Our Future Designer Has Returned

 

Well, I picked Claire up yesterday after a week at the Architecture/Interior Design Program at MSU to see if she is indeed interested in this field as she has been telling us.  MSU is close so we decided to let her attend the camp and just have fun.  And fun she had.  She learned to render and a bunch more and got to use "really good supplies" according to Claire....She met lots of new friends, and turns out she seems to have a knack for this...we shall see! 

She got to present to different groups of parents, starting with me, so that ws fun!  She actually talked and seemed outgoing!

Check in on Monday am....

lighting scavenger hunt on campus

Learning to render by hand...

Proud of Claire for leaving her comfort zone to this camp and realizing she had a blast !!!

Claire goes off to camp!

Well, we left our youngest for the week in Starkville yesterday morning at MSU!  She was accepted earlier in the year in their reknown Interior Design Camp and we just pray she talks to others!  She has a roomate, schedule, open studio time, and much more.  She was over the moon excited, and ready for a small break from golf as well! Hopefully more picutres are on the way soon!!!

 

Claire gets after it...and shoots a personal record!

Well, the reason we did not go on vacation to Navarre with my family was because Claire wanted to play in the 2 Day Sneds Open Series at Quail Ridge, our home course...Doing well in this tourney would really help her rankings, and by golly she did it!  She placed 1st overall in 100 heat both days with an 81/75!  She had a rough back 9 on day 1, but cleaned it up today!  It was a hot one and she did not let that bother her! Go Claire go!

Claire's playing partner today from Nesbit, MS.  They had a blast playing together!

Go Claire go!

 

More Golf and a Birthday!

Look at the focus....she had golf before and after my Birthday, but we had a golf free day yesterday on my actual Bday..and it was lovely!  We had lunch, cake, and swimming at The Cardosi Home and had a blast!  A very much needed relaxing day!  Thank you Cardosis!

Leave it up to Jesse to take this shot!

After Mass pics on my 49th.

I thank God every day for my health and family!  I intend to rock 49.....!

 

An absolute golf whirlwind!

Well, we drove down the Delta to Greenville, MS and Claire was accepted into the Future Champions 2 Day Tourney.  It was probably the most well organized tournament Claire has even played in....shuttles, free practice rounds, free swag, banquet complete with door prizes that were amazing, and volunteers everywhere.  Claire had a rought first day figuring out the course and greens, but made corrections on day 2 and shot a personal best of 76!!!  She moved up that scoreboard considerably.  Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to win due to her first day, but we were overwhelmed with her progress.  Her putting has turned a corner...now to really work on distance....

They had real scoreboards like at PGA events.

Sweet Jesse sent me flowers (he's away at his internship) because the weekend he come to visit, he brought with him a very nasty case of Covid with high fever.  So, as a mom would do, I took care of him and these were a sweet suprise!

So, a day before we left for Greenville, we got a call that Claire had a spot in the PGA Girls Championship in Murfreesboro, TN the day after the MS tourney!  So Claire slept in the car and we arrived in Murfessboro for Claire's 2 nd tournament with no break whatsoever.  She had a 8am tee time on day 1 and shot an 80 on a really long Old Fort Course.   We were so pleased!!

The most beautiful and wonderfully smelling tree I've ever seen.

A former SBA golf standout and Belmont Golfer Meribeth!  Claire was tickled to see her! She worked the TN tourney

These girls from all over TN love seeing each other at these tournaments...it's like a reunion.  So Claire played Malerie from Knoxville, TN early in the spring and they were tickled to see each other! They have birthdays one week apart ! 

She finished 13 out of 23.  23 of the best in very  Tennessee.  Many were graduated and headed to college golf.  Of course she was the smallest as usual.  She is hoping for a better place next year...go Claire go!