Apologizing now

I'm gonna go ahead and apologize Bc this might become quite lengthy. I need to get caught back up. Honestly, I've had no desire to blog. But I need to get caught up Bc it stresses me out to have all these pictures on my phone.
A few weeks ago, we celebrated national waffle day by having waffles for lunch...it was more because I didnt have anything else to feed them but whatever...it sounds better to say that I planned to feed them that to correspond with the day. Lol!


Larkin loves looking at herself when taking pictures. She makes these silly faces now. Ha








A few days before Easter, I decided that I needed to paint my toenails. Well. Larkin watched me so intently. I decided to plop her down in my lap and paint hers. I did not have high expectations. However, she sat so still the entire time....and smiled. She loved it! :) love my girl!


The boys love and hate each other. Nothing else to say about that. It's a minute to minute thing.


This is quite sad for me...Campbell got his haircut last week. We love ts hair. But someone (a child) questioned his gender at an Easter event. Soooo. It was time for a good cut. I was concerned about this below Bc he has to twirl his hair when he go to sleep. As soon as he finished with his haircut, I picked him up and he started twirling and said "yep. I can still twirl" this picture was taken before.


Dr visit. I think this was for Larkin. She had another ear Infectjon.


Larkin wearing one of my creations.


Sweet t and Larkin


The Friday before Easter, trigger pulled his tooth at my grandparents. This was his second tooth to lose.








Check out that beautiful hair below...makes me want to cry.


Bath time. This doesn't happen often that they all take a bath together. It's just too many dirty bodies. Plus the boys are wild...and Larkin is hard enough to control without any other children to deal with. Larkin seems to think its a good idea to swim, face down in the water. Yeah. Not so much a good idea when you don't know how to swim.


And c got his hair cut. :(
It really looks good. Just sad.


Mr model.


He was turned around Bc he didn't want me to take his picture.





Larkin. Larkin. Larkin. You are supposed to be my calm, sweet third child/girl. Larkin loves the boys swords. And she will come after you with this face. Lovely! That's exactly what I need.


Last Saturday, Matt was soooo tired. He has been working so many hours and only sleeping about 3 hrs a night. He needed to write a recommendation for a professor. I told him I would type and he could just lay there and tell me what to type. He said "this is what I need. I need you to be my secretary". Lets just say that after my constant comments on too many introductory clauses, we ended the night with Matt saying "if you worked for me, you'd be fired...you won't be my secretary". He was kidding...sort of. Lol!!!!!!


Larkin loves her some shoes. Always trying to put everyone's shoes on.


HOW could you not love this little dimpled boy???


Or this one???? He was modeling his new fleece vest that I bought for ts school uniform.





Ok. There's so much more but ill pause there for tonight.

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Our sweet pastor

I'm totally heartbroken. Honestly, I feel a little empty. Our pastor, dr. Rick byargeon, passed away from cancer. He was diagnosed right after Thanksgiving. I can remember pulling up to Matt's office to go see the Christmas train that was coming through Ruston. I had all kids with me. Matt came out and he just stared at me. Then said he'd just gotten off the phone. "Rick has cancer". I don't think I thought of much else while we were there. I just couldn't comprehend it. As the days/months passed, I would get updates. Then, this past Tuesday, I was told that it wasnt good and wouldn't be long. I couldn't believe it. How? I had just been told that he spent most of a day or two at work. Matt and his friend even went to see him two weeks before he passed away. He was in pain but I didnt expect that he wouldn't be alive in two weeks. My heart is just broken for jonann!
Liz and I got this picture ready for the funeral. It was taken at my brothers wedding on September 29th. It's just not right. He was healthy (or so it seemed) in this picture. I can remember joking with him after the ceremony. It was the wettest, stormy wedding I have ever been to. The guys were just sinking into the ground....the ceremony was outside. I can remember Dr. Rick joking about it being the wettest wedding that he'd ever participated in. But I have to say this picture was PERFECT! Look at it. It's pouring down rain and Dr Rick is standing there with a smile on his face and his Bible under his arm. How appropriate. In the storms of life...in the worst pain of his life...yet he still clung to his Bible and the words that were written inside.


