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LAKE HIGHLANDS ADVOCATE VOL. 32 NO. 5
PROFILE
6 Neighborhood Mustangs
DINING
14 Waters Edge Winery
FEATURES
10 Stay cool at the Arboretum
12 Will-Call
18 Bam Bird Boutique 22 The Blank Canvas
26 Lake Highlands’ military moms
Bam Bird Boutique’s mahjong tiles are carved and painted by hand in China. Read more on page 18. Photography by Lauren Allen.
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PONY
PONY UP
Based in our neighborhood, the SMU Equestrian team has won back-to-back championships
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by KEAGAN PHILLIPS PHOTOGRAPHY
TUCKED ACROSS THE PARKING LOT FROM TOP GOLF, A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP-WINNING TEAM TAKES THE SADDLE ALMOST DAILY.
Based in the Dallas Equestrian Center, Southern Methodist University’s equestrian team is coming off two consecutive NCEA National Championship wins. The program has close to 40 riders, with 20 appearing as competition starters.
The team cruised to a 10-4 record in the regular season, clinching the number one overall seed in the postseason. Riders, split into jumping saddle and Western disciplines, will compete individually and be awarded points as a unit for a team score.
At the end of the regular season, we caught up with first-year Head Coach Brad Kearns and a few of his athletes to learn more about the program.
HEAD COACH BRAD KEARNS
(1ST YEAR AS ASSISTANT COACH ON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP-WINNING TEAMS)
WHAT WAS THAT LIKE?
You just don’t even believe that it’s happening at the time. And then you don’t even believe that it really happened. I look back at the pictures, and I can remember how it felt in that moment, but it was so unbelievable, but so exciting.
WHAT KIND OF CULTURE ARE YOU LOOKING TO BUILD?
I want to build a team that has a strong work ethic, that
wants to come to practice, to work on the basics and improve. I want them to come with the intent to improve. And I think that that comes from each one of the ladies on the team having that mindset of wanting to improve. On our team, everybody practices so everybody’s getting opportunities to try to get into the starting lineup and make themselves known for what their strengths are. I really want that culture to be where everyone has the opportunities, and everybody’s working towards improvement.
WHAT IS THE KEY TO LONG TERM SUCCESS FOR THE PROGRAM?
It’s a lot of different things that have to line up. I think you have to have good coaches that can inspire and communicate to the athletes as to what they need to do to improve. I think that you have to have good recruiting. You have to be able to recognize talent, whether it’s out there competing successfully, or maybe a little bit of a diamond in the rough, where it’s a little bit of a raw talent that you can develop, and you have to be able to find the mental attitude. You have to find the people that will work well within your dynamic and your group setting.
HOW DO YOU LIKE PRACTICING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
We love the Dallas Equestrian Center. We have a really nice setup with our stalls and our tack rooms, and our locker room is right here in the center of the barn, where we’re close to our horses. So when the girls come from
school, which school is only, like, three and a half miles away, they can change out of their leggings or whatever they wear to class into their practice gear and get the horses out and practice and be done and head back to school. And it’s a short 10-minute drive drive by the time you walk to your car, go, and get to drive to campus and park. It’s very, very user-friendly for them to be able to go to school because, at the end of the day, they’re student athletes, and student, it’s the first part of student athletes. So they have to be able to be successful as a student and as an athlete. And we have wonderful arenas that we can ride in, and it’s just right beside Top Golf. So when the dads come to visit, and they don’t want to watch, they can head over next door and hit some golf balls.
AUGUSTA IWASAKI
(JR | JUMPING SEAT | 2X FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN)
WHY SMU?
I heard a lot of good things about SMU when I was a junior competing. And I knew I wanted to be on a riding team, at least since throughout all of my high school years. I just heard such great things about the team and about SMU in general. I came here and visited. I met the coaches and a few of the girls, and I had known a few girls that were on the team. It just seemed to right for me. I loved the school. I think the academics here are really great.
ELLI YEAGER
(SR | JUMPING SEAT | 1X SECOND TEAM ALL-AMERICAN)
THE TEAM HAS HAD A GREAT REGULAR SEASON, WHAT WAS THE KEY?
