers
usually
but this one seemed different
at least for a day
I'm over it now :)


Mom had gotten tickets for my birthday
when we went to Christmas at Fenway
and I got the tickets as a Christmas gift.
After much hemming and hawing,
Dan decided he wasn't going to come
[probably a good call since he'd have gotten
less than 4 hours sleep if he'd come with us]
so I took Matt as my 'date'
and of course Mom and Dad came too.

After spending the day in a training session for work,
about a block away from the Prudential building (on the left here),
I met Mom, Dad and Matt at Game On for dinner
and a couple celebratory Corona's!


Mom has some more pictures, but here's a few from the game itself.

Mom, Dad and I Matt & I

To get to our seats, we walked up by the Green Monster seats,

and then over to the Pavilion Club

(rockin seats! great view, on the 3rd base side. Mike Lowell. yum. 'nuff said.)

Love this shot. Cropped down from a larger view of the seats below. A typical family. Early for the game. Enjoying hotdogs & pizza and anticipating an evening of baseball. Past time. Tradition. Fenway.

I'm fascinated by the lights. Don't know why.But I find myself taking lots of pictures of them.

Every time I'm there. So here's a different take. Some filtering, and some sepia.

A cool running shot of Derek Jeter.

Mom assigns me to "butt shots" and she especially likes Jeter's.

I'll spare you the oodles more (mostly because I haven't had time to edit them yet)

The Red Sox pitching rotation for the night.

Tim Wakefield.

Will you look at the gut?! I know he's getting up there, but wow! Guess the concerns are unfounded though because he pitched a great game.

Then came Okajima.
The huddle at the mound. Francona hands him the ball.

And cue the Drop Kick Murphy's. Here comes Papelbon.

They each did a great job! It was a close game. But the Sox won 6-5.

Beating the Yankees for the 7th time, out of 7 games in 2009! Now that's something to celebrate!

friday fun

more creations from scrapblog.com
seriously, so easy.
i can't get over it
{note: you can double click on them to see it full screen}

Mom & I, singing our heads off at a Red Sox game this June:

Baby Oisin who will be home in America soon! Emelyn flies in TODAY!

us and them

some highlights

from tuesday night's

Red Sox game

{thanks to Mom. it was sooo hot I wasn't motivated to take the camera out much...

pictures of us in all our sweatiness? no thanks... but these aren't too bad!}

[US]

dad wearing the World Series Ring

talk about HUGE

kim and me

yeah, we've looked better

but hey it was about 100 degrees

and the trains weren't moving

so we walked from Copley to Fenway

we should have looked WAY worse than this!!!

my turn for the bling

mom bought me a raffle ticket

to win one

cross your fingers ;)

[THEM]

i should mention that the whole reason mom got her fancy camera was

"to take pictures of the Red Sox's butts"

that's literally what she told the employee at the store who was trying

to gauge her photography needs

admittedly there are plenty of us who do enjoy this though, so for your viewing pleasure

Kevin Youkilis

also (fondly) known as

YOOOOOOOUK!!!!!

Triple play:

Mike Lowell

Josh Beckett

Jason Varitek

ok, for good measure we got some 'fronts' in too

Jacoby Ellsbury

(mmmmmm)

and last but not least

Coco Crisp

at least you can't tell how

sweaty they are

i'm sure they were far

more miserable than us

the big 2-8

28 years old
i know in the grand scheme its still young
but it sounds old!
oh well!
life's good, i'm happy
and i'm attending my 2nd red sox game in 3 days tonight :)



sunday mom called to say terri and doug had red sox tickets they couldn't use and did i want to go with her
it was about 99 degrees and humid
and well, watching the sox sounded more appealing than washing floors (my original plan for sunday) so i said SURE!!!







we had a blast
as usual

mom made friends with the father and son next to us

we had grape seltzer spurted all over us thanks to the people behind us (but despite the stickiness- it was nice and cold so that was actually a relief!!)

we used the spray bottle mom packed to cool us off, though we still sweat the whole time!


we sang
sweet caroline
god bless america
take me out to the ballgame

and when these pictures were taken, at the end of the game
we were belting out
love that dirty water

yeah,
boston you're my home!



even better,
the sox won!
JD Drew made some great saves out in center field and then hit a homerun to put us up 2-1 which was the final score.

go sox!

{thanks terri and doug for the tickets! we had a blast}





sunday night we had a cookout at mom's
to beat the heat
swimming in the pool
got some lovely gifts from mom and dad and from gram
{thank you so much. i love you}

last night i went to the gym with kim
got a great bicep & tricep workout in

then i met dan at BJs
the tv he wanted was in stock
and on sale!!! so we made a date
in the end we didn't get that tv
(60" rear projection)
i'm sure it was a fluke or someone messing with the settings
but the picture looked terrible
so we ended up with this for the livingroom
and this for the bedroom
really fun.
we brought them to the house
to hang out in matt's room with the old tv set

then it was time for dinner
dan's treat since it was almost my birthday
and since i just put almost $6k on my credit card
(hello sony points!!!!)
and well, since he always pays ;)
it was my pick
the 99
LOL
big night out!
we had a blast, joking around
about my outrageous birthday celebrations
and speculating what dan will find for a gift...
can't find the words, but it was a fantastic night out

so tonight is the Red Sox game
with mom, dad, jeff, melissa and my friend kim

in other news: furniture is being delivered on Saturday!!!!
same day that i'm babysitting for will and going to amanda's graduation party. its going to be a great weekend! look forward to pictures of the sox, the new furniture, little man will and adventures at the dauphinees next week! :)

Welcome Riley! Sox Home Opener! Good Day! :)

Riley Rose Lassonde

my first niece

was born on Tuesday April 8th 2008 at 2:30am

weighing 6 lbs 12 oz

measuring 19 inches long

and cute as can be

so tiny

so beautiful

welcome to this crazy world little one


there are so many people who love you
including me

i'm auntie jen

we'll teach you how to say that in a few months
until then you just chill
grow up big and strong
and give us lots of hugs and kisses



this is pepere and grammy

look how happy they are :)

it must be said that you were born on Opening Day of Fenway 2008

your dad's got his Daisuke tshirt on

we'll get you your gear very soon

don't worry about that!

and none of that pink nonsense

you'll have enough pink in your life

you can wear true Red Sox colors

like the rest of us

gotta start you out on the right foot

it was great watching the beginning of the game with you

and now to a little guy who was all geared up for the game

i watched the second half of the game with my nephew

what a great day!!!

oh- and the Red Sox won!

ok technically you're not even allowed to watch the game

but it worked out well

we were having so much fun

that you didn't even care

that the television was on

i think this was the one peek you snuck

guess you like Sweet Caroline!

good taste little man

happy first opening day

to both of you!

love,

auntie jen

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Happy Birthday Daddy-o! Today's the big day- he turns 55!! Only 18 years older than Kelly Rippa or so Gram told us last night :) *learn something new every day right? We also now know that Dad thinks Kelly Rippa's chest is too boney and Gram thinks her knees are too boney. (I think they both watch a little too much tv).

We celebrated last night with dinner and a Sox win over the Angels in the 1st game of the Divisional playoffs! 4-0 Sox! Good way to start the series.

Last night was also a funny night in terms of "Gram Speak." We learned all about her woes of not wanting to go to "The Cheese Factory" too late in the day because she wouldn't be able to eat her dinner (Yep- that's CheeseCAKE Factory to the rest of us).

Then she was trying, yet again, to say Papelbon, and was saying "Paddlebomb" when referring to the pitcher-- and then ironically she was trying to tell us about this commercial she hates with a snake on a tree and "Who wants to see a Papelbon wrapped around a tree?! I hate snakes" Yep, she meant a Python!!!!!!!!! We all laughed until we cried on that one. Thanks for the laughs Gram. We love you. And even more strange, we understand you (even Dan).

Tonight is hair cut and color with Erika at the apartment, and hopefully some form of take-out for dinner because cooking with chemicals on my hair is not sounding too good. Then packing for my NY-CT-CT roadtrip this weekend.

Half day tomorrow! WOO HOO! Bring on the weekend!

Friday. Sox. Celebration.

Friday afternoon I babysat for Will. We had a wonderful time, he spent the first hour just sitting with me and smiling and laughing :) Even when I'm getting paged because the Premise outbound interface is down, you can't too upset when all the while you're looking at this beautiful smile.

He ate, he slept... we took just a few pictures ;) ... we danced around to some music. Then Matt and Krissy came home. I ended up staying until after 10:00p. We ate a late dinner and then Kris and I gave Will a bath. And not sure if this was an omen or a good luck charm or but the day Will was wearing his cute Red Sox onesie--- the Red Sox clinched the AL East title for the first time in 12 years by beating the Minnesota Twins 5-2 (Yankees lost to Baltimore- final score 10-9)!! GO RED SOX!

Then as Laura is calling me from somewhere fun in NYC to ask why Boston is called Beantown..... Krissy and I got Will ready for a bath. Wild and crazy Friday night, I know!!!

Will was having an absolute blast! We caught more on the video camera but he was just laughing and smiling, kicking and splashing! It was so cute.

A great start to the weekend!

Sox Mosaic!

This is my something new learned for today! Uploading to flickr and then making a mosaic. May not seem like much, but I'm pretty proud of it ;)

I'm baaack

Ok, yet again I am making a goal to blog more and I'm going to do it this time!

I feel like there's been so much exciting stuff going on and now that I'm taking more (and better) pictures, I love emailing them and including cute little stories- but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that it makes more sense to do that here where it is preserved by the Internet gods ;)

So here's a smattering of pictures from the Red Sox Game I went to with Mom, Dad and Jeff on Labor Day. I tell you, something about Fenway just makes it the coolest place ever. The crisp, bold, patriotic colors, the various scents of food and drink and just the joy that fills that place. I love it! It never gets old.

Have I mentioned I like my camera?!?!

Spring Time

Spring is here in full swing. Of course here in Boston that means anything from 80 degree sunny days to the 50 degrees and 4 inches of rain we got this weekend. But that's ok!

Sunny days are good for baseball games!

This is Jeff and me at the Sox/Tigers game on Monday May 14th! We had a great time. We got a table at Game On! right after work and enjoyed the sun and some people watching while we waited for Karen and Steve, who didn't show up til after 6p.

And rainy days are good for working on the house! Dan has made such amazing progress. I say Dan because he of course has done most of the work, with me helping whenever there is task that I am able to assist him with :)

I did do some raking earlier in the month when it was dry and the front yard is already looking so much better.

This past weekend it poured buckets, but that was a good chance for Dan to finish priming the whole house in preparation for the paint (which Don, the taper, will be getting to us on Tuesday). I scrubbed and sanded the windows, then taped them all up. Dan primed and painted those!! What a difference! They look almost like brand new windows. Such an improvement.

Then Sunday we finished cleaning, sweeping and vacuuming to finish the prep for the paint!

It already looks so good. These pictures are a little outdated, but by the end of next week I can post colorful, painted rooms!!!

So yep, huge progress. Its so exciting! And to know that both the paint and the floors will likely be done in the next couple weeks is great!!!!!!!