This past weekend was graduation weekend!  Not for me... but for Krista and a bunch of other friends!  So still exciting... :)

it was cold an rainy (like the whole rest of the week, am I right??) and so graduation was moved inside.  The last time this is the first indoor RPI graduation since Mom's infamous 2002 oops-it-snowed-3-inches graduation!  Katie and I ended up finding Kaleigh and watching the ceremony via video screen in the ECAV gym.  

BUT!  Before that, we snapped a few photos of the girls while they were waiting outside under the tents:

I couldn't get my camera ready fast enough but luckily Katie was!  She snapped this photo Krista getting her diplomas! Well... a photo of the screen portraying the video... same difference!! 

Congratulations again to all of the wonderful graduates!!! xoxo

On Tuesday we had a little group get together and head up to Circle B Ranch in the Adirondacks for a trail ride!

It was a bunch of fun!! (Complete with an post-ride ice cream stop, of course...)  :)

So the back row is JP, Trick, Tyler, Katie, Shannon, Luc, and Steve, and then the four girls in the front would be me, Krista, Susan, and Yaroslava! 

Best part of the day?  My horse was named Forest!  (He's in the one in the middle...)  When I take lessons back at school (well... technically East Greenbush) I also ride a horse named Forest!  Crazy... My Forest is white with gray spots though... this Forest had honey highlights in his brown maine...)

The Friday before Mother's Day, Luc and I decided to take a mini-adventure into Albany to check out the tulips in Washington Park!  (We ended up going before the official kick-off of the Tulip Festival, but with the looming crowds and possibility of rain the next day?  Playing hooky on a Friday afternoon seemed like a better plan...) :)

We took a bunch of photos of the tulips, made it rain pink petals from some of the flowering trees (um FUN!) and then decided to continue our wandering down at the Plaza.  We checked out the reflecting pool, peeked in the windows of the museum, and then walked the entire length of the Convention Center Concourse!  (And almost had to walk it again when we couldn't figure out how to get back to the ground level... but luckily we found and elevator that spit us out in the Egg!  Even if it was a creepy elevator...) 

Anyways!

Here are some photos :)

So I'm thinking it's time for a change... New look, maybe some new organization to the whole thing... just trying to make everything more efficient and streamline.  

For starters?  I'm going to abandon the au naturale look and go with something a little more colorful... (Maybe this purple dye is literally going to my head at this point?)

And ultimately?  I'm thinking of rearranging the pages a little.  One big thing would be moving the actual blog portion of my website to the homepage - so for those of you who follow me with an RSS reader, be prepared to have to resubscribe to alisonrosek.weebly.com!  (Instead of http://alisonrosek.weebly.com/all-at-once.html)  Sorry in advance if that causes problems... :-/

Ok... deep breath... here we go! :P

I'm not even sure where I saw the baby-stats subway art but as soon as Baby Lucas was born, I knew I wanted to make him something to commemorate, well... him!  I used my scrapbook software (MemoryMixer, FYI) to come up with my own design... 

and then had it printed on glossy paper and framed it in a shadow box!

Adrienne and James loved it! :)

(yes, I've blocked off their last name... just being careful <3)