Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Bentley Family Christmas Tree

Yes, I know it is a little early to be putting up the Christmas Tree, but since we are going to be so busy over the next two weeks, we decided to go ahead and decorate the tree. Brook soon brought up a good point...we had thrown out our Christmas tree last year! It had seen better days anyway. So, last Friday we set out to find the new perfect tree, as Kerri called it, "The Bentley Family Christmas Tree" (we are huge fans of the movie Christmas Vacation). After searching and searching, we found a 9 foot Rockport pine. Although we did not drive for hours, hear the angels sing when we found it or have to pull it out of the ground like they did on the movie, it was still the perfect tree, pre-lit and found at Garden Ridge! We started by "plucking" (not fluffing) the tree's branches. Kerri had a hard time with the definition of plucking.



Braeden was fascinated with the tree! As you can see in the photo, she would look up as far as she could see with such wonder in her eyes!






Later, after we started putting the ornaments on, she started looking and touching them. Rocky, of course, was right by her side.






Finally, after 3 hours on Monday, and a few minutes on Tuesday, our Bentley Family Christmas Tree was done.


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Kerri

Kerri
Kerri is now 10 years old and doing all the cool things a "tween" likes to do. She enjoys seeing, e-mailing, calling, and spending the night with her friends. Most of the time, you'll find her head buried in her Nintendo DS. She makes good grades at school and LOVES science. When she grows up, she would like to be a Vet. She likes helping take care of her sisters too.

Brook

Brook
Brook is 7 years old going on 30. She is so full of life and most days there is an immense amount of drama. She loves to play teacher, write, eat, play with polly pockets, barbies, and dinosaurs, play peek a boo with Braeden, and play anything with Kerri. She makes straight A's at school, but still doesn't like to go. She wants to be a Vet when she grows up. Her favorite place in the whole wide world is Disney World.

Braeden

Braeden
Braeden is growing up so fast! She is now 9 months old. She is now scooting on her bottom and rolling everywhere! She can almost crawl and will walk everywhere if someone is holding her hands. At her recent doctor's appointment, she weighed 23 pounds and was 30 inches long. She was off the chart again for height (15 month old), weight (17 month old), and head circumference (22 month old). The doctor said she was the size of a 18 month old!