I think our schedule for the first half of the year was very difficult, but I’m almost glad it was like that because it’s always good to be put back down a few levels, and then we really had to work to get back up to where we are now. So I think that’s always good. I think if you have an easier schedule, and then you go into nationals, you’re like, ‘Oh, well, I haven’t faced any of the really hard teams yet.’ Well, we know we can do it because we faced them twice this year.
NYA KEARNS
(GRAD | WESTERN | 3X FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERI CAN, 2021 - 22 NCEA HORSEMANSHIP RIDER OF THE YEAR)
YOU’VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT IN YOUR CAREER, HOW DID YOU STAY FOCUSED?
You kind of get in the groove and you get a routine going, and being successful, or having success, pushes you to want to keep doing it. I think that achieving makes you want to achieve more, if that makes sense. And I think that it’s just a mindset that you have to adapt to constantly pushing yourself to be better.
Nya Kearns holds the program record for career horsemanship wins
YOUR GUIDE TO BEATING AT THE ARBORETUM
Summer heat typically isn’t seen as an invitation to get outside in Dallas.
Sitting on 66 acres of rolling hills, babbling streams and flower-filled green spaces, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is well aware of the heat’s impact. Attendance typically sees a steep drop off in summer months, especially July and August, when a stroll through its winding, plant-walled paths may not seem as appealing as it would in more temperate months.
But there’s a way to solve the summer puzzle and enjoy the second largest botanical garden in North Texas — it’s just about knowing where to go.
“When my friends or family come into town asking how I would arrange a summer trip to the Arboretum, I tell them to go through all the cool areas there and then, depending on if they have kids or not, either it’s going into the DeGolyer house to see the exhibit plus lunch, or coming over to the Children’s Garden,” says Dustin Miller, the Arboretum’s vice president of education and programming.
“Cool areas” can typically be found, believe it or not, in heavily shaded portions of the gar -
BEATING THE HEAT
Enjoying summer at the Arboretum is all about knowing where to go
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
ARBORETUM THIS SUMMER
den, where trees are generally a pretty good indicator of lower temperatures. The Pecan Grove, which was filled with hammocks last summer, and the Shadow Garden both have plenty of tree cover in the summer. In the Palmer Fern Dell, misters can lower an already shade-reduced ambient temperature by as much as 10 degrees.
When visiting in the summer, even in cooler areas of the garden, it’s important to plan ahead and bring a bottle of water, Miller says.
“We have a ton of refill stations throughout,” Miller says. “Dress for the weather, wear a hat that gives you shade. Bring an umbrella and dress in layers so that you can adjust as needed.”
The water refill stations were added in the last few years as a way to encourage hydration and sustainability.
If visitors need a break from outdoor activities, there are several air-conditioned indoor buildings open to the public during extended post-daylight savings time operating hours, including A Tasteful Place on the garden’s west side. One such stop is the DeGolyer House, where the Arboretum will showcase a gallery of noted 20th Century artist Seward Johnson’s hand painted watercolor trays. Several of Johnson’s sculptures — ranging in scale from 20 feet tall to life-sized, can currently be found throughout the garden.
“The other spot, obviously, is in (Restaurant DeGolyer),” Miller says. “I don’t know that everybody knows that we actually have indoor fine dining, so that’s a spot where people can go in the summertime, visit the garden while it’s cool, and then go in there before they leave.”
The Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden, which features two indoor spaces (the Discovery Center and Cafe), is one of the cooler outdoor areas found on the grounds, with misters, water features and shade abounding. Admission to the Adventure Garden previously required a separate entry fee but is now open to all visitors.
Both outdoors and inside the Discovery Center, the Children’s Garden is an epicenter of educational programming at the Arboretum.
“We’re primarily focused on the K-6 age level, both school and family,” Miller says. “Every day, we have stem stops, which are like little pop up activities. We have a plant Lab. You can learn about space in the Omni globe. And then we have other programs that are sort of in the gallery spaces too. So in the summertime, we shift towards during the morning, most of the programs are outside, and then in the afternoon, we shift inside.”
