Saturday night Jeff & I headed out to Lindee & Jackson’s house to take pictures of Clara and her buddies heading out to the spring Military Ball. They all just looked so beautiful. Here is Clara with her besties Maily, Olivia, and Addie. They all just looked so beautiful.

Jacob and Clara have gone to church together I guess since they were born, and school together since they were four years old. He was the only date who was able to be there for the pictures. Wade, Clara’s date, had a day-long track meet that day, and only had time to meet her at the dance – no picture time. I do hope they got some pix together while they were there.

Addie has been one of her besties ever since she started high school, but her mom has recently gotten transferred to California, so she will be going to college at Cal State Fullerton, I think Lindee said. I hope she loves it, but it will be hard for Clara to let her go. I’m glad we got this picture of them together. Clara was taking a tie that matched her dress for Wade to put on when he got to the dance, so Addie posed holding it like she was Clara’s date for this picture

Yesterday morning we were in York to see Adam in action in the pole vault again. Once again he cleared his PR of 10′, but just missed making 10’6″. He is working so hard that I’m sure he’s going to hit it soon.

Friday night Meg & I were off to Gastonia, about 15 miles down the road, to see one of the shows in their Performing Arts Series. This is the first year we’ve had tickets to their shows there. They don’t have as many shows as we do here in Clover, but we have so enjoyed them all. Roslyn Sorrell had a beautiful voice, and just sang all kinds of songs. Great time.

Thursday night was our final program in our Performing Arts Series at the auditorium here in town, The Soul of Broadway, starring Terron Brooks. He first starred as David Ruffin in the mini-series about The Temptations back in the 1990’s, so he sang some of their songs. Then he starred on Broadway in The Lion King as Simba, so he sang a couple of songs from that. And then he sang songs from all kinds of Broadway shows. He just had a beautiful voice. Fun time.

We were back at Rock Hill High School Wednesday afternoon to see Adam compete in the track meet, and were so, so proud when he matched his PR of ten feet. This is obviously not his best jump – you can see the bar falling down – but he’s always fun to watch, and we loved that he ended up having such a good meet.

With his proud momma after his jump…

Still not great action photos, but better than the week before, I think. He cleared nine ft six inches, so that was his best of the season. He was pretty proud.

Lindee, Mallory, & Clara were there cheering him on – no doubt the reason he did so good

Last Sunday afternoon June was competing just down the road in Fort Mill, so Jeff & I, along with my dear friend Charlotte, drove over to watch her perform her solo. And as it turned out, we ran into her just as we walked in the door. She had on her costume top with pajama bottoms to be more comfortable – she didn’t wear those while she was competing :-). She did an absolutely fantastic job – we were so proud.

Well, the first one we had been to this season. He’d had one earlier and the weather was just so bad we stayed home. This was a huge invitational – I think there were 35 schools there – the Clash of the Carolinas. I got this picture of Adam before he started his event.

We were not at a great spot to get action shots, as you can see. He rolled his ankle on his second run up to vault, so it just wasn’t a great day. It was still fun watching him, though.

Last week was Clara’s recital. As a member of the high school chorus, The Choraliers, every student as to perform a solo in front of parents and other students. This year Clara’s song was in Italian, so it was way harder than the one she had to sing last year, which was something from a Disney movie. I got these pictures afterwards, of her with her proud parents…

and grandparents :-). She just did a beautiful job.