Scenes from Tulsa

 

Cousin Love

We wanted to bring Keelin home with us. She is just a precious, sweet cousin - the girls adore her!

 

 

Jarrett + Kristen = Love

 

The Pumpkins Have Arrived!

 

The TUMC Pumpkin Patch is open for business again! This year, we will help fund youth mission trips to San Antonio and Chicago. We had over 200 volunteers help with the unloading! God is good.

6th Grade Dance

Just as I was preparing to take this cute group of 6th graders to their first school dance, we noticed a giant rainbow streaming across the front yard. What a lovely gift!

Forte

One of the most fulfilling experiences of parenthood is watching your child discover their forte. It was joyful to watch both girls excel this week at what they love.

Callie kicked it off with, what else, a soccer game. The Rangers won the game 2-1. Triumph enough on its own. However, Callie put the cherry on top by scoring not one, but both goals for her team. Witness the pure delight on her face in the series below!

Fast forward through the week, and it is Madden's turn. She performed beautifully, front and center, at her middle school pep rally - her first performance as captain of the dance team.

Very proud of these two!

Labor Day tourney

The Rangers were co-champions of the Labor Day tournament this past weekend. It was a dreadfully managed affair with a terrible schedule, however, the outcome was pure joy for our group of girls!

 

 

 

Old Friends are the Best Friends

We spent a wonderful week in the "Manor House" with our longtime friends, the Normand family. Missing them and their house full of shenanigans!



  Outtakes

 

1st Day

Mission: Houston

Madden just returned from a  five day mission trip to Houston with our church middle school youth group. They served in inner-city Houston at a variety of locations and in a variety of capacities. The trip was organized by CSM, Center for Student Missions, and based on her feedback, seems to have been impactful. The group had the opportunity to prep and serve a meal in a soup kitchen, to assist clients with English language skills and math skills in a literacy program, serve and play with children in a community learning center, deliver lunches via Kid's Meals on Wheels, help at Houston Food Bank and engage in an urban scavenger hunt. In addition, they ate at Mediterranean, Vietnamese and Mexican restaurants in order to experience a variety of ethnic foods representative of the urban setting of downtown Houston. I hear a few Sonic slushes made it into their itinerary as well. So grateful to the group of staff and volunteers that contributed to this experience.