You know. I have wondered why he had to suffer. I know he had kind of a close call a few months back with some cardiac issues while he was in the hospital. I was processing all of this Thursday night and wondered why God didnt take him then. But you know what?! I truly believe that Dr. Rick needed to preach a few last times. I think he needed to make it very clear that he wasnt mad at God. There are so many that struggle with tragic losses. And how our God can do such a thing. The problem is that our loving Father doesn't DO these things to our loved ones. We live in a fallen world filled with sin!!!! Could God have healed him? Yes! I do believe that God can do anything he choses. Do I understand why he didnt chose to heal Dr. Rick? No, I do not. But we can't harp on that. We know our Father is a loving God. He will take care of us. We are sad...of course!!!! We miss our pastor! But I KNOW there is a plan. It's hard to see when you are in the middle of the pain.
Dr. Rick is healed... Just not in the way we would've liked. I'm just sad for Jonann and for our church. We will miss his leadership.
I will end with probably one of my first memories of dr Rick (on his second time at tbc). Matt and i had just had our first miscarriage. Dr. Rick and Jason came over one night to see us and pray with us. I was still sore because I had just had the D&C and I was very tired. Our house was a disaster because I had been on bedrest for two weeks prior to the miscarriage. I remember calling Liz and saying that I really didnt want them coming because I didnt feel like cleaning and she said "honey, do not clean. You shouldn't be cleaning. Just take all of the stuff laying around and throw it on your bed. Just tidy up the den and kitchen Bc that's where they will be. ". I said "are you sure". She said "yes. They will visit a minute and pray with you and leave. They will NOT look around your house."
I was feeling really good about my tidy den and kitchen. Dr Rick and Jason came. We visited. We prayed. Then, I bet you could see this coming, Dr. Rick started asking questions about our house. Who built it? When it was built? How many bedrooms? I want to see the rest of the house.
I think I might have fainted a little. I let out a "suuuure but its a wreck". He proceeded to the master...where Liz had told me to pile all the junk from the den and kitchen. Sigh. And I'm fairly certain there were dirty clothes all over my bathroom floor. I was so embarrassed. However, he never acted like it was any big deal. I told jonann that story when she was here right after Larkin was born. I do make sure I pick up dirty clothes off the bathroom floor before anyone comes over!
I don't know why but that story always makes me smile. Dr.Rick didnt care about my messy house. He was really checking out all of the molding, etc. :)
We sure will miss him. I had to sit Trigger down and try to explain it to him. Those two boys have prayed "please make dr Rick get better" every single meal and at night. I didnt know how it would go over since trigger had prayed so hard for him. This was our conversation:
I showed him a picture of dr. rick and he said "that's dr Rick. Was he not sick in that picture"
Of course I started crying. I talked about him being really sick and I told him that he didnt get any better and went to heaven to be with Jesus.
He said "but we prayed for him". I told him that sometimes God has a different plan and that he wanted dr Rick to go to heaven.
And I'm still crying at this point. And he said "why are you crying". I said "because I am sad. I'm going to miss dr Rick". He said. "You can see him again when you go to heaven". He hugged me. More was said to reiterate that we wouldn't see him again at church. A few minutes later he said "when you get old like this (and made a wrinkled face), you can go to heaven and play with dr Rick. It will be fun."
Wow! I guess I need to take lessons from my 4 year old! So true. We should hold onto the promise that we will see him again!
To say that Dr. Rick was an amazing teacher of Gods word would be a huge understatement. He will be greatly missed by so many!

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herding cats

a few weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to take some spring pictures of my children…I really haven’t experienced anything such as this…it was like their ADD kicked into overdrive.  They were so overwhelmed by the different places that we went that most of the pictures ended up with their faces stuck in the “duh” expression.  very strange because it’s not like they never have their picture taken.  anyway, I made liz tag along…which was nice for the help because the whole day (because it ended up being a long process) was like herding cats.  here are the best that I got…and these aren’t even edited yet.Miss priss pretty much had this face the whole day…she was ticked off and wanted to go home.  Was NOT a fan of the grass or really anything that we did that day.  oh wait…except when Liz would swing her around which really stressed me out because I just knew her arms were going to come out of socket at any moment. 

We changed locations…and this was absolutely hysterical.  they look ridiculous…And another location…

There are more..but I’ll do another post of these award winning (HAHAHAHA) pictures. 

Easter at the Woodards

One more stop on the Easter train….We went to Arcadia for supper on Sunday night.  Corbin hid eggs for the little kids and had prizes all lined up for different eggs.  Honestly, I was thoroughly confused but the kids had fun and it was fun watching Corbin be in charge.  Trigger won a prize egg and got some glow in the dark bracelets…And we took a family picture. 

Again, this was a great night.  The kids did great and us adults got to visit for a long time.