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...
OU, Auburn, Baylor, A&M - Celebrating FRAMILY graduations - Papa and Everly - over an hour like this - Just incredible - There\'s a story here - 51 years to Mama and Papa - Celebrating Ali\'s big 5-0 - Love this girl. Lots of memories with Grace after...
- Unexpected, restful week in Watercolor; Getting our toes in the sand - and ocean; Time with Stephen, getting to know Kyle better; Jungle Speed; Good friends and good food; Salty breezes, fairly cool beach temps; Golf carts and bicycles; Remembering Rosemary; Family...
Memory Lane. Thankful for this guy and friends who saw fit to deem me an honorary Pi Phi - If this is my thank you for hosting reunion, I\'ll do it every year - \"God shots\" in Numbers - God hates complaining, and he also (sometimes) gives very specific...
- Baylor girls REUNION - our 25th! - Cammi and Kristin jumping in to do all the food menu with me hosting, just thrilled - Certainly the virus is still making its rounds, but I\'m no longer keeping \"Corona\" in the title of these posts, as most businesses have...
Getting to hit the lake TWICE this past week - Lake with Cappy and Daboo, they\'d already been out there for a couple of days working. Felt so good to help them with some painting and just change locations for a day - Watching church on Sunday mornings together, while...
- Spring of Hud\'s senior year allows for some reminiscing, these picutres are worth not a thousand but about a billion words - Essie excusing herself from the dinner table, upset but we weren\'t sure why, and finding Hud in her room when I went to check on her. I...
- A full day of baking and cooking before Easter key lime pie C\'s creamed spinach cowboy rolls - Porch party with Jeff and Krista - Sweet delivery from the Kelley family - From the front yard - someone else\'s work I am getting to enjoy - Easter just our family -...
- Just finished week 4 of Coronoa Quarantine... about three more weeks projected of stay-home orders. I seriously can't believe it's been a month already, I hate that so many people are struggling and I'm (mostly) taking in every single day, grateful for the rest in...
- Perhaps my fav thing on FB this week, thank you SCS - My other fav FB post, thank you SCS - My other fav FB post - this one popped up from years ago- Easter time - Sunshine and this crew - There may be an extra kid hanging out here, but we have dubbed her a Wilson...
- These seniors are still seniors, Corona and all - Corona quarantine hasn\'t slowed Corbin\'s weekend breakfasts he actually enjoys this, finds joy in making big breakfasts - Continued quarantine, a couple of weeks in now. Grateful for a quiet calendar, time in the...
- These two, health and smiles and incredible hearts. And that right now I'm getting more time with them - Corona quarantine. Amidst the nasty virus, so many are finding comfort with the enforced slower pace and family time in unexpected ways - Essie home safe and...
Spring Break 2020 - Lunch with these two - Right before this #12 catching - Having a little fun Senior year (bottom left) - Wrapping up the PHS cheer year surprised by the Panther award - Essie\'s first softball game - with friends and family Yet another #12 in the...
- Salt Lake and Park City, UT with two of my favorite boys (missing the tall blonde one for sure). This college decision is going to be a difficult one for Hud - At DFW, security took my suitcase and asked if I had anything \"sharp of dangerous.\" Once open, she said...
- Watching Harriett Tubman movie as a family, important film - Time in park across the street with Corbin and kids, gorgeous Saturday for frisbee golf, Hud helping Essie with softball hitting and throwing (and a bloody nose?!) - Tanner and Lauren here with Lyla, loved...
- Happy 20th Branson Wilson - a joy to celebrate you - Megann\'s Texas visit - never know who you\'ll meet at Lulu - in Victoria! - THIS amazing crew. Not enough words - Lake weekend - not at the lake! Leslie\'s hospitality to make it all happen - Friends since...
- Auburn visit. He hasn't made a final decision yet, but I really think Hud will be sporting blue and orange. He's loving the kids he's meeting and is excited to be a part of the Auburn culture. The only college essay that made me cry was his to Auburn - Angie's...
- Joy's cheer comp - made it to finals, and then placed 15th in Texas, competing with all 6A schools (15th of 60) Mom came with me to all the events, and Dad joined us Sat, so glad for that time - Graham, his faithfulness, his family, his impact on our family and...
- Truth. I feel like Cappy and Daboo drilled this in us growing up, both in words and action - Unrushed lunch with Lori, overdue but just the right timing. Watching her love her family well is inspiring - FULL work week, getting to work with people I enjoy so much -...
- Corbin Wilson making breakfast for the telerads he gets to work with. What makes this picture extra-amazing. 1 - It's taken at 6am. 2 - Corbin made the homemade green-chili egg casseroles and cheese cream danishes late last night after work, Essie's soccer game, and...
- Truth. For me, the mountains or the sea. But the mountains this week - majestic and bold and peace-giving - Starting Bible Recap (thanks Jess!), happy for this resource and plan - How God describes himself: And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord,...
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Even if they’re grown, it’s not too late. No one ever outgrows the need for a parent’s encouragement or affirmation. On the phone with my dad for a few minutes this morning, I remarked on the learning curve that comes with working four days a week, that spending...
