I'm so looking forward to adding my interactive virtual classroom to my class on Monday. Hoping to have a link to the game Hit the Button and maybe a riddle section. Thnak you so much for you video.
I was thinking along similar lines to Carina with a virtual tour. I have embedded videos but have to publish to web as I lose them when posting on Seesaw
Hi Thomas---I am a 25 year veteran teacher in SF CA. Many of us feel like first year teachers with Distance Learning. I am really thankful for your videos to help many of us who have no where in our school districts to get this kind of help. May your teaching be blessed and your students are lucky to have you. Well Done!
I use Seesaw and my students love it. This is brilliant and will definitely look more into this and will definitely start trying to use this. Thank you so much for all of the help and tutorials. Prayers and blessings ❤️🙏
Thank you very much! This is so fun for designing and mega looking forward to it. Have sat in endless lessons since September, so around 600-700 lessons I've been in and the continuous format, enter, follow RTL, AR Book, Starter, Main Activity, PowerPoint, Copy, Questions, Checking Question, End of Lesson, I've been in, I've been bluntly, bored shitless. And this is lesson after lesson. Lesson delivery is so far behind!
What an absolutely selfless and wonderful lesson for you to share with all of us who now find ourselves attempting to build relationships with and educate at a distance. I appreciate your time and care in creating this lesson. My husband and I donate often within our community - our next donation will be made in your name. Thank you. Stay safe!
I made mine today. It was too fun and I went nuts planting Easter Eggs for my seniors, hoping it will cheer them up! Thanks for the tutorial, it was easy!
You are amazing. This was well done, easy to follow and the fact that you are giving resources for free or requesting people support a food bank is wonderful. The world needs more people like you!
Mine turned out great! I'm so pleased. I have so many ideas running through my head on how to use this. (I'm the school librarian.) Thank you for the instructions on making my own.
Thank you, Thomas! Tomorrow is the first day of school for me, and I am hoping that my Bitmoji classroom will make school seem a bit less scary for my new kindergarteners! I appreciate your help, and have followed your wonderful suggestion of donating to my community's food bank . All the best from California!
Thank you for this! I am a high school counselor and virtual counseling has been a challenge. I am looking forward to starting the new year with a bitmoji google classroom, thanks to your help. I donate each month to our local food bank, and this month's donation will be in your honor. Best wishes. Cheers.
Thomas, thank you very much for sharing your beautiful virtual classroom. What an amazing way to engage learners! Thank you for including not only an overview but also mini tutorials for creating this platform. Teachers who've never created a hyperlinked slide, doc, or other element could surely find success through this video!
This was very helpful. I am a second grade teacher and a noob with online education. This looks like it will be fun to explore! I am going to add read alouds with my bitmoji on a bean bag and a variety of second grade fave books on a bookshelf along with a variety of online resources they access often like epic, fundations drill sounds, or the morning message. Keep up the great work with these very easy to understand tutorials!
Your presentation was WONDERFUL! I've been teaching for many years and am now learning to teach online. Although I am not afraid of technology & use it frequently in my classroom, learning to teach online exclusively has been challenging. Thank you SO much for your tutorial. It has been extremely helpful.
Thank you so much!!! This tech challenged 4th grade teacher in the US ( New Jersey to be exact) feels far more confident about planning for the next few weeks of virtual learning and having new skills to use in the classroom. I can't thank you enough.
You are awesome! I appreciate your videos. I've learned a lot and I love that you don't want to make money for what you do and instead mentioned giving to food banks. That is great!
Great tutorial--perfect step-by-step--THANK YOU!!!! I was able to create a virtual classroom from your directions by simply watching and pausing your video. You made it simplistic and explained perfectly! (I couldn't get your free virtual backgrounds to load, but I'm happy with what I created from your web directions.) Thank you SO VERY MUCH for sharing this tutorial!
I've seen other teachers with this as their google header and haven't been able to find a good tutorial. Thank you for providing this for free and I am enjoying creating my own slides. Love!
Thank you so much for sharing your tutorial! It's wonderful of you to do this for free with the given circumstances the world is living in! May God bless you ten fold!
Great tutorial! Thank you for your generosity in giving rather than selling your tutorial and background slides. I appreciate that and will look for more of your tutorials. I've already recommended your tutorial to others!
