Allie Beth Stuckey

Hello, everybody.

I hope everybody has had a great week this week.

I know that we are now kind of into summer, even though it's not officially summer until June.

I can tell you in Texas, it's already summer.

It's been a hot one, and I think it's going to be a hot summer.

That's the way it is.

Now, maybe El Nino will bring us some rain that we always seem to need.

And I hope wherever you are that you're beginning to enjoy your summer.

Your kids are hopefully out of school by now.

And graduations are over.

Congratulations to all of you that graduated or had kids that graduated or grandkids.

Those are always kind of interesting and fun times.

I can remember all of those for our kids, and they all have a special memory in our heart.

In fact, I'll tell you a little story.

I guess Lisa and I always knew that Allie was going to be someone that used her voice in whatever career she decided upon.

But I think that we knew for sure that she was going to be speaking to groups of people when she graduated from college.

Her college, Furman University, did not

the valedictorian didn't automatically speak they actually had a speaking contest that the students participated in and helped judge and then the faculty some faculty group made the final decision and Allie was chosen as the graduation speaker which we were certainly proud of and I remember her speaking that night in the football stadium

at Furman, and just, I could just tell there was a point in her speech, in fact, I should have brought the picture with me, I have a really good picture of it, that it's almost like it's going off in her head, like, yep, this is what I'm meant to do.

And so that's a special time for our family.