DANCING QUEEN

This video really isn't a good one of Brystal's moves, but it was the best I could get on tape. Whenever she hears music come on, she starts to sway back and forth to the beat. Here we are watching Sesame Street and she did this to almost every little song that came on. Of course she caught me in the act of filming her and stopped what she was doing. I have a feeling that we have a little Dancing Queen on our hands. I just love watching her dance.

BRYSTAL AND SOPHIE

Brystal has been learning the meaning of no when it comes to eating Sophie's collar. She tries to grab it and eat it and is usually successful, in this video, she knows exactly what she is doing and that she isn't supposed to be doing it. What a sneaky little baby. And Sophie just sits there and takes it. And she makes one really funny face in the middle of the video, see if you can catch it.

THE BEST FOR LAST

I saved this video for last because it is my favorite. Brystal was having a rough moment as you can tell by the tear stained cheeks, but I managed to get a good laugh out of her. Sometimes I am surprised that Brystal hasn't been killed by me squeezing her to death. I just love this little girl.

WELCOME HOME!

In case some of you were wondering what I've been up to lately, there is an explanation for why I haven't been blogging lately. First of all, my camera battery has been dead, and I haven't gotten around to recharging it. Second, we just bought our first house! Yeah!! It is a brand new home just a couple of blocks from the elementary school here, and it's a two story 4 bedroom house. We are soooo excited! We love it. We have spent the last week closing on it, and packing and painting and just being exhausted, and we are barely half way done. Phewf! We were so excited about this house because we really tried very hard to buy a house that was still in our same ward, and guess what? The day after we bought it, they SPLIT our ward! What the? So now we are in a new ward! It is sad leave some of our friends, but a good chunk of us are going to the new ward, so we will definitely have some friends there. And they have already made me the Mia Maid advisor in the new ward and I haven't even met any of them yet. But I'm excited, apparently, the new ward needed some good strong members, and since our ward was "too strong" if you will, they took some of us to help out both of the wards be able to grow and develop stronger. So, it will be a new adventure once again to get used to a new ward in our new house. But that is what life is all about, new adventures! I will show more pictures of the house once we get settled, and of course more pictures of Brystal, I know you all are missing her.

STRAIGHT TO THE TUB!

As I was watching the final results of American Idol the other day, I had to keep Brystal busy so we could finish it. So I gave her a little teething bisket and fed her some peas, and let her eat some graham crackers to keep her happy. She loves crackers! And she makes a huge mess doing it. She seems to not really care though.

Sophie patiently waits on the sidelines for a dropped crumb.

She was getting pretty sleepy at the end, it was past her bedtime. She was falling asleep in a pile of cracker crumbs. Here is a little video clip of her eating. She has been doing this new "smacking" thing. She not only does this when she is eating, but just for no reason. She'll just start smacking her lips out of the blue. And if you do it back to her she thinks it's funny and does it again.

TIME FOR THE GREEN STUFF.

I almost forgot. Brystal is now eating her vegetables. This is her first time eating green peas. I was hoping we'd get a good reaction from her, but nope, she just ate it like it was nothing. Just like her dad. So sorry if it's a boring video, but of course, it is an exciting time of life for little Brystal. She has also been eating crackers and those baby biskets. Note to self, don't give your baby one of those biskets unless you are headed strait to the bath afterward. I'll get pictures of that another time.

ANNIVERSARY DATE

Well since Nate was gone on our actual anniversary we spent the weekend together. First we went out to Breakfast to the Cracker Barrel. Thanks to Brystal it wasn't the best time I've ever had out to eat. So then we went down to the Museum industry in Houston and I decided I wanted to go to the Health Museum. Well, it was a little disappointing since there wasn't too much there to look at. But we looked around inside the human body, and got to see a cow's eyeball dissected. So here is Nate and Brystal standing at the entrance into the Human body.

Here is Brystal and I inside of the mouth. If you can't tell we are sitting on teeth.

After a long day at the museum we walked around the beautiful park across the street with pretty lakes and trails, and took a little resting break and watched the people walk by. Brystal took a little snooze. Then we had dinner at a wedding reception. Pretty glamorous huh? Ya we're cheap ok. Don't judge us.

