Jefferson Paul Bennett

Born 23 August 2011 at 1:39 PM

Weight 8 Pounds

20 inches long

Perfect!

Our military family

William and I were very lucky in that we were able to take a gorgeous photo home from WWI . In the picture is my Aunt Millie's brother. Well, that beautiful picture got us thinking that it would be fun to also put up pictures of our family members who have served in our great military. These are just some of the pictures that we have been blessed to recieve. I need a copy of my Uncle Jeff in his navy uniform and Willliam's Uncle Mike then the wall will be complete! I think these pictures are so awesome so I thought I'd share them with you all.

This is my Grandfather and Grandmother on their wedding day.

a great picture of William

My mother's Brother Uncle Don

My mothers other brother Uncle Lee

William's Uncle Bill (Carol's brother)

William's other Uncle Jimmy ( Carol's brother)

A family member, Cletus Bower

A family member Rufus Bower

William's Uncle Doug and Aunt Gail on their wedding day. ( Carol's Brother)

James big birthday celebration!

On the 16th we had a huge birthday party for James. It was so much fun! We held it at the pavilion at the community center in housing. We grilled some hot dogs and hamburgers and played some fun games. After it was over we all headed to the community pool and cooled down. James had 15 of his friends come and play with him. Which to be the truth was a bit much, but he loved every second of it. What got me was that we had invited even more and only 15 showed up. I can't even think of what it would have been like if they all came! Total chaos! Anyways, here are pictures of the activities. I think a dot of water must have gotten on the lens of the camera cause after the water fight there is a smudge on the lens and the picture quality goes way down. Sorry.

James hugging his awesome pinata

James and Will with the pinata

The kids coloring their grab bag to fill with their pinata goodies.

The water balloon toss which came a water balloon fight.

Then we got to put our Spidey skills to the test by flinging webs at everyone! So much fun!

Then it came time to beat Spidey up!

James taking a turn.

Lil'Will swinging at him.

When he was broken it was goody time!!

Cake time!

James opening some of his presents.

James wearing his water mask and breathing apparatus!

James home party.

We celebrated James birthday on Saturday with a little family party and then the next weekend had his big party. On the 9th we played at the pool and went and saw a movie. We all had a great time being together. James was so excited it was his birthday. He told everyone that it was his birthday. We also did cake. He wanted a spiderman cake, which is way fun but a little hard for this mama to pull together. Thankfully we had lots of spiderman toys and pictures to draw inspiration from. Here are pictures of James gettting sung to and blowing out his candles.

Look at that big breath! So excited!

being super cool with the cake.

A sweet picture of my birthday boy!!