North Carolina or Bust

My brother Kyle married the beautiful Caren Anne this past Friday. The older kids had school so Layla was the only one who got to join us in our cross country drive. You may think we're crazy for choosing to drive to North Carolina from Texas but you have to remember that with babies come a LOT of stuff. Flying just wasn't feasible once we factored in the need for a car seat, pack n play, stroller, toys, travel high chair, etc. We left at 5am on Saturday morning and the little one was NOT in the mood. She literally looked me in the eyes and said "NOOOOOO"

Chance and I were ready to rock and roll, though!

Layla got it together once we hit Arkansas and I bribed her with the iPad

After about 12 hours of driving we stopped in Knoxville, TN and spent the night. Layla had an Ali moment and ate pizza in the bed. We know how to party.

Sunday was a repeat of Saturday, starting at 5 am, but once we reached the house Kyle and Caren rented for the week, all stress was forgotten!

The best part? I FINALLY got to get my hands on my sweet neice Riley Anne and all was right with the world. Isn't she beautiful?

Until the wedding post, Adios!

P.S....my hair? Anything BUT phenomenal all week. How do people live in that climate? I was a ruckus all week.

A Good Man

I often wonder how I got so lucky to land Chance. This morning was one of those moments. We've spent the last week in North Carolina with old and new family as my brother changed Caren's last name and when I drug ass into work this morning I panicked at the realization of not having any creamer for my coffee. After alerting Chance to my distress he showed up at my office door with this.

Lucky, indeed. Happy Monday morning coming down, friends! Keep an eye out for the wedding post! I'm anxious to show you allllllllll the pics!

Mic check 1...

...is this thing on?

I haven't blogged in so terribly long.  Thankfully some of my Instagram friends have been picking theirs back up and in reading them all I was reminded that I even HAD one so many years ago! Now that I've left Facebook (peace out, frienemies), I'm really excited to re-explore this long forgotten outlet! My life had dramatically changed since 2011, when I last posted, so here's a crash course on Lauren Woodard 2.0. 

If you follow me on IG some of these pics may be repeats!

Chance and I are nearing our 3rd wedding anniversary and still obnoxiously happy. 

Chesney's 11 now and still a beauty who is addicted to her iPhone.

Mayson's 8 and playing football

Caycee's cheering for Mayson's team and loving it

...and Layla has a drinking problem

Jkjk she doesn't have a problem and can quit any time...it's the markers that she's hang a hard time kicking.

Now that you're up to speed on family life, stick around and watch what's really important: what I'm wearing and sewing! Haha!

Xoxo

Oh, Baby: Part 2

  I was (mostly) right!!

  Miss Emree Elizabeth Bennett is here, and she's close to what I predicted!  Haha.  She was born at 11 am on the dot, March 8th, 2011.  She's absolutely beautiful with blue eyes, light hair and perfect skin!  I think she looks nothing like her older sister Avree. 
  I'm so proud of Kevan and Sarah for bringing yet another beautiful little girl into the world!

AAAGGGHHHH BABY FEVER HAS TAKEN OVER!

Oh, Baby!

  My Best friend in the whole wide world is in the hospital right now having baby #2 and I'm at WORK! SO MAD!  I'm sitting at my desk watching the phone, waiting for it to ring to tell me she's here.  Why am I even here right now?  I need to be shopping for baby stuff, picking out flowers, going to the grocery store to get all of the ingredients I need to make all of the meals I'm planning on taking to the Bennett house when they get home!  This is so frustrating.  It's just like last year (yes, I know, joke's on Sarah, she's been pregnant for about two years straight with back to back pregnancies) when I was waiting on Avree.
 

  That was right at 13 months ago, and here we are again, rather Impatiently waiting on another one.  I wont disclose Baby Bennett, The Sequel's name just yet, because in the last few weeks it has changed a time or two.  I will, however, make predictions. 

  Since Avree was born dark complected with dark eyes and enough hair to do a double process color on, I'm going to guess that this one is dark complected as well, but bald with Kevan's light eyes. 

  COME ON, Baby Bennett!  MAMA NEEDS A DRINK!

Here goes nothin'...

I'm new to blogging.  I have a Facebook and a Twitter account, but Facebook has gotten a little too P.C. for me, and Twitter is just obnoxiously complicated.  I preferred the old twitter, which was full of one-liners, now it has all these @s and #s and what the hell does all of that stuff mean?  Everyone on Facebook has gotten so sensitive, Ooooh, you can't say that, OMG I can't believe you said that!  Well guess what, I said it, and I probably toned it DOWN before I put it in text >