Wife to Garrett, Mommy to Kenley & Jax, Aunt to Julie, Friend to who wants me, Daughter to Henry & Laura & Gary & Cassi, God-Mother to some of the cutest cuties Blakely and Casey. Insurance Agent to my lovely clients. I am working hard to raise my children to be all they can be, full of life, full of confidence, full of manners, full of love, showing God's love to others, being more than I am or can be...striving everyday to be a better person and it's not always easy!!
KENLEY PATRICIA BENSON started second grade this year at Trinity-Klein. She continues to cheer at Texas Lonestar Cheer and is in her fourth competitive year, she is on the Youth level 3 team. She has competitions all over the state this year and in Louisiana and California. Cheer practice and tumbling takes up a majority of her time, however she loves to spend time with her friends. She is enjoying Girl Scouts and all her friends. She still loves to ride in the golf cart, do her hair, she really like to play with her brother and Blakely. She enjoys traveling and got to go to Disney World this year, Montana, Louisiana, and had a great summer.
I can't imagine my life without her. She makes me laugh, she fills my heart with a joy I have never known and I enjoy watching her grow up. She is growing into such a beautiful soul.
Garrett graduated from the University of Houston in 2007 with a degree in Construction Management. He currently works at Baker Concrete as a Project Manager.
He is a sports fanatic. However, his love is Texans football and this takes up the majority of our fall and winter. He is an avid Texans tailgater. Every weekend there is a home game he is cooking and preparing for his time in the parking lot at Reliant Stadium. Fajitas, beer, washers, music and sausage are a few items you would find hanging out of the bed of his truck. He loves to hunt and is still continuing to fill our walls and our freezer.
Garrett finished up his job at EXXON in the Woodlands and is working in Midland, TX on a job for Chevron. Hopefully he'll be back home by November.
He is so happy to finally have a son. We welcomed Jaxon David into our family on March 31, 2014 and we, all three of us, are absolutely IN LOVE. ESPECIALLY DADDY!! He has his own personal Little Texan, who will grow into a big Texan.
Garrett loves his work and is a wonderful father and I could not ask for more. He works hard and his dedicated to our family. Being away is hard, but we are doing great, not to say it is without its hardships, but life isn't easy.
He reads stories to Kenley, takes and active role in her cheerleading, and helps in me in so many ways with her. I value his role as a father so much and I could not ask for a better partner in life or a father for her. They love each other dearly and that is so beautiful. He is so good with Jaxon and is such a great help. He has been on quite a few "man trips" lately...so he does owe me one or two...soon.
Pretty lazy week at the Benson Household...yeah right! I got sick Monday, started running fever, chills etc. assumed I had the flu. I stayed home and treated the symptoms only to find out Wednesday when I got up with my kidneys on fire, that I did not have the flu off to the Dr. I went. Major, Major kidney infection. He called me back on Friday @ 4:45 explaining that the antibiotic that he gave me was resistant to my infection, so a new one was given. Still not feeling great, but getting better. Garrett is healed, Cole is healed, Kenley did not seem to catch the upper respiratory infection that they had and that I had also on top of the kidneys. The usual went on around me...Kenley went to gymnastics on Monday, Tuesday she went to cheer, and school on Tuesday through Thursday. Cole had practice every day and Garrett had work.
Thursday Garrett was presented with the APEX AGC award for the job he did at MD Anderson for "Best Concrete Structure in the Houston Area". This use to be a pretty fancy deal to attend, but due to the economy there is no dinner, no booze, no wives, no nothing. So he went alone. I took a picture of him though, he looked snazzy in his suit, he always has cleaned up nice.
Cole had been told he would have a pretty good chance of playing this Friday night so with lots of pain killers on board we head
ed out to the game. Kendra and Mark have been joining us for the last two games and we of course sit next to Kenley's friend Haley and her parents. We always have a great time. As promised Cole played the entire 4th quarter and had a great block that paved the way for his teammate to score a touchdown, we were so excited!!! So was he! The Lions are undefeated 3-0 Yippee!!! Headed to Concordia Tomball next Friday Ni
ght.
