Monday, April 29, 2019

C2 Baseball in Full Swing!

Our baseball team is in full swing this spring and absolutely killing it! They are ranked top in state and only have a few losses. They have started playing up in the 14U division and are still doing well. I love this team. The coaches and the kids. They fight hard and manage to pull off wins even when they're down. They've won 3 tournaments already!

My favorite was this first one before spring break. The boys froze in the cold and rain. They played 4 games and made it to the championship game. Extra innings, down by 2, 2 outs, runners on 2nd and 3rd. Matt is up to bat and hits a ball right over the 2nd basemans head to win the game. It was so fun. The boys were exhausted but managed the best dog pile. This was a hard earned win! Matt got to bring home the championship belt!

  Boys got to enjoy and ATM baseball game before their games at Franklin Ranch. 
This was just this weekend. 14U tournament in LaPorte. Started Sundays first game going into extra innings and won. In the 2nd game they were down 6-1 and came back to win in the last inning. Championship game down 3-1 in the last inning and came back to win 7-3!

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

WMS Spring Sports Banquet

The booster club does a great job putting together celebrations for our teams and the Spring Sports Banquet was another great night.

Basketball, track and cheer teams were honored. Matt's basketball team went undefeated in district. The 7th grade boys track team won the district meet too! Matt received Offensive Player of the Year for basketball!
Corey, Matt & T!

These are my Matts! I love when they're playing together on the court and I can cheer for the Matts! Defensive and Offensive Players of the year!
Taeveon got MVP for the season!  
The boys loved having Coach Barnes as their coach. He did a great job teaching them to play the game, getting as many kids as much playing time as possible and also making them work hard! Everyone hopes they circle up with the boys next year.

Saturday, March 30, 2019

YoungLife Banquet

I had on my heart to start YoungLife at our high school for awhile now and I'm super excited that as of this year we officially have YoungLife at Summer Creek High School!

We had our annual Banquet and it was a great success! We raised almost $120,000 and had a great night. We played Bingo, had a nice dinner and enjoyed a great program!The YL kids from Kingwood and Summer Creek helped all night with setup, serving and cleanup. Such a great group of kids and leaders!
This is our Area Director, Casey Prescott. He's young, passionate about YoungLife and passionate about the Lord. Excited to have him leading the program in our area. He has grown the Kingwood ministry and it's so fun every week to see pictures of so many kids at Club and Campaigners. 
This is Meghan Rue, our new leader for Summer Creek HS! Meghan has been working hard this year training leaders, meeting kids and getting YoungLife up and running. We are so thankful for her passion for ministry work and moving to Houston to serve in this role. 

It was great to hear the kids speak about the impact YoungLife has had on them! 
It was super cool that our high school Principal, Brent McDonald and his wife Angie joined us as well as head football coach Coach Harrison and his staff. The high school soccer coach, Coach Owino also came to support YoungLife. So exciting! 
Matt Forbes and Doug led the live auction and did a fabulous job! We raised $6,000 in the live auction thanks to the wonderful items that were donated and our auctioneers talent!

It was such a wonderful night! Thank you to those on YoungLife Committee who worked so hard to put this together. Thank you to everyone who hosted a table and brought friends! And thank you to everyone who showed up and donated to help keep YoungLife going strong in our area!!

Sunday, March 24, 2019

National Charity League

I'm super excited that I get to participate with Marlie in National Charity League next year! Thank you to my sweet friend Amanda Tucker for telling me about it and answering my 20 questions! I'm excited that Marlie will get to do this with several of her friends from Fall Creek that she has grown up with.

The girls had their induction ceremony and got to meet girls from the area that will also be joining them.  So excited to start this next year!

Saturday, March 2, 2019

WMS Lionettes

Marlie is a 6th grader at Woodcreek Middle School this year. Most 6th graders can't participate in school sports but for some reason the 6th graders can be on the dance team. I encouraged her to tryout. It's not at the same level she's used to dancing but I knew it was a great opportunity for her to meet new friends and be a part of the school. And she loved it!

The girls got to perform at several pep rallys throughout the year. 
 They also got to do their pom at a 7th and 8th grade football game! It was so fun my worlds finally collided and I got to watch Matt and Marlie on the same field!! 
 At Christmas time the girls marched in the Humble Christmas parade!
In the spring the girls got to compete at 2 competitions. They competed in pom, jazz and hip hop. Their pom routine took 1st place and jazz and hip hop 2nd.

 This is probably my favorite pic. Hanging out in between dances and chillin'. 
Marlie got to see her friend Reagan that dances at Atascosita Middle School. These girls have danced together since they were 3! And Carmen came to watch them too. 
 Strutters also competed at this competition so we got to see Addie and Jayna!
Marlie got to compete her solos. It was so fun...her teammates and all the Lionette parents came to support her for both solos. When they called her out on stage it was so loud in the auditorium that I wasn't sure she'd hear her music. Marlie said it was the best knowing all her friends were there cheering her on. Such a great group of girls! Marlie also had several of her studio friends cheering her on too. Thank you Carmen, Ella and Cadence!

The second competition went really well too. Marlie had fun hanging out with Brooke who is on Lionettes too. Brooke won the solo competition for 8th graders and Marlie won for 6th grade. They both got to redance at the end of the night and it was so much fun to watch! They did great!
The next morning they woke up and got to audition for Joffrey ballet. Marlie was excited she got number 27 which happens to be Matt's baseball number! They both got accepted to several summer intensives. Thanks Brooke for being a great role model for Marlie and taking care of her when she needed a little extra love!