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One graduation down, one to go

This weekend Roger and I travelled to Charleston to watch our niece Lauren and our nephew Christian graduate high school. Here are the happy grads waiting to line up.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooklahoma!

The choir is performing a Broadway Revue this Saturday night with music from Oklahoma, Annie Get Your Gun, and The Sound of Music. Here we are practicing, with yours truly in the front row (the perks of being petite). I’ve got just about all the music memorized. Now if I could just find a costume [...]

Have a turkey leg!

This weekend we went with Nate and Katie to the Georgia Renaissance Festival. I hadn’t been to a ren fest since moving to Atlanta so I was looking forward to it. It’s a great festival – lots to see and do – and it’s huge. We spent about 3 hours just walking around. We also [...]

What do crawfish, BBQ, auctions, and Jesus’ love have in common?

They’re all helping to send a mission team to Ecuador! This weekend, the Wilmer UMC Ecuador Mission Team is holding a crawfish boil and silent auction to raise money for the trip. I was tasked with making the flyer: Doesn’t the crawfish with a chef’s hat just crack you up? Last weekend Roger and I [...]

A Hometown Play

Last weekend Roger and I went to a play version of To Kill a Mockingbird. The play is presented in Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee’s home town. The town puts on the play each year, and I’ve wanted to go forever. If you haven’t read Mockingbird, go out today and get it. It was one of [...]