We were at Holly’s Bridal Shower on Saturday to celebrate her upcoming wedding.  Here are a few pictures.

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Happy first birthday to Ben and Maddie!  We were at their first birthday party at Jimmy John’s this Saturday.  Here are some pictures:

   

   

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Bridget and I took the dogs out for the day on Saturday.  We wanted to take them for a walk for some exercise, and also for a quick swim in the Brandywine creek, since it was such a nice day out!

First we started at the West Valley Nature Area, which is in Downingtown just off of Route 322.  We got tired pretty quickly because there were alot of steep hills (Halley and Ben just laid down and quit walking after a while!)… and we also couldn’t get to the creek without tresspassing on private property.

   

We then followed North Creek road off of 322, looking for a good spot to park with access to the Brandywine.  We found a nice little park, but unfortunately no pets were allowed! 

After crossing 162, we found the Stroud Preserve, which was wonderful since it is 574 acres of open nature preserve with walking trails, ponds, and access to the Brandywine… it was also very dog freindly too which was great!

And both Halley and Ben were able to cool off and go for a swim.  We found out that Ben loves to swim, he kept swimming around and around even after we got Halley out and wouldn’t come out of the water until we started to pretend that we were leaving!

At the end of the day I had tripped over some rocks by the creek’s edge, and fell down with my camera!  Yes, my honey asked if I wanted her to hold the camera for me, since she tripped over the same rock, but I stupidly said “no thanks”.  I’m glad the camera was 100% ok, except for a small scuff mark on the outer lens barrel, but you can see from this picture my honey took to “test out the camera” that I was a bit upset at first!

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Here are some pictures from Annaliese’s second birthday party:

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 We went to the People’s Festival tribute to Bob Marley yesterday with Jenn, Steve and Madeline, Brianna and Erin, and Leslie and Colin and their kids.

Here are some pictures of the festival:

    

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Bridget, Mom Kelleher and I all went to Longwood Gardens this last Saturday.  My wifey cake was busy reading her Harry Potter, but she was nice enough to set aside some time since I really wanted to go to Longwood, both to see (and of course take pictures) of all of the flowers and displays there.  Also I wanted to go because they had a beautiful fireworks display that night, which they have 4 times a year.

The gardens are impressive, with visitors from all over the world viewing miles of outdoor and indoor exhibits.  And the fireworks were very impressive, set to music from Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and colored water fountains.  My honey, who hates fireworks, was even impressed!

Here, of course, are plenty of pictures of the gardens:

And some more of the fireworks display:

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I got some cute pictures of some geese while we were out and about this weekend. Here are some of the best ones:

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Bridget and I went to West Goshen Park for an Irish Concert with both of the mom’s and Don.  Here are some pictures:

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We were at the Hutchinson’s for Herb’s birthday party.  Here are some of the pictures that I took:

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