And now a couple that were a little later in the night,
Michelle, Molly, myself, and Becks
I think that about sums up Friday night....
Now, onto Saturday night. my wonderful friends all decided that we would stay downtown Chicago on Saturday night and celebrate my 30th birthday a few days early. The Renssy girls also made time out of their busy lives and came up to celebrate also! I am so fortunate to have such great friends.
Here's the lone pics that I have from saturday night...apparently I was too busy gabbing to everyone to take any.
The girls: Myself, Kim, Marie, and Resa
The boys: AJ, James, Chuck, and John
The next weekend I made it home to spend time with family and had another birthday celebration. It was great to see everyone, as I hadn't seen them since March. And I think I've decided that's the longest I can go in between visits. We had our traditional summer weenie roast, at least it was one of the few. Our family doesn't go a summer without having a weenie roast together, at least as far as I can remember it's always been a tradition.
Kyle and Aunt Sandy trying to figure out Hillbilly Golf
As we hit August, work has started to pick up very heavily. Thankfully, we planned a week vacation in August on the vineyard and luckily it wasn't the same week that the president was taking his vaca.... the scenery is so beautiful on the island. I think I always take the same pictures when I go, but can't seem to stop b/c I try and get a different take on it every year. This year I got a new camera the day before we went and took some amazing pictures. The camera came with free photography classes...yep, i'll be signing up for those!
The sun is rising as we're taking the ferry over to Martha's Vineyard...that's after a hour and half drive from Boston.
John looking at the vineyard, excited to get off the ferry and change as it's getting quite warmer in the early morning.
I took this the first morning we were there trying to kill time, but I love the picture just b/c the house is very interesting, especially with the buoys hanging at the top.
This is a walkway on Chappy (Chappaquidick), the island you have to take another ferry to from Martha's vineyard that is very secluded and has one store on it called, The Only Store.
This is taken at South Beach. The persons umbrella was very colorful, but I loved when I turned it into black and white. Very summer esq' for me.
I've taken this kind of picture there before, but this time achieved the look I think I wanted to get, blurring out the background.
This is one of the views on the drive back from Aquinnah. Aquinnah is common place for stars to vacation b/c it's so secluded and it's the outermost point of the island.
We went golfing one day when it was overcast.
This is John telling me to cut the crap and put down the camera b/c we had to keep on time.
And I think this is my favorite shot. It's so simple but yet very elegant at the same time.
I think that about sums up the late summer in pictures. Of course there's been more than that, it's been a summer of many exciting times and some saddened times with the passing of friends family members.
Again, I will try to be better with keep everyone up to date on pictures of Boston and KB in the city.
Lots of love,
Kristina
