Photos

Clara’s Project

When I picked Clara up to go to school last Monday, I think it was, her AP US Government project was laying on the table. I thought it was so impressive I had to take a picture of it. It was a group project, and they had to come up with a proposal for a bill, & chronicle how it would make it through to become a law. I thought their idea was so cute, and she told me her group had been over at their house over the weekend working on it. She said she’d done practically every bit of the writing on it, and I told her that didn’t seem quite fair. And she said it was all right, she was kind of bossy anyway, so she liked to do it like she wanted it. She does make me laugh. I was particularly excited to see the Bill from School House Rock on their poster 🙂

Daniel’s Basketball Game

Yesterday Charlie & Adam were in the mountains on a ski trip with their church youth group, so it was a perfect day for Jeff, Mason, & me to head to Indian Trail – on the other side of Charlotte – to see Daniel – Andy & Amy’s grandson and Nate & Diane’s son – play basketball. It was so much fun watching him play, and spending the day with such precious people. I got this picture of him keeping himself entertained on the sidelines when he wasn’t in the game – and this is the funniest thing. I didn’t even know that was his sister Mia walking in front of him when I took the picture. Ha.

Our basketball players posed for this picture together after the game 🙂

Clara’s Recital

Last Thursday night was Clara’s voice recital. As a member this year of the CHS Choraliers – the high school chorus here in town – she takes private voice lessons, as all of the members do. Part of their final grade for the year is performing in this recital. She sang Ten Minutes Ago, from that latest Cinderella movie, and I thought she just did a great job. Although she has gotten used to singing some on her own this year in Choraliers, this was certainly outside her comfort zone, and we were so proud of her.

Afterwards at the little reception in the lobby of the chorus building. So, so proud.

My Lunch Buddy

I had been craving some barbecue, so yesterday after church Mason & I headed to Ole Carolina BBQ in Gastonia for me to get my fix. We had the best time visiting and catching up – he’s been busy with basketball, so I really hadn’t seen him since Christmas. Fun time.

Adam’s Basketball Games

Adam had TWO church league basketball games yesterday. Here’s a picture from each game. Luckily their jerseys are reversible :-). In the first picture you can see his Coach Dad standing in the background.

Indoor Drum Line

Last Sunday afternoon my friend Evelyn and I went to see a demonstration by the Civitas Drumline at the middle school just down the road from our house.  It wasn’t a finished production – just a show so their parents and friends could see a rough draft of their performance show for this spring – but that was a bunch of talented kids.  I had never seen an indoor drum line before, and they were so much fun to watch.  Of course still pictures cannot do the show justice, but here are a couple.

Church League Basketball

Saturday Jeff & I met Andy & Amy in Rock Hill to see the boys in action. Adam’s game was first. He played great & their team won big, as has been the case most games this season. Adam is #1, blocking the inbound pass.

Then on to Charlie’s game. Char got some playing time, and even though they went down in defeat, they played hard and were coming back, but just rant out of time. That’s Char right in the middle playing defense.

Jewish History Center

Friday Meg and I headed back to Sumter to visit the Jewish History Center – two weeks in a row for me. Because the Torah that belonged to the synagogue there and that was the subject of the study that was done on its history was found to have originally been from Prague, and because Meg is going there on a cruise this summer, she wanted to go back and see it. This time, though, the entire museum was open, so we really enjoyed seeing it. It was small but so well done that we just really enjoyed it. I got a couple of pictures of the permanent exhibits.

Queen’s Feast

Thursday night Lindee got up our annual restaurant week – it’s called Queen’s Feast since Charlotte is called the Queen City – and she, Addie, Meg & I went to check out Drift, a restaurant on the lake that we had all been wanting to try. I was sort of disappointed in the food, but the company could not have been better. Meg was our photographer as we were heading inside.