showchoir season

 the first showchoir competition of the season was a success.  they won their division and came in 2nd overall.  apparently this is hard to do because it's tough to compete against divisions that have boys and girls.  

the music pit...

jackson prep was at the competition at jackson academy, so william got to see leigh for a minute.

one of the moms sent me a pic.  structure stays behind the stage hidden during showchoir season, but maybe we get a snippet of william here and there this year!

synergy, structure, and crew...

headed in...

winners at Madison Central

duck, duck, goose after supper

at the opryland hotel

out cold at 730pm after the nashville weekend.  he didn't even bother with turning the lights out!

lake retreat

 there are friends...and then there are church kitchen friends.  if you've worked together in the kitchen serving meals to hundreds of people, you get to know each other.  and, these are some of the best!  maybe one day i'll get around to writing a post about all of the things we've done (and all of the things we've messed up)!  we had a lake retreat at pickwick a few weekends ago, and i managed to get a picture of us together for the first time.  crazy. 

me, judy, becky, gwen....the core four

inverness cc

 tupelo country club traveled over to Birmingham to play against the juniors from inverness country club one afternoon.  it was good to take advantage of the warmer weather for a weekend, and it was successful on the tennis front, too!

hymn festival

 the next to last keyboard competition is in the books.  william had to do a lot of things this year, and he received superiors in all of them along with some very nice comments from all of the judges.  

He had to:

play a hymn for the congregation to sing along

play an arrangement of that hymn

play a different hymn and then modulate it into a different key of the judge's choosing

play a classical piece from memory

one more to go! 

new favorite spot

abe has grown fond of the fireplace lately.  he'll jump up on the hearth and curl up until he gets too hot, and then he'll move to a more comfortable position.  he has even figured out how to tell me that he wants me to turn it on!   smart dog!

blackout

 what happens when the electricity goes out one night while you're in the middle of stringing of racket?

you prop your phone up and make it work.  i told him he should have charged double for that one!

D Now

 reed jumped in again with his harrisburg buddies for D NOW weekend.  i'm pretty sure not much sleep was had throughout the weekend, but he enjoyed it nonetheless!

rob and julie were brave to host all the 7th grade boys.  i told them that i'm positive their bathrooms will never be the same!

this is what he looked like about 30 minutes after getting home.  he got a nice 3 hour nap before bedtime!  :)