- Praise God Summer is HERE- Texas cool front this morn - low 80s - so refreshing- Kids all tucked away in amazing places - Bran in Victoria, Hud at Sky Ranch CO, and Basden at Frontier - so very grateful for these incredible opportunities for them- Looking ahead to a...
gabesalazar.com "Mom, Gabe was at school today. He called an 8th grader on stage and she started sobbing, and all of her friends started sobbing, and I was in my seat sobbing!" Whoa, what?! "Mom, you know Gabe, that speaker, we had an assembly with all the girls...
Mom\'s retirement party - and 4 of her soon-to-be 17 reasons for retirement Some of y'all know this, but my mom can do anything. Just ask Trey's wife, Amy. James Girls weekend last fall And with Mom's marker 70th birthday this week, I'm attempting to frame a few of...
"Wait a minute, they moved your daughter into a difficult roommate situation on purpose??" "Yep, they want to induce the struggle, they want to see their real colors surface so they can work through it." Yikes. This from my friend whose daughter is living at...
"Have y'all decided when you're going to move in?" This from the project manager of our painting company, who has become my new BFF, in regards to the house we bought last winter. "Well, no, because it's just today. And all I know today is today." He looked at...
Today is the day. The hundreds of times we've been asked over the last year, "How do you feel about your oldest graduating?" culminates with today - graduation day. Bran leaves in a little over a month for college, and for the first time since he was about...
“Can you do just this one?” These words from Cameron, Corbin’s sister who served as my doula during the intense (!) labor of our oldest son's birth. “Just this one contraction, TJ, don’t go ahead, just stay in this one.” Cameron stayed by my side every contraction,...
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 was touched...
I have nodes. I am living with nodes. But I am a survivor, but I have to pull back because I am limited. Because I have nodes. - Chloe, Pitch Perfect I’m on day 7... day 7 of TEN DAYS of no talking. Not a word. Not even a whisper. This after a...
With Bran as a newborn, one of my first opportunities as a mom to "soak it in..." I loved watching him laugh at his reflection in our little upstairs bathroom Life just doesn’t get easy this side of Heaven. Corbin and I ran into a small grocery store on Sunday...
- SCS HOCOGameday started with the Varsity players surprising the elementary kids ~ adorable!team mealthese twoRebekah and BranSeniorsPart of our Frontier crew ~ love these girlsSeniors and datesChloe and Hudsophomore crew- Friday nights - lotsa football- Essie loving...
- Oh my GOSH that we got to be a part of this amazing weekend with such once-in-a-lifetime opportunities!- Coach Rod\'s tweet the week prior - Bran felt good about his choice of playing his football game (we won by a landslide) and missing BU team dinner. And he...
- Essie's first 6th grade cotillion pretty cute 6th grade boys - This PUNKIN in Bozeman, our newest little cousin Audrey Crystal - More football - loving our Friday nights even with Hudda injured, still a thrill to see my boys together cheering on those Eagles the...
- More of football season!SCS pep rallies are so fun - they really are pep ralliesNot sure why he\'s #18 and not 3, but Bran voted by his team as a captain- Jennifer\'s pre-game cookiesBran with the ballHudda (#20) on D - Beating TVSTHAT was fun- Graham - sweet and...
- Friday night Lights - with BOTH Wilson boys on this team!1st scrimmageHud still in his purple now THAT\'s a fun pic- Cheering on these cheerleaders (who I got to spend a week with at Frontier)- Senior football boys and coaches- Sporting their new 6th gr shirts -...
There are so many things I want my children to experience. Too many things, things we can’t get to. I want them to work with children in low income neighborhoods. I want them to experience mission trips both locally and out of the country. I’d love for them to rub...
“Whoa!” The ball sailed over right field, a solid home run. I glanced back toward the hitter’s mom with a big grin and congratulated her son. The two-run homer gave us the lead, as well as shifted our team’s momentum and energy in this otherwise slow, stifling hot...
- CCBC Kids Kamp - I\'m always amazed with the way our church body - young and old and in-between - comes together to make this week happen!Coming downstairs to find this the first morning, Essie made sure we all knew what our day (week) heldDay 1 ~ here we go!Bran...
Walking down the Tanglewood Elementary steps on that bright sunny day, we thanked Mr. Williams for the school tour and he assured us, “I will know your car, your husband’s car, and Branson’s grandparents’ cars.” I believed him. Corbin and I looked at each other knew...
For YOU are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for you to do. For You are God's workmanship. For you are God's workmanship. For you are God's Workmanship. Last Sunday at church, after the graduating seniors (what...
- Several days with Brogdons here ~ extended our Spring Break half a week! - Basden’s school choir ~ Superior sweep yesterday. Mrs. Adair is absolutely amazing and a GIFT. Brought all the kids kolaches yesterday morning (has brought them donuts in the past), took...
- Spending spring break at home, restful. Watching a couple of tv shows with Corbin last night; kids all getting to sleep in, all six of us right here this morn; Tulsa cousins over last night for dinner and hot tub- Quick but encouraging convo with Jenna Lee in her...
Our tired bodies climbing the stairs together, Essie headed to her room, and I headed to mine, relieved that she was retiring so willingly. I set my sights on a long, hot shower to wash off the day. Not necessarily a difficult day, just a long, normal one, and I...
Sitting on the edge of his bed, when the clock strikes much-too-late, I exercise all my self control to listen, listen, listen. Another late-night conversation, where emotions flourish, pressed hard by fatigue and a long day. I'm grateful for the transparent...