Track and Fabric, As Promised!

Well here's our TWO TIME NCAA FIRST TEAM ALL AMERICAN!

These photos were taken after the first day's events.............. 60 meters, long jump, shot put, and high jump.  It was a roller coaster day.  Everyone is pretty sure his third jump in the long jump was mis-measured and his coaches filed an appeal, he was given an extra jump, but it was never counted as the NCAA rarely grants appeals.  He kept plowing on though and came back big time to set a new PR in the high jump (going 1/4" higher than ever before, and we quilters know that every 1/4" counts!)

Here he is with cousins Pam and Susie, and I threw in the pic below with his "little" brother and brother's fiance, Carmyn, just to point out that Carter is really not that big when it comes to track athletes.  I hadn't realized it until we saw the size of the competition.

He did the hurdles, pole vault, and 1000 meters the second day and had a new PR in the 1000.  He also scored over 6000 points for the second time in his career.  This put him in 6th overall and first team All American status for the second year.  Last year he was fifth, but with a lower point total.  If he'd had this point total last year, I think he might have been second last year.  It was just a stacked field of competitors.  We also learned that the kid who won was paid a million dollars to transfer to Oregon last year.  Carter was a walk on freshman, and is now on full ride scholarship.

And please remember that we were in Arkansas.  That's the only explanation I can give for why none of them wore shoes on the podium.

There was limited sewing time before we left, but you know I just couldn't leave the snails alone.  Here are the last 6 for the quilt.  All 12 and the flowers made the trip with us so that I could shop for border and backing.

We made it to Marshall Dry Goods on Monday afternoon for a couple of hours of shopping.  Here are the fabrics I got for my mom.

We returned on Tuesday morning, (David's birthday) for a couple more hours.  I don't have anymore fabric pics to share.  I only bought what was on my list!  Maybe that was my birthday gift to David, no impulse buys, only borders and backings!

 This is the new retreat center they have across the street.  I didn't find out anything about it, don't even know if it's open yet.

Well, there was much more to the trip including some fabulous food, but I'll leave that for another post.

Christi