"YOU'RE KILLING ME, SMALLS!"

So far:

• Saturday morning garage sales
• Visiting the old day lily field and remembering favorite flowers
• Cooking class with Mom
• River wading in Broad River in Columbia with Tas and friends...and Ivan.
• Cliff diving at the lake
• Peach picking in Greer county with Mom and Dad
• Learning how to mow the lawn
  • Doing it confidently, without slipping, falling and chopping my own feet off
• Weekly tradition of watching Secret Life in horror and amazement with the Spices
• Discovering Arrested Development, Quentin Tarantino films and Will Ferrel's "The Red Ships of Spain"
• Weekend Beach trip to Charleston with the Spices
• Carowinds with Michael, sans lines
• Potluck with the Spices
• Finding Morgan, an answered prayer and a wonderful gift from my heavenly Father
• Bob Dylan concert
• Harry Potter 6 Premiere, complete with obnoxious party blowers that I had taped Snape's face on and distributed to 20+ people
• First encounter with gym machines at the Five Forks Sports Club
• Dyeing my hair dark dark dark brown

Still to come:

• Enjoying home-made ice cream on the lake house porch
• Being in The Greenville Journal's video promotion
• 4-wheeling in the country
• Learning how to wakeboard...behind a fishing boat
• Photoshoot with Jen and Sir Beaux Regard Reginald Leo Jackson III
• Coldplay concert
• Sleeping under the stars on Lake Jocassee
• Visiting Morgan and the boys in Florida for her wedding vow renewal
• Lindsey's 21st birthday celebration
• BIG coed potluck
• Visiting a nursing home with Lexi
  • playing board games all afternoon
• Bicycle rides in the evening
• Touring the Greenville Zoo
• Put-putting for free downtown