The half

Happy 9.5 years to my love, my heart, father to my children,my everything.

Praying for many, many more!

Love you  BGWG

Our Valentine's Day.....

Kendall's class celebrated with a pizza/cookie party.
She loved all of her treats and valentine's!

Isaac's class played outside to celebrate & exchanged their valentine's!

Smoosh for us love birds

Our 8th Valentine's day together and it only keeps getting better and better.

After our huge dinner!

Wordless Wednesday (Santa on a huey never gets old)

This past Sunday we went to Ben's annual squadron Christmas party. We have seen Santa fly in on a huey (Ben's aircraft) every year (except 1 year when he had to fly in on a cobra) for the past 6. It never gets old seeing santa hanging out the back & all the kids squealing and jumping up and down. This year was no different!

Santa about to land

A random shot of the kiddos in daddy's camo suitcase
No he was not going anywhere but brought supplies in it to cook the Marines in his shop some pancakes.

Kendall pre-Christmas party sporting her dress made my yours truly

Isaac looking for santa

Balloon princess crown

Still not trusting Santa

Kendall just going up to get her present....not wanting to sit on santa!

10,000 beads?! WOW I love it santa!

Loving his new 4-wheeled vehicles!

Friend Makin' Monday

It's friend making Monday over at Amber's http://amberfilkins.blogspot.com/ Hope you have a great Monday!
How did you spend your Valentine's Day? We woke up and greeted each other like usual lots of hugs and kisses. We exchanged our Valentine's cards then went to church. We completed our traditional Valentine's day stepping stone later in the afternoon. We basically spent our day together!

What did you get? Love

What did you do?See above :-) We also watched "Couples Retreat" yesterday evening!

Christmas 2009 Slide Show

Christmas Memories from PA 2009

The Happy Birthday baby Jesus gingerbread train

Helping Grammy and Pappy open presents
Getting ready to open gifts
4 generations

There will be more to follow I promise! I am sorry that I haven't been around much lately! Tis the season. I look forward to catching up with everyone's blogs after my in-laws visit! I hope that y'all have had a great Christmas and New Year's!

Happy early anniversary

Ben and I also opened our anniversary gifts last night even though we won't be celebrating until New Years eve. Due to the close proximity of Christmas and our anniversary, sometimes if we want to get big gifts we overlap so we stay within our budgets. This year Ben had to do that to get me my gift. I have been admiring a bracelet that a friend of mine has worn. Ben got me a bangle bracelet that has a set of naval aviator wings on it. I haven't been able to get the camera to cooperate to get a good picture of it but I will post one soon! I guess it was a tradition in WWII for aviators to give their spouses or girlfriends their wings on a bracelet before they left to go to war. (I didn't know about the history until Ben told me about the research he did on it.) Anyway, it is extremely beautiful and I can't wait to show it to you!

I didn't want Ben to be left out so I gave him his gift. A fellow bloggy friend is a phenomenal sketch artist. She will take whatever picture you want and comprise it solely of a word. In our case, Ben's sketch is made entirely of the word Beach.

My camera really doesn't do justice to her sketches!
So obviously, it is a picture of Ben then his 2 squadron patches from the last 6 years. We will be taking orders next summer so I thought it would be fun to commemorate our time there with this keepsake!
Happy early SIXTH anniversary Babe! I love you!

For more information on the artist, check out Maria at http://personalizedsketchesandsentiments.blogspot.com/ or her Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/personalizedsketches

Opening Christmas Presents Part 2

Stockings and the end!

Kendall's big present was her princess scooter and it is a hit!
Day 8

Kendall patiently waited through some 10 days of present opening to get to her princess gift! Can you tell she is thrilled that it is time to open it?!

Just goofing around!

Day #7

So excited for Christmas this year!

Day #6

Day #5

I am a bad mommy and missed a few of our present opening sessions but I think that you can get the picture from these pictures. Isaac's train set took about 30 minutes to set up on the train table and less than 5 minutes for him to demolish the tracks! Goodness.....we are super excited to get Kendall outside to try out her soccer goals and her scooter. Looking forward to catching up on everyone's blogs when we return home from Pennsylvania! We hope that you have a very Merry Christmas and a joyful new year!

Present Opening at the Beach household

Ok so just let me tell you about one of our Christmas traditions.....

Since we live far from both sides of our families, it is hard to establish our own Christmas. Soon enough we will probably end up being at our own home on Christmas day but for now we usually go to my parents in Pennsylvania. We have tons of gifts that we have to take for others so taking our own would just add to the madness of it! We started a few years ago opening 1 present an evening until we left for the holidays. It has worked for us and spreads the joy over more than one day. I wanted to share a few of the pictures of our gift opening so far!

Kendall opening a gift from Aunt Sarah, Uncle Judd, and girls on Day #4

Day #4
My little man is such a lover and NO ONE goes without an Isaac hug everyday! Here he is lovin' on Jordan.

Day #3

Day #2

Isaac was not feeling well this day due to an ear infection.

Day #2 brings more My little ponies into our lives. Kendall is thrilled!

Day #1