I love it!! I've been using google slides to make an interactive long-division lesson and your video came along at the perfect time!!! Thank you for your generosity!!!! I have a digital scrapbooking program that I can use to delete backgrounds and turn anything into a digital "sticker". Who knew that my hobby would turn out to be so useful now! I can use pictures from things in our current classroom! The kids are going to love it!! THANK! YOU! SO! MUCH!!
Thank you so much! from one teacher to another, your video was very thorough and helpful in explaining how to incorporate your Virtual classroom into Google Classroom!!
Love, love, love this virtual classroom tutorial. THANK YOU so very much. I'm so grateful for your generosity in sharing. I set up my own virtual classroom as Thomas dictated and can't wait for my students to see it on Monday!
Thanks so much for this. It's a great guide to what is completely new to me but I imagine I will be using virtual classrooms al the time now! Love your approach to this and thinking of others who can benefit from donations to foodbanks or other sources of support. Great video and great attitude. Thanks again.
Thank you!! I'm a school social worker and was asked to create a classroom for summer resources for our students as we are still not allowed in the schools- This helped me do it step by step very easily!!
Thanks so much for sharing! Also, thank you the ready-made backgrounds and for showing us how you share your Bitmoji classroom with students on Google Classroom.
Thank you!!!!!!! I am a MS Technology Teacher and have had several teachers on my campus ask me how to do this.... Your's was the best tutorial I looked and and was easy to follow along with as you went step-by-step! Now I will be able to help my fellow co-workers! - From a VERY appreciative teacher in Texas
Thank you so much, Thomas! Awesome tutorial. I love the bit about giving to a food pantry. I was so uninspired this year, as we are beginning virtual. Thank you very much for inspiring me.
Definitely embracing the Bitmoji Classroom! I am an academic coach and would love to share this with teachers! Most of our teachers have been utilizing Google Classrooms and Google Slides so it would be quite seamless to include something like this. Bitmoji Classroom really breathes refreshing life to virtual learning!
Thank you so much for the free backgrounds. It is very much appreciated! I have had very little training in technology having gone for teaching soooooo many years ago. This video was very helpful to someone who was overwhelmed by all of this virtual learning! Thank you!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Currently using Google Classroom and have been wanting to create a bitmoji classroom but wasn't sure where to start. This is so helpful!
Amazing work! Distance learning can be so monotonous at times for the kids and I feel so disconnected from them; this is a great tool to make it more fun and your tutorial made it so easy to accomplish. Thank you! I'll be donating to my local food bank on your behalf.
Thanks so much! This is awesome. I totally got lost in creation of a few virtual classrooms for the remainder of my evening after watching your tutorial. Our LMS at my school is Schoology so I want to figure out the best way to link this to my class pages as a weekly mode to deliver their independent work. I am trying to really create a blended learning experience for the upcoming school year and beyond :-) I also appreciate that you are not charging a fee and that you ask us to support those in need instead...excellent!
Thank you Thomas for your incredibly helpful tutorial. Great sentiment in keeping our payment local and practical. Great work. I look forward to starting a virtual classroom.
I created my classroom as I went through your video, thank you so much. This was an excellent tutorial. If we go virtual at the beginning of the next school year, I will definitely use it. Pensacola, Florida
Thanks to all who freely share. I am often in tears at the kindness and generosity I have seen since the pandemic closed down our schools. I miss my kids more than I would ever admit to them.
Thank you so much for this! I have made my virtual classroom today as a result of watching this. I thought it would be a lot harder but I've managed! Thanks for taking the time to make this to help other teachers.
This was super helpful and perfectly paced for teachers who have some idea how to use Google slides already! Thank you! I was overwhelmed by the idea of creating a bitmoji classroom but now I'm excited. And since we are doing a hybrid model at my school I ca make my virtual classroom look like my real one!
Wow thank you so MUCH. You video was informative and made me take a second look at my Google Classroom and how to improve for the rest of this school year but also for coming years. I teach preschoolers with disabilities and I think that they will be able to access my lessons with more independence by adding a virtual classroom! Thank you
Thank you so much for the free backgrounds, and yes I do give back to my community. Your video will help me achieve a project I’ve had in mind for a long time. Greetings from Mexico.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about this.. i learned a lot and it is really amazing for kids.. This type of strategy in teaching is trully helpful this time of pandemic. Hoping for more videos similar to this. Thank you once again.
