Vacation Time!

So last week Daniel and I celebrated our 2 Anniversary. We had a nice time having a "date" at home while my parents took care of Bens. We had a nice dinner and watched a couple of movies. Anybody who knows me very well knows that I love weddings and wedding dresses. I tried my dress on, which barely still fits, and didn't want to take it off! So that was on the 15, our Anniversary. On the weekend we went to see The Dark Knight in theaters and ate at Chopstix. Pretty good food!!


My handsome groom!


Bens also had his first sleepover at my Aunts house. He did really well. They let him stay up late playing so he would be really tired for bed. When we picked him up in the morning he had his breakfast I sent, oatmeal and applesauce with a sippy of milk, plus bummed some juice from my Uncle. He saw someone eating a banana so he had to have some and my Aunt eating Peanut Butter Toast and had to have some. My little mooch! I love him.

Today we are leaving for the Okanagan to stay at a family cabin. We are excited to get there! Bens and I are waiting for Daniel to come home from work so we can leave. Hopefully Bens will sleep most of the way there! A lot of Daniel's extended family will be there so it will be great fun! If I get the chance I will upload some pictures while we are on our trip.

On our way home we are going to go to Edmonton for a visit. Daniel's brother is coming home from his mission next week! He left just after we got married so it will be nice to have him around again. I am excited for Jared and Bens to meet. Good thing Bens usually doesn't play strange!

Have a great week and for those coming to Magrath a great Magrath Days weekend!

Horsin' Around!

I know that I already posted today but Benson was playing with a toy horse and it was really cute. This morning he walked the horse all around the basement. This afternoon he got distracted by the camera and kept having tantrums because he couldn't have the camera. Poor kid. I'll just put up the clips and pictures of him playing with the horse!



Giving his milk a ride!

Tricky Man!

So the past few days have been eventful here. We will start with Sunday night!

Benson woke up around 11:30 crying. It was a different cry so we went in and took his brace off and I sat with him for about 15 minutes just cuddling. In the morning I went in to get him up but couldn't open the door. I wish I had taken a picture because words can't give this justice. Bens had thrown the mattress out of the playpen so it was blocking the door. The sheet was on the opposite side of the playpen. His blankets and stuffed animals were thrown onto the ground as well. I looked at him and realized he had taken his socks (both pairs) and his pants were off! Too top this off there were holes in the side of the playpen that were a couple of inches in diameter and the mattress protector had some plastic ripped off. Yikes! So Benson started sleeping in the crib in the laundry room on Monday.

On Tuesday we went swimming at the town pool. Benson looked so cute in his water wings! I tell you I have never been hugged so much as when we were swimming on Monday! (That says a lot considering how Daniel and I started dating!) Benson started yawning in the pool so we came home and he went down for a nap. I started to clean the bathroom just as Benson woke up so I hurried so all the cleaning products would be away before I got him out. I walked into the laundry room and the crib was at an angle (we took the wheels off to stop him from rolling it around the room) and the crib was empty. I look around and see books and puzzles on the ground and Benson standing in his sleeping bag/robe holding a badminton racket! He then quickly made a dash out of the room!

The solution - He is back in a playpen and has a lightweight sleeping bag/robe (it's a sleeping bag that has arm holes and comes right up to the neck) to keep his brace from making holes in it. He is still throwing everything out if he is left in there too long!

Oh, well! Really all I can do is laugh! I wished I had gotten pictures of all this but I was stunned in the moment!

We went swimming again yesterday and Bens did a lot better! He let me hold his tummy and let him float around. I let him go sometimes while he concentrated on everything around him. He is doing really well! Hopefully I will have a water baby by the end of the summer!

Canada Day!

I put what has been known in our family as "Boops" on Benson recently. He has enjoyed them a lot! He will take off his socks and carry the Boops around until someone puts them on him. He is such a cutie!

