Blake’s church from Puerto Rico took a trip to Waco for World Mandate! I was so excited to be able to attend with him. There were some great sessions and I left feeling like I had heard some fresh revelations. It was such a blessing to watch Blake love and worship the Lord. It has been decades of prayer, but the Lord is faithful! Before he left, we were even able to meet up with Teague and Troy, who was home for the weekend, for church on Sunday morning and lunch at Slow Rise.
Teague decided to play JV basketball with JP for fun. He hasn’t played basketball since 7th grade, so he is learning and having fun with a new challenge athletically.
The season was a good one and Teague enjoyed basketball more than he thought he would it was fun watching him play, but my favorite part of the season was when another mom of a player on the team came to tell me that Teague has made such an impact on her son. He helps him in practice and encourages him on the court . I was so happy to hear Teague is not only a good athlete, but also a good teammate!
The weekend we were supposed to be competing in Nationals for cheer turned into a very long weekend indoors. The large amount of rain that fell right before the temps dipped below zero gave us 5 days at home…all weekend and then 3 days home from school. We did a lot of reading and cooking and game show watching and enjoying the fire.
Troy sent pictures from Lubbock and their beautiful snow.
It looked like Pierce liked the ice and cold temps, also!
State Competition was amazing! The kids knocked it out of the park! Both the prelims and the finals were done perfectly! Unfortunately the judges scored pretty hard and we ended up 8th. Not bad, but we felt we deserved higher. The weekend was filled with getting fancy for Cheesecake Factory, lots of practicing and even more celebrating!
Nationals landed right on the weekend where we got ice for 2 days and freezing temps that shut down everything for 4 days. It was a sad ending to the season, but I’m glad we were all safe and warm in our own homes when the storm hit. I’m so happy we did so well at State and that performance was our final one for the year. They did great and ended the year with such wonderful memories! The team made one last appearance at the school board meeting to be recognized for 8th in the State and to receive their patches!
We had a wonderful turn out for Disciple Now! So many kids and so many leaders who opened their homes and helped with food and led small groups. I didn’t get too many pictures, but I got a few of Koby’s group since Teague was with him. We had our annual trash pick up, silent disco and then a bonfire for our night time activity and a great turn out for church Sunday morning. So thankful for what the Lord is doing in Axtell!
Always at the fireworks store! This year we had mainly seniors and college kids helping and it was so nice to not have to do much. The kids know how to sell things and run the registers and bag the items, so Richard and I just enjoyed hanging out. During downtime and the game to play this year was Imposter. The kids all have New Year’s Eve plans and left around 9pm but Richard and Charles and I stuck it out until midnight!
We had all the kids over on Christmas night to open gifts and stockings and eat and play a few games. Roy and Lynette joined us as well. It was a quiet evening with them all in one place and that’s the best gift of all!
