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Eric surprised the heck out of me with my Mother’s Day gift this year (well, apparently it’s my Mother’s Day, Birthday, and Fill-in-the-blank-day present since it certainly exceeded the Mother’s Day budget!) – a new camera! Apparently I need to take a bit better care with this one and not drop it on the floor and crack the screen like I did with the old one. Of course, the new one won’t fit in my pocket, so perhaps that won’t be an issue! Anyway, he kindly gave me my gift at breakfast time so that the battery could charge while I was at church and I could then play with it in the afternoon. We went to visit Becca and Sean, so the photos are mostly of their apartment and surroundings.

Here’s me with my new toy!

I practiced taking a few portraits…

Close ups…

Action shots (don’t ask me what Miles is doing here!)…

…and discovered that it’s going to quite a bit of practice to be able to use this new camera! Well, I guess I knew that would be the case. Just what I need – a new project! We had a fun Mother’s Day with a climb up the Bunker Hill Monument…

(well, most of us climbed, anyway!)

…a delicious dinner, and lots of fun.

Thanks for having us over, Becca and Sean!

To see more of my lovely photos (ha!) check out the Mother’s Day album.

This year some fellow moms club members conned me into … er … talked me into running in a local 5k race in which many of them had participated the year before. I was pretty diligent about running for 5 weeks before the race and was feeling pretty good about doing it. Then the weather changed. On the morning of the run it was 80 degrees, sunny and sticky – a far cry from the 40 degrees and rainy that we’d had for our last practice run a few days prior. But we all made it to the finish line!!!
Ready to run:

At the finish line: Here are some of the moms who ran (I think at least 9 of our club members ran – a great showing!) – Liz, me, Holly, and Sara:

They also had a kids’ race in which both the boys participated. Miles was enthusiastic but had no idea where he was supposed to run. He and his best bud Ellie brought up the rear of the pack but they made it all the way through the race!

Gathering the kids to get ready to race:

Beribboned at the finish line:

There are a few more photos in the May album.

This time we went to karate graduation, both of the boys earned new belts! Aunt Becca, Uncle Sean, Grandma, and Grandpa all came to watch the fun. I think we got the most laughs when Miles’s class was demonstrating kicks on their instructors…someone should have told his instructor to wear a cup when being kicked by 3-year-olds!!!

Here they are with their new belts:

After the graduation Grandpa had to go to work, but the rest of us went over to Oak Knoll Wildlife Sanctuary to enjoy the gorgeous weather!