Some Recent Happenings at Our House

October was kind of a long time ago so, I thought maybe I'd add another post or two before I really have no time with baby girl here.

Pre-Christmas

I just have a couple picts of my cutie Liam. He is getting to be such a big boy. So much fun too, a little too much "fun" sometimes, but never the less fun :)

This was my favorite thing in the last while that I had to share. I was looking for something to entertain Mr. Energy so thanks to the internet (and a willing daddy) we tried shaving cream painting in the tub. It was a HUGE success!

Tanner got a little into it too :) 

Liam and Daddy were clapping the foam every
 where, then he would laugh like crazy. I loved it!

Christmas

This year we spent Christmas in Montana and had a blast. Before we left we had Christmas at our own house in Nebraska and met Santa at our ward party. Liam was not super thrilled about that (actually Mom and Dad thought he was a little maybe creepy too...)

We had quite an eventful drive. We were trying to get at least half way to Cheyanne, WY, but didn't quite make it. We only got about 4 hours to Ogallala, NE because Liam threw up all over the place-twice! Fun. And Tanner was trying to keep it in himself. Great day for Mom. We stayed there over night and everyone seemed better the next day until about an hour or so before we got to Grandma and Grandpa's house, then two more fun throw up sessions. But we finally got there with a stop at Chimney Rock on the way!

This was the good part of the trip ;)

 Christmas in Montana had all sorts of fun stuff going on. Liam had lots of fun with everyone and so did we!

Grandpa and Liam snuggling

Swimming at the Y. Cute Gracie and Brynlee. 

Helping Grandma make treats.
Liam loves to "help" cook

Nativity Christmas Eve. We had all the parts Brynlee the angel,
Gracie the Wise man Elsie the shepherd, and Lydia and Liam as
Mary and Joseph.Liam wasn't sur about it, but he was there
long enough for a pict :) Sorry about the red eyes only pict I had.

Lydia and Liam were quite the pair. They entertained
us all on the piano many nights.

Santa's visit brought Liam a "Choo Choo"  

Liam again met Santa. He came to Grandma and Grandpa's house! He bawled the minute he walked in the door. Oh well, maybe next year...

And a remote control car! Wow!! Thanks Santa ;)

What a fun time! We are so blessed to have such great family and the gospel in our lives. I'm grateful we got to spend this time remembering the birth of our Savior with some of our family. We are truly blessed With so much!

We're back in business!

Since I am way behind on updating the world, or really just moms, here are some quick picts and snippets on our lives for the last 5 months...

July/August  

1st row: Visit G-ma &G-pa Bennion in MT, Two baldys, visit with G-pa and G-ma Murdock in ID
2nd: Liam's cousins in Montana, visit with friends, Holly loves to photo Liam, Holly's awesome picts of Liam
3rd:Chimmney Rock, Liam LOVES the dog, Rob proposed to Katie, Tanner passed boards and 1st yr of dental school!
4th: Liam 6 months, 4 generation picture with G-pa Jones, Liam loves the Kitty, Grant home from his mission

My sister-in-law Kenna took some wonderful family pictures for us while we were in Utah.
Here is just a sample. We LOVE them! Thanks Kenna!

September

1st row: Liam loves conference, we turned 25, Swingin' fun!

2nd: Fun with mom, Liam learned to sit up, Yummy leaf
3rd: Liam's push up, Liam grew 6 teeth in a month, Mom's birthday
4th: Dad's birthday, fun with Dad, Liam loves the computer

October

1st row: Cute boy, Mom, Dad, Grant and Holly came to visit. We had a blast! Come and visit again!

2nd: Cute boy just getting into everything!

3rd: Halloween Mom was Dori, Dad was Nemo and Liam was Squirt, He loved to pull out the candy, The squirrels who ate our pumpkins

4th:Liam can pull himself up and crawl now!, some doubles--oops!

November

1st row: Feeding himself, playing in his favorite box, cute lipstick Derrik, King Liam

2nd: Liam and mom, Thanksgiving in MT, yummy cookies on the plane, Marshmallow boy

3rd: Fun at the airport, Our 2nd Anniversary, Liam's bubble beard, Big smile

December



1st row: Grant's Ukrainian Borsh--Yum!, Little Tux at the wedding, Cute Liam playing around 

2nd: Liam LOVES the phone, 1st Santa encounter :), Tanner's blue Coat Ceremony, Christmas Eve P.J's and Pizza
3rd: Tanner made dentures, back at home doin' dishes, G-pa Jones and Liam-best buddies, G-ma Jones and Liam, Robbie and Katie's wedding
4th: G-pa Boone gave Liam his first sucker-yum, falling asleep in his chair, fun with dad, hiding in Dad's jacket, we got to play Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus at the ward party.

