I feel like I have not seen June in a hundred years, so last Friday night she & I had a June & Big Mama supper, and went out to eat at Eagle’s Nest – just the two of us. So much fun catching up. She makes me laugh all the time.

Just now getting pictures downloaded from the last ten days or so. Earlier this month I was finally ready to get to one of the auditorium programs in town – I’ve had to miss a couple of them with Gran or the kids. It really was a fun show, with an illusionist couple. I love the singers that we get to see, but it’s always fun to see something different. There was a juggler as part of the show, and he was SO FUNNY>

After the show you could pay a dollar and go up on stage to see a couple of the illusions. I loved that – it reminded me of the old side shows at carnivals that you see in the movies. We got to see the assistant all contorted in the box that the illusionist Josh Knotts had stuck knives all through. We weren’t allowed to make pictures of her in the box, but she did wave up at me so I could get a picture of that 🙂

Just now getting pictures downloaded from the past week, and here is the one I took after Charlie & Adam’s game last Saturday. It was a great game, but they lost by one point. And I’m not sure what button I pushed on my camera to get this effect, but there you have it.

Last night we were at Lindee’s house as Clara and her buddies were heading out to the 8th grade formal. Folks started arriving as Elise was styling Clara’s hair, so everyone just stood around visiting until everyone was ready for pictures.

Got this picture of Clara with her proud big sister before the party goers headed out the door 🙂

This evening we were at the auditorium at the high school to see Mallory inducted into the National Honor Society. None of the pictures I tried to take when she was walking across the stage turned out :-(, but I did get this one of her afterwards with her lifelong bff, Lacy Emma.

And with her proud family…

Mallory was so excited to show me her prom dress when I got there Monday morning to pick her up for school – they found it over the weekend. She didn’t try it on because of course she didn’t have time before school, plus of course it has to be altered. I know it’s going to look beautiful on her, though.

This past weekend Sherri was in town staying with Gran, and she came over to see the boys in action Saturday afternoon. Jenny took this picture of us afterwards.

We had so much fun decorating for the Haunted House we hosted back at Halloween, but all of the decor we hung pulled some of the paint off of the ceiling. Jeff spent some of the cold, nasty days we’ve had lately getting that remedied.

For the first time in our history of putting together jigsaw puzzles, this one defeated Jeff & me. We almost got it done, but a couple of the pieces were definitely forced. We were tired of it, though, so just decided to move it along. Well played, firehouse puzzle.