Just before heading to the beach, we enjoyed watching Andrew receive a 3rd Grade Math Contest award. This kid loves everything about school and so thoroughly enjoys learning. What a delight to see.
School not quite out, but hopped up to DC for a work event. Many thanks to Anne for keeping the kiddos overnight, which allowed me to see this picture in her place. Alex and Andrew were oh, so very little!
So this happened....an incredible fundraising evening of dinner, dance, and silent auction with Michael's client (Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington). Great to meet some of the other parties with whom he works, even if the evening did go on entirely too long.
...And then THIS happened. Thank you dishonest valet. That would be yet another deductible out of our pockets this month, another massive repair to undertake during our already crammed summer. And, yes. This is the second time that one of our cars has been hit in a parking garage with no note left.
Four Voice in C'ville---Indigo Girls, Mary Chapman Carpenter, and Joan Boaz----with four amazing friends. Clearly a politically motivated show with Joan leading the march, it was still amazing music.
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Oh, my precious baby girl. Where did you go, love?!?
And
took said baby girl to Greystone for the first time, stopping by Elk
River to break up the trip. I thought she would be bored without her
brothers, but we had an amazing few days together. One on one time with
them is incredible...and oh so very rare.
Wait, what?!?! Don't remember the last time ANY of the kids slept in the car, and she did on every single leg!
Oh, how the mountains NEVER disappoint.
While the girls were away, the boys went camping...and did what boys do.
Anticipation
Anticipating Greystone
Take 2....Take 1 (without phone ready) was all squeals of delight ("hers
or yours??", my Mom wisely asked!).
"Here we are at camp again, where every camper wears a grin.
Greystone, you're the best. You belong to me!"
Mary played the piano for what seemed like 100 years, never ONCE even glancing at the keyboard! Truly an amazing human being, pianist and Christian.
So much is new...
...and yet so very much has not changed one bit. She would have see-sawed with me for HOURS if we'd had the time. It's in her DNA, so I get it.
New in recent years, the benches around the tree are all of Psalm 23, which she learned this year in AWANA. She's starting to piece all of this together!
Margaret's unsolicited Greystone promo. She asked to me turn on the video.
I had no idea what was coming:-)
Memorial Day, appropriately honored.
Jim Daddy will ALWAYS have a place in EVERY Greystone girl's heart.
Her counselors are going to have to drag her off the swings to class.
I had to drag her away from there after 4 hours...needless to say, she was in Heaven and my heart was smiling while a variety of tears streamed down my face.
Laura Hollowell, always prepared, had my replacement G ready for me. The perfect line in my very imperfect story is losing my G sometime during my college moves when I should have just been moving back and forth to Greystone and, therefore, wearing it daily. I hope to keep this one forever close to my heart.
Graduation weekend - always a flood of emotions. It means saying goodbye to very special people that are moving on and up. It's never easy being the one that's left behind, but best of luck to our favorite Darden, UVA, and AHS grads. And great last game to the boys in between the festivities!
Annalise! This daughter of a WandM and Duke is off to JMU and cannot wait. What a fine young lady Lee and Kris have raised.
I hired Bekah Leary to be our nursery attendant at church about a year and a half ago. Little did I know the relationship that was starting. Had to have a church party at Adventure Farm to celebrate.
...complete with Costco cake for this crowd.
Bekah has been our go-to sitter quite some time and we will all miss her more than we realize. She's been a part of our lives in many different, incredible ways. She grew up the youngest of 5 in a missionary family. Being raised in Russia is certainly not Charlottesville. Thankful for her impact on our family and know she will continue changing lives at camp this summer and in Birmingham next year before jetting off into the world somewhere!
The Fox was in town! With Dr. Fox graduating from Darden, we got to have our Kathy back, too. What a fun breakfast with the crew, minus Jenn (who was in Miami? or New Orleans? or Dallas? I lost track of her spring travels!)
Many of these guys are graduating to 5-6 next year.
