our little video: talk of the town

last september we had our family pictures by blue lily photography. at the same time they shot a little video of us. i absolutely adore those blue lily peeps, and if you haven’t checked out their site – you should. they are currently touring the world teaching photography and shooting incredible photos in the process. they may be near you soon! they will be in boston again this Fall.

each time i watch this video i catch myself smiling from beginning to end. so many little things that you might not notice that happen every day in our family are caught on tape.

hope you enjoy the video. music by jack johnson.

I want to be where the talk of the town
Is about last night when the sun went down
And the trees all dance
And the warm wind blows in that same old sound
And the water below gives a gift to the sky
And the clouds give back every time they cry
And make the grass grow green beneath my toes
And if the sun comes out
I’ll paint a picture all about
The colors I’ve been dreaming of
The hours just don’t seem enough
To put it all together
Maybe it’s as strange as it seems
And the trouble I find is that the trouble finds me
It’s a part of my mind it begins with a dream
And a feeling I get when I look and I see
That this world is a puzzle, I’ll find all of the pieces
And put it all together, and then I’ll rearrange it
I’ll follow it forever
Always be as strange as it seems
Nobody ever told me not to try
And the water below gives a gift to the sky
And the clouds give back every time they cry
And make the grass grow green beneath my toes
And if the sun comes out
I’m going to paint a picture all about
The colors I’ve been dreaming of
The hours just don’t seem enough
To put it all together
Always be as strange as it seems

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party favor plants

hello my friends. i’m squeezing in an extra post here today to let you know i was featured on studio 5 on KSL in Utah yesterday. if you came to mingle with us in June, or you saw this post about upcycling cans for plants, i discuss these two ideas here on tv.

i really dislike watching and listening to myself speak on tv, i swear i don’t talk out of the side of my mouth like that – but it seems to be what i do and i’m in denial, or what i do when i’m nervous! eegads.}

{photo by me.}

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viddy

there is a new awesome iPhone app on the scene. if you are a fan of instagram, and want to take that obsession into video. viddy allows you to create & share with your friends fifteen-second videos. like instagram, you can add a filter + music. i love it – the first day i downloaded the app i created these three videos below. {all three can be watched in less than one minute!}

green balloon

winter without snow

my tennis girlie

fun, yeah? are you on viddy? i can be followed as “see_jane” – one more techy treat to waste your time! ::smiles::

i am now a contributor for Boston Mama’s, a blog filled with daily tips for hip mama’s in Boston & beyond!
you can read my first post here. camera phone lenses! who knew?

{videos via my viddy account, this is not a sponsored post.}

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fenway park.

we’re slowly making our way all-the-way-around-fenway-park.

fenway is so unique, did you know:

• it was built in 1912 and opened on the same day the Titanic sunk {kinda eeery!}
• Fenway Park was built to conform to the parcel of land that was allotted to it and the field’s resulting dimensions led to many of the ballpark’s unique features.
• Most notably, there’s the 37-foot high Green Monster – the most recognized piece of ballpark architecture in the world – which spans 240 feet before giving way to the area known as the triangle in center field. — The Green Monster has undergone a major transformation in recent years, capped by the 2003 addition of 274 seats atop it.

there are unique places to sit all over the park -
yes, we have our favorite-seats,
we love sitting on the first base line in field box 33. if you must know.

however, when someone offers you FREE tickets, those are also favorite seats!

which was the case, this one very special-sunny day!

we have new friends here in boston that called one afternoon – exactly 90 minutes before the 4pm game and offered us their season ticket seats for that day!

these seats were located in what’s known as “the state street pavillion,” and they were totally fun.  lots of space for the kiddos to move around, your own waiter.

…we took our little munchkins with us since our big girls were still at school!!!

a few days later, husband and i sat in green monster seats for the very first time!

it. was. AWESOME.

and, a little peek at red sox culture, a middle of the 8th inning sing-a-long:

{ sela singing at fenway }

…i’ve decided that going to a sox game at fenway is quite simply, baseball nirvana.

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