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st. patrick’s parade
Sat in our “box seats” again for this year’s parade. It was ffffffreezing outside and the sun was in and out which didn’t help much either, but still a wonderful parade and great seeing lots of friends marching.
The Mayor (looking chilly) and the Marines. Great way to start off the parade.
Father Bill. Looks like he’s having fun.
Aunt Feather on drums.
Uncle Joe on drums.
A few friends girls dancing/marching.
And the friends.
You bet your butt I’ll be calling AC Basile to see if he’ll let me rent his truck for a day. Or several. 
The Sullivan kids freezing and marching with Mr. Met.
Some of the parade committee that I’m happy to have as friends too.
Too cute. Both of you!
Nothing ends a parade quite like Uncle Jerry.
And a last friend sighting before heading inside.
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timmy’s first reconciliation
So since we’re headed into communion season, and Timmy’s making his First Communion this year too- here are a few shots of him from his reconciliation a few weeks ago. His religion teacher chose him to bring up the stole to the priests. And of course, he went directly to Father Bill for confession. I thought it was kinda cool since Father Bill was the one to baptize him as well.
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jack’s first communion
I met this handsome young man (and his awesome mom) at St. Raymond’s church about a week ago for a pre-communion session. He’ll be receiving communion at St. Raymond’s so we tried to incorporate his church into a few of the shots. Once we started discussing legos he was all smiles and I think he was vaguely impressed with my vast lego knowledge. So I guess all the years of stepping on those legos and digging them out of the bottoms of my feet were worth it?!
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the turn @ st. baldrics (molloy college)
Its been such a long time since I’ve photographed these guys playing, so I was really glad I got an opportunity to do it recently. And all while they were playing for a great cause!
Brian is really the one who should’ve gotten his hair cut but he adamantly refused. It took me a long time to convince him to even take off his hat cause he was sure they were going to just throw him into the chair to shave it all off once they saw how long it was. 
But Pat is the one who volunteered this year. He went from Paul Rudd… (ok, but seriously. the resemblance is truly uncanny)
…to Adam Levine. 
Brian was digging Pat’s new haircut. 
And the band played on.
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always time for reading
So glad Timmy has developed the same love of reading that the boys and I have (although I have been pretty lax lately- gotta pick up the kindle again and more often). He has his own Kindle, but it’s always good to read a good old picture book. Or 100. The pile below have all been outgrown and are on their way to the attic for storage (so maybe someday they’ll get passed down again).
