Dinosaur

To promote "Walking with the Dinosaurs" that is coming to Spokane this spring, the production brought their baby T-Rex to Riverpark Square in the beginning of February. We thought it would be fun to see since they are supposed to be "real life" replicas. The kids loved it! We weren't sure if Kambria would be scared or not, but she was brave and wanted to touch it! Some kids got to, but we didn't get close enough to have her do it.

Daddy and Kambria watching as the dinosaur came in.

Those are human legs sticking out of the dinosaur. I guess the baby dinos are the only ones that have people inside of them; the adult size dinos are a lot bigger and are controlled by multiple people and technology.

Little George

On January 29th, our best friends, George and Rhiannon, welcomed a little baby boy into the world! No-one knew if the baby would be a boy or a girl, so we were super excited to find out he was a BOY!

Kambria was especially excited to hold him! She loves her new baby cousin so much!

Welcome Little George! We love you!

boys already?

Since the beginning of the year I have been horrible at keeping up with our blog, so here we go, back to the beginning of the year!~


In January, Kambria received her first little gift from a BOY! Oi! She was pretty excited to show it to me when she got out of school. A little boy in her class picked 3 girls that he wanted to give jewelry to and Kambria happened to be one of them. :) LOL!
Here is the beautiful piece of jewelry :)~

Virus! :(

Our computer caught a bad virus! Yuck! So even though I haven't been very good at keeping our blog up lately I do actually have quite a few things to blog about now! I will get to be on the comptuter a little more once we get our new computer up and running. So until then just stay tuned....

I will have lots of pics! including Eli's 2nd birthday!!! My little boy is growing too fast! :)

Another Boy!!!!!

I had an ultrasound on Wednesday and we were excited to find out that we are having another boy! Kambria was a little disappointed because she was really hoping to have a baby sister, but she is okay with it! Good thing since she doesn't really have a say in it! :) It will be great for Eli to have a little brother and a playmate!

His name will be Benson LaVerne Watson. The name comes from two of his Great Grandpa's. Benson is the middle name of Jon's Grandpa and LaVerne is the first name of my Grandpa.

We have known for a while that we would name our second boy after my Grandpa because he truly is the best in the world and Jon thinks so too! :) My Grandpa's name is LaVerne Harvey and I didn't want to use either of those for a first name, sorry Grandpa. :) So we started thinking of a first name that would go with LaVerne as the middle name. I asked Jon's mom one day what her dad's full name was and she said Glen B. He didn't like his middle name so he never used it. I went a little further and asked her if she knew what it actually was.......it was Benson. Well I really like it and so does Jon! So that was it......Benson LaVerne! Very fitting and not common just as I like it! :)

FYI~ we are not going to encourage the nickname "Ben"! So please don't call him that when he is born. Thanks! :) If he decides to go by that when he gets older then that will be his decision, but we will always know him as Benson.

Finally....our Christmas post!

It seems as though I have fallen into the group who now gets hooked on facebook and neglects blogger. So I decided I better post our Christmas pics before it turns into a month later! :)

The weekend before Christmas my dad and I have a tradition to go downtown, walk around, go to dinner, and usually go to a movie. I love it!!! :) This time before our little father/daughter date Jon and I took Kambria to Santa Express downtown so she could pick out our Christmas present and because it benefits the Venessa Behen Crisis Nursery. While waiting for her to come out my dad met us there.....and so did Santa! :)


A pic of the kids in front of the tree the Sunday before Christmas~



We spent Christmas morning at my parent's house. Eli was still half asleep so we didn't get a smile out of him right away, but you could tell he was so excited that Santa brought him a very cool tricycle!!! :)


With Kambria being in Kindergarten we get to start getting home/school made gifts from her! I love it!!! :)

A few weeks before Christmas she saw a picture of a Hannah Montana guitar somewhere and started asking for it. I told her it was probably to late since it was already so close to Christmas and we already purchased all of her gifts. It was so great! About a week before she started asking I had found one at Other Mothers (a children/Mother consignment store) and couldn't resist picking it up for her, especially for 5 bucks!!!!! :)

Christmas day was so beautiful! So Eli got to have fun riding his tricycle in Grandma and Grandpa's back yard!

I didn't get any pics of it, but my parent's bought us the Wii for Christmas! We love it and have had a lot of fun family time with it!!!!!

Another exciting thing is that we got to see Taylor and Micah (Brandon's ex-wife's kids) on Christmas! They have always been just like his own, especially Micah since he helped raise him from a baby. I guess his ex had a nice itch for a day and let him take them! :) So here is Micah, Taylor, Eli, Kaden, and Kambria all together! :)

In the afternoon we went to Jon's mom's house and had a good visit with his mom, sister, and niece.

Auntie Rose and Audriana got Kambria the Wizards of Waverly Place barbie she had been asking for! She was super excited! :)

It was a great Christmas this year, just as they usually are! :)

A Christmas Mix of Pics

Dress up, Santa at the Mall, and our Christmas tree.....

Every year at the "Nativities Around the World" event thrown by our church, they have a children's area where they get to color, play with toy nativities, and dress up. Eli wanted the sheep costume, Kambria the angel, and Audriana one of the wise men costumes. Too cute eh?! :)


A beautiful Angel standing over the baby Jesus. :)




One afternoon after picking Kambria up from school, we decided to take the kids to the mall to play in the play area. But before we did, Kambria wanted to take a detour to see Santa. :)




Daddy boosting Kambria up to help her get the Angel on top of our tree. That has become tradition, but I think within the next year or two Eli will want a turn to do it too. :)



Kambria wanted to hug the tree! :)

A little blurry, but our pretty tree all decorated! :) We usually put red and gold beaded garland around it, but we knew that wouldn't last very long with Eli around!