Kevin’s Lenses Pt 1

Having our camera just a part of our phone is pretty cool.  It allows us to take pictures ALL. THE. TIME.

The only downside to not just having one family camera comes when blogging.  I often will have long ago blogged about something before downloaded pictures off of Kevin’s camera.  Then my blogs posts are out of sync.  That kind of bugs me.  But I’ll put my own idiosyncrasies aside and just give you several posts from Kevin’s camera (since there were over 1800 images when I finally got around to downloading them!!).

His images went back as far as May … ah, Boston!

Part of the roof at Fenway Park has been turned into a city garden.  If I remember right, the food grown there is used as the produce for the park.  It was impressive.

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The Red Seat at Fenway park marks the longest home run ever hit in the park – Ted Williams set the record in 1946.

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Gotta love a Babe Ruth ball!

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As much as we would have loved to see a game, doing the tour was pretty darn cool.

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Sigh.  Since Kevin is behind the lens, I am in a few too many of this pictures.  Here I am, soaking my toes in the Atlantic Ocean and collecting shells for the boys!

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We don’t have castles in Utah.

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I didn’t know he’d taken this one.  Kevin had to visit a restroom, so I found this delightful swing over looking the harbor and enjoyed some beauty and solitude.  So unlike home.  So beautiful.

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Another thing we don’t have a lot of back home is wild rabbits hoping around – Ricky would have loved seeing them all!

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Kevin graduated from the Rabb School at Brandeis University.

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He was pretty excited about getting his Masters degree!

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Sight seeing in Concord and Lexington was pretty fun for a couple of people who love history.

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We didn’t do very many tours, but we drove by several landmarks and historical buildings, like Louisa May Alcott’s home.

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Such a beautiful sunset that night as we drove back to Salem.

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Kevin humored my silliness and we ate lunch at Cheers.  AND I got my root beer in a commemorative glass mug which I brought home with me!

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I loved it and I loved him for making it all happen!

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And then we came home and I was so exhausted and still had so much to do that last week of the boys’ school, that I got fairly sick.  Sick enough to take my kindle and tissues to bed and be this sound asleep before 9 one night. (I sure appreciate Kevin taking these types of pictures – real life, folks!)

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Our good friends got baby goats this spring.  The boys think they are adorable.

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I’m not sure if Bobby was playing with the goat up here or trying to get away from it!

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Our friends also have chickens.  And apparently those chickens are okay sitting on people’s heads.

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Sometimes playing in the yard requires ALL the safety equipment …

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I love to share my love of reading with my boys!

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Next we were off to Yellowstone with a stop first at Bear World and a tiny roller coaster ride!

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Bear World also had these jeeps (I love pictures of me taking pictures)…

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And a spinning ride that Bobby really did like, despite this picture …

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The petting zoo at Bear World had two baby deer born just that morning!

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It looks like Bobby is either being swallowed or is climbing back out of the bear’s mouth! Ha!

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The cabin we rented for our Yellowstone trip had this awesome tree swing out back and here’s Rusty showing off his stuff …

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Kevin and I both took pictures of these signs we saw in the restroom.  We thought they were so funny that we had to share them with each other … which only made it all that much more funny!

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Bobby did a great job hiking around Yellowstone, but by the end of the day, this was his preferred method of transportation…

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It melts my heart to see my boys not only being brothers, but being friends!

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Good looking view.  Good looking family!

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Sometimes you need to sit down and rest.  And open your mouth.  And let your tongue hang out.

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My favorite part of the Yellowstone trip … the rafting with the boys!

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The boys saw lots of big wildlife in Yellowstone, but they had the most fun with these tiny frogs at the cabin.

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A 2 year old can only take so much vacationing before crashing …

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Sitting around a fire and listening to Yellowstone Ghost Stories is more exciting for some than others…

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When you get the chance to handle antlers and horns, you must try them on …

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When we stopped at the 45th parallel (half way between the north pole and the equator), Bobby was asleep.  Kevin captured this picture to make sure Bobby could never say he didn’t have his picture taken there like the rest of us.

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Another highlight of our Yellowstone trip was stopping at this river.

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I loved just sitting back and watching the boys play in the mud and look for minnows.  Capturing this pano shot with missing body parts and duplicate children was pretty cool, too!

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I LOVE when Kevin lets his inner child out!

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And then he captures one of the two of us.  In love.

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Sigh.  Life is good.