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Just Hanging with the Boys 💙💙💙 - When I have the weekend off, the weekend with the boys is ON! This was a much needed break and just want to say how grateful that @sherman_gobang and @alicia_was_chosen chose Mrs. T and I as Godparents 💙 They’ve seen us at our ugly and at our best and I trust them with my LIFE 💯 CJ loves Liam like a Brother and they both slept good after a night out at @skyzone and @daveandbusters. In my Dave Seville voice “My Boys” 💙💙 BTW, never have I been to Sky Zone after dark, but it was LIT 🔥 I’ll have to jump next time 😎🥳 #blackfathers #blackdads #fatherhood #blackdadgang #dadgang #weekendadventures (at Springfield, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTRUCVgyE8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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14 Years of Alpha 💛🖤 - Meant to post yesterday, but I still remember the glow the next day after crossing the burning sands 💪🏽💪🏽. I admit I let life get in the way, but I also remember that I made a lifetime commitment 💯 I’m thankful for my 10 LBs, who I carry a piece of in all areas of my life as well as those Brother that believed in me. As things start to shape my “New Normal” I need Alpha to be on that list of priorities 📝 Here’s to the next 14 years and counting 💛🖤 #alphaphialpha #aphia #1906 #pul1906 #alphaversary (at Cornell University) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0OYyFg19k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Happy Birthday Mrs. T ❤️🎂- Happy Birthday to my beautiful and amazing wife, Mrs. T. May this day be great to you as your are and may this year be even better to the perfection as you are. And I Love You as you are 💯🏆 Here’s to another year young Honey 👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏽🎂🎁 https://www.instagram.com/p/CouXuVeAMSD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I’m Still Here 💪🏽🎉 - It’s been a while family!! A WHILE!! I’ve missed you all and want to thank you for your calls, texts, messages, smoke signals, e-mails, and tokens of support; I owe so many people a response, text, phone call, and communication 🤦🏽‍♂️ and I’m getting around to it family and apologize from the bottom of my heart. I thank GOD for any and all of you who know me (physically and virtually) and have covered me during this season. I could not have survived this without you. Here’s just a recap of the last few weeks. I traveled with CBP (my 9 to 5) to Tucson and got to operate in my gift of event planning, writing, and NOW photography 📸! I hit 7 years at Apple 🍎 (I thought it was 10, but who’s counting when you’re having fun), I got my truck back, and oh I caught COVID again on the last day of January. Here’s to 2023 going up from HERE! 🥳🤩 #eyeswideopen #heartwideopen #walkinginexpectation (at Tucson) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoU7BMILfr4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thank You 🙏🏽🕊️ - From my family and me, I THANK YOU!! Thank You for all lines and gestures of support in the celebration of my Mom’s life. I’m still trying to navigate this new reality and all that comes with it. I’m not 100 percent and don’t think I’ll ever be again, but I’m slowing down after trying to get back to normal and giving myself some grace by embracing this season and “the process”. Thank You!! I can’t stop saying Thank You!! My Friends, My Family, My Apple Family, My MCC Family, My PnP Family, My FBCG Family, My Card Ministry Family, My BID Brothers, My Alpha Family, My CBP Family, My First Baptist Church of Deanwood Family, My Facebook Family, My IG Family, My Virtual Family, and anyone who knows the sound of my voice and the spirit of my heart, THANK YOU!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CoU57rmLSNR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Mom 🌹🌹🌹🌹 - I wanted to write something epic, I wanted to write something sweet, but for now I just can’t make the words, commas, and phrases come together to meet. So many places to start, you loved me with all of your heart, from the day we met til the day we part. You paved the way and helped me plan, as I grew from a boy and then to a man. There were times when your love was tough, but I needed that foundation to face times that were rough. Your wisdom imparted in me expands all lines of longitude and latitude, and this is just my expression I share on this day of gratitude 😭😭😭 You took you last breath today just as the sun began to rise, and now I look up smiling up at you as smile down on me from GOD’S blue skies. Rest in Heaven Mom 🤗🤗😭😭💐💐❤️❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm0IGmsrL_e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Merry Christmas 2022 🎄🎁 - Another Christmas in the books! Two church services, homemade pizza, movies, goodies, and more!! My head has not been on straight over the last two months and I’m amazed that I manage to make it through most of these days. The one thing that made this day