Salsa and a hot lady!

Samantha and I are up eating some black bean salsa with cabbage and spinach-laugh after you try it! yummy. Life is good in Arkansas. We woke up Sunday to find our house at a cool 35 degrees! we have a great blanket, but our stocking are lacking. We spent the day winterizing a 1650's colonial home. If it weren't for a great father in law we'd be frozen for winter. The kids are doing good, they each think they are in charge of the fireplace! It is sometimes cute, sometimes. We are excited for Jared and Paula and their 4th kiddo!!! We will be seeing you guys at Christmas! We leave the 23rd after work and should see you all Christmas Eve! Samantha is eating the salsa fast, so I am going to go...LOVE YOU Bennett's so much.

Snow! Snow! Snow!

We finally got snow here in South Hill, VA!! It's nothing compared to what you all have gotten and will continue to get. In fact, it didn't really stick. And what did stick, has already melted. The kids were SO excited! Jared and I....not so much. It was pretty and all but we only enjoyed it because of the reaction from the kids. Peter and Addy loved it. They ran outside with no coat on and just danced around and stuck out their tongues. Jay-J on the other hand was a little apprehensive at first. He was totally confused about the white stuff. He saw how excited Peter and Addy were and started laughing himself. It was cute. Here are a few pics!

After playing out in the 'snow', we went inside and had ice cream cones. Haha.

East of the Bread Basket, west of the Mississippi, south of the yankees and north of Death Valley. We are ARKANSAS!

 

old wideo we just did not get up fast enough. The new news with us...we saw Poppy Bennett, Uncle Ben, Aunt Teresa, Uncle Kevin and their children thi last weekend! It was a great visit. We are soooooo glad we went to Dallas. We are so proud of Uncle Kevin. Worthy and then some. I must say I have some very good brother in laws.

Teresa's children are so beautiful and well behaved. They tolerated the wild Bennett', pestering Presleigh, hyper Ron-Ron and the love struck Madi. Teresa and Samantha had to have a heart to heartwith Madi-Jo about her cousin Kevin Jr. being like a brother-that quickly fixed the spell she was under.

We have been winSLOWly getting ready for cold weather and therefor it came faster than we planned. I have a lot of wood that needs to be cut and split-volunteers?! The fireplace is working great. Samantha is a pro at keeping it working efficiently. She is so wonderful and HOT!

Ron-Ron has molars coming in, Presleigh will be spending the rest of the week catching up on her missed movie/t.v. time from having been in Texas, and Madilyn was ready to just keep the playing hooky going. We sure do love and miss you all.

Presleigh figured out how to work the web camera and started taking-136 pictures of her and Madi. Here are a few.

Tell me Presleigh doesn't have Poppy Bennett's smile! Madi is short another tooth.

Ron Jr and Ron III, good thing his momma is cute.

Samantha and I. that is her room divider behind us. two doors on the edges and 2 windows cut to fit in the middle, all the windows are different sizes and it all looks great. She is great.

Pumpkin Patch

Peter had his first school field trip today! His Kindergarten class went to the Pumpkin Patch!! He was so excited all week!! I'm so glad his teacher posted pictures on her blog so that I can see and share them!! It looks like they had so much fun! Peter hasn't stopped talking about it!



We are super excited for the game tonight! Most of you probably know that Jared has completely taken over the duties of Defensive Coordinator. Addy, Jay-J and I went and had lunch with him today and he is nervous and excited! I am nervous and excited for him. I just pray that we'll win out the rest of the season. I can't believe there's only 3 more regular season games after tonight. There's a sparkle of light for the playoffs but we definitely need to win out and that means beating a team that hasn't lost since 2001. We play them the last game of the season. We'll keep y'all posted!! We love and think of you all more often than we'd like to admit. ;)

Hogs All The Way!

Just wanted to share some pictures of our HOGS!! We are getting ready to go have lunch with Jared since that will be the only time we see him until 7:30 tonight. We LOVE Friday Night Football!! Let's hope they can pull a win tonight! Peter and Addy have their last home game tomorrow morning and it's also homecoming for them. So, they will be introduced on the field and all that fun stuff. I'll be sure to take some pictures!! The last two pics were from the last week's game. Love you all!!

Jealous we weren't at the Pumpkin Festival!

 Samantha and I are happy out here in winSLOOOOOW! We live on 2 acres and from that we run our 8 chickens, 2 pigs and 3 kids! haha Samantha picked these from the field and I think they look beautiful.

