Highs & Lows of our past 4 years...

The last 4 years of our life has been very busy, we were Married July 10, 2010. I finished up my Bachelors degree December 2010 and graduated with my Masters May 2013. I had a nephew born on November 30th, 2011 John William (Liam) Barker. Mark bought our first horse, Moose (who was my Bachelors degree graduation present), as well as we got two more, Solo and Ritz! we started riding horses, floating the river, I started working at a job I love, and we found out we were pregnant with our 1st child!

Here is Moose as a baby compared to how he looks now! It's hard to believe that he will soon be 4 years old

All three of our boys! 

Couldn't leave out our other furry children! We have 4 dogs, Tucker who is the oldest

Then Taylor 

Then Toby and Tanner, who also love to float the river and ride horses with us!

While we've had some great times in the past four years, we have also had some difficult times. In the past year we lost, my father in law, Mark's father (Ronnie Bell), my grandfather (Auburn Earl McWhorther), and Marks grandmother (Evelyn Landers). 

First to pass away was Marks grandmother. She was a very special women, who loved her family! She also had a great love for animals and loved our Tucker, so while she was in the hospital we took Tucker to go see her!

Marks father then passed away from cancer, he had been a (Bladder) cancer survivor for over two years, when he found out that his cancer had came back and spread. He ended up in Hospice care at St Thomas in Nashville, where he passed away a few days later. Although it has been difficult to lose such a loving, stubborn, hardworking man for both Mark and I and we wish he could have been here to meet Hudson, I am so thankful that I was able to have a wonderful relationship with him and see where so many of Marks great qualities come from!! 

Here is a picture a few months before he passed at my graduation! 

A few months after Marks father passed, we found out my grandfathers heart valve was leaking and things were beginning to shut down. He ended up in the hospital and went to Hospice in St. Thomas, where he passed away. 

My Grandfather had such a Big heart and he adored Liam! Some of their favorite things to do together were to ride around on the lawn mower or the golf cart. 

We both feel very thankful and blessed that we were able to say goodbye and spend the last few days with both my grandfather and Marks father.. I know that we have many great stories that we will be able to share with Hudson about his great grandmother, great grandfather, and grandfather (Beizer)!

So about our wedding....

I actually wanted to go off and get married when we first were engaged, however Mark really wanted to stay in town, now I am so glad that we did decide to stay close because we have pictures like these of family and friends who wouldn't have been able to attend had we went off and gotten married!!

Just a few more pictures from our wedding day!

Liam made his appearance on November 30th of 2011.

 It's been so much fun watching him to grow up and develop! He went from this little baby into such a smart little boy, and it has honestly flown by! I love that we are so close with my brother, Hope, and Liam and that our children will be able to grow up together. When Mark and I discussed trying to have a baby, Hope and I also discussed wanting to have cousins close in age! Little did we know that when I found out I was pregnant, Hope would find out shortly after that she was pregnant with Twins! 

Will do a post more about my pregnancy! :)

Now the twins have arrived 5/16/2014 (Reid Thomas & Kane Micheal) and we are just waiting on the arrival of Hudson!!!

Our life in a nut shell...

Just to start out, I wanted to give a rundown of our life... Mark and I met almost 9 years ago (Nov. 1 will make 9 years since we started dating), at the local county fair (Coffee County Fair). We were with mutual friends who introduced us. After that we hit it off and began getting to know one another. We found many commonalities, riding four wheelers, going to tractor pulls, friends and family were very important to both of us, and we just enjoyed spending time together! Here are some pictures from 8 1/2-7 years ago. Hard to believe it has been so long, guess the saying time flies when your having fun applies....

Here are some pictures from around 7-5 years ago. During this time, Mark and I got engaged Nov. 2008, and my brother and sister in law, Ryan and Hope were Married in August 2009.

Mark proposing!! When he proposed we were over at a friends house, and he asked me to marry him with the ring on Taylor's collar.

                                     

 I said YES!!!!

Our 1st Florida trip together!!

                                                   

Ryan and Hope's Wedding

To keep from making this post extremely long, and since i'm pretty new to this I'll post separately the past 4 years in the next blog. Hope you enjoy! :)