Summer had proved to be very busy...

In an attempt to stay up to date on blogging, this is going to be a long one!

Last week Bennett, my mom and I went to God Chicks in Pasadena! It was a great time, there were fabulous speakers, tons of awesome music and dancing as well as plenty of women who wanted to hold and play with Bennett!

Here's Bennett dancing with Jervaun on the first night of the conference.

Bennett really was such a good baby the whole time we were there. He slept pretty well and only cried when he was hungry (although he did take a 7 hour nap on Sunday afternoon-think he was tired?)
Here's a shot with Bennett and my mom on Friday night.

On the second night of the conference there is always a "surprise". Last year it was a Farris Wheel, this year it was hot air balloons! I had never been in one before and it was really fun! It made me want to go on a long hot air balloon ride... we'll have to save up for that!
In the last week we have also celebrated two birthdays:

Mine (Turned 28 on June 26th)

and Casey's (Turned 15 on July 1st)

In celebrating Casey's birthday, Bennett had a first. It was his first time going to Richie's Diner. Going to Richie's for breakfast has become a tradition in our family for birthdays and going back to school ... I don't know how it started, but it's fun!

Another first in the life of Bennett would be his new love for veggies! The poor boy is teething and wants to chew on anything he can get in his mouth! Grandpa thought it would be a good idea to give him celery (with out mom knowing) but after looking at it, he wasn't actually getting anything in his mouth from the carrot or the celery so we let him play with them for a while - he really did enjoy them and it was pretty cute!
The other night my middle school girls Bible study started up again and we had our first night just be a game night. We played Apples to Apples (always a good time) and let Bennett play too!. We gave him cards face down and then each turn we randomly took one card out of his hand. He actually won on 6 different rounds! His words were: Smooth, Shy, Chewy, Heartless, Radical and Dignified. (All but heartless seem to fit him rather well!)
Oh and he for some reason became very interested in one of De Anna's card... funny thing was that is was the "delicious" card... maybe he was hungry!
If you noticed Bennett's shirt above it says "I'm new here" with a picture of the earth on it ... but I had to take a picture of the back too because I think it is just too cute! (Thanks Kailey for your cute design)
And then last but not least in our action packed week ... Gunnar came over to play. He was really sweet and gentle with Bennett and was very interested in his little play gym. He even climbed under the rings at one point to be with Bennett!
But after a while he realized Bennett was not super fun so he moved on to the drum and had a lot of fun! He is such a cute boy!
So, there you have it, our week in pictures... hope you aren't as worn out as I am! :)