Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Egg Hunt

The Saturday before Easter our Church hosts an annual Easter Egg Hunt. Here are some of the fun pictures.
This was Naomi's first egg hunt. She really didn't care too much about the eggs. Hudson had a great time running around with all his friends. He really did a good job hunting eggs.
My biggest challenge of the day was getting a photo of the two of them together. We got them matching outfits for brother sister photos they had taken on Friday. I love it when siblings match!
Here's the whole crew.
They had two rounds of egg hunting. While they were hiding eggs the second time the kids all came in and got a snack. Our children's pastor Jody shared the resurrection story with the kids using resurrection eggs. Hudson was paying close attention and now shares the story over and over again with us.


Here is Naomi with Hudson's play cell phone. (You know the kind that is real, but doesn't work anymore) It has been the toy of choice around the house lately.
Here is what happens after Hudson sees that Naomi has his cell phone. We are working on asking for things back rather than snatching. We don't always do what we should, huh?
Isn't this the perfect shot. Now only if I could get them to turn around!


Monday, March 17, 2008

Family Fun

We are finally all healthy and well. Naomi has started sitting at the table like a big girl. She can sit in the chair all by herself, but she just won't stay seated. We took her to Babies'R'Us and got her a new chair to sit in. She was so proud to sit at the table and eat dinner with everyone else. Here is a cute shot of her in her new chair! You can tell by the smile how proud she is of herself.
Here is Hudson and Naomi. They are beginning to enjoy each others company and actually play together. However, it usually turns into a wrestling match. The other night we heard giggles coming from the bedroom and I thought nothing of it. If they are happy let them be, right? Well, a few minutes later Naomi lets out her scream of terror and Davin goes in to find Hudson in the crib with Naomi. I guess it's fun until someone gets hurt, huh? Here is a shot of Hudson. Look at how tall he is! He can almost see into the sink with out any help.
Some good friends of ours had a birthday party for their son David Jr. It was lots of fun with horseback riding and all. Here are the kids having their photos taken as cowboys. What a face!

Okay, so Hudson didn't want to ride the horse. Naomi got closer and actually wore the helmet. She didn't ride, but she did get to pet the horse and then she stuck her finger in his eye. Poor horsey! Some exciting moments...

Naomi made her first pee pee in the potty. Before bath time I sat her on the potty with a book. She seemed to know what to do. She wouldn't let me get her up until she made a pee pee.
Not quite potty training, but we can wait on that.


Okay so I decided to make yeast rolls from scratch the other day. You know like the kind you get at O'Charlies, yum! While I was kneading the dough Hudson was redecorating the bathroom with the hand soap. I thought he was washing his hands, and when I went in to check on him he had covered the counter tops and mirror with soap, along with Naomi's hair. It was so thick I had to give her a bath to get it all out. She didn't seem to mind the new hairdo. She must have thought it looked nice since I was taking pictures.
As you could see from some of the previous pictures. Hudson needed a haircut! We like it long. We just didn't want him to be confused with being a girl. (Which did happen!) It took me 45 minutes of convincing him to sit still, and telling him that I wouldn't hurt him with the scissors. Here is the final result.


Thursday, March 6, 2008

Quick update

We are finally doing better. We all ended up with some type of infection, and all four of us are on antibiodics. We went back to church last night for AWANA, and it was so good to be back on our schedules. I have some fun pictures I will post later. Thanks to everyone who was praying for us and especially to Mimi (Davin's mom) for flying in on short notice to take care of us last Saturday and Sunday. We really appreciate it!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Flu

