Making a New Home

My husband and I have made a new move in our life together.  Yesterday, we moved up to Smith Center, Kansas.  Woke up our first morning here  to the first snow of the season! Three inches almost!  It's really a beautiful site!



Also, we are going to work our hardest to buy this gorgeous house we found, and negotiate with them on price and get the house asap. We are just in love with it!!



So far, I am pretty comfortable in our new move and new life.  The future looks bright! :)

I don't have a lot to say, but HAPPY NEW YEAR and make 2011 the start of many years to come :)

Merry Christmas

This year is particularly tough for me.  As my husband has decided to leave me, and runaway from his problems instead of facing them head on and solving them.  He left on December 21, just 4 days before Christmas Day, and 3 days before my family celebrates Christmas.  I figure I'm strong enough to handle this.  And he keeps calling me and asking to come home, and giving me the same lines he always gives me when he leaves.  So what do I do?  I can't just let my guard down and believe him, like I do every other time and get hurt again and again.  It's our first Christmas as Husband and Wife.  It really stings!!! 

I'm still going to enjoy myself, and after my Fed Ex package arrives (I bought myself a new cell phone for my Christmas present to myself), I will go to my mother's house and help her make Christmas Dinner!  I will enjoy watching my children's eyes light up as they open their gifts, and take pictures of every moment! And I will not rub it in my husband's face that he missed Christmas with his family, once again.  This is the 3rd year in a row we have not had Christmas together.  Quite sad actually.  However, I've gotten used to it.  

So anyway, from my house to yours.  Merry Christmas Everyone!!!  And have a safe, fun, and prosperous New Year!!!

Love, 

Mrs. Bennett

Unhappy Birthday to me.....

It would be awfully cool to have a birthday cake like the one above.  But, I'll settle with whatever I get and be happy with it.  

Yep, it's my birthday.  I am 33 years old today.  Usually I get pretty excited about having a birthday, but this year, I just don't care.  I have even asked that nobody buys me a gift.  I am just having dinner with my family tonight and my husband.  My husband made homemade beef egg rolls, and I am making crab rangoon, and fried rice for the dinner.  I just want a quiet evening with my family for my Birthday this year.  

Anyway..... Unhappy Birthday to me....  Ba Humbug.....

Mrs. Bennett

Christmas Lights

Had a pretty decent night.  My oldest son had a performance tonight with his high school Chamber Singers group.  It's a very talented group of kids, about 20 of them that sing very difficult songs but do so well.  They performed at the cities performance hall.

Then after that, we went over to Donald Drive to see this house that is synced with music to their lights in the yard and on the house.  It's amazing.  The link is in this post, but if you can't find it, here it is again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmzikmUXLgQ

It's so cool how they did this.  I mean they really had to put a lot of thought into it and effort.  I know this is something I wouldn't be able to do.  Our lights and decorations are plentiful in our apartment, but kinda cheesy. However, I LOVE em!!  

Christmas is definitely my favorite holiday of them all. I love buying gifts that my family will love, sending out the Christmas cards to let the rest of the family and our friends know we are thinking of them too.  Putting the tree up and decorating it, and of course, the lights outside and in.  Making paper snowflakes, and 3D snowmen and trees out of paper also.  Going to the kids' Christmas School Concerts, and watching classic holiday shows.  Like, Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, The Grinch Stole Christmas, Scrooged, A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas....etc...

This year will be my husband and I's first Christmas as a married couple.  And his first Christmas actually spending it with my family.  He's always been too nervous to come with me to my family Christmas.  I am so looking forward to it this year!!!  

So Have yourself, a Merry Little Christmas now........

Mrs. Bennett

TV Marathon Shows

All evening I have been watching "Ghost Hunters" on the SyFy Channel.  I love this show, and it doesn't seem like anything else interesting is even on.  I keep wondering if another show is going to come on or not, but not so far.  I do love it when marathons of my favorite TV shows are on.  However, it sure makes me feel lazy.  


Fortunately, I will be starting a new job on Saturday morning, which will be training for a the graveyard (11pm to 7am) shift.  So I won't be watching much TV when I start working.  It's a nice relief to be able to work again, even though I'm still waiting on my workman's comp. claim money.  It's been 6 months since I've had a job with an employer other than myself.  And my company didn't get much business this summer and fall with all the other photographers here in town.  


My husband is starting a new job on Friday (my birthday), and his will be mostly evenings, so we won't be seeing a lot of each other.  Which for now, could be a good thing, considering lately, we've been around each other 24 hours a day.  We need a break to be able to really appreciate seeing and being around each other.  At least our income will finally be good, we won't have to struggle anymore.  And I keep praying he quits smoking, so we can save money so that we can buy a new living room group sometime soon and a car that runs without issues.  


We have this crazy expensive wish list for Christmas, knowing we aren't going to get any of it, but it's fun to dream right?  We only have 2 non matching love seats to sit on, and they are so uncomfortable, it would be so amazing to have a matching couch and love seat that hasn't been used.   Also, we are so bored when we are home, we could really use a Nintendo Wii with extra controllers and some of the exercise games and like the dancing ones and/or singing ones.  And a digital camera, that takes nice pictures.  Mine broke recently, and I love taking pictures of our everyday life to capture memories to look at years later.  What's crazy is that the LEAST expensive item is $200.  So my goal, rather OUR goal, is to work hard and many hours, and make plenty of money, so that we can save and buy the things we need and want.  I am looking forward to financial freedom.  I just hope my husband will be able to keep his job longer than a few months.  I have faith he will though, as he wants the same things I do. 


Well, it's off to bed for me.  Feels good to have a journal of sorts to just get out what's on my mind.  


God Bless.....


Mrs. Bennett

First things first.....

I've decided to start a personal blog.  Maybe to vent, or let out frustrations, just brag, or be random.  I do have a business blog, but it's been awfully slow lately, so I haven't updated it.  http://cmphotographyks.blogger.com

Just so you (the reader) know a little about me.  I am married to the LOVE of my life (as most people are I'm sure ;p).  I am 33 years old, and I have given birth to 3 children.  A boy who is 16 years old and extremely talented singer and musician,  a girl who is 13 and lives with her adoptive family on a farm only 30 miles from my house, and a boy who is 10 years old and is very lively and entertaining, he has the biggest heart I've ever seen in a person too :).

We have 4 birdies, all parakeets (budgies).  Three boys, and one girl.  Apollo, Toby, Spaz, and Gretchen.  Toby and Spaz are a rarity; they are twins!!!  They are all so fun and they all have such unique personalities.  They are seriously spoiled though, as they have their own room to fly around in, with toys and perches in the corners.  But they still tend to spend most of their time in their mansion of a cage. 

I live in a medium size town in Northwest Kansas, with my husband, and work as a professional photographer (but that's so slow right now with all the other photographers in the area, competition is tough).  I am working on becoming a licensed insurance agent through Aflac at the moment. 

I have recently started enjoying decorating desserts.  I'm not very good at it, but I enjoy trying.  Also, I love decorating other people's homes, but don't want to do it for a living, or else it will take all the fun out of it. I also am crazy about entering new contests all the time and have found a GREAT website that has every contest you can think of on it.  http://contestgirl.com  I haven't won anything yet, but I'm still hoping. 

I'm not quite sure what else to write at this moment, but I'm hoping to update at the LEAST, weekly.  Hoping more than that, but with my busy life, that may be all it gets.  I highly doubt I'll get any readers, but please feel free to leave comments, I won't mind as long as it's nothing derogatory or rude.  I expect nothing but adult behavior on this page (by adult, I mean MATURE). 

Thanks for stopping by....

Mrs. Bennett