Last week, on a little bit of a sad note, Bens got his fingers shut in the door of our van. I put him in his stroller and as I shut the door of the van he stuck his hand out. Poor little guy was so sad. We ran into Wal-Mart and the door greeter quickly got us some help. Luckily Bens only bruised on one finger and bled a tiny bit on another. Lesson learned that I must keep him far from the door when I shut it!


Bens loves to play on any bed... here he had been wrestling with his dad on the bed.


I hope everybody had a wonderful Canada Day! We had a nice day. We went to the Raymond Parade with Nana and Grandpa, Aunt Jacqui, Uncle Graham and Audrey. Benson loved going to pick up the candy but would cry every time we made him put it in the bucket. He would go get more and cheer up and cry again as he put it in the bucket. Next year will be a lot of fun as he will understand the concept more!


After the parade we came home and had a lovely lunch and a great thunderstorm. That meant we couldn't eat our lunch out under the metal gazebo though. My mom made a wonderful cheesecake with strawberries on top that made the Canadian Flag. All in all we had a great long weekend! We hope all of you did and that all our American family and friends have a wonderful 4 of July!

Spring Has Sprung... Finally!

So we have finally have been able to go outside and enjoy the great outdoors! Benson and I are starting to get a healthy amount of sun. The past couple of days we have gone on 2 or 3 walks a day. We have visited Daddy at work on his breaks and visited Nana at work and even ate lunch with her yesterday.


Benson loves bubbles! The only thing he loves more is holding them and doing it himself... he hasn't successfully gotten them yet! He is a walking zombie though. I have taken him out onto the grass so he can get used to walking on the uneven ground. Bens has started venturing into standing up without holding on to anything. Sometimes he will end up looking at me upside down through his legs... what a cutie!


Bens loved "helping" Nana in her garden. He helped her mix the dirt around and put rocks in buckets. I don't know if she could have handled doing it without him!


Benson had his first bubble bath a couple weeks ago but he wasn't so sure about it! He stood there for the longest time crying before he realized this is fun. I am not sure I entirely convinced him yet!

Bens got sick as well a couple of weeks ago. We aren't positive what he had be it made for a miserable week while it was pouring outside! Nana let him sit in her bed in hopes he would be happy. You decide if it worked!! Since the last posting Benson has pushed through another molar so he is up to 12 teeth now. We are waiting for 13 and 14 to push through any day now.

Not much else has been happening here. Daniel and I are doing well. We are looking forward to vacations and enjoying the nice weather we have.

Bens' Birthday

I haven't been very good at sending people pictures recently seeing as our card reader is broken once again. Thankfully my brother took pictures from Bens' birthday party and sent them to me. Here are a few of my favorite shots!
He enjoyed eating the cake, getting messy but not so much the crash from the sugar high!

I was taking a look in Bens' mouth today and found that he has pushed yet another molar through today. The tooth count is up to 11 now. He got two of his molars on the bottom a couple of weeks ago and now has pushed one through on the top right. I think he is ready for almost anything now!

Here is my try at a blog... I have never really thought about doing it before so I thought I would give it a try!

Benson has been growing up so fast. Today he ate his lunch sitting on the chairs at my parents island. He looked like such a big boy reaching on the counter to get his bun and taking a bite. It is hard to believe that he is 13 1/2 months old already. He started to walk a few weeks ago. He looks like a little zombie toddling around with his hands up in the air! He was sick last week so he reverted back to crawling and is shaky walking around now.

Daniel and I are the proud new owners of a Grand Caravan. We got it on Saturday and are happy that we have room to move us between school and home now. Even better still is that we now have a driver's side mirror! It only took 1 1/2 years to finally get one after being side swiped out in Fernie!

So we are back in Magrath for the summer working and trying to save money for school. Daniel is going into Chiropractics in the fall out in Portland and we are looking forward to moving out there. We stopped out there on our way back to Canada (we took the long way home from Provo) and loved the city. We are trying to decide where we want to live but luckily we have a few good options!