A Beautiful Thing We Call Life

* Life is not always a box of chocolates but I love thinking how perfect and beautiful everything in life is, just think about things the beautiful sun rise seeing all the colors God chose that specific morning to wake us up or how beautiful the evening time is. God created all things on this Earth for us to realize he created everything and is in control of everything in our lives.

*RIP Rebecca Elizabeth*

* This weekend was a difficult one for me and so many others in the Daviess County area, it was three years ago on Saturday that our beautiful angel was taken away from us and joined Our Heavenly Father in Heaven. What an amazing thought to think about she is no longer suffering from the worldly things but rejoicing and dancing with the "Big Guy Upstairs". Rebecca Elizabeth Arnold "Ellis" was a beautiful young women living her life moment by moment until that day where her life was taken away from her in a car accident. From that day forward I knew life would never be the same, I no longer had the friend in my life, never ride to school together or have that friend to talk about life with. She was so beautiful, I love the thought of her in Heaven watching over us all, telling God to protect us from what lies ahead of us! You are an angel and greatly missed by everyone! I cannot wait to see you one day!

Us girls making picture boards for the funeral. You were beautiful!

* I will never forget the lunch we had at my house only 8 days before the wreck, we made spaghetti and Texas Toast, that was a fun day. I remember on the day of your wreck you went around telling us all you loved us, hugged us that one last time almost as if God was preparing you for your last day on Earth with your friends. I will never forget later that afternoon getting the dreadful call you had been in a serious accident and being life-lined to Indy. I am so glad I was able to go up to Indy that night to see you and be with your family. That whole week is a blur for the class of 2007, we sat together at school or someones house until the early morning hours sharing different memories of you, we laughed at times but most of all we cried a lot because we didn't know how a class would survive this in the middle of our Junior year, it was difficult. We all just kept thinking she was going to miss so many things in her life most importantly graduation, proms, wedding day, having her own children being that perfect mother but we cannot control what happens in our life.

Becca,Kristen, Bethany, Kylie and Ayrika going to sectional!

* We need to live day-to-day living for God and no one else because we never know when our time is going to come. God already has planned out when and how we will be taken from this life which is scary but amazing at the same time to think He knows when, where, how we will die. Very scary. Rebecca continues to live in our lives, when I am walking around and see something that makes me think Becca must have had something to do with that. You were a special angel sent by God to change the Class of 2007, thank you so much! I love you Becca!

As we begin to start a new week I hope this week I can stay sick free! It is so hard being sick away from home without someone there to take care of you. Needless to say, I needed my mom this week! My roommate and I both suffered this week from the flu, it is always true the person who receives the sickness gets it worse than the one who gave it. How unfair. I had the flu from Tuesday morning to Thursday morning. Oh well, praise God I am no longer sick with the flu.
Last night a bunch of us girls got together to celebrate my best friend's birthday, it was a much needed night for many of us!! The night consisted of supper, old memories, chit chatting away, gifts and of course DESSERT my favorite. It was a good time for us girls just to get together, relax and enjoy one another company! I always love getting together with them girls, they are defiantly the best! I'm sure I will have some pretty interesting pictures to post here shortly. Thanks girls for a much needed night of laughing=)
I wish I had a way with words like some people who blog, I just can't seem to think what to write next. Maybe next time I will have something interesting to write about until then have a great night.

Begining to my ramblings and Lengacher moments!

Well.. The Lengacher's are finally starting to blog. I never thought I would say that, with the way my dad is he does not understand one thing dealing with a computer but hopefully that will all change. I always wanted to do a blog I just wasn't sure what to do mine over since I do not have a family yet so I thought it would be good for us as a family to do one of these. My name is Ayrika and I am twenty years old. I am currently at Vincennes University majoring in Special and Elementary Education, needless to say I love it. I cannot wait to become a teacher, I graduate from VU in two years. Hopefully I will be able to find a teaching job so I can continue to do what I love. My daddy is Matt, he runs his own business Lengacher Steel Construction. There are two crews that he runs, his brother is in charge of the other. He is the best dad, he has always been involved in all our life's. I always knew if something was wrong I could call my dad and he would let me know what to do. I love you daddy! My mom, Sherri, is awesome. Her love for her family is amazing and her love for the Lord is overflowing. She has to be OCD about cleaning, I have never walked in our house with it being dirty, even with all of us kids or dad. She is awesome! My brother, Drew, is thirteen. He is very athletic involved in three sports, basketball, baseball and football his favorite! He cracks me up, you never know what he is going to do or say. We all thought this would be our family till the end of time until one day my parents decided they wanted to add to the Lengacher's. In 2004, we started working on the adoption paperwork, we decided to adopt from China. As a family, we were so excited to have another little one running around the house, plus I was so excited to have a baby sister. It was one crazy year, with people coming over inspecting our house, interviewing each of us, then waiting for the time for my parent's to leave for China. That was a difficult time because "our" parent's were gone for two and half weeks leaving us with grandma. We planned a suprise Welcome Home Party for them, but the thing was Madison was terrified of us and everything around her beside mom and dad, very upsetting to someone who has been waiting a year to meet my new sister. Through this whole journey of adding to our family I have been so thankful for her being my baby sister. She is now four and a true blessing. She loves going to the Washington Catholic pre-school, gymnastics and spending her Saturday's enjoying her "sissy time". Needless to say, she does not go anywhere without getting attention. Although, we all thought our family was done growing or adding to the wonderful Lord decided he wasn't done yet with the Lengachers and wanted us to have one more and maybe one day add another! (HINT MOM/DAD I want another brother or sister). We have a pretty normal family that I love with all my heart. I thank God daily how he blessed me with these wonderful people he put in my life.