Christmas Card 2017

Merry Christmas from the Bensons!
We are so thankful for the year we have had and hope the end of this year finds you well! We have had many changes this year as you all probably know and have been following along, but here is a recap just in case!

Our entire year had been filled with all things baby, and it has been my favorite year to date! In February we announced baby Benson was on the way.

The Spring brought several visitors which we always enjoy. 

We had started to plan a trip to Europe which was quickly turned into our 'babymoon'. 

We had such a great time! If you want to see more about that, click HERE. 

Our summer was filled with getting ready for the baby including baby showers and preparing the nursery.

We also threw in a couple pool parties and trips back home.

 September rolled around and our lives changed forever! Ramsey was born September 21, and we haven't been the same since. 

Life now revolves around her, and I love it!

We have enjoyed time with family and friends both near and far.

We hope you are enjoying time with the ones you love the most this holiday season. We look forward to another amazing year in 2018! God Bless!

Christmas Card 2016

Merry Christmas from the Bensons!

We have had quite the year. Another year to be so thankful for all that we have and all that we have learned. We have had our ups and downs. And even though this year brought a few lows for us, it makes the highs that much better. As always, our year was filled with lots of trips to Nebraska which are always fast and end way too abruptly. We are so thankful we are able to make it back home so often and see friends and family. We like to focus on the positives here so that is what we are recapping month by month!

January

My mom and grandpa Paul came down to help celebrate my birthday. Matt did a fantastic job of making the day extra special for me. He had me open a present every few hours. We headed out to Schnepf Farms and had a blast! You can read more about it HERE

February

Nolan came down. We did everything under the sun! Just take a look, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

March

We hosted Easter with some of Matt's relatives.

April

Patrick and Angela came to visit. We surprised my mom with a trip home for her birthday! We decided we needed to do something fun on the weeknight besides work until we fell asleep so we took a stained glass class.

May

We took another trip to Schnepf Farms this time with our neighbors for the Peach Festival. Then we took a trip to Vegas with my family! I have lots of updates from that trip-HERE, HERE, and HERE. A few days later we headed for our annual Memorial Day trip to San Diego; this time our friends, Joel and Jessica joined us!

  

June

We began pool party season. We also bought our first car!

 

July

You may remember the massive road trip we took two summers ago. If you are new around here, you can read all about it starting HERE. We took another road trip this time to the south east. We had the best time. If you want to read my recaps, THIS is the last post but it has a link back to each day.

August

My mom and sisters came to visit! We took on a big undertaking of starting our own small business. It has always been a dream of ours; we were just waiting for the perfect idea. In August, it struck! Check out our new business HERE.

September

My mom and dad came out for a quick weekend! It finally started to cool off enough in the mornings to do some hiking. We started Labor Day weekend and have put in lots of miles since then.

October

Matt and I took a weekend getaway to Tucson for a music festival. We were back to Nebraska for a wedding and harvest. We headed back to Schnepf Farms with our neighbors for the pumpkin and chili festival. We tried really hard to create a fun fall experience even though the temperature stayed above 100 all month!

 

November

I really started getting into the Christmas spirit early this year. I held off putting up our Christmas decorations until the day before Thanksgiving! To curb my excitement, I bought several Christmas decorations and a few presents! We also went to The Sound of Music at The Gammage. It was amazing, and so funny!

December

We are in full swing with lots of Christmas celebrations! I love this time of year! We will celebrate with Matt's family in Denver one weekend and my family will be down for the week of Christmas.

Wishing you and your family the best holiday season! And always remember the real reason for the season:

~And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.~

~~1 John 5:11~~

Christmas Card 2015

Merry Christmas from our little family to yours! We hope you are all enjoying your holiday season. We were blessed to have another great year! Here is an update:

We spent my birthday celebrating in Las Vegas. We always enjoy walking up and down the strip and checking out the Bellagio fountains. Matt also took me to Cirque de Soleil-Mystere. It was such an incredible show!

In February, we were in Nebraska to celebrate my cousin Mariah's gorgeous wedding.

Our friends, Joel and Jess came to visit us over Spring Break. We surprised Jess with her first visit to the Grand Canyon.

Matt began a new job in March as a financial advisor with a small, independent firm. In April, we headed back to Vegas with his new co-workers for a conference. 

In May, we were back in Nebraska celebrating Jadyn's high school graduation. 

We took our annual trip to San Diego over Memorial Day. This year we stayed directly across from the beach. As always, we had a wonderful time! 

We added a small, open patio to our backyard. Once that was finished we met all our neighbors by inviting them over for a few pool parties. 

July took us back to Nebraska to celebrate our dear friends, Patrick and Angela's wedding. It was such a beautiful day!!

Jadyn and her friend Sheridan came back with us to Phoenix to spend a week. They kept us busy!!

October marked one year in our first house. We have been working on a few other small projects.

We kicked off our holiday celebrations by Thanksgiving with some very sweet friends. We hosted our first Christmas party as well. We are now back in the Midwest to celebrate Nolan's college graduation which will mesh into Christmas.

We hope you all had a wonderful 2015! Enjoy time with your loved ones this holiday season. Happy New Year!!

Matthew 1:21

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.