She also wrote the 1993 track “That Summer.”

August Anna and Allie Colleen followed soon after, but by 2001the couple had divorced(viaThe Sun).

By this point, Brooks also announced that he’d be leaving music to focus onco-parenting his kids.

Garth Brooks smiling

“Once children come into the mix, children take the lead.

That’s it,” the musician toldPeople.

“He’d be gone for eight to 10 weeks at a time,” she continued.

Garth Brooks and Sandy Mahl at the Blockbuster Awards