a very preppy Saturday

This past Saturday the Kelley/Brooks/Bailey clan packed up the cars and headed down to Newport for a delayed celebration of all of the exciting things happening in this group. The weather cooperated and we were able to have lunch overlooking Bannister's Wharf at the Cooke House, take a scenic tour around Ocean Drive and top the day off with a polo match.

Ben unfortunately seemed to enjoy climbing around inside the car more than watching the horses (he also has decided he hates having his picture taken) so this was the best photo I could get of his first polo match - at least he looks the part!

happy anniversary!

Happy anniversary to my wonderful parents - here's to many more years together! Thanks for being such good role models - love you!

Happy birthday Kate!

A very special happy birthday shout out to my sister and best friend - I can't imagine my life without you! Love you!

Celebrations!

For the rest of our lives the weekend of June 18th will be filled to the brim with celebrations! Kate and Brody share June 18th birthdays, my parents' anniversary is June 19th and father's day is always right around this time. To top off this year we were also saying goodbye to Eric and Marley who are off to start business school at Vanderbilt in Nashville. In order to give everyone ample celebratory time and attention we decided to delay some of the celebrating. This weekend we all celebrated Brody's first birthday out in Concord on Saturday morning.

Saturday night Tucker and I headed back into the city to experience a pub crawl of sorts with Eric and Marley on their last weekend in Boston - we hit up the important Beacon Hill bars - Emmet's, 21st Amendment and the Red Hat. Hard to believe our monthly Groupon dates with these two are over and Tucker's losing his biggest partner in crime!

Sunday we headed back out to Concord to celebrate father's day with Tuck - fun and relaxing!

Next weekend's delayed celebration for my dad and Kate involves a trip to Newport for lunch at the Black Pearl and a polo match! A big thank you to my dad for allowing us to celebrate both families and for ALWAYS being my biggest cheerleader - I love you!

the great outdoors

I survived! My first ever 2 day camping trip and I have to say it was WAY more fun than expected. It was Bilello's 30th birthday so Sarah, Chris, Caitlin, Ryan, DeeDee, Josh, Loren, Tucker and I headed up to Acadia for the weekend and had an absolute blast. We hiked the Beehive, had lobster's at Thurston's, enjoyed a "scorned woman" shot or 2 at Joe's and hung out by the campfire. Believe it or not I'd do it again. ;-)

Happy birthday Bilello!

Cape Cod

Back to work after a crazy weekend on the Cape! Friday night Tucker and I were able to have a celebratory date night at Petit Robert to catch up on the house and a great month at work for him as well as a (hopefully) fully recovered appendectomy. After a lazy Saturday morning we headed to Falmouth to spend some time with Amy, Pete, Maisie, Miles and Lou of course - so fun catching up with them for a night!

Sunday was my cousin Kristin's wedding in Yarmouth - despite what looked like a dismal forecast the sun came out just in time for their ceremony!

We had to work this morning so we unfortunately had to leave the reception a little early but it was great catching up with family - congrats Kristin and Greg!