All 4 kids home for Easter! Time with all 6 of us - 3+ days Joe Ts Thurs night, Taste Fri lunch with girls working, Bonnell’s last night. I don’t have to eat again for awhile! Lunch and hanging out at Bourland with Cappy and Daboo Laughing so hard at Bonnells with...

Texas redbuds!!   C. Spurgeon - “Wisdom is the RIGHT use of knowledge - to know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the more fools for it… Prov 20:15 - There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel....

Minimester service at Tatse Project and a food pantry First Breakfast, I see you   FULL days at work leading into spring break Mom bringing me lunch (Fuzzy\'s, no less) when I forgot mine and didn’t have time to leave - precious   Cindy’s great ideas. And getting to...

Sundays at church - no replacement for in-person community (thank you, Basden and Essie, for pushing us to attending in person early this year) A Hudson sighting! Suzanne running into him with friends at a basketball game in small-town Georgia Have been in Proverbs...

  Even after our crazy Snowmagedden week, we pushed through to host 14 girls for the There{4} Conference in our home. With our power barely back on, a city water boil order, frozen and cracked pool pump equipment, non-functioning refrigerator, and a couple busted...

Goodness, sometimes this gratitude list is a practice, a discipline, more than other weeks. Thankful for  Ann Voskamp for writing a whole book on regularly practicing thanking the Lord. It's most definitely a healthy response to when I don't feel real grateful. When I...

Friends that fill her with joy Ps. 112:6-8   Surely he will never be shaken; a righteous man will be remembered forever. He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting the Lord. His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will look on...

Corbin and girls Daddy / daughter weekend in Playa del Carmen - Christmas gift Lake weekend, all seven of us, Bannister’s lake house. NINETEEN years. Listening to these friends' conversations - college kids (and three-year-olds!), home decor, politics and culture,...

- Brogdons AND Keisters here last night, kids had so much fun! Dinner, hot tub, movie upstairs… really is dreamy getting to see the kiddos all forge close friendships - THIS from Krista. Cannot recommend highly enough. Effective tool to "think" Gospel   “The gospel is...

Weekend with Brogdons before "life" starts up again in 2021 For a family who doesn't do puzzles very often, 1000-pieces is no joke. Corbin and Hud carried the torch here. When Mr. Williams loves our children well, he loves us well. What a life and legacy, Lord, thank...

- Finishing up Christmas week in Angel Fire   - Waking up with all four kids in their own beds - 2 Sam 9 - One of my fav accounts in Scripture - David and Mephibosheth, just an incredible view of David remembering to go back and thank someone in Saul’s family, and...

- Such a celebration to get all six of us together - Feet Worth (!) and fun dinner - Celebrating a happy happy 48th birthday. Mom\'s fun and unique gift; surprises at work; lunch with Chrissie, Cindy and Jeromy; family dinner at Hoffbrau; surprises from Little...

Thanksgiving 2020 - Fall leaves on my walk - oh my goodness! Has changed in just the 5 days we were out of town - Celebrating fall inside and out - A fall Sunday shopping in Granbury with Mama and Corbin - an excuse to get outside and enjoy a gorgeous Sabbath, along...

 - Celebrating Corbin\'s 50th birthday - dinner at home with close friends - Both boys coming home to surprise him the night before his birthday for a family dinner - Corbin\'s co-workers not letting him off easy - First Baylor game of the season for us. We were...

Sky Ranch posted this within 24 hours of me reading Hud\'s detailed description of this chapel - Tulsa family for a quick visit! Briley and her blackberries - Getting to see this one, have missed Harp this summer! - Kamp sightings How fun for these two - high school,...

- Dinner at Tricky Fish, Essie\'s yummy wings, these two beauties above (that couldn\'t look more different). Getting to see Mac and Mason made our evening - HSM, under Graham\'s leadership. The evidence of a grounded ministry all around - Hud\'s senior Bible,...

It took going to Kamp and driving boats to get this boy in a cowboy hat. I\'ve only been waiting 20 years for this - Julia graduating AND going to Baylor. Sic em! - Evening neighborhood with with Corbin. Stopping and sitting on the bench - just to stop - because we...

Old pics make for some sweet memories - Summer with our girls - Digging through old photos... brings me great joy to think of Bran experiencing Kanakuk for the first time - Another nod to lots of effort - Sky Ranch Ute Trail staff  - surprising our seniors with a...