So it all started with Hudson on Wednesday morning when he woke up with a fever. I took him to the Doctors and he wouldn't even sit up when the Doctor came in to check him out. He was running a fever of 103. We have all been home resting and taking tamiflu. The rest of us seem to be fighting off some flu-like symptoms as well. Since we are taking the tamiflu it's not as bad. What's crazy to me is how sickness can completely change your entire schedule. We've had to call so many people to rearrange or reschedule our time. It seems that we are not the only ones fighting the flu or some type of illness right now. The Lord has been gracious to us in the fact that Davin hasn't missed work or school and he just happened to be off on Friday and Monday. We should get back on our feet soon and re-join the rest of the world.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Well, here we are nearing the end of what will be our Seminary experience. I can honestly say it has been one of the most challanging steps of faith we have taken so far in our marriage. We have grown closer as a couple, a family, and to the Lord. And as many of you have said, it has been filled with very sweet memories. We look forward and feel more ready than ever to step out and serve the Lord in a new capasity. At the same time, I am so very sad to think of all the dear friends we will leave here in Wake Forest, NC.

Here is a very cute photo of Naomi wearing her doggie bucket on her head. She sure thought she was pretty in it as she pranced around the room. This was a shot of Hudson after we had gone grocery shopping. And yes he wore his tool man belt, goggles, and hat through the store.
He spent the rest of the day fixing things around the house.
Here is Hudson on his first day of homeschooling Pre-school. Naomi enjoyed it as much as he did! I thought I would give it a try. My dear friend Corey loaned me a cirrculum that she went through with her son, and my neighbor and friend Chandra and I have been working together on it now. We take turns teaching and her daughter Madelyn and Hudson have a great time being together.
Here he is doing his first self-portrait.

I thought I would add this one in for fun! Hudson gave himself a crayon mustache. How handsome!

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Davin's grandfather let me borrow an old photo album with pictures of Davin when he was a child. I couldn't get over how much Naomi looks just like him. If you don't believe me check out these photos. The top one is Davin and the bottom one is Naomi on her first birthday.


Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Christmas Time!

Okay, so we have A LOT of really great Christmas photos. I hope you are ready for all these!

Here are the kids getting ready for Family Christmas time! We were able to go home to Georgia for Christmas, so we celebrated as a family a few days before we left. Can you see the anticipation in their eyes?!?!
Naomi and Hudson had a blast. It was so much fun to watch Naomi enjoy opening her presents and playing with her new toys.

And yes, she had to climb on top of her presents before she opened them. Boy do I have my hands full!

Aren't they sweet playing with their new toys?!?!
I had to get a shot of them playing together. Here we are at Davin's parents house. This is Naomi with Papa(Davin's grandfather) in front of the tree.


This is Hudson with his 2nd cousin Lexi. They had a blast!
And so did Naomi...
Christmas morning we were at Pop-pop and Mimi's (Davin's parents) We wanted to keep the focus on the birth of our Savior, Jesus. Hudson helped me build a 1st century manger, and he has been earning straw all month to put in the manger. He got a piece every time he was kind or helped out with a good attitude. Naomi even earned a few pieces as well. On Christmas morning the kids came down stairs to find "baby Jesus" wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in the manger. We did a short devotion and sang some of our favorite hymns. Then we let the kids look in their stockings and open some presents. Finally we ended our celebration with birthday cake for breakfast! Fun
Next we went to the Chandler's (Alisia's parents). Here is a great photo of Davin and Naomi.
This is Naomi with her cousin Lila. Aren't they beautiful in their Christmas dresses.
Here is a shot of my two sisters and their husbands. The little guy is my nephew Chandler.
Isn't Hudson cute in his Veggie Tales Christmas shirt?!

After Christmas, Davin and I headed back to North Carolina WITHOUT CHILDREN!!!!! It was so hard to leave our precious little ones there, but they needed some one on one grandparent time and Davin and I need some alone time too. It has been a week since we left them and they got to spend time with both sets of grandparents. We have really missed them, but we have enjoyed ourselves as well. We went out to dinner one night to celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary. (wow! a lot can happen in 4 years, huh?) Here we are at dinner. We also went to the movies afterward thanks to Josh and Charlotte (our wonderful neighbors) and saw National Treasure. It was great!
I have been busy as well doing some painting and getting the apartment organized and clean. Here are the photos from the mural I just finished...
If you want to see more or know of someone else who would like some work done, you can visit my art blog at http://www.ajbenavides.blogspot.com/