This is such an amazing idea and I DEFINITELY plan on making a virtual classroom to share with my kiddos. Thank you SO much for making this video and sharing!
Thank you so much Thomas for this incredibly helpful video! I absolutely love your view on not charging people. I really appreciate you and all you've done to help support fellow educators!
Thank you for clearly explaining how to create an Interactive Bitmoji Classroom. You made it seem super easy and quick to do. This looks like something my students would be interested in using as part of their Google Classroom experience. In your video, you mentioned the morning challenge that your students are enjoying doing. I see that it says "Where in the world?" Can you please share more about that? I am always interested in what other kids enjoy doing because it might be something my students would enjoy as well.
I love your bitmoji classroom. I also love your generosity in sharing your knowledge with others freely and only asking for a like, subscription, and donation to a food bank as an act of gratitude to you. :)
Thank you for sharing. Your video was really helpful I was able to create a welcome video for my new class. I really enjoyed creating it as well which was an additional plus. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
What are you looking forward to adding into your virtual classroom?
I'm so looking forward to adding my interactive virtual classroom to my class on Monday. Hoping to have a link to the game Hit the Button and maybe a riddle section. Thnak you so much for you video.
@@lizmacnamara8068 That's great. I LOVE hit the button!
Great work here Thomas. Thank you! I want to make my bitmoji talk/animate when students click on it. Can this be done?
I was thinking along similar lines to Carina with a virtual tour. I have embedded videos but have to publish to web as I lose them when posting on Seesaw
Talking Bitmoji tutorial?
You are truly a wonderful. Not charging us teachers, but donating money to a foodbank. Thank you, Thomas
I loved this analogy "A bit like a rubbish version of Sims" :) A great user friendly video. Thank you.
Sharing your own virutal backrounds??? What a hero
I try 😂
Hi Thomas---I am a 25 year veteran teacher in SF CA. Many of us feel like first year teachers with Distance Learning. I am really thankful for your videos to help many of us who have no where in our school districts to get this kind of help. May your teaching be blessed and your students are lucky to have you. Well Done!
I watched 3 unhelpful videos before i found yours. Thank you so much!!! very detailed and to the point!!!
Still unhelpful to me.
You are truly wonderful. Not charging us teachers, but donating the money for a foodbank. Thanks Thomas
Thank you for taking the time create this. Canadian Teacher, teaching 19 years and now learning how to teach remotely. This is so helpful.
Keep smashing it!
I use Seesaw and my students love it. This is brilliant and will definitely look more into this and will definitely start trying to use this.
Thank you so much for all of the help and tutorials.
Prayers and blessings ❤️🙏
Thanks for making online learning fun, my teacher MUST have used this tutorial, and it’s always fun waking up and looking at the agenda for the day!
Such a wonderful message. Thank you 😁
Thank you very much! This is so fun for designing and mega looking forward to it. Have sat in endless lessons since September, so around 600-700 lessons I've been in and the continuous format, enter, follow RTL, AR Book, Starter, Main Activity, PowerPoint, Copy, Questions, Checking Question, End of Lesson, I've been in, I've been bluntly, bored shitless. And this is lesson after lesson. Lesson delivery is so far behind!
Thank you! I really appreciate your outlook on not charging, but promoting donations!
Thanks for your kind words
What an absolutely selfless and wonderful lesson for you to share with all of us who now find ourselves attempting to build relationships with and educate at a distance. I appreciate your time and care in creating this lesson. My husband and I donate often within our community - our next donation will be made in your name. Thank you. Stay safe!
I made mine today. It was too fun and I went nuts planting Easter Eggs for my seniors, hoping it will cheer them up! Thanks for the tutorial, it was easy!
You are amazing. This was well done, easy to follow and the fact that you are giving resources for free or requesting people support a food bank is wonderful. The world needs more people like you!
Mine turned out great! I'm so pleased. I have so many ideas running through my head on how to use this. (I'm the school librarian.) Thank you for the instructions on making my own.
Denise, I'm a librarian too. Please share ideas! Thanks!