Kenley is continuing to enjoy preschool, learning about God and his promises to Abraham and the gift God gave him with is son Isaac even though he was very old. She learned the God is always with her and will never leave her. This led her into one of Gospel Singing Sessions of "Jesus Loves Me" she uses 2 barbecue lighters on the patio table as her drumsticks...I think she might need some real ones...1 lost the fight this week. She is learning the letter "D" They learned the Daisy Doll song, read Curious George and the Donut Delivery and had a Donut afterwards. They also read the book Make Way for Ducklings and made duck fingerprints. She also made Dalmatian Pudding by mixing vanilla pudding and mini chocolate chips together and putting it in a cup that she decorated like a dog!
ed out to the game. Kendra and Mark have been joining us for the last two games and we of course sit next to Kenley's friend Haley and her parents. We always have a great time. As promised Cole played the entire 4th quarter and had a great block that paved the way for his teammate to score a touchdown, we were so excited!!! So was he! The Lions are undefeated 3-0 Yippee!!! Headed to Concordia Tomball next Friday Ni
ght.Kenley is continuing to enjoy preschool, learning about God and his promises to Abraham and the gift God gave him with is son Isaac even though he was very old. She learned the God is always with her and will never leave her. This led her into one of Gospel Singing Sessions of "Jesus Loves Me" she uses 2 barbecue lighters on the patio table as her drumsticks...I think she might need some real ones...1 lost the fight this week. She is learning the letter "D" They learned the Daisy Doll song, read Curious George and the Donut Delivery and had a Donut afterwards. They also read the book Make Way for Ducklings and made duck fingerprints. She also made Dalmatian Pudding by mixing vanilla pudding and mini chocolate chips together and putting it in a cup that she decorated like a dog!
She is continuing to practice sequencing in math from 1-10, and began working and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
In science they took 6 jars filled with water and added sand, paper, toilet paper, sugar, a cracker, and cereal and discovered which one to dissolve.They also practiced manners this week and had splash day on Thursday! Here is a picture of Kenley and her friend Reagan!
Thursday's show and tell was to bring something delicious, Kenley brought Oreo Balls. Since I was sick Garrett with Super Dad and they made them together and Cole supervised!!
Thursday's show and tell was to bring something delicious, Kenley brought Oreo Balls. Since I was sick Garrett with Super Dad and they made them together and Cole supervised!!
Kenley's Bible Verse this week: Give thanks to the Lord...who made...the moon and the stars. Psalm 136: 3, 7, 9
Kenley's Poem this week: Honour thy parents: but good manners call
Thee to adore thy God, the first of all.
I forgot to share last week the funniest story...
Last Friday Cole calls from school and asks me to go by the house and pick up his socks and ipod for his game...I say no problem and I go home to get them. It was really slow and Janet came along for the ride with me....THANK GOD! When I got home Norma, Kenley, and Norma's daughter Adriana (my age weren't home) I go inside and I get the socks and I searching for Cole's ipod. I can't find it anywhere. Cole's bed is stripped because Norma was washing his sheets, there is a shoe box on the bed though. I was climbing all over his bed looking for the ipod in his cabinets, still nothing...then I decide, well maybe he has it here in this shoe box, I open it and out flies a BIRD!!!!! I scream...shut the door run out, get Janet...We get the bird back in the box and leave immediately. I call Norma immediately and say why is there a Red Cardinal in a box on Cole's bed...Apparently Mr. Emily (whose name may or may not be Oreo now) caught the bird and brought it in. They tried to put him outside and Mr. Emily kept bringing him back in through the doggy door...Now what would have done if you would have found a bird in a box on Cole's bed?
Garrett and I met at Lutheran High North in 1997. He came to North from Northwest Academy and I came from Our Savior. We started dating in in 1998 and the rest is history. We left Houston in 2001 after we graduted from Lutheran High North. Garrett went to University Texas and I went to Texas A&M. We spent many hours on the road between the two, to be fair it was Garrett who mostly did all the driving. We were married in September 2005 at the Fontenot Grand Mansion and welcomed Princess Kenley in April 2007 and Jaxon in March of 2014 (5 days shy of 7 years apart, by choice). We currently live in Klein, TX and will celebrate 9 years of marriage on the 10th of September.
Both Garrett and I grew up with dogs. Garrett had Boofer growing up and I had a host of dogs, one in particular was Autumn Marie, a Golden Retriever that went everywhere with my Dad. She could be found in the church parking lot, dropping me off at school or at a softball game.
In early 2005 I announced to Garrett that I wanted a Golden Retriever. He agreed and off to New Waverly we went and picked up a 3 month old pup, who shares my birthday of March 6. We chose her name while driving to pick her up, Brighton Marie. Yes, we got it from the home builder. She is very active and weighs around 80 pounds and firmly believes that she is a lap dog. She is very smart but many find it hard to love her. She is starting to calm down this days and is showing signs of her age. She has just a month and will beging a regime of "old lady" food. She is battling her skin lately it is not in agreement with all of the swimming she likes to do. She is aging around the eyes and after a long week at the lake with my parents her joints were worn out and she could barely get in the truck! Autumn lived to be in her teens...so I am hoping we have a long long life to live!!!
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