We didn't win but we fought hard!!

 This is our new team.  And boy did they fight. We won this tournament last year .. and it is always hot but the humidity. UGH








I provided shade for them and hid in the shade A LOT!!




T and I have been sick for TWO WEEKS. It's been hot and brutal.  I didn't let him play much in the beginning and his team needed him but I NEEDED his lungs to work.


Glen is helping me raise a man and I am SO thankful.  



He is helping to raise them all...



There is no greater joy than watching him play.  We had a long talk about expectations and I made sure he understood that he was NEVER to play for me. Not soccer, not football, not baseball, not basketball.. none of them.  He could take tuba lessons, draw, take cooking classes, or do whatever HE wanted and I would be right there cheering him on.

It's important to me that he knows this. I want him to think for himself, choose for himself and live out the consequences of those choices. I want him to fight for what he wants.


I am who I am because of what I learned on the field. Not because of the balls I caught, the shots I blocked ... but because of the choices I made. My parents allowed me to give 100%, they freed me to mess up and I'm so grateful for that.  I made lifelong friends on that field and I pray the same for Tristan.

I love you #16... you keep doing you... and I'll keep cheering you on!  
I don't want to miss a single second and Lord willing... I WON'T.  NOTHING else deserves my time and attention, and I'm so thankful the Lord gets me up each day!

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