Thank you, Thomas! Tomorrow is the first day of school for me, and I am hoping that my Bitmoji classroom will make school seem a bit less scary for my new kindergarteners! I appreciate your help, and have followed your wonderful suggestion of donating to my community's food bank . All the best from California!
Thank you for this! I am a high school counselor and virtual counseling has been a challenge. I am looking forward to starting the new year with a bitmoji google classroom, thanks to your help. I donate each month to our local food bank, and this month's donation will be in your honor. Best wishes. Cheers.
Thomas, thank you very much for sharing your beautiful virtual classroom. What an amazing way to engage learners! Thank you for including not only an overview but also mini tutorials for creating this platform. Teachers who've never created a hyperlinked slide, doc, or other element could surely find success through this video!
Thank you for the lovely message :)
Greatful for you sharing, one of the best parts of being a teacher is the community!
Absolutely
Truth!
This, my friend, is an excellent tutorial....so clear and well explained. From an appreciative teacher in Canada.
Thank you 😊
This was very helpful. I am a second grade teacher and a noob with online education. This looks like it will be fun to explore! I am going to add read alouds with my bitmoji on a bean bag and a variety of second grade fave books on a bookshelf along with a variety of online resources they access often like epic, fundations drill sounds, or the morning message. Keep up the great work with these very easy to understand tutorials!
You are very kind! Asking folks to pay it forward for using your resources. Bless you!
Your presentation was WONDERFUL! I've been teaching for many years and am now learning to teach online. Although I am not afraid of technology & use it frequently in my classroom, learning to teach online exclusively has been challenging. Thank you SO much for your tutorial. It has been extremely helpful.
Thank you very much for taking the time to send such a kind message
Thanks, your students are lucky to have you as their teacher!
Thank you
Thank you so much!!! This tech challenged 4th grade teacher in the US ( New Jersey to be exact) feels far more confident about planning for the next few weeks of virtual learning and having new skills to use in the classroom. I can't thank you enough.
You are awesome! I appreciate your videos. I've learned a lot and I love that you don't want to make money for what you do and instead mentioned giving to food banks. That is great!
Great tutorial--perfect step-by-step--THANK YOU!!!! I was able to create a virtual classroom from your directions by simply watching and pausing your video. You made it simplistic and explained perfectly! (I couldn't get your free virtual backgrounds to load, but I'm happy with what I created from your web directions.) Thank you SO VERY MUCH for sharing this tutorial!
Thank you from this teacher in Texas!!!!
I've seen other teachers with this as their google header and haven't been able to find a good tutorial. Thank you for providing this for free and I am enjoying creating my own slides. Love!
You're very welcome!
Hi Kamisha, I found this video that helped me add bitmojis to my classroom. I hope this helps!!
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Thank you so much for sharing your tutorial! It's wonderful of you to do this for free with the given circumstances the world is living in! May God bless you ten fold!
Thank you! I did not know what Bitmoji really was until now!! Can't wait to begin creation!
Great tutorial! Thank you for your generosity in giving rather than selling your tutorial and background slides. I appreciate that and will look for more of your tutorials. I've already recommended your tutorial to others!
Thank you, Thomas, for this inspiring tutorial...from a very appreciative teacher in Jamaica.
LOVED. LOVED. LOVED your video! I was able to play, pause, and create alongside of you.
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, thank you so much for this video!
I love it!! I've been using google slides to make an interactive long-division lesson and your video came along at the perfect time!!! Thank you for your generosity!!!! I have a digital scrapbooking program that I can use to delete backgrounds and turn anything into a digital "sticker". Who knew that my hobby would turn out to be so useful now! I can use pictures from things in our current classroom! The kids are going to love it!! THANK! YOU! SO! MUCH!!
penelopefp would love to see the interactive division lesson!
How do you do it? What kind of "interactive" you are talking about?
Thank you so much! In USA been teaching 34 years and still learning.
Learning never stops! 😊
This is the best tutorial on virtual classrooms that I have seen. Thank you for sharing your backgrounds!
Great step by step directions!!! Thank you for putting this out there and allowing us to use your materials for FREE!!! Can't wait to get started.
Thank you for being a true teacher at heart! Delivering messages of giving and sharing...much appreciation from California!