“There’s enough inside in the afternoon that theoretically you could come and spend the entire day and be inside all afternoon and still not run out of things to do.”
Programming is a large part of the net the Arboretum casts in summer months to attract visitors. The Cool Thursdays concert series brings musical acts from around the country to the Martin Rutchik Concert Stage and Lawn through the end of June, and Family Fun Fridays feature ice cream, Kindermusik and a petting zoo in the Pecan Grove weekly.
Summer at the Arboretum runs from June 6 to August 17 this year, with tickets increasingly discounted as the season wears on.
PUSHING FOR WILL
Old Lake Highlands neighbor Bobalu Kaiser found a way to help his brother and others with his newest invention
Story by AUSTIN WOOD |
Photography by TANNER GARZA
“I SEE WILL ALL THE TIME, AND I SAY, ‘WHAT ARE KAISERS? WE’RE RESILIENT.’ THERE YOU GO,” SAYS OLD LAKE HIGHLANDS NEIGHBOR BOBALU KAISER . “‘WHAT ARE KAISERS? WE’RE DETERMINED.’ SOME DAYS HE HAS PRETTY TOUGH DAYS, AND SOME DAYS ARE A WHOLE LOT BETTER.”
Bobalu and his older brother Will used to bring that same determination to marathon courses in Dallas, San Francisco and Boston. They pushed one another through rain, soreness and fatigue to reach the finish line.
Things may look different these days as Bobalu sits next to his quadriplegic brother, but the overriding theme remains the same: resilience through adversity.
Will spent 15 years as a private tutor in China. After returning from a trip to Dallas, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was hospitalized. He returned to Dallas after recovering and lived in a condo at Preston Tower for a few years. During COVID, he suffered a stroke and contracted the virus in a hospital waiting room. A few weeks later, his younger brother came to check on him.
“I found him in his apartment on the 15th of January, and that was three years ago, all but dead, totally, totally gone. I [called] 911, got him to Presby,” Bobalu says. “He was on a ventilator for 60 days. I mean, he should have died. He didn’t. And he had all types of problems. Being on the ventilator, he had two strokes, a long recovery path at different long-term care facilities and nursing homes.”
Will, while unaffected cognitively, was left quadriplegic after suffering strokes and a cytokine storm, in which immune cells erroneously attack the body’s organs.
Sound like they were out of the woods yet? Not exactly.
engineers, and they spent the next six months, night and day, working on this, coming up with all kinds of approaches and designs, the hardware that’s used, the software that’s used, the programming, the testing, the reliability of it. It’s all done incredibly professional. Now, I’m a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas, so I’m kind of like the final stamp of approval. I want to say they taught me. They were way smarter. They knew more in a second than I knew all day. They really were a smart group.”
The finished product, termed Will-Call in honor of Bobalu’s brother, is small and hooks up to nurse call systems the same as regular call buttons. Using three commands: “Help me,” “I need help,” and “Call the nurse,” patients can alert staff for assistance. The device utilizes a microchip to process audio and does not rely on internet connectivity, which eliminates the possibility of WiFi outages affecting care.
When a call is received, the device reassures patients with a, “Help is on the way.”
“IT’S NOT THE PROBLEM, IT’S HOW YOU
APPROACH IT. AND THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.”
On July 4, 2023, Will fell out of bed, cutting his head and causing significant bruising. Without the use of his hands, he was unable to activate the nurse call button to notify staff.
“I sat there, and I said, ‘You know what, we’ve got to find a way you can call the nurse,’” Bobalu says.
So, he set out to create a voice-activated nurse call device that would enable people like Will to get the help they need when they need it. His first prototype looked something like a Rube Goldberg machine, with an Alexa Lock triggering a push plate to create the signal. It was a far-cry from the eventual finished product, but through the challenges, Bobalu kept his determination.
He has a background in engineering, business and healthcare, so he knew the project would need some help to take the next step. He entered his idea as a potential project for the University of Texas at Dallas’ UTDesign Capstone program.
