Catch Up!

It has been awhile! Life has been crazy lately (nothing new right?) and I've neglected my blogging responsibility! Cory was out of town Mon - Thur last week, Bens had pneumonia, my computer died and I didn't have it for a week, and on and on I could go - but no need, life is ok again now that I can check my email! I'm always so surprised how reliant I am on my computer. I go to it every spare chance that I get! Either to check my email or see what is going on with all of you on your blogs, to checking the weather on KSL or just researching an interesting topic...what did we ever do without computers?? I know you are all with me on this! Anyways Halloween is right around the corner, so we have been preparing at my house. On Monday for family night we had a great time carving pumpkins. Everyone got into it and we ended up with some fabulous carved pumpkins!

Pre-carved Pumpkins!





Asher and Bens having a great time cleaning out the inside...



Carved Pumpkins...Our Scooby Doo pumpkin is missing from the picture.



We of course had to make our annual Halloween Sugar cookies. They turned out
great this year (or so I hear)!!!




When Cory left out of town last Monday, I decided to head to Robert's to find the boys a craft to do at night. (For those couple of hours after dinner is over and I realize I still have to entertain!) I picked us up some wood frames, and we painted them and cut shapes out of Foam sheets and used sparkle glue until our hearts were content! The boys did a fabulous job and they are now on display in their rooms.

This is Bensen's
This one is Asher's



Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Birthday Bensen!

This is Bensen on his Birthday, October 7th 2005.
He was 6 lbs 4 oz.

This is Bens, after he had been home a couple of weeks. Was he really ever that little??



Here he is a couple months old now, (and a little plumper)



This was taken on Bensen's 1 yr Birthday (below)


For his 2nd Birthday we had a Halloween Party and he was Superman!




And that brings us to the current.
Here is Bensen on his first day of Preschool (Sep 31'08)
He was so excited! He had his own backpack and was more then ready to take on school.
(It was just me who was not ready for him to go and give him up for someone else to enjoy! He is such my little buddy that it was REALLY hard for me. But I have made it through so far and I'm doing better now.)



We went up Provo Canyon last Thursday and took lots of fall pictures. We had a blast and it was so beautiful up in the mountains.

It has taken me forever to post this post. I think I have been putting it off because
1. It was going to take me quite a bit of time to go through the old photo's, but I think it really was because I knew I would be a sobbing mess! I love my Bens, and I love that he is growing up and doing so well. I have loved every minute of his little life. He has had so many challenges, and we have grown so close to him experiencing those challenges with him. His little life has entailed multiple surgery's, a billion it seems Dr. visit's, hearing aides since 4 months, food allergies, special food's etc But with all that he has one amazing personality! I think Heavenly Father blessed him with everything he is going to need to be a strong, confident, happy person. We live at such a great time with so many opportunities and so much focus on accepting people for who they are, no matter what challenges they may face.
I Love you Bens! Live life to the fullest!!

A whole lot of fun!

We had soo much fun in California. Here is a quick run through...

We split up our vacation. We hoteled right across from Disneyland until Saturday morning, and then drove to Carlsbad (right by San Diego) for the other half. Cory LOVES the beach, so instead of having to drive everyday, I found a fabulous hotel right off the beach. He was in heaven! He boogie boarded and skim boarded until he was so sore he couldn't move!!
Here are some pic's!

*Asher standing by the Tower of Terror ride. He didn't go on it of course (even though he did go on Space Mountain for his very first roller coaster ride ever!! I know we are so mean!). I do recommend going on this ride. It was awesome! Asher was pretty excited to see Mr. Incredible!


Of Course we did have some of these moments, but overall Lily did soo good!
Ash and Bens in Toon Town driving one of there cartoon looking cars...




We went to a really fun restaurant at the Disneyland Hotel called "Goofy's Kitchen".
A lot of the character's are walking around and they come and sign your books and we got pictures with them. It was way fun!


On Friday Night we went to a place called "Medieval Times". It was kind of like a dinner show. You didn't have any silverware (because you are living in the medieval time period) and you watched a medieval time like battle with horses and nights and kings etc. I do recommend seeing this cause it was really fun, but go to the 6:30 show. We switched our show time to 8:30 and the boys feel asleep and missed the whole battle at the end!


We then took our vacation to Carlsbad!



Sea World was a blast! I have always loved Sea World. So much so that for my 16th Birthday my mom flew me to Sea World for the day so I could see all the shows (of course the killer whales are my fav.) and then we flew home late that night. What a mom!
The boys loved it and Lily loved it as well, except for the up close splash that she got right in the face at the touch the dolphin exhibit. She screamed soo loud!!


My very handsome husband...


Ash and Bens Loved the sand...

And Bensen was fabulous to have around. He chased the birds for about the first 30 minutes he got to the beach. It was pretty funny!