Thank you so much! from one teacher to another, your video was very thorough and helpful in explaining how to incorporate your Virtual classroom into Google Classroom!!
Glad you found it useful 😄
Love, love, love this virtual classroom tutorial. THANK YOU so very much. I'm so grateful for your generosity in sharing. I set up my own virtual classroom as Thomas dictated and can't wait for my students to see it on Monday!
Contribution to charity...done! What an awesome idea to 'pay back'. Thank you!
Thanks so much for this. It's a great guide to what is completely new to me but I imagine I will be using virtual classrooms al the time now! Love your approach to this and thinking of others who can benefit from donations to foodbanks or other sources of support. Great video and great attitude. Thanks again.
Always great to support other. Thanks for your support.
Thank you. This is going to impress my administrators! I can't believe I was able to do it...thanks to you!
Thank you so very much! Your directions were very clear. I'm so excited to share this with my second graders!
Simply brilliant. The explanations are very clear and I am enjoying creating my owm virtual classroom. Thank you
Thank you!! I'm a school social worker and was asked to create a classroom for summer resources for our students as we are still not allowed in the schools- This helped me do it step by step very easily!!
Great job! I hope more kids get to have fun classroom experiences like this! What a year this will be!!
Thanks so much for sharing! Also, thank you the ready-made backgrounds and for showing us how you share your Bitmoji classroom with students on Google Classroom.
More than welcome. Welcome to the team.
Thank you!!!!!!! I am a MS Technology Teacher and have had several teachers on my campus ask me how to do this.... Your's was the best tutorial I looked and and was easy to follow along with as you went step-by-step! Now I will be able to help my fellow co-workers! - From a VERY appreciative teacher in Texas
Thank you Thomas! Very helpful resources, and thank you for your kindness and nobility.
Thank you so much, Thomas! Awesome tutorial. I love the bit about giving to a food pantry. I was so uninspired this year, as we are beginning virtual. Thank you very much for inspiring me.
Definitely embracing the Bitmoji Classroom! I am an academic coach and would love to share this with teachers! Most of our teachers have been utilizing Google Classrooms and Google Slides so it would be quite seamless to include something like this. Bitmoji Classroom really breathes refreshing life to virtual learning!
Thank you very much
Thanks for such a comprehensive video tutorial, this will be very enticing for my Y4 class.
More than welcome
Thank you so much, I am using this in lieu of a boring slide presentation to communicate with students. This was progressive.
Thanks for your work and what you are doing to help our students in remote learning!
Thank you so much for the free backgrounds. It is very much appreciated! I have had very little training in technology having gone for teaching soooooo many years ago. This video was very helpful to someone who was overwhelmed by all of this virtual learning! Thank you!!!!!!!
my class loved it thank you so much...….you are truly kind teacher
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Currently using Google Classroom and have been wanting to create a bitmoji classroom but wasn't sure where to start. This is so helpful!
Amazing work! Distance learning can be so monotonous at times for the kids and I feel so disconnected from them; this is a great tool to make it more fun and your tutorial made it so easy to accomplish. Thank you! I'll be donating to my local food bank on your behalf.
Thank you
Thanks so much! This is awesome. I totally got lost in creation of a few virtual classrooms for the remainder of my evening after watching your tutorial. Our LMS at my school is Schoology so I want to figure out the best way to link this to my class pages as a weekly mode to deliver their independent work. I am trying to really create a blended learning experience for the upcoming school year and beyond :-) I also appreciate that you are not charging a fee and that you ask us to support those in need instead...excellent!
I love your virtual classroom! My students love the one that I've created. Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you Thomas for your incredibly helpful tutorial. Great sentiment in keeping our payment local and practical. Great work. I look forward to starting a virtual classroom.
This was AWESOME! I am a beginner and it was incredibly useful! You're an excellent teacher! Thank you.
Thank you for this tutorial... I had no idea how to create a virtual bitmoji classroom until I saw this...very cool...very helpful!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I set mine up last night and can't wait to share it with my students today. I appreciate you sharing your skills!
Thank you for this helpful tutorial and i love how you just ask people to donate to a local food bank! Will do friend!
thanks so much Thomas! I've watched so many tutorials and yours is by far the best!!! Your kids are lucky to have you!