pop was time with family. I think the Thomas family have perfected our homemade pizza so much that it’s become a staple of our holidays. I’m thankful for today in remembering our Lord and Savior 🙏🏽 It’s today that reminded me when I felt like I couldn’t, Jesus was and has always been my strength 💪🏽💪🏽 Merry Christmas Family and if no one has told you that they Love You 🤗 I do!! Enjoy the rest of your day family and here’s to 2023 🎉 (at Temple Hills, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmngnnKsVkS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Just Us Fellas Chilling 🧊🥶😎 - The perfect way to end the weekend. Don’t mind the blue faces, it’s the affect of the 9 degree indoor temperature on mobile devices 📱 LOL. I drew so much from my boys yesterday as we made it a day at Sky Zone and then ended it as first timers at ICE at the @gaylordnational. The theme was A Christmas Story and my favorite scene was featured (the Chinese Restaurant 🥹🤗). #makingmemories #blackfathers #somuchchristmas (at Ice at Gaylord Marriott National Harbor Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmEeb7Lglny/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Tree-T Yourself 🎄 and be the Best YOU to YOUrself 🥳 - No, you can’t do it, you can’t live during a storm. I’m supposed to sit in the house and wither away from grief and stress. I don’t deserve any fun. I’m supposed to hide under a rock and let the holidays pass me by. This is probably one of the hardest seasons I’ve seen so far in my life. I’m struggling with feeling unloved, unattractive, unappreciated, unworthy, unqualified, and any un you can think of. I’m staring down the road of possibly becoming a caregiver without an ounce of resources in my arsenal or even worse, the possibility of burying a parent. I’m say yes to things I need to no to and no to things I need to say yes to. I wake up some days and ask myself “What happened” 🤦🏽‍♂️🤯🥴 and should I even get out of bed. I wanted to cancel my Friday NYC Holidaycation, because I didn’t want to experience anything with all that’s weighing on me. I thank GOD for people who HE has placed in my life to push me even when I want to be in a funk. I needed this, and even though I didn’t do as much in the city as I usually do, I experienced MY CITY for the holidays for the first time since COVID 🥹🤩🥰🥳 While I don’t have the solution to level 188 🎮 of this storm, I do know that GOD is who I trust and to lean on the people HE’S placed around me 🙏🏽 P.S. It was COLD 🥶🥶🥶 and I was PRESSED for my subway ornaments 💙💙💙 #daycation #holidayescape #nyctakeover #nyc #selfcare (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCYbHAgZFu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When it Rains it Pours, BUT HE’S STILL GOD 💪🏽 - So for almost the last two months, the devil has tried his hardest y’all to keep me down and attack me at all ends. I normally deal with things alone and tough it out, but somebody needs to hear this 💯. I injured my back at my 9 to 5 in late September, which sidelined me for the rest of the cycling season and has kept me out of the gym (just when I started to be consistent 🤦🏽‍♂️). I was looking forward to the Breast Cancer ride and doing a ride from MGM/Tanger to Mt. Vernon, VA. Fast forward a week after my injury, my mom was admitted to ICU and given a few days to live with stage 4 cancer. Split between two households and letting myself and other things fall by the waist side, I had to press forward 😵‍💫 Just as I began to transition into this new normal, I walk out to this on the way to work today 🤯😭 Now this is not a why me type of thing, but this is how much my faith and GOD are my strength during this season. Things could always be worse; my family could be homeless, I could be jobless, no food in the fridge going into Thanksgiving week, anything else you could think of, but GOD is STILL GOD! I can walk, my mom is still alive, and I got good insurance 😌🙏🏽 I praise HIM regardless of rain or shine ❤️ BTW, it’s time to leave PG County, because this ain’t no “Vista of no View 😤” (at Temple Hills, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClLMl12gwzJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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9️⃣ Years of Surprise and Delight 🤩🥳 - My math was off 🤷🏽‍♂️, but to my surprise it was in a good way. Today actually commemorates my 9 Year Appleversary 🍎. Apple is one of the many (but one of the top) threads that are a part of Chris 💁🏽‍♂️. I thank GOD for opening that door not only once, but twice to be a part of something special. The friends and family that I have made there will last a lifetime and I’m so thankful for the privilege to do life with all my Apple Family. Y’all are stuck with me 💯 #nineyearsandcounting #Appleversary (at Apple Pentagon City) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck7TRwKMKyN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When GOD Places You on IR 🤕 - Woke up Wednesday with my day (and weekend) all mapped out. Well, I