Marley's Blessing

I know I have posted about 5 posts in the last week or so. I'll finish off with two more. We blessed Marley on Sunday the 27th because Carl's brother was in town. It was a great day and the blessing was beautiful, what I could hear of it since the mike went out and there were about 60 screaming kids. Anyway, I found this gorgeous dress online and we had most of our family. There were 26 kids the oldest is 16 and the youngest was Marley 4 weeks, and only I think 18 adults. Our families are getting huge. Anyway here are some cute pics of the day.

These are the Bench cousins that are all within a year of each other, Carson, Marley, Kade, and Paige.

July 24th: Pioneer Days

So the big holiday down in Fairview, where Carl grew up, is Pioneer Days. The day after we got back we loaded our already packed gear and went to celebrate. It was fun as always, and Carl's brother was in town from Arkansas, so all the cousins were there it was good. Carl took Garrick to the parade, which he loved. He kept waving at all the Royalty on the floats it was super cute. He also really liked the band and the fire engines. I think he was the only one of the cousins who didn't insist on having his ears covered as they let off their sirens. He was a daddy's boy all weekend, and Carl even took him to the derby. We had a good time but were glad to finally come home.

He loved trying to get his cousins wet, they yelled and he would do it more. He got himself more than anyone else.

Just like dad.

Waving to he girls.

He did't understand the purpose of the umbrella.

Seattle

Insane!!

So before I post numerous adorable pictures of my wonderful family I thought I'd nominate myself as the most insane person on the planet. Also realize this is coming from the exhausted fingers of the mother of a 40 lb two year old and a newborn. To begin not only did I volunteer for a surgery where they cut you open, pull a baby out, and proceed to show your husband all of you inerds. But I also listened to talk during the whole procedure that likened me to a cow, because they are talking about how they do the same procedure to a cow. Then just shy of two weeks later I set of in a car with my hooligans and my husband for a fabulous 12 hour ride to Seattle, for my brothers wedding. This week in Seattle was definately more work than play with a newborn. I am just lucky that we have such great kids and that 2 week olds only eat, sleep and poop. Then we arrived home on Marley's three week birthday and left the next day for Carl's parents for the 24th, which is the big holiday in Fairview. Then we arrived home a couple of days later to clean the house and prep for Marley's blessing. We did it early because Carl's brother was in town and he is only in town about once a year. I feel like I have been busier than any normal person should be, and I don't consider myself normal any parents shouldn't. To say the least I would recommend only the rest and relaxation of a new mothers home during the first month or so. Needless to say I and my wonderful husband are definately certifiably INSANE. I am glad to finally be home and able to relax.

MARLEY

Well, we have our newest edition. Marley was born on Monday morning at 9:19 am she weighed 6 lbs 13 oz, and was 19 1/2 inches long. We had another c-section and everything went really smoothly. She is adorable and we are super excited. She has been so fun, she definately has a set of lungs but she is a great pretty mellow baby.
Garrick came and didn't want anything to do with me or the baby. We finally got him to kiss her, he kissed her two times the funny thing was second time he got her hair and he started spitting saying it was yucky. We have two great, cute kids. Yeah!!