David S. Irvin’s Positively Parker County
The Heflins
Steve and Tricia Heflin- Owners of the Brooks in Weatherford
By the time they found their place in the rolling hills east of Weatherford, Steve and Tricia
Heflin were tired of looking. For a year and a half, the San Antonio residents had searched for
a North Texas home within a 30-minute drive of Keller and their daughter and grandchildren.
Tricia Heflin finally asked the realtor “I just need a tree and a hill. Can you get me
that?” To fit the bill, it had to be lovely land which they could build their “Last Tango in Paris”
dream — a wedding and event venue. The Heflin’s moved into the 120-year-old farmhouse
on their Parker County land in January 2014. They broke ground on their project in March of
2018 and held their first wedding at The Brooks at Weatherford that following October.
“We are loving it here,” Tricia Heflin said recently. “It was hard to leave a place after
28 years, but we’re loving it.” The couple spent 18 years in San Antonio and 10 in New
Braunfels. “It’s cool to have a dream and a design on paper and then watch it come to frui-
tion,” she added.
The Heflin’s also found some local roots they’d not known about. Heflin said her late
mother-in-law told them that her father pastored Northside Baptist Church in Weatherford for
a time. The Weatherford area appealed to the Heflin’s because it is a growth market.
“We’ve only been here a little bit more than four years — it will be five in January — but
we have really seen lots of growth since we’ve gotten here,” Heflin said. “It’s very obvious that
growth is coming this way.”
And they are glad to be part of the growth.
About Irvin
David S. Irvin, The Portrait Photographers,
is a nationally recognized photographer.
Irvin has photographed six presidents and
a variety of celebrities, including Garth
Brooks and Nolan Ryan. He has also been
recognized by Kodak as one of the top 25
photographers in
the United States.
Irvin photographs
notable families
in the Fort Worth
area who have ties
to area businesses.
To see additional
photos by David S.
Irvin, visit
www.dsirvin.com