I have got to get either a new camera or a new phone, since neither are taking very good pictures these days. I got this one, such as it is, of Lesley and her fiance Connor with some of their friends at the Welcome Dinner on Friday night before their wedding on Saturday. It was so, so much fun. The couple on the left is some of their California friends who flew in for the festivities; on the right is Val, her lifelong bestie who was a bridesmaid and who was in from New York, where she lives now, and her boyfriend, also named Connor. Such a happy time.

Last Wednesday, the week before Lesley’s wedding, we spent the morning at our church, making chicken salad and pimento cheese and brownies for their friends who were all staying at Camp Cherokee for the festivities to have for lunch on Thursday and then for snacks as needed. I got this picture of the bride in action.

It is hard to believe that Clara’s senior golf season will be winding down soon. We have loved watching her and Mallory both play so much. I got this picture at a recent match. I do love their shirts this year with the team name down the back.

I got this picture when we were at the game in Hartsville, where Adam and his Bearcat teammates played the high school there. They really got beat badly, and after the game they had to go straight to the bus, so I didn’t get any pictures of our guy – just this one action shot. Hartsville is a couple of hours away, and Jeff & I got a motel room & spent the night so we wouldn’t have to be driving home so late. That was a good plan – we were exhausted and both fell asleep as soon as we got in the room.

A couple of weeks ago my nephew Cooper – Zollie & Renee’s son – and his wife Rachel and daughters Mary, who’s six, and Frankie, who’s four, came for lunch & a great afternoon visit. We got this picture before they headed on to Georgia, where they were spending the weekend camping with Sherri and Gary.

Mary wanted just her picture made before they left. It was such a fun time with them all.

These are from a couple of weeks ago – the patio is all finished up now – but I took this picture from the kitchen window while they were hard at work. When I sent one out like this to our family, Charlie told me he at one time had run a concrete machine like that. Maybe we could have gotten him to just pour our patio :-).

A proud Jeff overlooking the almost finished project. The concrete guys had to come back a day or two later to put the lines in the concrete. It is very exciting.

A couple of weeks ago June invited me to go to York Band’s Fish Fry fundraiser – a good friend of her’s younger sister is in the band – and we had a great time – and great food. I got this picture of Bug while we were eating and catching up.

These pix are from a couple of weeks ago. It’s been a busy time around here lately & I haven’t been able to get caught up on pictures until now. Adam is #45, standing on the sidelines with one of his besties, Brady, #54.

After the game, with his proud Momma.

Jeff has wanted a patio poured outside our basement since we built this house 25 years ago, and last week it finally happened. The first day all they did was dump junk wood in the front yard to use to build the form to pour the concrete.