Benson ballets, plays, and arts...

My girls just love to put on a show... dancing, singing, puppet shows, and drawing:

• We found a movie "Bride and Prejudice" that has us hooked. The music is incredible!
  
  
  

• Then the girls used our couch cover for a puppet show. It was with the reindeer puppet Bri made at Jared's work Christmas party.

• The musical (songs from Barney's show) plays on opening night. Lights, curtains...
  
  
  
  
• Songs...
  
  
  
  
• Ballet! After church the girls twirled in their "ballet/wedding dresses"....
  
  

It's impossible to get a shot of them spinning and their faces at the same time. :) [Feb. 1, 2009]

• Clowning around...
  
  

Share, share, share

Sydney and Brielle swarm Jared whenever he has a treat. This is him "Shawing" as Sydney would say. (Yo Gabba Gabba has a cute song about loving to share...anytime Sydney wants something Breezy doesn't want to share, she starts to sing. "Shaaw, shaw, shaah. I love to shaw, i wuv to shaw..." It's too cute!)

Choices, choices...

We are picking out colors to paint the house:

• Brielle's room: Sassy Lilac



• Sydney's room: Fresh Pear



• Master bedroom: Wool Coat



• Living Room: Wool Coat (just one wall)

Exciting decisions... ;c }

Daddy's girls

Almost EVERY night, Brielle & Sydney get geared up for rides w/ daddy! They have him wrapped around their little fingers. When I watch them gravitate towards him after work, they look like little bear cubs crawling and pouncing on him. They're SO Glad when Daddy comes home. :)

Sydney-girl

Sydney is such a trooper. She's had a broken leg and 2 eye surgeries, but she is one of the happiest toddlers. She loves to dress up and "dance." I love how whenever a song comes on, Sydney grabs my hand and begs me to join her in a silly dance. I'm so grateful for these moments.

Brielle-isms

Brielle is always surprising me w/ funny comments or strangly pronounced words.

The other day she said, "Stop that or I'm going to loss my temperature!" (She meant temper :)

One Sunday at church she commented about the sacrament, "The bread 'reprehents' Jesus' body and the water 'reprhenses' His blood."

Typical Family Portrait

I love how this is such a candid photo of us. Breezy doing her fishy-face and Sydney not wanting to hold still for a pic.