Helping Daddy Ray on the Farm: Cookie Jar Moments

April 14th my father in law turned 70. If you have ever met Ray, you would have never guessed that was his age. He runs circles around all of us, and that's not just because he forgot what he was doing in the first place. My sister in law, Shannon, put together and planned a very fun party for him the day before Easter, and we hosted it at our house since everyone would be in town. Here is the amazingly wonderful, blessed family that I married in to. As my momma says, there are all my "in-loves".

In honor of his mustache, we had to whip some of our own out. The kids loved them!

Since we were all together, the Easter bunny made an appearance and hid s few goodies for the kids. Sneaky fella.

Oh my darling … Easter morning, had to wear her hot pink shoes handed down from her sweet cousin AK.

I was so thankful my parents got to join us for the best day of the year, praising our risen Savior.

At Kirby's MDO Easter egg hunt, she was more excited about the 1 starburst she found than she was about the 4 whole eggs she snatched up.

A few days ago Kirby found my race # from our 5k, had to wear it and her fastest running shoes while we took Daddy lunch in the field. She did not make it too far, but brother could not wait to see the "tract-tooor" as he says.

April 21st every year is Aggie Muster. If you have never been, you are missing out. I love our very small, intimate club. We heard the bulls and the coyotes all while out there for dinner and answering "here". This year it meant a little more for CR than most; he answered for someone that he grew up with and recently lost.

So this is one of those moments I was talking about earlier … gotta make more time to get to braid. It just is the most darling thing you ever did see. Ever.

This is Patton's newest thing … well actually he used to do this and stopped, and now recently when I say, "aaawwwww", he does it.

This weekend was Disciple Now at our church. Kirby and I made 5 dozen Pioneer Woman Malt Chocolate Chip cookies for the youth and the helpers. This was such a wonderful, teachable moment about serving others. Then she looked up and said, "what's a disciple?" I began to explain it and she said, "oh, like our mission friends." Yup, you gotta. Thank you Lord for the amazing men and women who volunteer their time in Sunday school, children's church, choir and Mission Friends to teach all these beautiful minds and hearts about what Christ is all about.

The days have been super hot this past week so we have been waiting to go outside much until the evening. Thursday evening we played outside and got dirty after supper and before bath time. Patton has not taken over the driver's seat and is hauling sister around.