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Wednesday With Wyatt🦙Before the severely sprained ankle.Before the concussion.There was “The Magic Tooth.”October’s fall...
10/14/2026

Wednesday With Wyatt🦙

Before the severely sprained ankle.
Before the concussion.
There was “The Magic Tooth.”

October’s fall leaves bring so many emotions and memories for our family. Namely, the official start of Oklahoma high school basketball. When we look back at pictures from this time of year, we see Wyatt smiling back at us with a mouth full of braces. A set of braces that were less about straightening teeth and more about holding in one: The Magic Tooth.

That freshman year of basketball, as Wyatt battled, and I truly mean battled, to make the varsity team, came with its aforementioned setbacks, starting just seven days into those first official practices.

As Wyatt went up for a rebound, a teammate who was coming down caught him right in the mouth with an elbow, sending his front tooth straight back and breaking it off below the gum line. MAGICALLY, though, the tooth remained (pic #1).

Our friend Mark, a dentist, named it the Magic Tooth after X-raying it, examining it, pulling the wayward incisor back into its natural position, and, again, seeing it somehow stay in his mouth. Mark was equally impressed by Wyatt’s toughness, as he never flinched while the tooth’s holding abilities were tested.

The final plan was to see how long we could keep this thing in place with a set of braces since it apparently wanted to stay, track its progress, and later decide on an implant. He was set up with a local orthodontist that Wyatt immediately bonded with over shoes and more shoes.

He wore a mouthpiece for basketball the next two years, well, at least when Christy and I were around. The tooth never gave him pain or problems. The tooth never moved. The tooth never discolored.
It was...The Magic Tooth.

So when you see Wyatt’s beautiful smile, with that mouth full of braces, now you know The Rest of The Story.

Love yourself and be brave - Ty

🦙Wednesday With Wyatt🦙Wyatt loved mornings. He would arise most days before 6:00 a.m. During those early hours, you woul...
10/07/2026

🦙Wednesday With Wyatt🦙
Wyatt loved mornings. He would arise most days before 6:00 a.m. During those early hours, you would find him reading his Bible, journaling, watching game film, or writing on his computer. Before he passed away, he was in the beginning stages of writing a book. Just like his dad, he wanted to be an author.

He didn’t spend hours doing those things (Well, he did watch hours of game film, just not always in the morning), but he was very consistent with his mornings. This routine wasn’t something his dad or I established for him. He found this way of starting his day all on his own. I could always tell when he started straying away from the habit he created. His personality would change a little. He wasn’t as patient and became more self-focused. So, being his mom and an annoying one at that, I would remind him how important that time was for his soul and mindset. He would nod, and I’m sure he’d roll his eyes when I turned my back, but the next morning, he would be back on the path. Wyatt was wise and an old soul, but he was still a teenager who needed guidance and direction.

One of the things I loved about him most was that he was learning to love himself. He was discovering what made him a better person, more authentic and braver. For the most part, he recognized that starting his day by reading, writing, and studying game film during basketball season was important and authentic to the way God created him, and he stuck to this blueprint.

He was growing from a boy into a man, and the metamorphosis was magical to witness. 🦙

Love yourself and be brave,
Christy

Wednesday with Wyatt 🦙“Tyson, there are no coincidences with God.” - our counselor Dr. Jerry DuncanThere I sat this last...
09/30/2026

Wednesday with Wyatt 🦙

“Tyson, there are no coincidences with God.”
- our counselor Dr. Jerry Duncan

There I sat this last weekend in the cool of the morning in one of the kayaks Wyatt insisted we buy, when I felt my phone buzz and thought to myself, “Really, I can actually get a little bit of a signal down here? That’s another perk.” The morning air was perfect as the trees lining the bank above left the water half shaded. My friend, who was serving as my guide for the day, and I let the slower moving current ease us down the river as we pitched under and around fallen trees and rock ledges.

