My Priorities: Faith, Family, & Fun

Aggie Football Game (9-2014)

During this Week 36 of 2014 (September 1-7), the NIV Leadership Bible focused on Priorities. Check out my last blog post to see the highlights of this week’s devotions.

I’ve blogged before about our family mission statement, which focuses on our priorities of Faith, Family, and Fun. We love, respect, and support one another and enjoy spending time as a family.

Yesterday, we had an opportunity to join more than 100,000 Texas Aggie fans to watch the first football game in the renovated Kyle Field. It was the largest crowd in Texas football history (104,728). That record will fall later this year, I’m sure…but it had to be overwhelming for the visiting Lamar University, as they fell to the #9 ranked Aggies 73-3. Our family enjoyed the Spirit Walk (with the players walking to their locker room—and my boys loved the High-5’s with QB Kenny Hill pictured above!) and the Corps march led by the Texas Aggie Band (the clarinet section is pictured above for Katy). It was a great family experience!

A few weeks back, my mother-in-law gave us the book Experiencing God at Home by Tom & Richard Blackaby. The book provides plenty of lessons for family leadership.

Click here to read more.

Happy Parents’ Day 2014 to Paw Paw, Pappy, & Pop!

Parents Day

Today—the 4th Sunday in July—is National Parents’ Day, which aims to recognize positive parental role models. There are three men in my life, who have greatly impacted my values, my character, and ultimately my leadership.

I’d like to share a little about each of them:

  • Paw Paw: My Dad’s father & my grandfather
  • Pappy: My Dad, who is known as Pappy to my kids
  • Pop: My Father-in-Law, who is known as Pop to my kids

To learn more about these positive parental role models, click here.