March 2023

 "Only those with tenacity can march forward in March." - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Go back and read that quote again.  Tenacity.  What a word!  "The quality or fact of 1) being able to grip something firmly; firm. 2)being very determined; determination. 3) continuing to exist; persistence.  This month has been full of ALL OF THAT, plus our continued drive to celebrate in 2023 - despite the struggles, set backs, disappointments, and pain.  There was a LOT to celebrate in March!

Started off the Month with Mom all in her feels...

Lara had a procedure at the hospital to light up her
gall bladder - didn't work; we celebrated with tea!

Finn was in his 5th grade musical about Rats

ENHS Won their Area games

Tate came out to see Braylin, Loagn, Jake, and AJ
(they all played AAU ball together last summer)

Next Stop: STATE

We enrolled Finn for 6th Grade at Sequoyah Middle School

Rolled out to some other Classes State Playoff Games
and ran into NBA OKC Thunder (former OSU Cowboy and
Enid Outlaw) Lindy Waters III! Finn was THRILLED!

There was a spirit walk at the school for both
the girls and boys teams - we made signs

Jake's favorite sign (made by mom)

ENHS Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys  - Huskies headed to STATE

Made it to Lloyd Noble on the OU campus
(I had to wear some orange)

Jake Weaver Fan Club!

My boy - standing next to the word Sooners... 

Good Thin BeReal went off or we might not have any pictures!

ON TO THE NEXT!

Before we could GO FOR THE GOLD,
we had to go to the airport. at 4:30am...

to drop off this little leprechaun...So she could go to IRELAND for 10 days and study abroad!

THEN!

This is it... LAST GAME!

Emma came down for the trip - and some Finn time...

And we brought Flat Leprechaun Lara for Good Luck

Mom was, AGAIN, all in her feels

And our guy was LOCKED IN

THEY DID IT!

And here are some of my faves from the first few hours after the win:

  

 

 

 

Capped the weekend off with a FaceTime from my little Galway Girl...

...from Halfway Across the Globe!

Lara spent her Spring Break in Galway and Dublin, Ireland.  Here are a few from that trip:

  

Grandpa Jake turned 90!

FINALLY got Lara home form the airport

Jake started Team Training Gamp wth Team Griffin

Lara had a FUN DAY in the Stillwater Outpatient Surgery Center

Ain't she cute???
Bye-Bye Gall Bladder!

Jake... did ANOTHER THING! NHS at ENHS

 

There were pups

And growth comparisons (he is 6'10")

The State Campion Huskies (girls & Boys) got the
meet the Mayor of Edmond

Mom spent the day with colleagues and PISTIL PETE!

And our little man Finn got to tour his middle school!
AND he lost 3 teeth THIS WEEK!

Finn and I had THE BEST time at the
"Son + 1" Game Night at his school

And I woke up VERY EARLY  on a Friday morning to take
Jake to the Hoop House to catch his bus with ALL
the other Team Griffin teams as they headed to 
Memphis for a tournament

I seriously thought that was the last "exciting" thing of the month and would be the last picture of the blog.  But then, the weather got involved.  Mid-afternoon on Friday, the winds were atrocious - 50-70 mph gusts.  I was working from home, and the wind knocked out our internet, followed by our power, and within an hour a dozen wildfires surrounded us.  By 3:30, we had packed up valuables, a few changes of clothes, snacks, water, and the dogs, and were evacuating. 

One of the fired was just 3 miles SW of us and the other was 2 miles north. About 4 hours later, we got to head back home.

In the meantime, Jake's bus to Memphis skirted a tornado in Arkansas and made it to Memphis, then the street their hotel was on got hit by a tornado and they lost power for the night.  All the other details can her found in this blog post I made specifically for this crazy day!

Posting the books I read each month...  I am in a neighborhood book club for Hidden Oaks of Guthrie, but I like to read all the books, and many at the same time, so I will indicate which one was for the book club and then the others I decided to tackle as well!

Only read three this month - but look above and see how BUSY they were!  And I am currently deep into 3 more, so April will be FULL!

"Behold The Walls" by Clara Luper

"The Last Year of the War" by Susan Meissner (Book Club Choice)

"Finding Grace" by K. L. Slater

Find me on GoodReads:

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Guest Blogger: EMMA HORINEK

This is a guest post from my daughter, Emma.  Twin A, fragile like a bomb, wild and free, but cares so deeply.  This is a recent photo of her with her sweet boyfriend, Austin, who helped fight the wildfires yesterday along the Oklahoma and Kansas border.  Emma is "#1" in the post I wrote about the craziness of yesterday.

Yesterday was a little grounding for me and made me remember to count my blessings. 

I experienced a fire, my significant other experience a fire, my little brother experienced a fire (and his baseball senior night!) and my other little big brother experienced a tornado. Then my mom and stepdad along with my sister, my littlest brother, and their dogs evacuated their house due to a wildfire. Finally, when we got settled in I saw the news that one of my friends from high school lost their house to a wildfire. All this, yesterday. 

So my story starts when I was on my way to Stillwater and Austin Spielman called me to tell me that he was needed to help fight a fire in Silverdale. He told me he just finished filling the water tank on his truck as well as the water trailer and he was headed out. When I arrive at my eye doctor appointment in Stillwater a tree had caught fire in the parking lot due to getting caught in a powerline and the power went out, I was not able to finish my appointment. (I am getting glasses tho) During this time my brother was fighting fires in Osage County. When I left the eye doctor, I called my mom to tell her what had happened and she informed me that she was evacuating with the rest of the Weaver household due to a wildfire in Guthrie, Oklahoma. I made it home from Stillwater and later on in the evening had dinner with Austin then we were relaxing at a friend's house and he got the call. He had to go back out. It was 4 AM before he got home and while he was out, I was looking through Facebook and found out about my friend. My big little brother was headed up to Memphis Tennessee for basketball and they had a couple of run-ins with tornadoes due to this crazy weather. 

Yesterday could have ended so badly for me and so many people close to me but I thank God today that it didn’t.