A whole new world

So, the era of the smartphone had also meant putting our blog on life support... Since we no longer carried a camera around (handy iPhone always on hand) the effort required to email phone-captured pictures to the computer, from whence to publish to blog, seemed like a whole lotta effort. (I know, we're kinda lazy that way.)

But now, having just discovered an app to let me publish directly from the phone ... Wheee! I might be goin back a ways to get caught up. At least up to mid-summer.

First post from the iPhone era

This is mostly a test. If the test goes well, we shall soon see a return to blogging about Eva in full force.

Eva's first year at Northeastern comes to a close...

In what we hope will become an annual tradition, Eva's preschool hired one of their undergrad student teachers to take a bunch of candid pics of the kids, and we were the lucky recipients. We decided to post our favorites...which, for better or for worse, is not a short list.

Winter Reprieve: Caribbean Adventure!

Yay for sun and sand! While we may be back to our snow-shoveling reality today, the tans and memories from our trip sailing the Caribbean this past week will take much longer to fade. Eva is now asking if next week is too soon to go on vacation again.

Preparing to board the ship.

Day 1, in CocoCay, Bahamas. Eva took awhile to realize she wasn't in Boston any more.

Beach girls!

Sharing a lounge chair and milkie break with Grammy.

Storytime in a beach hammock...not too shabby.

Woohoooo!

Exploring her own private Bahamanian beach.

On the "little boat" back to the "big boat" from CocoCay.

Formal night....clearly our girl knows how to go classy.

Good times.

Night out with Poppy!

Daddy exploring the rock climbing wall...

...And the FlowRider.

Relaxing with our favorite tiny barfly.

Breakfast time with Grammy!

Naptime under a low-hanging tree on a St. Thomas beach.

We couldn't have asked for a more idyllic beach spot!

Cautiously surveying the water...

And then jumping right in with Daddy!

Pirate night on the ship. Arrrrr.

Party time in St. Maarten!

Enjoying a little Red Stripe on the beach.

Ducklin Ducklin...his name is Ducklin Ducklin... (Eva's newest friend.)

Another night out, this time at the pub on the ship.

Eva, showing off her kids' talent show award. (She was spectacular, not surprisingly.)

Last day on ship, spent lounging in the water. As it should be.

More winter sporting

While much of January was spent shoveling, followed by more shoveling, our 70+ inches of snow so far this winter, we did manage to find some time for fun amongst the winter grousing.

Our little snow angel.

Rocking the magic carpet.

Look at that form!

And she even carries her own gear. The perfect ski-mate.

A few of our winter icicles before being taken out by a focused shovel attack.