FUNNY SLEEPER

I always go into Brystal's room and check her before I go to bed and I always find her in funny positions. Here is one that I caught on camera.

MAY 1ST 2003

5 years ago today we were married in the Bountiful Utah Temple. I can't even believe it has been this long. We have been through so much together. I feel like I am more in love with Nathan now than I was 5 years ago. Now if someone would have told me that back then I would have thought they were lying, but it is true. My love grows more and more everyday. We have had quite a journey together, and I wouldn't have wanted to do it with anyone else but him. I have the song Come What May, on here it was sung at our reception by my cousins, and I love it. And the song At the beginning was on our wedding video. They are special songs to me.

Let's just get a recap on how we met... We met at Utah State University in our singles ward. We actually met at our first Family Home Evening, where we played the typical Elbow Tag. I asked Nate what brought him from Texas to here, and his response? "To meet girls named Kacie". Now of course this is totally cheesy now, but at the time, I was a giddy little freshman girl who didn't know any better because for all I cared, a returned missionary was actually flirting with me, a huge step from my high school peers. From then on, we just kept running into eachother, and I had a huge crush on him. Then he finally told me he liked me and we were never separated (except for Christmas break when he went back home to Texas). And it has been bliss ever since. This is just a short version of how we met by the way, I don't have time for the long version.

The Blushing Bride.































Doesn't get much hotter than this, does it? Hubba hubba!

























So young and naive. We didn't know anything back then. Only that we were in love.















Here I was getting the cake ready to shove in his face when he strangely asked for a bigger piece and opened up his mouth really wide...ok then, I said....

That's what you get!

My Hero.

WE'VE BEEN IN UTAH AGAIN

Sorry about the blog lately, I know, this isn't like me. Well first of all nothing was really happening, and then we went to Utah for Nate's brother's wedding. I went up a week early to play with my family. We had so much fun, and we already miss everyone. Brystal got to play with her Gramma Wood a lot, and had so much fun.

She also learned to suck her toes while we were there. Congratulations Brystal, you are moving up in the world.

THE WEDDING

We got to go to Nate's brother's wedding while we were in Utah, they were married in the Jordan River Temple. Nathan's parents were able to come home from their mission for the wedding, so it was a very special occasion. The best part of all was that ALL of the Bennett's, 8 kids and their spouses plus their parents, were all able to be in the temple together to complete the family. It was a pretty amazing experience to be able to see that all of our family was all worthy and able to come and be in the temple together. What a special day.

It was a chilly day, and we did our best to stay warm, and still be cute. But how could Brystal NOT be cute?

It is always fun to go to weddings and remember the day we got married. Our anniversary is coming up, so it was especially fun to remember our day. We were the last of the Bennett's to get married before Michael.

Do we have a future Sister Bennett in the making here?

THE RECEPTION

The reception was great, it was really a party! Brystal had loads of fun!

She danced with her daddy...

Played with her cousins....(this is Caroline)

Danced with Daddy some more....

Tuckered out. It was a long day.

DANKE SCHOEN!

Well it was good to see everyone, and thank you to Oma and Opa for coming out to see us. We had such a great time with you. Now they are back in Germany to finish their mission. We miss you guys, and are glad we got to see you. But we will see you soon in a few more months!

WALKING WITH SOPHIE

Well not much is going on these days, which is why I haven't posted for awhile, so I thought I would just put up this funny video of us on a walk with Sophie. This isn't even a good representation of what really happens, but whenever we go for a walk, we like to go along the creek so there is no where really for Sophie to get run over by a car and rarely any people to run into, so we let her off her leash and let her go, and boy does she go. She just LOVES it and she runs and runs as fast as she can through all the weeds and when they get really tall, all you can see is a rustling in the tall grass and then out pops Sophie just running as fast as she can. By the time I got out the camera, she was already a little worn out, but still going strong. Maybe next time we go, I'll get a better one when we first let her loose.

SLEEPY LITTLE BRYSTAL

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