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.

A couple of weeks ago Lindee & I went to the library in Rock Hill to hear author Vanessa Miller speak about her book, The American Queen. It is a true story about this group of freed slaves, after the Civil War, who formed a sort of commune in the mountains of North Carolina. It sounded so interesting, and I had never heard anything about it. I did buy a copy, just haven’t started on it yet, but can’t wait to do so.

A couple of weeks ago Meg & I headed to Columbia, where we picked Mallory up & spent the afternoon at the South Carolina State Museum. I didn’t get any pictures of it, but in the planetarium they were having a show about the northern lights in Iceland, and we really wanted to see that. We had fun checking out the exhibits while we were there, too. I actually had no idea that an astronaut from South Carolina had walked on the moon until our preacher had mentioned it at Bible study the week before, so I was excited to see that exhibit.

We didn’t have time to check out nearly all of the exhibits, but I did enjoyed all of the history we learned about on every floor.

Every year on the Saturday closest to Valentines Day Epiphany Lutheran Church in Rock Hill hosts their annual Chocolate Festival, and Meg & I always try not to miss it. This year I won not one but TWO of the raffle baskets – a kitchen basket and the teenage basket. The way they were fixed up was so pretty, and there were so many nice things in both of them.

My friend Sharon Young asked me if I would like to have her late mother’s puzzle table, and I was so excited to get it – I have been wanting and wanting one. And she gave me several puzzles, too. I chose this 500 piece one to work first, and then it was way harder than I thought it would be, because every piece in the puzzle – except for the edges – was shaped the very same way. I don’t think I’d worked one like that before.

Tuesday my friend Kirkie wanted to visit a house out in the country that has the prettiest daffodils, so I picked her up and we headed over. Sure enough, the flowers were as beautiful as she’d said they would be. We spent some time walking around there, then ran a few errands and had lunch before I headed home – and had a great time catching up.