Early birthday celebration with Marissa!

Marissa is enjoying her new netbook she got for her 17th birthday!

Ollie loves birthdays!

The tradition is..everyone picks up a PET Marissa!
Theo's eyes scare me.

Burt and his Hazel Bug!

Our visit with Laura in Nice..pics are in reverse order!

A medieval village in Italy, Dolceacqua

swimming in the Mediterranean

Lunch in Villefranche! The view from our table below!

Dolceacqua, Italy

The best part of Europe for Hazel!!

Breakfast on the terrace each morning!

This photographer included the baby!

The first night in Nice at THE fountain!

Telling Auntie about the trip!

Hazel with Laura at last!

Trying to fit the car seat in Auntie Laura's car.

Time to party!

Sleep sack on..and out like a light for the whole flight.

Laura met up with her Edouard for a few weeks of camping in the Canadian Rockies. Thankfully, he had the good sense not to allow Laura to go for a closer look at a grizzly. Thank you for keeping my daughter safe!!
Jeesh.

Breakfast with our favorite family, before Burt heads off

Burt watches Hazel's reaction to her own photo cut out with her mom's voice! Pretty cute!
Daddy (Ryan) gives his baby daughter a ride down the hall. :) She loves it!!

Mommy (Melissa) hugs her baby after her first crawl!!!


The excitement is too much. Ryan suggests this this study be called 'A man with his shoe.' So maybe Saturday morning 1:30 am, to Sunday afternoon, is not enough time to adjust to east coast time.

Hazel LOVES her new perch!

I can almost touch the ceiling!!

Marissa's end of camp "box lunch" performance

We made it to Northampton just in time!! As soon as we were settled, Marissa got up to sing. Perfect timing!! She was just great!!

9 Months Old Already!!

Hazel had her nine month Dr.'s visit today! She was of course.. perfect in every way ;) yet the Dr. somehow failed to mention her unearthly beauty. I found that puzzling.
Hazel proudly carries on the Cashman family tradition of the giant noggin!

Ollie will miss his training sessions!!

Ollie and Burt go to bed early four times a week so that they can go running at 6:00 am together.

We are trying to be brave but neither one of us wants Burt to leave on Sunday for 6 months!!! Especially 2,000 miles away. Why couldn't a job open up just a little closer? I'm not brave and this stinks.

Dinner at the Capital Grille

After dinner we went to the fireworks in Acton..when we returned home we watched GREAT fireworks and equally great music on TV from Boston. Re-thinking next year!

We had a marvelous dinner with our favorite company :) Thank you Ryan and Melissa! Apparently our photographer failed to notice the tiny face behind the lampshade.