Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!

We just wanted to say Merry Christmas to all our family and friends. We are so thankful to have all of you in our lives. We have truly been blessed this year and thank God for all of you.

Love,

Renee, Mike and Benard

Ben's Birthday Party

It was Ben's Birthday party this last Sunday. I think he had lots of fun, he was a little overwhelmed with how many people came out, but there were a lot of his friends and cousins there. (the picture above is when he got icing in his nose.)

Here Benard is with his friend James. They had lots of fun together when the party died down and it was just the two of them playing. They even got into the toilet.
Ben really likes his presents, but he was most concerned about cleaning up after himself while unwrapping them. That would be really nice if he kept this up throughout his life, but I don't think it will happen.

It was so funny when everyone sang happy birthday to Ben. He giggled and when he blew out the candle he asked for everyone to sing again.

Here is his cupcake cake for this year. Its a turtle if you can't tell.

Thank you to everyone who came for the company, gifts and for the donations to Seeds of Hope.

Here is one last picture of my little boy before he turns 2. Oh, how the two years have gone by so fast. This is his last birthday where he is an only child. Next year will bring some fun adventures.

The finished Product

Here is the yard after we had all finished and were on our way to compost the leaves and branches @ the dump.

More or less no leaves.

Backyard Work

Here dad and Rachel are getting the work party started.

Last week we had a yard work day @ Rachel and my house. Ben loves working outside and was so exited to do the work. I don't think Addison was as exited about the outdoors yet.

It only took me 5 min. to do my part of the yard, although it was a silly idea to do it first because I had to do it all over again because we draged all the leaves from Rachel's yard over it.

Here is Addison on her first outside work day. She didn't even break a sweat.


Here is a picture of mom, Benard and Addison. Ben even has his own rack and gloves now so that others can get work done while he is 'working.'