Below is the coat rack project she came up with. I did the cutting and fixture mounting, but she did the real work in getting the deal and color perfect.

This is the before. Got it for free!!! Ron-Ron is on the long armed bench I made from an old project(Jared and Paula we cut the old bunkbed/high bed up and made this).

                                                             Hanging in our place!

             Side detail of the hooks she picked for the door. I think she hit the rustic-antique side great.

This is the door knob and old key holes. She worked hard to get the detail on the board to come out. She has done some great pieces and I'll post others later. Don't want to give it all to you at once! haha.
We really miss you guys, but the country life is making it all barable. We love you guys and hope to see you all sooner rather than later. Ron and Samantha and the kids.

1st Annual Pumpkin Pick @ Poppy's and Grandma's

So this is the first pumpkin pick at mom and dad's. We had a patch here at my house last year, but for some reason it is always better at Poppy's and Grandma's!! Mom has better pictures so you could see how many we ended up with! There were a TON!! We had a lot of fun. The kids all loved it and so did we. I feel very blessed that I am able to see mom and dad as often as I want, and that my kids do too. I hope you enjoy the pictures and get a little of the fun out of them that we had!!! Love you guys!!

Darby, Lolli, Indy, and Grace with some of the treasures they found!!

Grace just being Grace! I have absolutely no explanation!!

Cole go to drive the tractor from place to place.

Posing with the pumpkins!

Poppy and the grand kids!!!

I just love this picture!! These girl's love Poppy!!

Virginia Bennetts Saying Hi!!

Well,  let's see how we (I mean, I) keep up with this. I have a hard time updating our own blog. But, this kind of gives and has an extra incentive. Great idea Ron and Sam!! We are all doing well here in South Hill, Virginia. Actually, our home is in Baskerville, VA and Jared teaches in South Hill, VA and Peter's school is in Union Level, VA. All that is within 10 miles. Life is very different. I hope Jared will get on and update when he can. Life is VERY different out here. I know I'm struggling the most of all of us. We all look forward to Friday nights for the Dragon's football game! We have a 2-3 record going into the last half of the season. What this 'adventure' has taught me is there is something called PASSION. And as most, I mean ALL of you know, Jared has it for football. Peter loves school! He struggled in the beginning. He kept coming home without a smiley face for his behavior and I had to meet with his principal on the 3rd day of school. I was so embarrassed. But, he has come home for 2 weeks now with smiley faces!! I am so proud of him. Addy loves life. Particularly Cheerleading!! That girl loves it! She does cheers all day long. It's so cute! Jay-J turned the big ONE on Sunday. He is growing up so fast. He had his 1 year checkup yesterday and he is 22lbs 12oz! He is in the 95% for weight and the 10% for height. I think that means he's short and stout. haha We had a little party for him. I gave him a haircut for his party because he needed one. This 'simple' act reminded me of how much I miss you Samantha!! LoL Enjoy the pictures!! The last video is of us singing Happy Birthday to Ron-Ron!

Jared at the first football game of the season!

Addy in her cheer uniform!

Addy cheering at the first home game!

Playing in the backyard!

Peter's Kindergarten class!

Jay-J loved his cake!

Addy took this picture of us.

We love each other!!

He ate the whole thing!

Our three biggest blessings!

Swainston Family

Cole on his very favorite thing his dirtbike!!

Grace bareback on Jett!

Me and Rod and a diner in Denver

Lilli and her team @ the Bear Lake Tourney! They did awsome!

Reese just being her cute self! What would I ever do without her!!

Dawn Rod and the kids

Well I am totally new to blogging and will see how this goes! I love the idea of keeping up with our family this way. So hopefully it takes off for us!! Life is crazy busy with the family and farm, but crazy in a good way!! Crops are almost all in, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!!! RIGHT!! Kids are busy busy, Cole helping on the farm and riding his dirt bike. Lilli is in soccer, volleyball and piano. Grace is clogging and doind piano, and Reese is doing 'Rising Stars' and running kids around with me ALOT!! Life is good, no it's great we are blessed. I hope we will all get involed and keep up with each other and our niece's and nephew's this way!! Great idea Ron and Sammie!! Love you ALL!!

Welcome 1, welcome Bennett12!

I am sure someone, somewhere, and probly not a member of the Bennett12, has start a blog concerning us; therefore, we are starting this blog to deliver the message of our family mayhem the way we want. contributed by-Last Bennett in Arkansas(yes the other AR Bennetts are posers) :)