Weekend in Benson!

I still love going home! I love the land and openness that our parents have living in the country and I especially love it now that we have Braelyn. The adventures we had growing up as kids with so much freedom is not like anything you can get living in the city. We spent one weekend playing outside in the yard and roaming the sand wash behind my parents house. We were showing Brae how much fun it can be and the trouble we use to get in to.


My parents still have this ancient swing set at their house from when we were kids..... so we thought we'd give it a try!

Burying her feet in the sand!

Wally's rusty old tonka truck. They don't make em like this anymore.

Swinging with uncle Wally. The chains are still holding up???

Not too fond of the slide.

soooo strong!

Hangin with dad!
Check out the boots!

pretty!

Bath time!

As you can see, Braelyn still loves her bath time! As soon as she hears the water turn on she comes a runnin'. We captured a few silly moments the other night so I thought I would share.

Everyone has to have the soapy mohawk!

As every kid does, Brae loves her reflection. She finds herself in the overflow cap and makes silly faces.


She never minds getting out either. We just wave "bye bye" to the water as it goes down the drain and she thinks it's fun. Getting dressed is a different story....

Gettin' her belly!

My new camera!

My lovely husband bought a new camera for Christmas! It's sooo nice to have now that our little Braelyn is a busy body and it's hard to get good pictures of her. I just love it! Not so good at picture taking yet, but here's a few shots of the little Braezer herself.

Just learning! The shadows are bad in this one but I thought it was cute of her looking at the dogs.

Sweet baby girl!

New Year's 09'

New year's was fun as always. I unfortunately had to work. So..... at 8pm on the 31st Chris, Braelyn and I packed up and made the treck to Benson. My parents always have a new years eve party for my brother Wally who was born on New year's day and we couldn't stand to miss it!

Brae was fun! She slept the whole way to Benson so she was awake and ready to celebrate by the time we got there. Then, 2am came and mommy was ready for bed. Brae shortly fell asleep thereafter with some coaxing.

Happy New Year's!

Braelyn still awake at midnight!

Brae playing with markers on the fridge at 1am. Time for some PJ's and bedtime came around 2am.
I know this is such a late Birthday shout out but.......Happy Birthday Uncle Wally.

Christmas with the Bray's

So after having an awesome morning with the Goodman's, it's off to the Bray's. We're so lucky to have both of our families living in the same town. We love that we get to see everybody on the holiday's and it makes life a lot easier. How great we have it!

Us and our crazy little "B"!

Brae with Grandpa Bray. Must be stealing some of his Christmas toys.

Loving on Grandma as always!

This was her new gift from Grandma and Grandpa Bray. SOOOO perfect because she loves to look at herself in the mirror. It also has kiss marks all over because she likes to kiss herself.

Posing with her cousin Oly. The one who will teach her all about sign language. (better not teach her bad things!)

Brae and her Unce Wally. She loves this guy!

Aunt T and Uncle Mac. Wish we could see you more! Aunt T is always making Brae laugh. Brae hears her voice over the phone and her face lights up.

Still doin tricks!

Cousin Jaycee comes to visit. Sweet girl!

Jaycee N Chris
Lovin on cousin Wally


Jaycee was hiding from Braelyn and kept making her laugh. What fun these two will have growing up!

Christmas was a blast this year! What ever would we do without these little ones!!!

Christmas at the Goodman's

Christmas eve at the Barney's! All the kid's and unmarried in the traditional Christmas play.

Uncle Chad and Braezer as Angels!

Koye showing us his new "light up" sketchers. Soooo cool!

Madisen showing Brae her new toys!

Aunt Brookie!

Chris and "Braelyn lou who"

Yeah for Christmas! This sleepy head didn't wake till 8:30.

I know you're going to hate me for this Nicole but I love this picture. The Farris' on Christmas morning. Nicole's cute little bump is hiding behind Madi.

Papa and Mimi making us yummy biscuits and gravy!

Crew would rather play with his eyelashes then all his new toys.

Koye wth one of his MANY hulks!

Hunting season!

Uncle Wally was the first to get his deer this year. It's been a while since they've been drawn so he wasn't about to pass up on anything with "horns". Braelyn had to get in on all the fun! We made green chile meat and ate him for new years! Yummy!

This is grandpa's deer. Quite the beast! He wasn't so easy to pack.....Chris was the lucky son-in-law who packed him off the mountain and they returned home very late on a wednesday evening. Not a scratch on his coat from the journey back to the truck but Chris did manage to lose he's wallet. Spent sometime on his rear and tore a hole in his back pocket, realized his wallet was gone when they made it back to the truck. AHHH the stories they always have.