Oh Christmas Tree!

Having small children is so much fun at Christmas! This year Bennett and Olivia were totally into everything about the season. We made so many great memories as always!

 Dinner at Bethlehem was a great time! I'm thankful for our wonderful church!

Best friends forever

They love Aunt Beth! (She always has suckers in her purse!)

Christmas Card photo shoot was not a happy time for June, but the kids thought it was so awesome!

 Olivia loved Santa. Bennett did NOT

 He couldn't even look at him! 

 Christmas cookie making

 These pictures are priceless

 They love each other

 Complete and total joy!

October and November

Then it was fall and all those holidays that come back to back. First was Houston's birthday, then Halloween and Thanksgiving. We had some good times this fall!

 Olivia had a great time at the pumpkin patch with her class! Unfortunately I didn't get to go with Bennett's class this year.

 Our neighborhood has a parade before trick or treating every year.  Peter Pan and Tinker bell stole my heart!

 Cousins at trunk or treat

 Messy fun carving our pumpkins

 Best buddies and neighbors! 

We took our first family camping trip before it got too cold. The kids loved it and are begging to go again!

 

Our little pilgrim at her class performance

Surprisingly, Bennett does not like to sing or do anything on stage. Thankfully his teachers love him and found a job that he was willing to do. He was in charge of wheeling in the christmas tree!

 We had a fun time celebrating with Hawk and Casey at their amazing wedding!

It was good times at my beautiful cousin Kelly's wedding as well!

Happy Thanksgiving! They looked dashing in their party clothes if I do say so...

Bennett is 5!

My baby boy is really not such a baby anymore. I try not to dwell on how sad I am for him to grow up and instead focus on how cool it is to have a big kid.  Watching him play sports, work with his daddy on projects, and become such a big helper around the house are a few highlights. He is also having so much fun learning to write words and do "homework." This year he discovered he had a desk in his room after 3 years! I'm not sure what he thought is was before... One day he was impatient to sit at the office desk while Houston was working on something.  I asked him why he didn't go to his room and use his desk. The look on his face was complete doubt and he ran upstairs to prove me wrong. A couple seconds later he came back and asked me where the desk was. I told him and he ran off again.  He ran back and asked me what color the desk was. I said brown and he ran back to check again. This time when he ran back to me he had a huge smile on his face and said "MOMMY I HAVE A DESK IN MY ROOM!!"  He worked at his desk for hours that day :)  Having kids is so fun! These are pictures of his Pump It Up party. He had a super time!

Baseball Boy

In the fall Bennett played baseball for the first time! It was a big learning curve for him over the course of the season, but he always had a great attitude and enjoyed being with his friends.  His favorite position was definitely catcher.  He's just the cutest!

It's hard to see him in this picture, but he loved playing catcher!

He had a game on his birthday so he got the game ball!

Man it's hard to get all that dirt out of white pants every week!