Three weeks in June with this one - she is remarkable. Easy to be with, and yet pushes me to obedience This little Cheer Captain kicking off the summer with SCS Cheer camp. Here comes senior year Getting to be married to this guy. Full of joy and service Whew a month...
Ruby girl, we are just so surprised that you’re gone. You didn’t give us any warning, and that high-voltage personality of yours has left a huge vacuum in our home and in our hearts. We’ve been nursing Cross through some old-age symptoms lately but you hadn’t shown...
Each step elicits a crunch as my feet steady the slightly shifting gravel under my sneakers. Each step on this wooded, gravel path across from our home. Like opening an old perfume bottle, spring and summer walks usher in the memories of my college summers at Kanakuk,...
GORGEOUS weather, oh my goodness. Cool front, just lovely Sweetest grad party last weekend - Just amazing people from all facets of our life, reminded me how many neat kids we know. Essie and Basden had so much fun, we all did. Helped lift my heart to remember how...
God’s sovereign control is the guarantee that you will have everything he has promised you. God is involved in every detail of our lives, and he is near. Max's steady encouragement. Can I ready this every day please. Essie taking Liv's senior pics That the Holy Spirit...
Prom season! So fun AND it's done 🙂 Just the most amazing weekend in Georgia for with Adeline’s wedding - staying with Trey and Amy and their fabulous kiddos, time with Hills, Moffatts, Lawrences, Brogdons and many more Trey has always been my hero Charlotte is...
**In light of Mother's day (and Father's day) around the corner, I'm reposting this from a few years ago. It's a a lesson I need to keep learning, still need to be reminded of. If I could give one gift to myself and to friends in the trenches of parenting, it would be...
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...
Easter in Auburn! Our whole family and lots of friends Our fam text thread as we boarded the plane for Auburn - had me in stitches All of our health - just incredible - everyone healthy, lots of hope and vision for what’s ahead Basden Joy. She really is JOY. I have...
- Auburn Young Life placement - Essie's friends getting baptized, and her photos - ACC college retreat at Sharptop Cove, Auburn date parties, all the fun . . - Max's wisdom - Take me out to the ballgame - These two - Surprising Jessica for her 50th birthday weekend...
“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...
Auburn weekend with Joy and Hud, seeing their lives in 3D. Mostly good and some hard, and continued evidence that You care for them when we are so far away ~ even better than we would anyway So many special people in Auburn who impact their lives . Permanent...
We almost lost Papa in the spring of '99. Papa and Mama (who were actually not yet Papa and Mama, aka Charles and Jamie) took our family of newly grown, newly married kids to the Greek Islands. Immediately after we arrived in Athens and boarded our cruise ship,...
Essie's travels to Dubai, then to Durbin, eventually to Port Shepstone, South Africa with SCS minimester . . Joy in Kauai with Sarah and the Niccore fam this week Oh my goodness LOOK WHO is in Kauai! NICKMO Hud and crew - road trip to Angel Fire and back to...
Mystery Dinner #4 . . . . Sundays This morning’s walk, cool but not cold, reminders of your truth as I walk - your grace is sufficient, WHO you are, you will help me wait, you are the Vine and keeping me tucked in, you will fight for us while we keep silent, you are...
Basden at Orange Beach for the weekend with seven Auburn friends . . . In-town sleepover at Sanders with Wolfes. Krista's over-the-top hospitality, deep talks and deep laughter. Decades-old friends providing decades-old comfort and friendship. And it was susch a fun...
“Is it our business to pry into what may happen tomorrow? It is a difficult and painful exercise which saps the strength and uses up the time given us today. Once we give ourselves up to God, shall we attempt to get hold of what never belonged to us - tomorrow? Our...
This popping up on my phone. We knew even then she was all Joy Valentines day at SCS - Christina, Kendra, Kelly, Brooke... I don't even know who all was exactly responsible for making our teachers and staff feel the love, but it is a lot of work and really precious....
