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.
That means cheer competition season is knocking at my door, it feels like we were just chased out of Dallas by a snow storm with Jax tucked safely in my womb. Twenty five days later I was a mother of 2, 3 weeks after that I was dragging him to the cheer gym to make sure Kenley was at the top of her game to make the team she wanted. Well, she made it. She's a level 3 cheerleader at the age of 7. That's scary people. She is now not only just being put into the air by other girls but she is being put fully extended into the air by other girls, 11 year old girls...who are tall! She is twisting in the air, she is flipping in the air. She mastered the running back tuck that was required, back flip (no hands), she is now learning it by just standing and back flipping without running, she mastered the punch front (front flip no hands), she is working on variations of all of these and I just ignore it all. People actually say, "what team will she be on next year?" I just stare blankly...she's 7 and this year hasn't begun, leave me alone! I don't want to think about it. I trust her coaches and she will be exactly where God wants her to be. I am now confident in that. They are allowing girls to compete individually this year. Kenley would be allowed to compete in the mini division, which is a division she hasn't cheered in for 2 seasons. She wouldn't be able to use any of her elite skills. She would only be able to throw at the highest level backhandsprings, which she has been doing since age 5, she would be competIng against 6,7 and up to 8 year olds. They have encouraged me to allow her to compete. She doesn't even know about it. Garrett and I haven't had time to make a decision and honestly I'm leaning towards no. We've taught her this is a team sport, am I confident she would be successful, YES! Oh well...we shall see. We will have to make a decision this weekend.
The show was great. The girls did phenomenal! Their routine is difficult! You're going to see Kenley flip in the air, twist in the air...welcome to the big leagues. It brought tears to my eyes, like always. Never in a million years did I think this would be my life. I never knew she would be blessed with these gifts. My dad always reminds me to tell her that God blessed her with these gifts and talents. So very true, he told that to me last night and I reminded her tonight before she went to bed to have a thankful heart for her talented body.
She has worked soo very hard this year. If you would have seen her walk out of try outs thinking she didn't make her team, after she fell two weeks before Jax was born. She fell tumbling two weeks before he was born and stopped tumbling. She wouldn't even do a backhandspring, something she has done since she was 5. She told Garrett and I she wanted to play soccer that her cheer days were over. I didn't know why. Then I found out. Her spirit was broken. When I healed from having Jax and took her back and her tumbling returned, she never looked back. I haven't told her and I won't, because I'm only here to support, not coach...but I see a fantastic year ahead of her!
For everything I teach her she gives me something in return. Last week I think I shared she says Luther's Morning Prayer each morning at school and now knows it by heart. Well, they sent home Luther's Evening Prayer and she said, "we have to say this each night" I said okay. So tonight we started. She taught me to take time each night to say that and each morning to say the morning one...bring in a little peace where there wasn't any before.
She's got 38 AR points! Over halfway to 70! Wahoo! We are really trying to be an Eagle Reader by Christmas!
Jax got his second tooth. He started using his walker and he is quite proud of himself. Jax has taught me to take nothing for granted. Don't take things too serious. Everything else will still be there, but these moments with my two kiddos won't be!
One day I'll look up and these two blessings will be out of this house. They won't depend on me daily. I'll miss having to bathe them and feed them and be responsible for every single thing they need. I want to look back and be proud of the people I created and sent out into this world!
We are looking forward to Daddy returning to Houston! He has to take over a hostile project, but we don't care! Whatever it takes to bring that guy home!
Second to the left is our girl!
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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