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.
One can't believe how time flies! I have not sat down to blog since October 18, 2010 and that my friends and family is sad for the Benson household. I have been so busy blogging has flown by the wayside and that is not good.
So many things have happened since the last time I let you in on the comings and goings of our very busy household. Football season has come and gone. We were sad to see it go. The Lutheran High North Lions fought hard, but came in third in district and lost a tie breaker and did not move on to the playoffs. I think Cole is pretty glad to see his freshman season go. We could not be more proud of him. He did not see alot of playing time this year, it is how it goes when you are a freshman on Varsity. He held is head high and was humble and really made us proud. He is really excited about next year. Basketball season is already upon us, we have had 2 games so far. We have 1 win and 1 loss. Cole is starting and his playing has really improved since last year. His first round of finals are approaching and he his currently studying in his room after an awesome choir concert this afternoon. I have to say I wasn't really looking forward to it, but it was good!
Kenley is doing great at school. She is learning lots of letters and numbers. Gymnastics is still on Mondays and cheer practice on Tuesdays. We have had 2 cheer competitions. We just had one this past weekend. She loves it so much. I am happy because she is happy! 
Thanksgiving was a great week! We spent the entire week visiting everybody! We spent the first couple of days at Lake Murval with PaPa and NaNa. We then went to Lake Conroe to have dinner with Grammy and Grandpa, Kendra, & Mark.
Friday night Kenley and I left Houston bound for Dallas to visit Jamie who came in from California. It was a Kellerman Family reunion! The best part was we have a new member! Emma Looney arrived in October and we went up to have our first visit. We got to see Aunt Jamie, Emma, Aunt Karrie, Momma Kellerman (Now known as Nanny) and the rest of the Kellerman clan (Uncle Cannon and PaPa Jim). We had a great weekend and baby Emma was baptized.
We are quickly preparing for Christmas. We are behind the eight ball already. No tree, no lights...Santa is really busy in his workshop....its going a be a crazy next two weeks!!!! YIKES!!!
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!!!