“These guys are smart,” he says. “These are smart biotechnical
“My brother lies in that bed every day looking at the ceiling. OK? He can’t move his arms and legs. He can turn on his Amazon TV, say ‘Amazon play Yellowstone on Prime.’ ‘Amazon, turn on my light,’ — you can do that,” Bobalu says. “And now with Will-Call, you can say, ‘Help me’ to get help. That makes a huge difference in the quality of his life.”
Bobalu says he wants to put Will-Call in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout the nation and hopes to reach millions with his patented product. He is also working on a home version that will combine the same voice-activated technology with low frequency radio waves, similar to those used in garage door openers, to allow disabled individuals living with caretakers to call for help wherever they are in the home.
He expects both devices to be commercially available sometime this fall and is currently seeking investors to help propel the project. In the meantime, prospective users can “test drive” the device by submitting a request to Will-Call’s website.
Bobalu visits Will at his nursing home multiple times a week, taking him for a walk to 7-Eleven at least once a week. He says his big brother has maintained good spirits and has been kept apprised of Will-Call’s development. It may not be the Boston Marathon, but Will and Bobalu are still pushing ahead.
“He’ll say a lot of people are way worse off than [him]. We all get challenges along the way, and you’ll have them in your life. I’ve had them in my life,” he says. “And I think the profound thing is not the problem, it’s how you approach it. I really think that’s important. It’s not the problem, it’s how you approach it. And that makes all the difference in the world.”
LAKE VINELANDS
There’s a new winery bottling varietals in our neighborhood
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by KATHY TRAN
While there may not be any vineyards in Lake Highlands, there’s a new winery on Abrams Road.
Waters Edge Winery and Bistro opened in March in the former Fireside Pies space offering an array of varietals sourced from around the world. The premise is simple: a franchise concept which outsources its viticulture (the cultivation and harvesting of grapes) to vineyards in California, Spain, France and Italy before vinting and bottling at one of its 15 U.S. locations.
Franchise owner and M Streets resident Kate Vahdani grew up in her family’s St. Louis Irish pub before making a career in IT. With her background in hospitality and an interest in winemaking, she researched the Waters Edge concept and decided it was “super interesting.”
“I think some of the biggest downfalls of wineries are the ability for them to grow their own grapes,” Vahdani says. “So growing your own grapes. You have a bad year, right? Or something goes wrong, and it can kind of crater you. So the ability to grow your own grapes was something that I felt like was a pretty big risk. So that model was really interesting to me. And then the idea of just more of a winery in the city, right? I mean, how many of us have driven to wineries out in Fredericksburg.”
A location close to home was important for Vahdani and now-director of operations Alec Kemp, who lives in Lake Highlands. She says the location appealed to her for its plentiful parking, and she
Kemp says they have each added a bit of themselves into the menu, such as his own “Alec’s FunGuys”
was undeterred by the space’s high turnover.
Across the parking lot, near ZAAP Kitchen, Vahdani has also leased a two-story unit for vinting and special events. This is where the magic will happen. Grapes will ferment in large vats in the facility before eventual bottling. The business currently sells wines bottled at other Waters Edge locations but will begin rolling out the first bottles of Lake Highlands wine sometime in June.
“The Sangiovese seems to be something that people are loving,” she says. “The problem, I think, is going to be that that has to age. So we’ll make that to start, but we have a couple whites that we think we’re going to be able to roll out pretty quickly.”
Currently, Waters Edge offers 14 wine selections ranging from rosés to temparrillos. Vahdani says she is especially excited to begin offering varietals from Armenia, as it is one of the oldest winemaking regions in the world and has seen a resurgence on the international stage in the years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
It’s no secret people have their preferences when it comes to wine. While there are plenty of go-to options available, front of house manager and head winemaker Andy Gonzales says he wants the concept to be a platform for exploration.
