Re:New 2026

This past weekend, the girls had Monday & Tuesday off from school for Labor Day weekend and they quickly filled it with a weekend getaway. Our youth group always uses Labor Day as a kickoff weekend for the school year with a retreat at Lake Lavon:

Last year Sophie only got to go for the day, so she was super excited to get to go and stay for the entire weekend. For the first time, they had a no phone policy, so I wasn't expecting many pictures, but thankfully a few parents shared some:

Turns out you could rent a go-cart for the weekend for $10 and both of our daughters jumped at the chance, especially Sophie:

Every grade has a theme color and 7th grade was purple:

She is lucky to have such a great group of girls in her grade:

Somehow, I ended up with more pictures of Sadie's group because they all took digital cameras to camp:

Can you tell that 9th grade's color was yellow?

Saturday night they all decided to dress up like Adam Sandler & I'll be honest; I laughed out loud when I saw the pictures. They look pretty good:

They play games & get points all weekend for winning, wearing their color, showing spirit, etc. and 9th grade won! Boys & girls combined. They were still celebrating when we got there Monday morning to pick them up:

This is one of my favorite pictures I saw of the group because they were all outside, by the lake, watching a fire dancer:

300 kids who all gave up their weekend to go to the lake & celebrate Jesus with each other. Truly awesome to see their hearts on fire when they come home. Thanks Blue for all you do pouring into our children!

First 7th Grade GMS Football Game

Instead of Friday night lights in Frisco, for middle school, it is Tuesday night lights & they officially started this week! Sophie has really long days on Tuesdays, but she wouldn't have it any other way. They have cheer practice at 7:00 in the morning, after school she stays for volleyball practice until 5:00, then she rushes to the stadium for the first football game at 5:30:

You can't even tell half of this squad did the same thing as her because they were ready to cheer! They have been practicing all summer for this night:

They cheer for the B game first on the sideline, then perform at halftime:

Then they take a break during the 3rd quarter to eat dinner before they get ready to do it all over again for the A team:

It was hot out there but thankfully it cooled off when the sun went down:

They had a lot of friends there in the student section cheering from the stands:

and of course she had her own cheering section with us also:

After the game, a group of them went to Raising Cane's to celebrate. I have a feeling it will be a fun season:

Life Lately - August

 Usually, I say how fast I feel like time flies by but for some reason, I feel like August slowed down. Maybe because it has been hitting 100+ every single day? And I am not exaggerating, we are having a hot, late summer with temps above 100 for weeks. And why is Labor Day late this year? I think mentally it will feel better if we can say we are past Labor Day and ready for fall? Either way, we are full steam ahead since school & activities are in motion. Sophie went to a fun birthday party at the lake with an obstacle course:

We've had a few sleepovers & the girls love baking homemade gf donuts when we have friends over:

Bryan & I volunteer with the children's ministry at our church quite a bit and a friend sent me this picture of Bryan while he was teaching children's church. So fun seeing him in action:

Cross Country has started having weekly dinners before their meet & Sadie said it was fun eating pasta & playing soccer:

Last week their meet was in Wylie, so they had to be at the school at 5:00 am and thankfully she got a little nap on the bus ride because she did awesome:

This week they bumped up from 2 miles to a 5k, which is 3.1 miles I think the extra distance helped her pull ahead of the competition because it was her best race yet. She got 39 out of 229 girls! And she is running varsity so there are a lot of upperclassmen she is competing against, but these 3 freshmen are doing awesome:

Whoever thought to bring a snow cone truck to the meet was genius because they all got cold treats afterwards:

They even had a special visitor stop by to cheer them on - their principal came to watch them run:

They ran on Friday and then she had soccer games Saturday & Sunday. She guest played on Saturday, but her team had a league game on Sunday. They actually started their league last weekend and kicked off the season with a 9-0 win:

They won yesterday 3-0:

I think this might be the most excited we have been about a soccer team before - it's going to be a fun year with this group of ladies: