MK starts her High School Cheerleading career!

 

The year starts off with Molly Kate in her first year as a Varsity Cheerleader for Heritage High School

 

 

 

 

The family is the biggest supporting team for her big opening night

 

 

And her great-aunt would be so proud of her:

Those cheerleading skirts in 1946 were not quite as short as those in 2026! 

 

 

Back to School 2026

 

It's back to school for the youngest grands on a 

foggy July 31 !!!!!! morning in East Tennessee

 

And up in Kentucky some of the youngest Bridges members also head back to school.

My great-grand nephews, Lennon enters the First Grade and his younger brother Seger is in PreK

and their mom, Kayla,  begins her 13th year as a teacher

 

 

 

 

Another New Family Member

 The Barr Family keeps up with the Dee Family by welcoming a new pet member into the family!

 Welcome Quinny Sue! 

(a sweet kitty who has no aspirations to enter a beauty contest)

 

Happy Birthday America! July 4, 2026

 

We celebrate the 250^th  birthday of America by first recognizing the Bridges family is a direct descendant of James Thomas, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.  Proud to be his descendant and proud to be an American Citizen.  God Bless America!!

 

 We celebrated this great anniversary in several ways,  First we watched that great movie of the Broadway play 1776 which covers the events leading up to that first July 4^th.  It must have been the umpteenth time I have seen this spectacular movie.

 

Then we gather for a special July 4^th meal—pulled pork barbecue, pork and beans, cole slaw, mashed potatoes, deviled eggs, watermelon and other delights.

 

 

 

 

Visiting with the twenty-somethings as they celebrate the day!!  All were wearing cowboy hats for reasons unknown.

And one guest 4 times 20-something--plus

And of course, singing happy birthday to our wonderful county!!

 

 And ending the day watching fireworks!!