Brookgreen Gardens

We went to Brookgreen Gardens last week. BrookGreen used to be a plantation but is now a beautiful, perfectly landscaped garden with a ton of statues.

Being there, we probably looked cultured and artsy. Or we would have if this hadn't happened in the first 10 minutes.

Amazing flowers:

Poppies are now one of my new favorites!

Seeing statues:

Being statues:

Lindsey and Tanner:

A labrynth (kind of):

Secret Garden:

Scary gators:

200 year old oak trees draped in Spanish  moss:

Josh's 26th Birthday!

Happy birthday to the sweetest husband of all time! We had a great time going out to dinner, watching a movie, and having cake and ice cream to celebrate this wonderful guy!

Christmas 2011

We had a really great Christmas this year. We spent it in South Carolina this year. The Rogers came down and spent it with us, too!

We kicked off the festivities by making gingerbread houses! Except the Benson tradition has kicked it up a  notch, so you can't just stick to the basic house.

Here we have:

Chris's shooting range:

Jenessa's carousel:

Riley's temple:

Hunter's Mayan pyramid:

I made monkey and giraffe cages...but the giraffe didn't turn out so well...

Josh's boat was pretty epic (it was complete with gummy bears tubing off the back):

On Christmas Eve day, we started off by going swimming. This was Thomas's first swim!

Then we had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of potato soup and sandwiches, and had the Brown family Christmas cantata. Jenessa was even able to be our pianist this year!

Christmas Day began with church:

Then we opened presents:

We then enjoyed a delicious dinner and spent the rest of the day hanging out! It was a great Christmas!