“My goal, and with their support, has been to educate the consumer because they’re going to enjoy more wine than they would ever have enjoyed it before,” Gonzalez says. “Every person that I’ve sat with and talked to that goes, ‘Oh, I don’t like this or that.’ And I say, ‘Okay, let’s see.’ And then I’ll give them, for example, a Chardonnay. And our Chardonnays are really, really good. They go, ‘I can’t believe the Chardonnay, I’ll
have a glass, or I’ll buy a bottle.’ It’s been fascinating to watch people turn on a dime because they don’t have an experience.”
In addition to a succinct tap list of domestic and Texan beers, the winery will also bring in low-proof, non-distilled forms of vodka and whiskey for cocktails.
“We found a small partner in South Texas that does a fermented spirit, as opposed to a distilled spirit,” Vahdani says. “So we’ll be able to offer some of those, though not going to be a huge part of what we do, but if you want to come in and get a martini before your dinner, you’ll be able to do that. The vodka is like a 17% vodka, so it aligns with our license, but we’ll have a martini, margarita, an old fashioned, gin and tonics.”
While it is a franchise concept, the winery’s bistro menu was largely developed to be as location-specific as possible by Executive Chef Jace Leggitt. The menu offered at the Dallas location is more robust than ones found at other franchises.
“We have much more of a restaurant than the average Waters Edge facility. So they had a lot of very nice offerings at a lot of their places,” Kemp says. “But we again wanted to take it from that to taking it to 11 for the guest experience. So the entree options are ours. That stuff that Jace is coming up with, we’ve used some of their stuff as well, but made our improvements on it so that Jace would play with the flavors, with our providers here.”
Options like asparagus risotto in cream ($21), grilled tuna ($31) and falafel served with couscous, fresh tzatziki and spring mix vegetables ($24) offer plenty for nonmeat eaters. For protein-forward fare, look to the 24-hour honey-brined pork chop
($42) or airline chicken breast served with sauteed vegetables and angel hair pasta ($31). Each entree option comes with a suggested wine pairing.
The winery also boasts an array of flatbreads cooked in the preexisting Fireside Pies oven, in addition to a customizable lineup of meat and cheese boards. Shared plates include baked brie ($18), fondue ($12) and staff-favorite Alec’s FunGuys ($14).
“I think all of us have actually added a little bit of ourselves to the menu too, to make it more of ours,” Kemp says. “There’s stuffed mushrooms on the menu. That’s mine.”
Six wine club membership levels, which give members access to exclusive events, discounts, complimentary tastings and bottles, are available. Members of the founder’s club receive a custom wine glass and will get first access when the winery bottles its first varietals this summer.
Kemp says that he and Vahdani are looking forward to engaging with the community and will utilize neighbor feedback to refine its offerings. The franchise also has the independence to partner with Texas vineyards going forward, and Kemp says they are looking to bring in grapes from High Plains vineyards.
Next month, neighbors will raise a glass of the first wine commercially bottled in Lake Highlands. And to that, we say cheers.
Waters Edge Winery, 6750 Abrams Road, 214.238.7800, wew.wine/dallas
The Lake Highlands location’s entree offering was developed by Chef Jace Leggitt (pictured above) Waters Edge offers several wine clubs, with members able to gain access to exclusive tastings.
MOMS + MAHJONG
How two Moss Haven neighbors started their own mahjong boutique
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
Robin Offutt and Meredith Ajello, like plenty of other mahjong enthusiasts, learned the tile-based game of strategy and luck from their mothers.
The two Moss Haven neighbors originally connected because of their daughters’ friendship, but truly hit it off over a hand of mahjong. Ajello wanted to play more often, so they got a group of neighborhood moms together to form an impromptu club.
Given the average person’s grasp of the game, Meredith’s mom stopped by to provide a few helpful pointers.
“I invited a couple friends over and had my mom come teach some of the other girls,” Ajello says. “And so we kind of had a recurring group that would get together and play, and we would have wine and tell each other our secrets, as well as play and learn mahjong. And it was nice to start with people that didn’t know, because we all kind of progressed as we went along.”
While the game has enjoyed some historical popularity in the United States, particularly in Jewish communities, recent years have seen a proliferation of designer tile sets, mahjong events and celebrity fans like Julia Roberts.
