Bennett Blog is Back

I intentionally ditched the blog this summer. I really wanted to enjoy the summer and I am always conscious of the fact that some people out there spend more time trying to capture the moment than actually enjoying it. I just focused on enjoying it. However, the primary reason I blog is to remember. I want to remember the details.. the little things.. So here's the last couple months of little things..

We had a fabulous 4th of July... Addie had a major bike accident earlier in the week. She wears dresses but she's hell with a bike on a dirt road. The road rash on her face still hasn't completely healed.

We showed a few goats..

We had cousins visit out the ying yang and when they came they generally crashed on the floor even though there are 5 bedrooms in this house...

Ali Grace turned 12... She thinks she's 21 but that's another story..

We had new baby puppies born...Sarah Rose fell in love..

Speaking of falling in love... awww ... Pete and I celebrated our 14th anniversary in Athens where it all began.. I really had a great time. Here we are at the East West Bistro in downtown Athens.

We swam so much our hair smelled like chlorine and our fingertips were shriveled...

We lost a tooth or two...

School started without much drama..

Addie Belle started cheering Jr Pro at school. She's got too much of her Mama in her though and I catch her watching the game more than she's paying attention to what cheer everyone else is cheering.

We harvested a significant amount of honey and we're waiting on our jars to arrive in order to start selling a little here and there... let me know if you are interested in some local wildflower honey from Ali B's Bees! It's raw so it's great for allergies.

We ushered in college football season! Notice I'm not wearing a UGA shirt. I'm a rabid Dawg fan but I swear they lose every time I wear a UGA shirt. So it's a Hokie shirt for me. Second favorite team will have to do...

One of the dogs killed almost all of our chickens right before they began to lay.. Still so sick about it I could cry but nevertheless, Daddy's chickens across the road started laying like mad.. Check out this blue egg..

Ali Grace was invited to participate in the Duke TIP program. She will be taking the SAT at Georgia Southern in January... She also placed 3rd in the Region 4H Forestry Competition in Reidsville and helped her team from Burke County win first place!

And Addie Belle  got a new hermit crab named Bobblewitch who died within 14 hours of residing with the Bennetts. He's been replaced by TWO hermit crabs because Addie insisted he died of loneliness. 

And that's about it.. Just an ordinary couple months around here. But I'm all about ordinary. I love this everyday ordinary life. It's easy to feel blessed by an ordinary life when you have extraordinary people in it.

Onward to fall.... 

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