Thursday afternoon Clover High Lady Eagles had a match against Nations Ford. Mallory and Vivian have been playing with/against each other for five years now, and they are so well matched in every way. I’m learning that during a grandchild’s senior year of high school there are lots of options to be tearing up, like when they hugged at the end of the match. In fact, I’m tearing up now just thinking about it. I didn’t get a picture of that hug, but here are a couple of others from the day.

I tried like crazy to get a picture of Adam playing center – it’s just a difficult position to capture with a camera. This is about the best I could do.

Wednesday morning Meg & I traveled to Seneca to be there for the funeral of sister-in-law Shea’s mom. It was a sweet time, and I so enjoyed seeing all of Shea’s family. I got this picture afterwards of Shea with her sister Jan and brother Brett.

We went out to eat afterwards with all of the family, and then hit the road for home, so I could pick up Jeff and get to Rock Hill in time to see Adam play in his first 8th grade football game. He did a great job. He played all but two plays of the first half, I think, on both the offensive and defensive line, and then most of the second half at center – a position he’d only started practicing for the day before. And he recovered a fumble! Sullivan Falcons won pretty big – fun evening. He’s blue #54.

One of my favorite things at the shower last weekend was the table of favors, set up like a counter at a bait shop, with bags you could fill up of all of the snacks you would buy when you were heading out on a fishing trip. So creative. Here are a couple of pictures.

Saturday I headed up to King for Jack Freeman Smith’s shower – Josh and Hillary’s new baby who is due in November. It was the cutest thing – all with a fishing theme. The favor table was set up with all of the snacks that you’d buy at a bait shop, and bags to put them in. So, so cute.

I don’t know what button I pushed on the camera to make this picture of the table centerpieces look so odd, but they, too, were as cute as could be.