Happy Hoco to me

Sep 24, 2023 | Adventures, Family

Months ago when our SCS Homecoming date was released, we cleared all the kids’ calendars and bought plane tickets to get them home. After 17 years in the stands cheering on her older siblings, the big kids showed up to support Essie in her senior Hoco pep rally...

Fort Worth Zoo by Day… and by Night

Apr 17, 2023 | Adventures

Feeling extra proud to live in this city. Extra proud and extra grateful. Corbin and I got to spend ALL of Saturday at the zoo. And with this fabulous weather, there was no better place to be. Never mind that all of DFW also decided to spend the gorgeous April day...

And She Came Home More Beautiful

Apr 5, 2023 | Adventures

“She’s going to come home more beautiful.” Corbin and I agreed on this, and that her friends would as well. Essie is home from South Africa. The twelve days to me felt like a month. I was not scared for her safety, wasn’t even nervous about her being so far. I was...

Practicing Gratitude 6.5.21 ~ Our week in Costa Rica

Jun 5, 2021 | Adventures, Family, Gratitude

A whole week in Costa Rica with Corbin and the girls. Took us a few days to truly relax and get our bearings. Loved getting to eat nearly every meal together Driver pulled off the road to show us howler monkeys so many meals together ~ just wonderful A day in Las...

Young Life’s Frontier Ranch ~ Excellence in All

Dec 6, 2017 | Adventures, Reflection

  June 2017 Last summer God presented me with the most amazing, unexpected surprise of getting to go as a LEADER to Young Life\’s Frontier Ranch. It was a marker experience, and I don\’t want to miss getting some of the details down. Just last night I...

Baseball Gypsies

Jul 25, 2016 | Adventures, Family

Franklin.Waco.  San Antonio.Houston.San Antonio.Waco.  Springfield.  Atlanta. Franklin. … and this week, Lubbock!I haven\’t actually counted, but pretty sure I\’ve spent more nights in hotels this summer than in my own bed. Fortunately, it\’s...