injured myself on the 9 to 5 🤕 I’m always running from appointment to appointment on my schedule and sleep and rest just happens to fall on there somewhere. Well GOD said ENOUGH, sit your hind pots DOWN. I’m used to closing my rings at the gym, rushing to work, and walking the mall, but nope, I’m RESTING and heeding GOD’S word (1 Cor 6:19). I’m thankful for my A1 💙 @v.i.peet, all my Apple Family, and my Spiritual Accountability Leader Big Brother Rev. Skip Little for prayers and having my back. Not being able to walk was scary being that so many people depend on me. The kid is resting and in and out with the pain management 💪🏽💪🏽 #selfcare #backstrain (at Temple Hills, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjJvKe-rVla/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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And Just Like That, We Have Throwback Thursday 🤩🥰 - I took a late birthday trip to NYC last week and had one of the best trips EVER. I made it back to the Today Show and finally met the incredible @hodakotb ❤️🤩 (I was almost in tears y’all 🥹). I never feel like a tourist when I’m in the city - I feel at HOME 🥰. See you again in a week Big Apple 🍎. #todayplaza #visitnyc #birthdayvacation (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cih-Gn9AG5Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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12 Years in, Forever to Go 💍 - As the day winds down after celebrating another year of GOD’S Union and covering over us, we just want to thank HIM for all that HE has blessed us with. I thank HIM for blessing me with a Love like no other. We’ve seen the ups and downs of what life can throw at us, but we’re still standing and look forward to the ups that await us for the next 12 years til forever! #blacklove #happyanniversary (at Temple Hills, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiJgzPwAM9C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Chapter 3️⃣9️⃣ - It’s really been a great day to have a birthday 🥳. My day started with spending time with my Apple Family, and let me tell you, it was AMAZING. Apple has blessed me in so many areas of my life and has given me not coworkers, BUT FAMILY. I was left speechless 🥹🥹. My 6-10 crew is the GOAT 💙💖💙💖💙💖 To sum it up, it’s just been a day surrounded by GOD, Friends, and Family ❤️. Although it fell on a Sunday, there’s no better way to start a new chapter at the beginning of the week. Time to close these 3️⃣0️⃣s out with a bang 💥💥 #virgoseason #birthdayboy #augustbaby #chapter39 (at Temple Hills, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch06hhMAY0s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Great Return to Great Wolf 🐺🌊- It’s been a long wait for the Thomas Family to return to @greatwolflodge in Williamsburg, VA. When we departed in January 2020, we just knew that we were going to return in the summer of 2020, but the world happened 🦠. Here we are two years later and back at it like we never left. This is the staple of of our family vacations. The ride down, people watching 😂, the conversations, and just the time away to reenergize is what Great Wolf means to us. We can’t forget @captaingeorges 🍤🦀, which is the signature family dinner of our vacation. You know your vacation is good when you’re planning your return before you get home 👨🏽‍💻. See you during Holiday 2022 Great Wolf and Captain George’s 🥹🥰. #blackfamilytravel #blackfamilyvacation #blackfamilyadventures #greatwolflodge (at Great Wolf Lodge Williamsburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChAPE5jAarS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It Feels Great to Graduate at 38 👨🏽‍🎓💪🏽 – For the past three years I have wondered what I would feel and what I would say at the end of this journey. All I can say is that I feel gratitude and relief. I started Brothers in Discipleship (BID) back in 2019 at @fbcg, where I began a journey to develop a deeper relationship with GOD, but also to be developed in my Christian walk. I am grateful to GOD for pushing me to do more than just showing up to church, grateful for my family who encouraged me and was patient during this season of growth, grateful for those who saw the light in me enough to recommend me to the program, grateful for leadership whose vision illuminated throughout the ministry, grateful for facilitators who sacrificed time and poured into us, grateful for Brothers as we leaned on one another to become better disciples, and grateful for my friends who encouraged me when the going got tough. The relief is that the real work begins, I’ve been called to be the best reflection of a GODLY man in all of my circles of life and apply all that I’ve learned in the last three years to serve my family, friends, and all of GOD’S children. Thank You Everyone for Loving and Supporting Me! I Love You ALL (at First Baptist Church of Glenarden) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cga7tZgA3c_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=