Kennedy Attends Cheer Camp

If you follow Vanessa on Facebook then you have already seen these pictures. I'm posting here for my benefit. This was the first week of June.

The Mineral Wells High School Cheerleaders Facebook page made this post with the following posts.

That’s a wrap for Cheer Camp!

These girls performed great all week and represented Mineral Wells with pride! We are excited to announce that they earned:

Top Team Cheer in the Large Varsity Division

A Spirit Stick

And a huge congratulations to Raylee Brock for being selected as an All American Cheerleader!

A special shoutout to Mrs. Jordan for chaperoning camp and helping us take on a bigger team this year. We were so grateful to have her with us—she is truly amazing!

I am so proud of this team and all the hard work they put in this week. Football season can't get here fast enough! This group is incredibly talented, and they are game day ready!

Go Rams!

Kennedy is on the backrow standing on the left side of the dark skinned girl.

Kennedy is in a different spot but on the back row.

Kennedy is on the back row about in the middle.

Kennedy is on the left in blue.

This was taken in front of Mineral Wells High School either before they left of after they returned.

Have a good one!

Rude Awakening

 We were awaken early Friday morning of June 19th to an alert for a Tornado Warning! Not how you want to be awakened!

There was not a visual but the storm indicated rotation so an alert was issued. It was coming from the Northwest and was tracking to go right through downtown Mineral Wells where highways 180 and 281 intersect.

I started praying as I was getting dressed. I asked Doyle if I should try to contact Mom. Then it occurred to me she charges her phone in the living room and wouldn't hear it anyway. It would require me going over to her house. He said lets just watch for a bit. The storm starting weaking as it approached Mineral Wells and the alert was canceled 16 minutes later.

We had a few limbs down but nothing more serious. This was the worst one and the only limb that was not dead. It came from the tree on the other side of the carport.

These limbs were dead.

This limb doesn't look very big in this photo. Our neighbor offered to cut it up for us.

Have a good one!

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 This is our second year to attend Igniting Hope Ministries "Abounding Hope and Joy" Conference held in Redding, California. This conference is much smaller than the ones we attend at Bethel Church. We arrived in Redding Tuesday May 2026.  It was cool and rainy Doyle and I chose to not do anything on Wednesday. Just relax. 

When we were in Redding in November for the Leaders Conference, we met a young woman from South Dakota. She came by herself to the conference. We had another couple with us (closer to her age). We invited her to hang around with us. We exchanged contact information and stayed in touch. Doyle invited her to come to the Abounding Hope and Joy Conference and to stay with us in our VRBO. She accepted.

She flew into the Redding airport on Wednesday and we picked her up. Thursday was a beautiful day and
we rode e-bikes along the Sacramento River. Her name is Elizabeth.

We encountered Canadian Geese with their goslings. I suspect that people feed them as they were not the least bit intimidated by us.

I never get tired of this view! So pretty. 

We rode a trail in Turtle Bay where the Sundial Bridge is. We had not ridden this part of the trail before. We actually rode it backwards

This is the view from the sign above.

We had a great time. It was our last free day as the conference started the next day.

Have a good one!