- Bran's family birthday dinner- happy 23rd! - Paul Tripp - "You don’t have to be anxious about the future. A God of grace has invaded your life, and he always completes what he starts." "It’s hard to look at the future and feel secure, because the future is simply...
Lake weekend at Bannister's incredible lake house, just incredible beauty and comfort. Dinner together at Eagle Mountain Boat Club and relaxing all weekend . Humble yourselves, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him...
Mystery Dinner #1 last night - OH MY WORD. Corbin outdid himself! Such a fun evening - I feel VERY celebrated at 50 😊 Randy and Lindsay Key, Jason and Lindsay Safran and then Ken and Lori Schaefer - all have TCU in common. One couple of doing Whole30 so our ENTIRE...
Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles... 1 Chronicles 16:11-12
Processed with VSCO with a9 preset Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles... 1 Chronicles 16:11-12
Wrapping up the last 6 weeks of summer in one post... trying to keep it succinct... lots to be grateful for First and foremost, grateful with my whole heart to be an American. Family vacay in Riviera Maya ~ 5 days with my very favorites after a summer apart Essie's...
Today Corbin and I are celebrating 25 years of marriage. WOW and Praise Jesus. It just so happened that the five days we could wrangle family time this summer coincided with our silver wedding anniversary - Corbin literally booked this trip last spring without us...
Park City - this mountain town, how much we enjoy being here Our hike up above Silver Star and lunch at the Silver Star cafe All of the fabulous views from Hotel Park City, both from our cabin and from the lobby, such a gift to be here Silver Lake hike so...
Father's Day 2021 ~ I got the best Father's day - got Bran home for the day, missing Hudda! ummm... this was a first Father’s day sure makes me realize that I am so taken care of my dad and by Corbin - and Papa! Three amazing fathers. I couldn't be prouder of Trey,...
A Branson surprise! Showed up for Sunday lunch Love having him home for a few hours Bailey moved in and is a FABULOUS addition to the Wilson home Summer begins with HSM SO very grateful for Chrissie's decision to stay with me in Admission ~ whew!! More productive and...
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...
SCS Jr / Sr Prom 2021 - and the kids actually had a dance the ask the hair (Basden did her own and about five others) the pick-up the girls the crew the clean up the Mommas ANOTHER two-spot for B yesterday - and then a three-spot! That our "Dewalt explosion" did not...
Eatzi's and a dusk picnic at Colonial That for the first time in 21 years I bought a half gallon of milk Greg and Kim's 80s party ~ fun to see so many people from different seasons of our lives. Charlie Erwin's encouragement. What shows up on my camera roll Corbin...
Reunion with my Baylor besties, divine weekend @ Molly’s home in College Station. And the pictures don't lie... all we do is talk and eat Hud packing up his entire dorm by himself and making the 11-hour drive home... first year at Auburn more than we could have...
Softball is going to playoffs And this is how a double feels Time with Papa and Mama, although never as slow and relaxed as I imagine it will be. Biggest practical gift is that they cover dinners ~ whether homemade or Campisis Choo Choo Charlie in town Practicing...
Basden's Junior Blessing service ~ a really precious marker ushering her into her senior year (!) Hud’s heavy tests and finals week, that you are WITH him A cool, rainy day at home. Goodness gracious We love, because he first loved us. 1 Jn 4:19 - “The Bible teaches...
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...
It seems like January 1st can’t get here fast enough. We don’t have to scroll very far to see 2020 memes with hearty “good riddance” salutations, and this headband above, my friend's Target purchase, made me laugh - I think we\'re all ready for some comic relief. As...
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...
We're anticipating celebrating Hudson’s high school graduation in a couple of weeks. Ceremony plans have been a moving target with Covid, but we’re hoping to celebrate this SCS Class of 2020 officially with actual caps and gowns. And tassels. A couple of months ago...