Blue River in southeastern Oklahoma is over 100 miles long, and the Wildlife Department offers several wonderful opportunities for public fishing and kayaking, as you see Wyatt doing with a couple of his friends, Ethan and Christian. But there was a very specific stretch of water, not on public land, that Wyatt and I had eyed for years to fish for smallmouth bass. We would look on Google Earth, plan, give up, then talk about it some more, but in the end we never could figure out a way to get there without trespassing or swimming. Common fishing deterrents, considering I was already too old to play the “I’m sorry, is this your land? No, I didn’t see that fence” game. I wasn’t willing to pass on everything I learned in my youth to Wyatt. Thus, we never made it to that spot.

Imagine my excitement last week when I got a message from a friend saying his new kayak had arrived and asking if I was up for an adventure. How could I resist when his invitation put us right in the middle of the place Wyatt and I had always dreamed of fishing? None of it is lost on me, not a single detail.

Oh, and that text I received as I floated down the river was from my aunt. She had found a new picture of Wyatt and sent it to me at that very moment. In it, he is closing a gate at their ranch, their loyal old dog Guy by his side, evening sun setting in the background over his favorite fishing pond. That’s about as close as you can come to how I picture him in heaven.

“Tyson, there are no coincidences with God.”

Love yourself and be brave-Ty

Love Theory Family, we are SO excited to share that Success Bell #46 has found its home at Tupelo Elementary! 🔔❤️What s...
09/30/2026

Love Theory Family, we are SO excited to share that Success Bell #46 has found its home at Tupelo Elementary! 🔔❤️

What started as Wyatt’s idea continues to grow in ways we never could have imagined. There is something so special about seeing his dream turn into something that brings so much joy and encouragement to students.

We believe love grows from the seeds we water, and we can’t wait to see all the moments worth celebrating at Tupelo!

Help us welcome Success Bell #46 and cheer on the Tupelo Tigers! 🐯

We can’t wait to hear that bell ring! 🦙🔔❤️

09/29/2026

🔔 IT’S SUCCESS BELL DELIVERY DAY!! #46! 🎉
It’s hard to believe that just 2.5 years ago, we started this Success Bell journey with a dream of putting Success Bells in schools across Oklahoma. Since then, we’ve even placed two bells in schools in other states! And today, we get to deliver our 46th Success Bell!

Wyatt, our 17-year-old son, planted this dream. He had a vision of celebrating students and teachers, and although he never got to see that vision come to life, we have been honored to carry it forward.
What started as his idea has grown into something that reaches schools, students, and teachers in ways we never could have imagined.

We believe everyone deserves to be celebrated. Every accomplishment matters. Every person deserves to feel seen, valued, and encouraged.

46 Success Bells…Love Theory Family, that deserves a celebration!! 🎉 ❤️🔔

09/23/2026

Wednesday With Wyatt: One time, we decided to do a family book study: Atomic Habits by James Clear. Wyatt had already read it once and was a big fan, so we thought, why not do it together? We went in committed and even bought the hardback version for everyone because this was going to be such a life-altering study that we’d all keep these books and reference them for years to come.

All three of our kids, Winston the oldest, Wyatt the middle, and Zoey the youngest, are very different in how they process thoughts, emotions, and life. Wyatt used to say this to his big brother, “Winston, you just want to stay up there on the surface, snorkeling. I want to dive deep!” Nothing could have been truer, and you can add Zoey to Winston’s swim team.

Christy took this video from the Brown’s Book Study, week 2, chapter 2. Notice the “what heck is he talking about” facial expressions of Team Snorkle. At the same time, Team Deep Dive, all business with a puffed chest, not only breaks down the finer points of James Clear but also, not so subtly, finds a way to weave in some semi-pertinent facts he picked up in counseling. That’s just to let you know he’s not coming up for air anytime soon. Notice those glassy, rolling eyes from big brother and little sister; they checked out of this discussion in the Introduction.

$44.52 worth of books and every single bookmark was left on Chapter 3. That was it. I don’t recall whether it was doomed from the start because of a lack of interest or if the inflated ego information overload led to the cancellation of The Brown Family Book Study, but 2 chapters were it for us.

I highly recommend Atomic Habits; there’s a lot of good stuff beyond Chapter 2. I do not recommend a family study with mixed emotional swimmers.

