Benson and Clair Online Auction

Please click below to check out the online auction.  This is to raise money for my friends 2 young children who have that were both born with a rare genetic disease that will require each of them to have a kidney/liver transplant.  Please spread the word!  There are so many cute things to choose from!  Thank you

MY BIG FAMILY

I realize it has been quite a long time but we are soon to get the internet at our home so it should get better! I sure miss being able to check all of your blogs regularly!

This is my big family! We have not had a complete family picture taken (besides weddings) since I was like 6! My how we have grown since then!

Below is immediate family. My mom and all and my brothers and sisters! By the way lindsay Had her baby on Wednesday and he is so dang cute!

And now for mine and jaime's family! Aren't we cute!
AND NOW FOR MY GIRLS!

My beautiful girls!

You know how you always spend so much thought in preparation for special days and how your kids are going to look in their cute outfits you planned out for them, and how you are going to do their hair. All for the pictures right! For some reason, we always believe that they are going to enjoy it just as much as we do and for some reason, they never do. Well that is how easter went for us! Taylor did enjoy it and looked so pretty, but macie would not stop crying long enough for me to take a cute picture of her! Oh Well!

YES!! I KNOW.......

EARLY EASTER EGG HUNT!


We had an easter egg hunt with all the cousins at my bro's house last week and I though you would all love to see how cute and big they are getting! Macie is the one on the top right so she is a little bigger than the last time you saw her! She is now 18 months which means NURSERY!

Things out here in Syracuse have been great! We love it. We have amazing neighbors and so many kids out there to play with my kids!

Life is still busy, but good! I miss being home with my girls every day, but I am thankful to my family and Jaime's Family for being so willing to help us out! It feels a lot better than daycare!

Taylor is going to be 4 in June. (The thought of Kindergarden next year is crazy!) She is getting to be so mature now. She is a very loving big sister. She and Macie sure play together a lot now!

Well, I will try to be better at this blogging thing! I miss it, that is for sure!

LOVE YOU ALL!


John and Chandi's boys (Keaton and Brannock)


















MACIE!
Em and Vinnies boy, McCoy

















Lindsay's little one, Brynlee and my Macie

The line up!

Steve and Shelley's girl Lexi

My Taylor Jayne! (so big!) MACIE! Enjoying candy after the hunt!

Holiday Post

This post will not include any pictures but I feel impressed to write! I have always absolutely loved the holiday season. Yes, as we all know, I love shopping! But even bigger than that is the feeling of this time of year. This year more than ever I have been able to reflect on the true meaning of these holidays (possibly because I cannot go shopping!) But I am thankful for it. I feel closer to my little family, and I feel a love from my savior more than every before. I feel a warmth in my heart that I have not allowed myself to feel for quite sometime.

I am not sure if any of you have felt this way before, but for probably the last six months I have felt a little bit shut down. Not that I haven't been happy, but I don't feel emotions that I am used to feeling. You know that I am quite an emotional gal, but that has been gone. I never thought that I would miss that feeling but I realized that I was blessed with that tenderness for a reason. I believe it is a blessing that allows me to truly care for others and there happiness. Just 1.5 weeks ago I was able to sing with Brittany at her Relief Society Christmas program and we watched a slide show called "Reflections of Jesus Christ." In that moment I was able to feel the spirit more strongly than I have felt for a long time, and since then I have been overwhelmed with emotion and I am glad to have it back.

I feel as though I can "feel" again! I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful holiday and that you are able to spend time reflecting on the true meaning.

Merry Christmas,

Sarah

LATE HALLOWEEN!

I am finally putting my girls halloween pictures up! Taylor wanted to be a rock star so then we all decided to be rock stars! Here we are Rockin out on Halloween!

As you can see in this picture, piglet has a costume on too! That was Taylor's doing!!!
And yes....Macie walks now! like crazy! She is still a generally happy baby as long as we are home! I think she is going to be a home body cause the minute we go anywhere else, she is not quite the same! But CUTE as ever!!!

Taylor and I had fake eyelashes and she looked awesome with them! People kept asking if she was supposed to be Hannah Montana and I guess she is on her shirt but she just went along with it! So now she always asks about Hannah Montana as if they are best friends!! Awesome!

Taylor and her cousin Lexi ended up combining costumes by the end of the night and playing with eachothers stuff and this is what we ended up with! A RockStar tinkerbell and A Violent tinkerbell!

My Sister Allison was a Barrel or Monkeys! I loved it and the kids loved it! And Lindsay and mark and brinley were the Flinstones. Yes, I do get to take credit for there costumes! I made them! I thought they turned out very cute!

A DAY AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH!

This week, we took a neighborhood fieldtrip to the pumpkin patch out by our house! The kids had a blast! Taylor and her cousins got to pick there very own pumpkin, see animals, go on a hay ride, and play...play...play! While Macie ate Dirt and rocks and everything else!

We are really loving our new area and hope that we will be here for a while! It is nice and peaceful out here! Close enough, yet far enough away...if you know what I mean! Taylor and Macie are finally making some friends out here and so are we! It is fun to learn how many people we know that live out here! It is a small world!

For those of you who don't know (because I never update my Blog anymore!) Macie is now 1! She turned 1 on October 1 and we had a fun birthday for her! I don't have all the pictures with me so I will, yet again, have to post them later, but she definately got into her birthday cake and had a great time!