I created my classroom as I went through your video, thank you so much. This was an excellent tutorial. If we go virtual at the beginning of the next school year, I will definitely use it. Pensacola, Florida
Thank you for this amazing and informative video!!! My pedagogical instructors (I'm still a college student) will loveee it! 💪
Thank you 😄
This is awesome. Thank you for making it free for us. I will donate to our food bank, it is depleted.
Thanks Thomas! You are an exceptional human! This was very helpful and I will make a food bank donation this week!!
Thank you for the Free templates. I'll donate to a foodbank. This is how teachers should share.
Thanks to all who freely share. I am often in tears at the kindness and generosity I have seen since the pandemic closed down our schools. I miss my kids more than I would ever admit to them.
Thank you so much for this! I have made my virtual classroom today as a result of watching this. I thought it would be a lot harder but I've managed! Thanks for taking the time to make this to help other teachers.
Thank you for the tutorial. I have made two versions and I love it. I never realized technology could be so much fun!
Very Helpful. Thank you so much from the USA!
This was super helpful and perfectly paced for teachers who have some idea how to use Google slides already! Thank you! I was overwhelmed by the idea of creating a bitmoji classroom but now I'm excited. And since we are doing a hybrid model at my school I ca make my virtual classroom look like my real one!
I had a basic idea of creating the virtual classroom. Thanks for filling in some blanks
Wow thank you so MUCH. You video was informative and made me take a second look at my Google Classroom and how to improve for the rest of this school year but also for coming years. I teach preschoolers with disabilities and I think that they will be able to access my lessons with more independence by adding a virtual classroom! Thank you
Thank you so much for the free backgrounds, and yes I do give back to my community. Your video will help me achieve a project I’ve had in mind for a long time. Greetings from Mexico.
You are a clear and amazing teacher.
Thank you a million times over! This tutorial was great and thank you for charing the classrooms you created.
I love it!!! Amazing tutorial. I just created my virtual classroom thanks to your directions. I will share your video with my friends. THANKS.
Thank you for your video tutorial in Interactive bitmoji classroom. I learned more.it has a great help for me.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about this.. i learned a lot and it is really amazing for kids.. This type of strategy in teaching is trully helpful this time of pandemic. Hoping for more videos similar to this. Thank you once again.
This is such an amazing idea and I DEFINITELY plan on making a virtual classroom to share with my kiddos. Thank you SO much for making this video and sharing!
Thank you so much Thomas for this incredibly helpful video! I absolutely love your view on not charging people. I really appreciate you and all you've done to help support fellow educators!
Woohoo! I’ve done it! Thank you very much from the UK.
Thank you for clearly explaining how to create an Interactive Bitmoji Classroom. You made it seem super easy and quick to do. This looks like something my students would be interested in using as part of their Google Classroom experience. In your video, you mentioned the morning challenge that your students are enjoying doing. I see that it says "Where in the world?" Can you please share more about that? I am always interested in what other kids enjoy doing because it might be something my students would enjoy as well.
I would love to but it isn't mine to share. Check for missgeog92 on twitter
Such an excellent video. Comprehensive yet so simple. Thank you sooooo much...
Thank you! What a lovely comment to receive.
Thanks for a FANTASTIC easy to follow tutorial. I had so much fun making one for a rather boring Extended Essay class on exploring journals
You are awesome and I love what you stand for. Thanks for this.
Thank you! This was a wonderful tutorial. I was able to successful create my bitmoji classroom while you gave instructions. I'm inspired to add more.
I love your bitmoji classroom. I also love your generosity in sharing your knowledge with others freely and only asking for a like, subscription, and donation to a food bank as an act of gratitude to you. :)
Very good video! Thank you for the step by step instructions and not going so fast!
Thank you for sharing. Your video was really helpful I was able to create a welcome video for my new class. I really enjoyed creating it as well which was an additional plus. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you for the great tutorial! I just spent a year in Al Ain, UAE teaching. Good luck this year!
Thanks so very much! I really have learned how to do something different. My kids will love it!
Thank you so so so much. Been looking for someone who explained it as sime as you. Thx you also for the FREE templates. About to work on my own
Yes, thank you for being sooooo generous and understanding during these trying times. Thanks also for the detailed explanation 💕. Sending Texas love