Contemporary mahjong sets, which stray from traditional Chinese patterns with boutique tile designs depicting everything from cowboys to bluebonnets, can often times be costly. That’s where the idea to launch Bam Bird Boutique in 2023 came from, Ajello says.
“We wanted to offer the same luxury look. They’re different designs, because every group has a different personality to their design, but it’s still a luxury designer tile, but at a more reasonable, fair price, so that you could have multiple or that it wasn’t some extraordinary expense to buy yourself a pretty set,” she says. “And not that the traditional Chinese sets are not gorgeous in their own right. They absolutely are, and it’s just a different look.”
Traditional tile sets built for Chinese rules come with 144 tiles and no jokers, whereas American “mah jongg” sets come with 152 tiles, including eight jokers, for competition play (they also can come with extra jokers and “blanks,” as Bam Bird’s sets do). Ajello and Offutt’s “East Meets West” set can be used to play both versions. To win, a player must complete a hand of 14 tiles consisting of four sets of three (a pung) and a pair of identical tiles.
Bam Bird currently sells three sets of tiles — although a fourth, the tortoise shell-backed tile set, will release this month. In addition to “East Meets West,” the bou -
Ajello and Offutt employ other neighborhood moms in their 4,800-square-foot showroom, which opened last year.
tique sells a classic set and an “Origami” set. All tiles are etched and hand-painted in China after being designed by local designer Melanie Frazier of MF Creative.
“She’s fabulous,” Ajello says. “She’s done a great job of being patient. It was definitely a learning curve as to what you could put on a tile and the designs.”
In addition to tiles, the business also sells game essentials like mats, racks and pushers, which are used to create a “wall” players draw tiles from.
But, as a boutique, Bam Bird’s offering doesn’t just stop at tiles and pushers, although other products are certainly mahjong-adjacent. With throw pillows, wine glasses and lucite side tables built with the game in mind, Ajello and Offutt seek to outfit their customers for every hosting experience.
“It was more about hosting and connecting, so that you can make connections with friends or family,” Offutt says. “And so what we were trying to do was curate this collection of items that go along with hosting in general.”
Those connections are exactly what Offutt and Ajello say make mahjong such an enjoyable pastime. While complicated enough to require focus and strategy, the game is casual and allows for social interaction. At Bam Bird’s showroom off Forest Lane, which opened in 2024, enthusiasts will soon be able to play against friends and other fans with open play hours. Signups will be available online, and bookings for private parties will also be offered.
Bam Bird will host its first ever Mother’s Day event this month in benefit of In Her Shoes, a nonprofit organization which provides support for homeless pregnant and parenting women. The event will feature food, shopping, drinks, gift bags and a casual mahjong tournament.
For Offlutt, the game affords her a chance to spend time with her family around a table. And for a mother, maybe that’s the best gift of all.
“I play with my mom and my sister a lot. Anytime we’re together as a family, we play. It’s something that we can do where it’s like, we just sit down and have a good time. There’s no drama, just enjoying being around the table playing a game together. My daughters, our 9-year-old girls, love to play, and so it’s fine. I’ll play with my husband and my 9-year-old, even my 6-year-old, will sit in my lap and help call my discarded tiles.”
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A RANCH HOME
Amber and Keir Simon have transformed their Lake Highlands Estates ranch-style into a home that will grow with their family
Story by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
As Keir and Amber Simon stepped into their nowhome in Lake Highlands Estates for the first time, they immediately saw the potential of the clean slate offered by the ranch-style’s layout.
In their previous homes, Amber hadn’t had the opportunity to mold the family’s space for their needs and wants. So, when Amy Timmerman showed the Simons the house, they jumped to make an offer.
“So when we purchased the home, nothing had been touched,” Amber says. “It was in basically its original form, since when it was built and when we walked in, we knew it was truly a blank canvas for us to really dream and create a space that could be our forever home. And the whole idea behind the home was, “Let’s build a space that’s really beautiful and elevated and curated.’”
