Saturday the 5th was Erin's ballet recital. We were all happy that she got to have one in person this year! For some reason, they had to have it at Hope Community Church in Holly Springs instead of downtown at Fletcher Auditorium. Hope is closer to home, cheaper, and better waiting areas for the dancers, so seemed like a good thing to me. Erin says she prefers Fletcher, though. Who knows. She did a great job!
Sunday, we had a really fun day trip to Concord to see everyone, including Uncle Dale, Aunt Maria, Cole, Cooper, and Vinny, who were visiting from California! We had a blast grilling out, playing on the slip and slide, and playing a rousing game of kickball...plus ice cream sundaes and Bingo! So much fun!
Monday the 7th, Anna got her cast off after 5 weeks of wearing it. She was a real trooper to wear it in the heat and at the beginning of pool season (even though she could wear it in the water, it was still not fun). The bone had healed nicely and she's as good as new! I enjoyed book club that evening as well. Tuesday, the girls and I went to see Raya and the Lost Dragon in the theater with some tickets that Ms. Karen had given to us for cat-sitting pre-Covid. Wednesday evening, we all went to a Holly Springs Salamanders game. It was Bark in the Park Night, so Finley even got to go! It was a fun time.
Friday was our trek to Fort Wayne for Stephanie's wedding. We left around 7am and were to Fazoli's on Stellhorn Road before 6pm. That included an adventure for lunch at the mall in Charleston, WV. We stayed at what is now a Sonesta hotel on Washington Center Road, though Anna slept over at Grandma Harvey's with Ansley the second night. Friday evening, we visited at the Harvey house. Saturday morning, we toured Sweetwater Sound, which was a big hit! We also enjoyed 2 trips to Meijer. Saturday afternoon and evening was the very nice and fun wedding. Sunday morning was church and then a day at the lake! We all had a wonderful time. Monday was a smooth drive home. It was so nice to be there and visit.
Erin's two weekly summer dance classes started on the 15th/16th, and Anna's weekly summer futsal clinic began on the 17th.
Erin also helped sort used uniforms on the 16th, and both kids came back to school on the 17th to give tours to incoming middle school students. She got her second Covid vaccine that afternoon as well, and will be declared "fully vaccinated" on July 1st.
We went took Caroline with us to the YMCA pool on Friday.
It was a fun week! Bob had a nice Father's Day on the 20th, and he did the usual cooking on the weekend.
The week after was our pet-sitting week. We had the Tierney birds here (we had 1 fatality the first day, but she was on her last legs prior to us taking over), the girls watered their plants, and we took care of the Sauls house (guinea pig, 3 fish tanks, mail/trash, and plants). It gave us something to do, which was nice.
We also had dance/futsal, Erin's friend Carson came to our pool on Monday, and Erin visited Olivia and Elena at Olivia's on Wednesday. Anna also had her 11-year checkup on Tuesday and got a great report! Go Anna! We had Jimmy and Danny over to swim on Thursday, which was lots of fun, too. I have agreed to help the PSO president next year, so I have been busy getting plans together for next year, including two meetings that week. Hopefully once we have things in the works, it won't be as busy. Good news is that next year will be more "normal" in terms of events. Yay!
Saturday the 26th was OFTN for Bob and house chores for us girls. I enjoyed David's 40th birthday dinner at Osha in Holly Springs. Erin altar served on Sunday the 27th, and we girls hit the pool that afternoon. The week of the 28th was our big camp week - Erin had the Carolina Ballet Summer Intensive from 9am-3pm Monday-Friday at St. Mary's School in Raleigh (not to be confused with their regular school), and Anna had volleyball camp at Cardinal Gibbons from 12:30pm-4:00pm Monday-Thursday. It's been a busy and fun week and I have thoroughly enjoyed touring Raleigh for a few days. Erin and I checked out NC State campus on Tuesday, and I visited the Alexander YMCA on Hillsborough Street on Tuesday and Thursday.
Erin is really enjoying the ballet camp, which is wonderful! She's so happy and not too exhausted each night.
We are excited to get to watch her group put on a performance on Friday afternoon. St. Mary's campus is beautiful, and now it's concerning that Erin is aware of this all-girl high school option in the area. She would be paying for it, though! Anna is also enjoying learning volleyball. As of now, the verdict is still out about her trying out for the school team in August. She seems to still like soccer more, but she likes volleyball too.
So, that was our busy month of June! We are thankful that this June is much more normal than last June. We are not thankful for the heat and humidity, but it goes with the territory around here. As far as Covid, nothing has really changed, and the current orders are in place until July 31st, but we are really hopeful that masks will become optional in school this fall. Cases are dwindling and vaccinations are increasing, but kids 11 years old and younger are not eligible for vaccines. We will see. Other than that, mostly everything is back to normal. Thank goodness! We did have some sad news that our NC State baseball team that made made it to the final 4 in the College World Series was disqualified for having several players in quarantine for testing positive for Covid. Bummer! Bob is still working from home and has not traveled, but he seems to be ok with that. Here's hoping for a continued return to normalcy!
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