Hanging with the Houstons: Soccer and September 11th!

It is crazy when you are old enough to have lived through significant events in our nation's history. I can remember exactly where I was 20 years ago when the terrorists attacked our nation and caused the loss of many lives. I was in my music education class as a freshman at UNCG. The professor dismissed the class immediately telling us he was emotional and needed to process what was going on at that exact moment. I had two classes prior to this that morning and was unaware of the events that were unfolding as I walked across campus from one building to another. I went with a friend to the dorms and watched the news broadcasting the events that had happened hours earlier. I had no idea what I was watching would be one of the most important historical events of my young life. As we remembered those that died twenty years ago and the people that have fought to keep our freedoms to this day, our school created a human flag using all 730 students and approximately 100 staff members. You can see the final product below along with our set up! I also took a picture of the UNCG post that marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. It is so hard to believe that I was there at the events mentioned in the post! May we never forget our history so we can plan for our futures. I already wonder what our boys will pass along to the next generation as they are living through events that will be depicted in our US history for years to come.

As I often get emotional about all the boys have had to endure over the last year and a half since the pandemic started, I really appreciated this reminder that they have been called to live for such a time as this. We each are exactly where God has intended us to be, facing the challenges and successes of 2021!

We also started our soccer games this past week. The jerseys haven't arrived yet but the boys loved playing with their team on the soccer fields this past weekend! Zander scored two goals in his first game, assisting his team with a 3-2 victory! While Maddox's team didn't win, Maddox had many good plays and loved running up and down the field after the ball!

A few other events from our week.... daddy was out of town for 5 days so I would occasionally send him pictures from our outings! We enjoyed dinner at Chickfila one night with my mom, sister and her kiddos!

We also picked up donuts for breakfast before church since I was in charge of breakfast for our Sunday school class... we figured we would eat some before we shared some! ;)

We started back with AWANA... the boys are loving our Sunday evening routine at church.... it brings back some of the "normal" we missed this past year!