After purchasing the home, the Simons spent 18 months gutting, renovating and adding on to the house. Walls that previously separated much of the primary living area were knocked down to create an open, breathable space, and a rustic wooden beam was added along the zenith of its cathedral ceiling.
Each space in the home is accented by a mix of designer, vintage and reproduction pieces, which allowed
Amber to create the “curated” feel she was looking for.
“What I really love is using designer pieces, but also mixing them with more budget friendly pieces,” says Amber, who has an interest in interior design. “And then also, maybe items that have been handed down over the years, or antiques or things that have been collected throughout time, and that’s really the whole hope of what we wanted to do with the home, and purchase art and furniture from places that helped to tell that story and was really unique to this home to create that cohesive feel. So I would say our design esthetic for the home is more of this, like modern, organic, you know, buzz words are a thing, and interior design, of course, but I would say that probably art is like the best kind of genre to define our home.”
They built on to the back of the home, consolidating their garage and a walk-in cubby/laundry area, and adding a comfortably-sized master suite. The suite comes with a large bathroom featuringa freestanding bathtub and a spacious walk-in closet.
“We knew we wanted to add on to the home.” she says. “We built a master suite in the back that’s really perfect for us in terms of everything that we
hoped that a master suite would feel like, from the large bathroom and the walk in closet and it’s being kind of separated from the other side of the house, which includes the kids bedrooms and the playroom and a space that really can feel like the kids’ own, especially as they grow.”
The kids’ playroom opens out to the backyard and pool, and the boys have been known to use it as a driving green from time to time. Inside, there’s a TV for football, a play teepee and plenty of room for activities.
Keir says it’s his favorite part of the house.
“I think I will always reflect back on the times that we had in the playroom with the kids younger, and most of the time, when their friends are over, it’s a combination of being in the backyard and being in there,” he says. “And even just being in here and listening to them and their friends and their interactions and their engagement, it continues to remind you of how they’re getting older and maturing and growing into young men.”
Close to the boys’ bedroom is a large guest suite — perfect for visits from Keir’s mom or Amber’s family from Buffalo.
Last Christmas, the family was able to host 13 people comfortably, they say.
“It was perfect, there was plenty of room for everybody,” Amber says. “The kids would spend most of the day outside or in the playroom, and we’d be here cooking or hanging out in the backyard or whatever. And it was just, honestly, that was the moment that we’re like, ‘This was worth every stressful moment, every investment, every sweat, whatever we invested.’ It was just perfect.”
As you step onto the home’s covered patio area, the backyard is centered around the family’s pool, which was completed in November.
“Amber grew up in a house where they had a pool, and people were over there during the summer, and it just was like the hangout house,” Keir says. “And so wanting to recreate that fact, right? As a parent, when your kids are younger, they’re always around you. But as they get older, they start to spread their wings a little bit, and so having a space that they could spread their wings and allows them to want to bring their friends was a big component of this. We wanted the fact that when our boys are 10,11, 12, 13 years old, that they still wanted to bring their friends over, be -
“What I really love is using designer pieces, but also mixing them with more budget-friendly pieces.”
cause they have a pool.”
While substantive changes have been made, Amber says she isn’t quite done making tweaks.
“Ultimately, we’re so happy with how everything turned out in the space, we really tried to thoughtfully select every piece to create a space that feels comfortable yet put together and elevated for us to enjoy for years to come. I think the only other thing is there’s probably a few things that I still want to work on. There’s some areas I want to add some wallpaper and just some a little extra touches to really make this space our own, but that’ll come over time.”
the moms behind those posters
The military moms of Lake Highlands sticking together as their sons serve overseas
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by YUVIE STYLES
as Pam Grieder prepared herself to go to her first Lake Highlands Military Moms meeting, she wasn’t in the best spirits. Her son, Luke, was being deployed to active duty U.S. Army service — not an easy change for a mom.
“I went and I met these ladies. and I had that look of going, (imitates panic breathing) you know, he’s going into the army and everything. But they’re all so fun, and they laugh, and we laugh and we share things and everything,” she says. “ I’m thinking in my brain, ‘Why are these ladies so much fun? Their children are in the military.’ Then afterwards, we just built this friendship.”