Also, I just noticed those are my SmartWool socks Wyatt has on!! What was it with that kid?

Love yourself and be brave-Ty

Wednesday With Wyatt 🎉I recently looked down and saw a lone disc of gold confetti that remained from a little celebratio...
09/16/2026

Wednesday With Wyatt 🎉
I recently looked down and saw a lone disc of gold confetti that remained from a little celebration we had in our front yard in 2021, the May before Wyatt passed away. I’m glad Christy convinced me back then to “just leave it” when I started to clean up the confetti from the grass. At the time, it was her salute to whimsy, and now it serves as a reminder of Wyatt when we catch a glimpse of those remnants sparkling out in the yard. As our counselor has so often reminded us, “There are no coincidences with God.”

One of Wyatt’s favorite authors, and a major influence in his transformation, is Bob Goff. He’s known not only for his intentional acts of whimsy but also for saying, “Throw kindness around like confetti.”

Wyatt loved himself a confetti cannon! He’d sneak them into events and mail them off to friends at camp or on their birthday. This became one of his things as he did his best to follow Bob’s lead, throwing around kindness like confetti.

As we follow Wyatt’s lead through Love Theory, we try to maintain those small personal details that remind us of him. Every Success Bell gets a handful of confetti in the bottom before we deliver it to its new school. And every one of our School Relationship Grant recipients gets their very own confetti cannon to launch at their discretion. After the first year of celebrating our grant winners, we realized a confetti cannon, as they opened their classroom door, might be very much Wyatt, but comes on a little strong for the rest of us. 🎉

Love yourself and be brave-Ty

09/14/2026

The world needs your magic!! ✨ Don’t ever let anyone dim your sparkle. Keep shining exactly the way you do, you’re one of a kind! 🦙❤️ (🔗 to shirt in comments)

09/10/2026

A little throwback to a video I made and shared last year in stories. A year later, and the message still holds true. Some things don’t need updating…they just need repeating.

Love Yourself And Be Brave,
Christy 🦙❤️

Wednesday with Wyatt 🦙🔔If you know about the birth of Love Theory, you’ve heard about a group of guys sitting around in ...
09/09/2026

Wednesday with Wyatt 🦙🔔

If you know about the birth of Love Theory, you’ve heard about a group of guys sitting around in our den, discussing how love could solve all the world’s problems. John David Muse was one of those guys, and a partner to Wyatt in his quest to change the atmosphere at his high school. Here are a couple of texts he sent me over the summer that tell Wyatt’s story still today.

“Thinking about you and Christy tonight on Wyatt’s 22nd birthday. Thankful that I got to have this view [picture of Kanakuk bell] at a place that meant so much to him and wanted to share it with y’all! I really don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for Wyatt. It was special to hear that bell ring and to think of how that inspired Wyatt and is now such a large part of his legacy. I’m thankful that I am at a place where I get to keep sharing Wyatt’s story with others because of how big of an influence he had on me.

I had the opportunity to give a talk to all of kamp. I used Wyatt and his [first day of school] journal entry as my last illustration.
My closing lines were:
- Wyatt wasn’t writing this because he thought he had to earn God’s love. He was writing it because he had already experienced it. Jesus had changed who he was, so he wanted Jesus to change the people around him. That’s what it looks like to walk worthy.
- The Apostle Paul says, “walk in a manner worthy of the calling.”
- Wyatt simply asked, “What does that look like today?”

One of the coolest parts of the story actually happened to my friend. He was taking campers off the zip line, and he was asking all of them the question, “What are you taking away from this week?” And one of the girl campers told him that she wanted to go home and be more like Wyatt with the way she loved people.

Looking back at my third summer of being at K7 I am so thankful for the impact it had on Wyatt’s life, but also thankful for the way that it has shaped me. I wouldn’t be at kamp if it wasn’t for Wyatt, and I’m blessed to see the way that his story continues to impact others.”
-John David Muse

Love yourself and be brave-Ty

You can read Wyatt’s journal entry on our website: lovetheory.org

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