"Bennett Bunch": Family .... Bridal Showers... Fun

Friday, May 2, 2008

Family .... Bridal Showers... Fun

Once again we went to Bryan for Kelli's (Ryan's youngest sister) Bridal Shower. We started out by taking Ryan to work in the afternoon. Once we arrived home the kids and I packed our bags and gathered all our dirty laundry (I feel like I'm still in college having to take my dirty laundry with us so we can save a little money). We loaded up the car and then came back inside and cleaned up the apartment. The kids played the rest of the evening while I blogged, made dinner, made a bridal shower card and listened to the Dallas Stars game on the radio. When it was finally time to go get Ryan from work I put the kids in PJ's and we got in the car. When we got to the store we had to wait for them to finish cleaning. Finally around 10:30 pm we hit the road. The kids slept all the way and we had a good nights rest.

Thursday was lots of fun playing with cousins. They jumped on the trampoline, went swimming an a kiddie pool and had a picnic lunch all in Aunt Sarah's backyard. They had a BLAST!! I the afternoon we went to my sisters house for a little while (we had to pick up our wedding gift that my sister had made) and then ran a few errands. We made it back to Grandma & Grandpa's house and had fajita's for dinner. All the women got ready for the shower. While the women (plus Sarah's twin baby boys) went to the Shower Ryan, Uncle Clifton (Ryan's youngest brother) took the four older kids to Chuck E. Cheese. They had already eaten so they had lot of fun playing games.

Kelli's Bridal Shower was very nice. We had a very nice time and she didn't even get any duplicate gifts. WOW!! We had lots of repeats when we got married. Ryan & I decided to have my sister make the nice family plaque. (Amy, my sister, has a vinyl lettering cutter and is starting up a business). The plaque turned out very nice. I hope Kelli & Zach like it.

We let the kids play a little this morning with cousins. We had to hit the road by noon so Ryan could get back for work. So we are home and all unpacked. YEAH!! I think that is the worst thing about traveling. Unpacking and putting everything away when you get home.

3 comments:

jmholloway said...: I LOVE that plaque! How many has Amy made? I think I would be interested in purchasing something like that.

Mindi :); May 3, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Elissa said...: Thanks for posting the pictures of the kids and Kelli's shower, I probobly wouldn't have even known she had one except for your blog. The plaque is great. I hope you all had a lot of fun, and things are going well for you at home. I also hate unpacking.

Elissa; May 3, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Steven & Adrienne said...: It looks like you had fun! And I love vinyl lettering. The plaque is so cute!; May 6, 2008 at 1:15 PM

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"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