We had a wonderful year!

Jingle Bells, Frozen Mail and Pedro

So I suppose it is time to update this thing a little bit. You'd think being pregnant with not a lot of energy and being at home I would be so on top of this, but as you are well aware I am not. I don't love sitting in front of the computer all the time and my computer attention span usually gets eaten up by some email and going crazy trying to make the blog cute instead of updating it. I know the updates are more important, but I can't help the fact that I care way too much about cuteness!

Here are the updates....

Christmas

We had our own Christmas the night before we left to spent Christmas in Billings, Montana, at Tanner's family's house. We watched my favorite Christmas show "It's a Wonderful LIfe!" opened presents and ate pizza. It was lots of fun. The picture below was our tree, which Tanner so cleverly tied to the fireplace to keep it upright (it had some troubles last year that we never could fix). We were lucky enough to get to spend about 2 weeks in Montana and another week at home in Nebraska before Tanner had to trudge back to school. We had a ton of fun seeing EVERYONE there. His entire family got to come home for Christmas-- yes all 7 siblings, spouses and their kids too. We had about 25 people there. There was always a lot going on, but Tanner's mom knows how to keep it all going and making sure everyone has a good time. Amazing! We did have a stinky little bug floating around the house that pretty much caught everyone with a one day stomach flu. Both Tanner and I were "lucky" enough to catch that one. We were thankful it only lasted 24 hours. But we were well stocked with Gatorade and crackers so all was well! It was fun to see everyone from Cleveland to Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Nebraska. Krista and Kara blessed their sweet new babies, Connor and Sophie, and I think we took up about four small pews in the Chapel with the whole gang. We very much enjoyed Christmas and were grateful for the break!

COMING HOME

So coming home was nice because we realized late that Tanner actually had one more week of Christmas vacation left. We got to spend a fun week at home. Well, I should say we had to spend a fun week at home because right after we got back a huge storm hit and practically froze us inside. We got about a foot or more of snow added to the foot we already had and the temperature was

-25 or so everyday. Not really what I'd call winter wonderland weather, more like a frozen misery. I was very glad Tanner had all week of so I didn't have to be couped up alone. We played games, watched tons of movies, and finally ventured out at the end of the week, before we went crazy, to the pet store for some low budget entertainment. Some fun facts about much-to-cold-to live-in-weather: Your mail sticks to the mailbox giving you quite and interesting challenge getting it out, even a pregnant lady can get too cold, it takes like 1/2 hour to defrost your windshield and you may actually need to plug your car in, the sun may shine, but it is only deceiving you into thinking it just might be warmer than it really is. Let's just say that life in a Nebraska winter is grand!

DECEMBER PREGO PICTURE

Here was our December Pregnant picture update. I was comparing my belly of Jelly to Santa's at the ward party, but I think I won! Sorry Santa.

JANUARY

It's funny how every year I try to make New Year's goals and resolutions and I try to pick something I can actually accomplish and that I know I'll do, but this year wasn't like that. All the goals I thought of either have to wait until the baby comes or will most likely be messed up when he does come. So I think I'll do some spring cleaning resolutions instead. Clean up my house and myself! Even though I didn't really make any goals yet this year, I did find my self reflecting on the new year in other ways; ways of how our little Bennion lives are going to change forever and for the best! We are very excited to welcome our baby home and, frankly, we hope it is soon! Here is the January Prego pict too. TANNER'S NEW BUDDY

So here is a funny little Tanner update. I am usually good at posting something he probably thinks is goofy or embarrassing about him so here goes another one (because I am writing the post and he is not! And I think he is cute, charming and handsome no matter what!) This semester in his anatomy class he is studying the head and neck only. So as a fun homework buddy the teacher sent home a skull for each student to work with. So lucky us we now have a real human skull staring at us everyday on our living room table (which you can see from every area of the house except the bedroom, unless it is left on the kitchen table instead). It is such an inviting thing to have in the front room as you walk in the door. I have to say though, he is kinda growing on me. He is always smiling and Tanner even named him Pedro.