Hey there!  We are the Woods family!  We love vacations, food, riding to church together and the home life.   Silence in our house is rare. Our life is one adventure after another.  Seriously!  Sitting at home and watching TV can turn into complete madness.  That’s because we have three kids.  Hang on, let me back up a bit…

I was living the ultimate bachelor life.  I had no one to worry about but myself.  There were days when all I had planned was to lay in the sun and work on my tan.  It was good and all, but then I realized I wanted more than just hanging out in my house.  Alone.  In enters my wife.  Actually, we were friends for a long time before figuring out that we loved each other.  For eight years, we saw other people while being friends.  I even took her to prom.  Well, I drove her there with her date.  His name was Josh.  How weird.  But a few years later, I asked her to marry me, and it was the best decision she ever made…..and it was the best decision I ever made.  My wife is the love of my life!!

Actually, there were times in our house when we had silence.  We decided to end that.  And along came the kids.   My controlled, clean life slowly started to pile up with clothes as each new kid appeared.  The clean floors that I once knew were never to be seen again.  The silence in our house was replaced with crying, yelling, screaming and a lot of laughing.  We could try to hide our life and make it look like we have everything always perfect.  But what’s the fun in that?  And I am sure there are some people who can relate to the not-so-perfect life.  So everything you see here is us living life as it really is.  Some days, we have it all together.  The table is set, the dinner is prepared, and the prayer has been said.   But other days, there are messes.   There are “food stuck to a wall” messes.  There are smells at times that can not be put into words and can literally singe nose hairs.  But our kids are awesome ya’ll!!  Life would be dull without them.

We also love to travel to wherever we can, whenever we can.  Our road trips are special to us, and we are realizing more and more that vacations are essential.  With our three kids, we live a messy, loud and hilarious adventure.   So here is the good, the bad and the ugly of our life.

Hi, I’m Josh!

I am the one leading the way as long as my wife lets me.   To me, everything is funny or almost everything.  My philosophy is not take everything so serious and that goes for myself as well. And if I can do that, life will be a blast!  So far, it has been just that.  A blast!   I’m sure you’ll see the serious side from time to time.   I am a family man!  I’m not a man’s man.  You won’t catch me working on a car or hunting, but you might see me singing the newest pop song on the radio while driving my mini-van. When I’m paying attention, I notice everything.  I see all the funny details of life.

This is my wife, Lindsey!

She is an amazing wife and mom!  We are complete opposites, but my gosh, does it work!  If it weren’t for her, my kids would not have survived this long.  I don’t know how she does it.  She keeps up with their homework, when they need medicine, she knows how much to give them and she knows everyone’s birthday on the planet.  My wife is very thoughtful of others and always tries to make people feel special.  Being a P.E. teacher, a Sunday school teacher and a mom, her whole life is kids. There is no drama with her.  What you see is what you get.  It’s one of the reasons I love her.

Our oldest, Gracie!

Everything for us changed when she was born.  Gracie is sweet, sassy, driven and loves life!  You can’t get anything past this one.  She is always paying attention to everything around her.  If it’s a DIY project, she wants to do it.  If we’re going somewhere, she wants to know all the details.  If there is anything she can’t do, I will have to wait to find out what that might be.  And she is a great big sister.

And in the middle, Truett!

He is everything you expect the middle child to be.  No matter the situation, he can jump right in and have a fun time.  Truett has boundless energy and will not let you walk over him.  At the same time, he is sensitive and tender-hearted.  No one is a stranger to him.  He makes friends everywhere he goes. When he wants something, he goes for it.  And that is something will get him very far in life.

And our youngest, Liam!

If you want to go where he is going, you better leave now.  He’s not waiting.  This one is not shy, and he is all boy.  If you can’t hear what he is saying, he will gladly yell it to you!  But he loves as much as he plays.  If you could imagine the perfect little boy voice, he has it.  We’re making sure we point him in the right direction of life because once he heads that way it will be on full blast!