I love when we are in Indiana on Thursday nights, and get to go out to Mark’s house and listen to the band practice. We even talked Jeff’s dad into going with us, which he hasn’t much wanted to do lately, I understand. I got this picture of Mark in action. Fun time.

Jeff & I left Wednesday on our 50th anniversary trip, and the first night we stayed in Corbin, KY, to visit Cumberland Falls. It’s one of our favorite stopping off places between home and Indiana, and we loved it as much as we always have. If you look close you can see one of the rafts that you could rent to take you out almost under the falls, but we didn’t go for that.

Stopped on the way out of the park at this great old scenic overlook built by the CCC. The trees were really too grown up for us to see much at all, but it would be a beautiful view in the winter.

I absolutely loved the photo area Addie & Lee made for June’s graduation party. In keeping with the theme there was ivy, just like Taylor Swift’s song, and of course the Graduation Era banner. This is the graduate with her great aunts and uncles who were there, as well as with her very, very proud (and tired, I’m sure, after creating this party) mama.

Addie did an absolutely fabulous job of decorating for June’s graduation party. It was held yesterday afternoon at our church, and everything about it just screamed June. It was a late afternoon party, so the refreshments were a dessert bar – yummy and so cute. June has a green thumb like we have never seen in our family – something she inherited from her other grandmother – so the decor included lots of the plants out of her room.

With June being one of the world’s great Swifties, that was the theme of the party. Taylor Swift includes what she calls Easter Eggs in her albums/social media/shows, so Addie put several of those around for June and Mallory and Clara to find – and anyone else who happened to be a Swiftie, too. I think Mal told me Lost in the Memory was one of her songs, or maybe a lyric out of one of her songs. It was all just so well done.

With her proud “little” (younger, at least) brother – he’s holding her Salutatorian Certificate…

…and at the photo op site they had set up.

My niece Liz sent this puzzle to me – she knows I love both National Parks and jigsaw puzzles, so it was a perfect gift. I had recently done one something like this but it was 500 pieces – this one was 1000. I love puzzles with lots of detail, so this was right up my alley.

What a wonderful day we had today, celebrating June’s high school graduation. We were so, so proud. It takes forever to get pictures downloaded off of my camera, so I did a few this evening, & will get more done in then next couple of days. Here are a couple, though. She looks thrilled in this picture, doesn’t she? With a last name like Yarbrough, of course she was the very last one on this list of graduates, but since she was Salutatorian, and was sitting on the stage, she was actually the second one to receive her diploma. I got this picture of her when she was waiting to go back up on stage after they’d called all of the other 264 names. She looks like she’s struggling to stay awake, doesn’t she? 🙂

Got a better one afterwards, with her showing off her diploma.