Nannie's Beach

After bidding farewell to beautiful Cape Cod, we headed north, toward one of our favorite beaches anywhere, and some of our favorite people anywhere.  We'd snuck up to Revere in our first week back in Massachusetts, but now we could settle in, relax and spend some time with Marc's family.  This last leg of our vacation journey was a busy one, best remembered in what else?  Pictures!!

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Dear Sarah Anne

Thank you for obliging your obnoxious auntie and her camera. 

I can see from the expression on your face how thrilled you were!

I know you hated wearing that dress last year at your First Communion, and that putting it on again, even for 'pretend', was like putting on a cape made of fire ants.

So thank you for gritting your teeth and bearing it.

I love how the green nailpolish gives a little clue that underneath that sweet dress, you're a total rocker chick!

That behind this sweet smile is a mind racing a thousand miles an hour putting together your future television show, with elaborate choreography and amazing music. 
Not to mention the scripts for commercials that air in between shots of you rocking out and just being fabulously famous. 

Someday, maybe you'll have a daughter just like you, and you can explain to her that sometimes, when you really love someone, you wear dresses made of fire ants to please them.

Because you can look like an angel for the record books...

As long as you keep your ripped jeans on underneath to remind you who you really are.

I love you beautiful girl!
Including the pop-goth, jingle-loving, alternative-hipster superstar inside the pretty dress.