Remembering to Grab the Camera!

This was an "Impromtu" Family Piano Night with our boys on Sunday night! They were so badly wanting Daddy to teach them "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" but it turned into a night of Duets of Chopsticks! They were very cute!

I was taking some random pictures over the last few days, because I've suddenly realized that I've sucked at taking any for a long while. So I was trying to remind myself to grab the camera more often.

The big boys are enjoying school to the best they can right now. Joshua is in Grade 5 and finding it a lot of "structure" and "homework" which in my eyes is a good thing, but for him, not so much! LOL Jakey is LOVING his teacher and really enjoying getting the hang of reading. He so does not understand why he can't just pick up one of his older brothers chapter books and just read it himself....but he really is getting there, I'm sure by winter time he'll be reading smoothly.

Luke is quite the little fireball of energy these days. He's TWO....and boy is he TWO!!!! lol Everything about him is two, he yells large, he plays large and he actually loves large!!! Everything is big in his life!!!! Speaking of big, wait until you get a grasp of how big this kid has gotten too, he's grown so much recently. He's now into a Toddler size 10 shoe (just to give you a comparison, his 5 year old friend Matt wears a toddler 13 and his friend Erin, the same age is in a toddle size 5!!! LOL)! He's stretching taller and taller and I'm really getting worried that I spent the past 2 weekends finding, washing and putting away all the Size 2 winter clothes, all to realize that I think he might be inching fast towards a size 3!!!

Todd is quite busy with work these days as well. We don't see very much of his the last little while as he's also entered another University course. That'll be for the next 4 weeks...so busy busy hubby for a while! We both can't wait for it to be overwith! Todd and I are looking forward to the end of November, because I took the American Thanksgiving weekend off of work, so that we can send out kids to school and get a couple days together to do something! Not sure what it'll be yet, but we'll plan something.

I have been busy with the kids, the part time little girl I have has been coming more often then she used to, so it's been busy and I'm liking it. We spend as much time visiting the drop in centre as we can, the kids love the different toys and I love visiting with other home care providers.

I have also been doing a bunch of computer work for a non-profit organization and I'm LOVING learning some website design tools. That's been exciting! I can't wait to take a real course on that stuff, Todd has me signed up for 2 online courses, I just need some quiet time (not plentiful around here! LOL) to complete them!

MOPS is also crazy busy right now, although we had a GREAT meeting this past Friday about a subject I was so nervous about talking about, because I was scared the Mom's would go home depressed, but in turn, God had a hand on our meeting and it just went FABULOUS!!! My favourite moment was the quiet Moms shared their life's stories with each other and there was so much honesty and support in that room that is just felt so cozy and warm....it was great! We ended the meeting with making one of the coolest crafts we've ever done. Janis had us make Ribbon Fobs and they were so much fun!

Anyway, I wanted to show you some recent cute pics of the kids....so here they are!

They were fresh out of the Bath/Shower!

Lukey was playing "Superman" on his big brother.

Brothers loving each other! It was very sweet....Lukey kept saying "Buba's Turn, now Osh's Turn!" They played this game for quite a while, surprisingly enough the big boys let Luke do it too!

Back to School

Well as usual it's been forever since my last update, but alas, I have a reason to post something again.

My boys have gotten back into the grove of things and are now back in school. Joshua is in Grade 5 this year and Jacob is in Grade 2. They both have fabulous teachers, they are happy with them and so far, they are enjoying the children in their classes too, which makes things a little better for me as well...I worry so much about that kind of stuff.

We have recently moved the boys' bedrooms around and Joshua has his own room again, he's THRILLED over that development. Jake is now sharing with Lucas and I have to say that it's working out way better than I could have imagined. Luke is thrilled to have someone else in his room and Jake is taking "ownership" of his new space. We went in to check on them the other morning and Luke was fast asleep in his brother's arms cuddling together in Jake's bed. It was so cute! Apparently Luke had woken in the night and we didn't hear him (oopps...bit of parent guilt there) and so Jake got up, took him out of the crib, put him in his bed and they both went back to sleep! What an amazing big brother Jake is being!

We had a very busy summer this year, the first half of the summer was working for and with Brooke for her wedding, that was so much fun! Lots and lots of work, but I really enjoyed doing what I was doing...so that was great. The wedding turned out great, with only a glitch here and there, which was great, nothing major. Luke looked absolutely adorable in his little tuxedo. Although he never did walk down the aisle like he was supposed to, both he and Tori stole the show!

The other half of my summer was learning how to tent camp with my boys! We took two really nice vacations...one was with a group of 6 moms and 20 children to Camper's Cove Camp Ground and that was a blast. The other was our "family" vacation and that was at Bingeman's Water/Sports Park and we camped there for 4 days 3 nights and had so much fun! Todd actually loved camping! I was so happy that he really liked it, the boys of course liked it, except for the part that we almost froze to death the first night, we fixed that fast with a quick trip to Walmart for a space heater then we didn't need it the other two nights..isn't that ironic!!! LOL

With the kids back in school again and MOPS starting up again next week, I'm sure things will fall into a "normal" pace again soon, I hope! I'm looking forward to a little more of a quiet fall season!

We'll be going to our annual Family Apple Picking next week....I'll post pics from that soon!

Anyway, hope everyone had a great summer like we did!

It's been a nice quiet January so far!

We decided to let Lukey try feeding himself with a spoon the other night! Well.....this is how our experiment went....yogurt and applesauce......oh boy........
Then it was bath time for Lukey baby!!! He's much cuter with his little faux hawk!!! LOL

Hi Everyone;

I don't have a lot to post, but thought I would put a few recent pics up of the boys! We've been doing well. It's been bitterly cold here lately, lots of snow (well....lots for this area anyway....not for most who are used to it) and we've been pretty much just hunkerin' down inside for the past few weeks....only going out if we really have to!

The boys are back to school, Jake is doing very well with his reading skills, he should be reading smoothly by June...we're excited about his hard work in this area. Joshua is busy working on his speech....it's the first "real" speech he's had to do right from the beginning to the end. This year's topic is "Why I love Camp Kintail"...so he's having a blast doing that one. I'm hopeful he'll learn it well and want to tell the staff about it this summer. Speeches have never been my thing, I always hated doing them, so Todd has taken over this homework project, while Jake and I work on his "Seasons" project and continue to work on his reading....so far he's read me 22 books by himself in the month of January, since he's been back in school....not bad for two weeks of work!

Hope everyone is well in this new year! Looking forward to what February has to bring us!

Lots of love:

The Beneteau Family

xxxooo

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We had a very nice and very busy holiday season! We had many things to do and many friends and family to celebrate with! We started out our holiday with going to our annual Christmas tree cutting place with the McAuley family! We always have fun hunting down the perfect tree. This year, the boys won against their Mommy for what we thought was the "perfect" tree and we got totally Griswald-ed and ended up having to cut a tonne of branches off the bottom and even 6" off the top! It ended up being a very nice tree and lasted until just a couple days ago when we finally got rid of it.

I hope that you all had a great holiday as well. I thought I'd post a few pics from the holidays for you to see the boys during the Christmas season. We also had a nice small celebration for New Year's Eve with a couple friends too, Lukey was adorable!

So here's to a very happy 2008, let's hope things go well for all of our friends and family this year!

Happy New Year to all of you!

Lots of love:

Kim, Todd, Joshua, Jacob and Lucas

xxoo

Here are my kiddos, very INTO the Christmas spirit!

And Our New Year's Baby!