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.
Well Friday night turned out pretty good for the Lions, we won! Our first two games were suppose to be our hardest of the season and we have one so we are ready for this Friday and another game at LHN this Friday night! Of course, Kenley and Haley played and cheered the entire game Friday. Kendra and Mark came over to the game and we all cheered on our Alma Matre Lutheran High North.
Saturday, we finally made it out to visit Kendra's store, Twenty Two Fifty in Sugarland, TX. It is a really beautiful store and they have some nice things. The interior design of the store is fabulous and is so beautiful. It has wood off of a home that is used on the walls on
the inside of the store, it is just gorgeous. She has been working there for about 3-4 months and we have never made it out for a visit, so Kenley, Cole, and I we
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the inside of the store, it is just gorgeous. She has been working there for about 3-4 months and we have never made it out for a visit, so Kenley, Cole, and I we
nt. While we were out we made a Monkey for Mrs. Eifert. Kenley's preschool class is a monkey theme, and Build a Bear has some monkeys. We went and made "Mrs. Eifert" complete with her khaki skirt and white shirt to match her school uniform. We even put nine hearts inside for each of her students in class. Kenley was so proud of it and is going to take it to her tomorrow! We are so blessed to have Mrs. Eifert as a teacher. Kenley sees her at LHN every game because Mikayla is in Cole's class and is in the band, Kenley is always excited to see her and she is always excited to see Kenley. Kenley even pretends to text her and call her. She is truly a blessing in our household this year. When I was in 4th grade at OSL Mrs. Eifert was Mrs. Schmidt and was student teaching! She has also been helpful to me many times at raising a teenager!
Kenley had a pretty busy week at preschool. She had chapel for the first time in the church this week, they have been having it in the cafeteria. They got to ride the trolley to chapel and that was super exciting, although Kenley didn't tell me until today. Therefore I don't think she seemed to be all that impressed? Pastor White led chapel for them this week and told them about how much Jesus' loved them, told them about Adam and Even and the first sin, and how God loved us so much he gave his one and only son to die for us so we can be forgiving and live with him in heaven if we believe in him! In religion she is learning about God's promise to Abraham.
Kenley is learning the letter "C" this week and read the book If You Give a Cat a Cookie and ate miniature cupcakes. She read the book and sang the song Cathy Cook. Made cats out of Oreos, tasted carrots, cucumbers and cauliflower and graphed their favorites. Their poem this week was about a crocodile and they learned a song about cookies.
She is continuing to learn about patterns in math and working on one to one counting and recognizing sequencing one to five.
Kenley finished up her "God made me special" book here is what we learned about Kenley...these were her own answers!
She likes to see....FLOWERS
She likes to smell...ROSES
She likes to sing...iCarly
She likes to hear...BELLS
She likes to help...by FOLDING LAUNDRY
She likes to go...to SCHOOL
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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