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.'

Ben and his girlfriend Gabby

I took these pictures @ a party we had @ our house recently and it seemed strange to me how these pictures looked so much like many peoples party pictures from their teens or early twenties. Scary how kids grow up before your eyes!

Just thought these would give a couple of people a good laugh.

Olympic Experience

Ben got to meet an Olympic athlete a little while ago. The guy (sorry I can't remember his name or sport, I didn't even meet him) was @ the Bay so Trish took Ben and they had a few pictures taken with him. It will be really fun and cool to see my mom run with the Olympic tourch this coming January. We are all going to watch her run and the kids will be all decked out and Ben will be so exited to watch grandma run.

The fun with Doctors

So for the last few weeks I've been wondering if I was having twins. The reason for this is each time I went to my doctors office, she says to me, "oh, seems like just one for now." or "well, next week after the ultrasound we'll know if it's one or two." Just the things that a pregnant person wants to hear the two time she goes to the doctor.

This had me thinking a lot over the last few weeks and just wondering why the doctor would have mentioned this at all. So finally this last Tuesday the doctor confirmed that I am only having one baby. It really makes a person feel really large when her doctor thinks that your having twins and especially when a customer @ work asks how close your due date is. That's right, someone @ work thought I was due soon. I'm only half way done here and well this is making me feel very large.

Strange things that happen in life. I know that I am not large and not having twins but it's a funny little story that I wanted to share with everyone.