Last Thursday night I was in Hickory, NC, at the Crawdads game, the minor league team where Cody Bryant, a young man from our church, had been the head groundskeeper. He died last fall of a fall, with covid being an underlying cause. It was just incredibly sad. The Crawdads had a beautiful memorial service for him at their first home game this spring, and several of us from church went up for that. The stadium was so beautiful. I was especially taken with the planters.

We released balloons in his memory as part of the service – in John Deere green and yellow, as sitting on a John Deere was where Cody spent much of his time when he was at work at the stadium. Just a sweet, very emotional night.

I am just now catching up on pictures from the last couple of weeks. I got this picture after Adam’s semi-final game last Tuesday night, which they won, before going on to win the championship game on Thursday night, the result of an undefeated season. Here’s our guy with his proud parents after the game.

Our summer flowers are coming up so beautifully and just starting to really bloom out. I think they are going to be beautiful!

Yesterday Andrew and the boys came to take me out for lunch – Jenny was working – and Lindee and Mallory happened to stop by at the same time (Clara was home sick), so they went with us to Pizzaman in town for a yummy meal. We got this picture real quick as we were all going out separate ways afterwards. Wonderful day.

Yesterday Addie, Lee, and the kids came over to visit and celebrate Mother’s Day a day early. Mason got this picture of me with my babiest before they headed home.

Last night was Adam’s final regular season basketball game of the rec league season. I got this photo of him at the foul line, where he made one in helping his team cap off an undefeated regular season. Tournament is next week. It was a close game, and so much fun to watch.

Got this picture of all our guys together after the game.

Monday morning Meg & I met a dear friend from Tennessee, Kathy Short, who was in Charlotte for a visit with her parents. Meg & I both actually used to babysit her and her brother when we were in high school. We had a wonderful catching up session at Cracker Barrel, and got this picture before we all went our separate ways. Lots of laughing went on that morning, for sure 😀

When I was at Momma’s house for the day Sunday, I got this picture of her late blooming azalea. It was almost the very same blooms – the first picture taken at noontime under the bright sun, and the other at dusk. How funny is it that the color changes so much? It really is purple 🙂

Saturday we were so excited that Zollie’s crew was here to install the new carpet in our spare bedrooms. We love the color and think it looks beautiful in both rooms. We are busy now – and by we I mean almost exclusively Jeff – getting furniture put back in place.