"Bennett Bunch": Family Vacation

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Family Vacation

I wanted to share some things that have happened this year. The last week of May we moved into a Townhome in Bryan. We started moving on Thursday and the following Monday Ryan left for California for work. He was gone 2 weeks and we were so glad when daddy came home.

We had our first family vacation at the end of June. We took the kids to San Antonio and went to Sea World the first day. Ryan has a cousin that lives very close to Sea World so we stayed with them and the kids had a blast playing with Jimmy and Addy (who they love playing with and miss living close to). The next day we went to Fiesta Texas with Liz, Jimmy and Addy. That was so much fun. Sunday we went to church with liz and the kids and just hung out around

the house. Monday we got up for our last day of vacation and went back to Sea World. The kids had a blast and to this day still talk about the dolphins.

2 comments:

The Bergquist Fam said...: hey heather
love the blog! seems to be the thing to do, i keep thinking i should start one, but have yet to do it. anyways, great job!!!
love liz & fam; November 7, 2007 at 9:05 PM
jmholloway said...: It looks like you guys had a great vacation. We have been planning a trip to Sea World, but have not made it there yet.

Can you believe how old our kids are getting. That means that we are getting old too doesn't it?

Mindi :); November 8, 2007 at 9:55 PM

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Favorite Quote

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. " — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Quotes by Madalyn

One day as we sat around Meme’s table eating lunch and talking Madalyn was telling us about stuff that happened “a LONG LONG time ago” according to her. I made a comment about her being so old and she replied “Mom, I don’t hurt.” I’m not sure where she got the idea that if you are old that means you hurt. ~ Jan. 2008

Latter in that same conversation Meme said she thought Madalyn looked like her Grandma Bennett. Madalyn replied “I think Grandma Bennett looks like you Meme. You both have tangled hair.” Meme and Grandma both have curly hair which is what Madalyn was talking about. ~ Jan. 2008

When we were in the car Madalyn was singing a song. These are the words she sang: “…and so my KNEES ARE GRAY…” I was trying to keep from laughing out loud. If you are not sure why this is funny I will tell you. She was singing “I am a Child of God” and the words should have been “…and so my NEEDS ARE GREAT…” It was so cute and I didn’t want to correct her at the time. ~ Feb. 2008

The other night after Ethan went to sleep Madalyn and I stayed up talking for a little bit. She looked at me and then Ethan and back at me and said “I love that little guy.”
It was so sweet and sincere. ~ March 2008

Here is another one about singing. Madalyn loves to sing primary songs as loud as she can off the balcony. I heard her outside on the balcony yesterday singing “Follow the Prophet.” Here’s what she sang “Adam was a prophet first THING that we know…” instead of “Adam was a prophet first ONE that we know…” This is a song we have worked on but she always reverts back to the words she likes better. ~ March 2008