Catching Up

Dang, it's been a long time since I did a "here's what up" post. (Click the links or the photos for more info or more photos.) Here goes:

I spent Memorial Day Weekend in South Carolina with friends

and family


























In June the Knitting Group observed Worldwide Knit in Public Week with (click for the photos) a series of events. Great fun was had by all!

I went to the National Infantry Museum July 4th weekend.

I saw fireworks on the Fourth.

I saw my friend Katy play her first featured gig.

I went to my high school reunion later in July.

My friend Cindy and I went to a concert by the group Truth. We followed them for years until they stopped touring nine years ago. We were at their farewell concert in 2002 and now they are doing a reunion tour and we were at the first concert on that tour. It was so nice to hear the old songs again.

My friend Alice had a birthday party.

I started back teaching two-year-old Sunday School after taking a break with the Crawler class last year.








This is my new class who moved up last week:

I saw the group The Landsharks at the Phenix City Amphitheater last night. It was a fun party!

I've also been knitting:




Okay, I know that was a fast summer, but now I won't feel like I have so much to say to get caught up that it's overwhelming and I won't feel like I have time to blog.

Sunday School Visitor

So, I got to church this morning and started setting up the room and talking to the other teachers. I looked out the window and noticed something on the window frame. Thank goodness it was on the outside, or I would have totally freaked out.

To be truthful, the flash made it look more fierce than it did in person. Some of the kids enjoyed being held up to the window to get a better look. My friend Karen was creeped out by it and wouldn't even get close to the window.

Wordless Wednesday - Click the Picture for a Description

Where you do the clicking.

I'm so behind in posting pics. Click here to catch up with my 365 project. From there you can click on the next photo in the little browse window on the right.

I also took a trip to South Carolina for week of vacation. You can see those pictures here. There are descriptions under each of the photos.

The only yarn store within 90 minutes had a going out of business sale last Saturday. Laurie and Lacey and I went. See pictures here of all our fun.

Tomorrow we get a new group of two-year-olds in Sunday School. Every year I get nervous and excited. We so loved our class last year.

It's hard to leave them to go to a new group, but we know we'll love them, too. I made them Jello Jigglers. I hope they like them.

I'll post some knitting updates soon. I've finished a few things that I haven't even gotten into ravelry yet. See, it's not just the blog I'm neglecting. You know, it's all facebook's fault!

Wordless Wednesday - Click the Picture for a Description

A New Camera, and Another Week

First a story in pictures:


What's in the box?


It's safely packed, whatever it is.


Nikon Coolpix P60!


My new camera is here!

Now for my week in pictures:
Sunday, March 22:

I had lots of dirty dishes piled in the sink, so I loaded up the dishwasher and got them all clean. Yea!!!!

Monday, March 23:

This is my Have Fun! Scarf. I'm making progress. It's way prettier in person.

Tuesday, March 24, (Yeah, you already saw it, but it's a pic of the day):

My new camera is here!

Wednesday, March 25:

Yummy dinner. Busy Day Beef and Noodles from my Pawsitively Clemson Cookbook.

Thursday, March 26:

Boots was eating some of his dinner and paused to have his head scratched. He was still enjoying his dinner, as you can see.

Friday, March 27:

Hot Doughnuts Now! If you've never had hot Krispy Kreme, I'm sorry. When I was a senior in high school, we went on a trip to Columbia, SC, for an academic competition (yeah, I was a nerd). It was really, really important to our advisor (my physics teacher) to take us to Krispy Kreme for hot doughnuts. We didn't know what the big deal was. We'd had Krispy Kreme. What's so great about them being hot? Well, we soon found out. They melt in your mouth and they're just so good. When the Krispy Kreme opened in Columbus a few years ago (thanks to Hank Aaron who owns the franchise here), it was like a flashback to that late night in Columbia with Mr. Faile (yes, that was his name - and many of his students did). Sometimes that red neon sign is hard to resist!

Saturday, March 28:

This is my Sunday School lesson prepped for tomorrow. The story is about the widow's mite and the lesson is "God wants us to give our best".

I look forward to taking lots of pretty pictures with my new camera. I hope you enjoy the pictures, too. I've got to figure out how the manual settings work. I don't know anything about F-stops. I must learn.