This is the puzzle I started on last month when Jeff was in Indiana. It was harder than I thought it would be, so he got home long before I finished it up :-). Pretty, though, I thought.

Friday night I headed to Augusta to spend the night with Sherri and Gary, and then early Saturday morning we hit the road to Athens to see their granddaughter Lynleigh in her only dance competition of the season. During the Parents Showcase before the first competition she cracked her pelvis, so this was the only time she got to dance all year. She did a wonderful job – all of the girl from her studio did – and her three dances all received Platinum awards. For one of them, she was the one who went up to get the award. It was so exciting and we were so proud.

Our star after the show was over. So precious.

Last Thursday was Mason’s final chorus program as a Clover Middle School student – he says his last ever, as he isn’t singing in high school. It was kind of emotional for me, with him being our youngest one. They did a great, great job. He is on the back row, far left.

Got this picture of our sweet kid afterwards…

Clara had quite a fan club at the show on Sunday to watch her on stage. Here are a couple of pictures from afterwards.

This past weekend was the CHS Choraliers annual spring program, and this year they did “Something Rotten.” It was so funny, and Clara and all of the kids just did a fantastic job. The dial on my camera got moved to the wrong setting, so I didn’t get many good pictures of her on stage, but did manage to get these two.

Friday evening Jeff & I were in Fort Mill, at Catawba Ridge High School, for Clara’s final soccer game of her career. She says she is not playing next year. Choraliers takes up so much of her time, and she is getting more and more involved in ROTC, so she says she just won’t have time for soccer. She played a great game – if it is, in fact, her last game ever, she definitely went out on a high note.

Lots of tears after the game, but she did let me take one final post-game picture of her before we all headed home.

Last Sunday I stopped by Nathan and Diane’s house to pick up some BBQ that Daniel sold as a troop fundraiser – it’s not Boy Scouts, and I cannot remember what it is called. The kids were all so cute – of course. Mia had gotten a new sort of kit in the mail, so she opened it & worked on it while I was there, so I could see it. It’s one of those balls where you don’t know what’s in them, and I had seen them for other kinds of dolls and animals and such, but this was a tiny food that you put together. It was SO CUTE. It had all of the ingredients that you squeezed into the tiny dishes they provided, and the tiniest little fruits to decorate it with – it even came with tweezers to pick them up. I think they told me it was a Gordon Ramsey recipe :-). Mia has always loved miniature things, and has always loved to cook, so this was just perfect for her 🙂

Then it was on to Winston-Salem to have supper with Andy & Amy & Liz while she was in town for her college class reunion. Boo had come over from Murrells Inlet just for the meal, and Zollie, Liz, and most importantly Heath had come down from Mount Airy and King, and it was such a special day. Needless to say, Heath stole the show 🙂

One last picture that I took on our boardwalk hike at Congaree National Park. This was one of our favorite spots. The reflection of the trees in that black swamp water just took my breath away. You really could barely tell where the trees stopped and the water started. It was such a beautiful, amazing place. I cannot wait to go back.

I dropped Mallory off in time for her to get ready to head to the baseball game she had tickets for that evening, and I ended up stopping in Rock Hill to catch the second half of Clara’s soccer game. Unfortunately I just missed her scoring – she plays midfield, so that doesn’t happen very often – but then I did get to see her play goalie, which also doesn’t happen very often :-). It was just a really good day all the way around.

Adam’s track meet last week was just the field events at the Top of the Rock Meet, between all of the high schools in Rock Hill. It was kind of weird, because the evening we were there was just the field events – track was the next day. So no runners anywhere, and way fewer people there to watch. I almost complete missed him in this picture – got mostly fence, cause I was trying to take it without standing up 🙂

I got this picture when he came over to chat with us, as he always does, after he was finished jumping. He hit 9′ again, which was his PR, so we were pretty happy about that.