September is nearly wrapped up!

See You at the Pole MS 2022 Edition:
Apparently Reid prayed out the entire group of about 50 

(I haven't heard it from him yet but did from others)

Kids from our church

See You At the Pole - with his new (old) friend, Grady Condley.

This kid made the best decision of his life to follow Christ nearly a year ago. He was baptized on September 11 and we followed it up with a family party at The Garage.

Pastor John

Paul and John

First photo post-baptized

Pink Out week is a big deal in Stillwater. Suzanne and I even went to far as to get matching shirts off of Amazon and we had so much fun.

This game was against Sequoyah (otherwise known as Suckoyah to me)

They were undefeated and #1 in conference when they got to Stillwater.  Our girls played lights out and gave it their all and minimized stupid errors and WE WON. In two sets!

It was a huge night for us!

Varsity

We celebrated with a margarita with Mom and Dad

I don't understand why teens are all happy and then pose like this for a picture

Trumpet Practice. Yay.

Hefner Family Reunion at Lake Murray

The crew minus Jace, Scott's boys and Taylor's family

bedtime snuggles

with 3 of the 4 7th grade girls who made Varisty

This is what a post-game huddle looks like when you are only a few points from defeating Deer Creek on your last home match

Fall ball for Reid

These cutie patooties in their last cross country meet together.

Grant is so much more social this year and has found someone to do some stuff with, too.

The Seniors

Alex, Keke, Mack, Caleb, Grant, Mabrie, Lydia, girl, Keegan, Marec, Landry, boy

ha!

Morning walks with Lori before Bible study

When did his legs get so long that there's a huge gap between them and the seat?!

Last practice! We had pizza, fudge, cookies, and Chickfila nuggets!

#BestJHCoachesEver

Our Varsity team, for the first time in recent volleyball history, made the Saturday bracket play of the conference tournament.  I got to see Molly and crew both days. Fun when 42 years of friendship meets again in gymnasiums.

StuCo, Cross Country, Vegas, Vball and St Louis!

Student Council Execs for the year after their first Howdy Week event

Grant and his friends at Senior Night Bowling for Howdy Week

The boys had a cross country meet on Friday. They were both supposed to run but Kyle asked to stay at school to go to math class because he had a not-very-good grade.

Surprise! We came!

Senior Boys

JV Boys

Soaking in the "lasts" for Grant

Suzanne and I in the front of our bus coming home from a game!

This has been the most fun season of coaching due to our personalities.

When your hubby goes to Vegas...

You get two pictures and not even one of his friends!  UGH!

When your hubby goes to Vegas...

You get an extra roommate the entire time!

Just some food Jason is proud of so it belonged here. He made these for the first football game (which I missed due to volleyball).

The Edster and I love to go on walks!

Campbell and Grant made us cookies one night.

All three boys went to the county fair. They didn't last too long there though... guess it was stinky and very crowded.

Labor day weekend trip (just kidding - 25 hour trip to St. Louis) from 6am Saturday to 7am Sunday:

The Cardinals are Grant's team. The Cubs are Reid's team.

So we had to go!  #HouseDivided

No family trip would be complete without Reid getting sick. He had a fever and slept in the car while we waited in a long line for the US's #6 best BBQ restaurant (we didn't think it was that amazing) and then finally joined us to eat.

The people who cared about the game...

Those who did not...

He was so happy to be there.

We got in to the stadium early enough that Reid was able to watch the Cubs bat and warm up.

Cardinals won 8-4.

Reid was disappointed.

We got to the hotel about 10:30 only to discover they cancelled our reservation (and all other 1 nighters) that afternoon and didn't notify anyone. Jason and I decided to just keep driving and we made it to Joplin where we slept for 2 hours in a parking lot and make it home by 7am, just in time to go back to bed when we'd usually be getting up and ready for church.