Echoes of Excellence and More!

To start out this blog, I thought I'd show you something cute. Here are Spunky and Florence, enjoying their afternoon together. Florence is napping with her cute little head tucked in on her back and her little leg tucked underneath. This elicited many an "awwww" from the family, including Travis.
Last year, at the Christmas Craft Day at church, Lani had gotten these Halloween panels and had me quilt and bind them for her. Donna decided she wanted them too and went and bought them. As payment for doing this favor for her, she gave me the two smaller panels. Aren't they cute? I LOVE them!! A couple Saturdays ago, I spent the day quilting and binding and am happy with the results!!

This week's football game was in Daytona against the Seabreeze Sandcrabs. They share a stadium with the college there, hence the huge stadium. Fleming Island was victorious. Travis chaperoned the band and took along the nice camera to take pictures. However, this particular picture was taken by the band's photographer who took this picture. At the end of the game, the team, cheerleaders, and dance team all gather together and sing the alma mater (accompanied by the band). Roz and her friend always try to position themselves for the photographer. Roz got right in front this week and smiled pretty for the photographer. The young man next to her (#23) is one of my students from last year, De'Aundray. He is a great kid and seems rather exuberant during this rendition.

Saturday was a long day for Morgan. After having gone to Daytona the night before, she had to get up and go for a marching band competition (Echoes of Excellence) in Middleburg (about 20 minutes down the road). It warmed up pretty quick and it was down right hot by the time they took the field at 3:15. We took the zoom lens and got really good pictures. If you check my facebook, I have an album dedicated to the competition and they are great pictures. I like this picture because it is very purple.

Here is an impressive line of tubas! Morgan is the short one.

We left after they performed and Morgan texted us later to report that they were in 2nd place overall and won their division. She was very excited. We went back for their finals performance at 9:15 last night. They did wonderfully, came in 3rd place overall, and got the highest score they have ever gotten at this competition. It was very exciting. Also on my facebook in the videos is a video of this competition.

It is hard to believe that this is Morgan's last marching season. She announced that Friday was her half birthday. She is nearly eighteen!! And with that, I'll bid thee farewell. Homecoming this week, so stay tuned!