The group was founded by Rhonda Russell and Paula Thorpe in 2005. Russell’s son, now-retired U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Lee Russell, was being deployed to Iraq. She started to look for other Lake Highlands moms who had sons deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promptly found Thorpe, whose twin sons both served in the Army reserve, and organized the first Lake Highlands Military Moms meeting.
“In my hours off, I would make phone calls trying to find parents who had children that were in the military, because that’s when the Iraq War had broken out,” Russell says. “And I found Paula and four or five other mothers, and we met. We said, ‘Let’s meet, because it was a terrible time for mothers, and everybody was going through the same thing.’ Didn’t know what to expect, didn’t know if they’d make it home,
Pictured left to right: Paula Thorpe, Marion Witt, Rhonda Russell, Pam Grieder and Debra Streethorn
and you just had to find other people. I mean, there’s just no way that you can just walk that walk without others that are going through it.”
That small group swelled quickly, with one event drawing 48 moms. Meetings typically begin with a meal, where moms can share their experiences, raise concerns or crack a joke — and the group shares a lot of laughs, they say.
Light-heartedness aside, the group’s main mission is to provide support and camaraderie for neighborhood moms with children serving overseas.
“As a group, we comfort anybody that comes in with a real concern,” Russell says. “And a lot of times, there’s other mothers in the group that have been through the exact same thing, so then they can share with them that it’s going to be OK. It’s just wonderful to be with others who are going through what you’ve been through. And even now, at every meeting, when we meet for dinner, we go around the table and let everyone that has a child overseas talk about that child and tell us what it is, what’s going on, and where they are.”
Meetings are generally held once a quarter and can vary in size depending on ebbing military deployment and recruitment patterns. In addition to meetings, the group participates in the annual Fourth of July Parade, assembles care packages for deployed LHHS graduates and organizes military appreciation events at local schools.
Most of the moms have sons and daughters in the army, but each service branch is represented. Marion Witt’s son, U.S. Navy Commander Trey Witt, flew helicopters for a decade before moving to his current role at the Pentagon. She says the group’s togetherness was a valued asset during his deployment.
“That’s one reason why this group is so helpful, because everyone in it either has had a child that’s deployed, or has already had a child that’s deployed, or has a child that is deployed, or will have a child that’s deployed,” Witt says. “So you can share your fears, your concerns, because they’re your kid. They’ll always be your kiddie, even when they’re 30 years old and they’re deployed.”
While there may only be one member of a family deployed, it can be easy to forget the impact of the deployment on their loved ones. That’s one of the reasons the group is so important, Witt says.
“It’s a family situation. It’s not just the
It’s just wonderful to be with others who are going through what you’ve been through.
kid. It’s the family, especially if they’re married, it’s the spouse situation, the kids,” she says. “So I think the thing people don’t understand is understand the breadth of how someone serves, how that affects so many people, even when they come home.”
Longtime neighbors probably remember the Lake Highlands Heroes posters. The posters, which displayed each deployed LHHS graduate’s portrait, name, rank and service branch, were a collaborative effort between the moms and the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands. While they were eventually discontinued for safety concerns, the posters were visceral reminders of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan’s impact on our neighborhood.
Russell remembers one moment from her days teaching at LHHS well.
“We put the first one up in Lake Highlands, and they had a family night,” Russell says. “I was still teaching there, and literally, a woman came up and was looking at it, and she was crying by the time she looked at that poster. A lot of people didn’t have any idea who all had been taken and who had gone.”
As many as 67 former wildcats were featured in a poster in 2011.
While most of their children have returned home in recent years, and as U.S. military recruiting and deployment slows, Russell says the group is determined to continue providing a safe space for Lake Highland’s military moms and is always open to new members.
“Usually, they’re excited that they found us, and we’re excited that they found us, because it’s very difficult right now to locate them, and that’s another thing — we are constantly looking for more. We know they’re out there. We know they’re out there, but the word isn’t getting out.”
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