The New Office - Completed!!!!

Okay, after about 10 attempts to upload these photos with no success, I finally got them onto blogger!  I don't know why but for some reason, it would not upload them until today.....so without further adeiu........Here is the new office all completed!  

Our new office has been selected to appear in Sullivan Schein's national magazine.  It's a quarterly magazine and each issue showcases new offices that have used their products and materials.  They liked ours so much that we got nominated and were chosen!  Someone came and took some photos and then we had to fill out a questionaire.  We don't know when it will appear, could be a year out they say but it's pretty exciting for us to be recognized as one of the premier offices that they have helped create!  We are very pleased with how it turned out.  Our open house on October 16th was a huge success and we are very excited to see the new growth our practice has already seen since opening the doors.  It's so great to be in a new office that reflects us, our taste and what we want to convey to our patients!  It was a lot of hard work and stress to get it all done but it was well worth it.  We were looking to create an atmosphere of warmth and I think we did it!  All the artwork is my Dad's photography.  It really completes the decor and I'm so glad we opted to use it.  It brings a nice feeling to the office.  

Part of Craig's office with Storm, our office manager.

Looking down one of the hallways.

One of the 8 operatories.

One of 3 waiting areas.

View of the front desk area.

Decorative element with my $6.97 spray of twigs from Wal Mart!!!  Who'd of thought!  I searched high and low for some kind of arrangement to go here and couldn't find anything but a cool vase.  Then I came upon the sticks from WalMart!  Looks expensive huh!

View of the chart room and Storms desk.

One of the waiting rooms.

Back side of the front desk where patients check out manned by Mandi, our sweet front desk girl.

View of part of the patient bathroom.

Here's the sign going up. That was the last thing to be completed.  Whew!

Brothers

Britton and Jordan were close when they were little.  They are only 19 months apart.  Jordan always had to do whatever it was that Britton did.  I had to buy two of everything or Jordan would lay down and throw a serious tantrum if he didn't get to wear the same thing as Britton right down to the shoes and socks.  It was cute that they were always the same until they got a little older, and then they didn't think it was so cute!

Then they went through about a 10 year phase where they didn't like each other as much so it's been nice as of late to see them becoming close again.  Now, they are mostly inseparable again and like doing the same things.  Jordan still likes to do whatever Brit does but now Brit is also interested in what Jordan is doing.  Jordan started wrestling a couple of years ago and so Brit decided that he wants to try it to so they just started up the HS wrestling season together. 

I never thought they'd be close again after all the years of not wanting to be in the same room as each other for the most part.  It's kinda nice to see them like this.  I hope it continues through out their lives.  I used to tell them that they needed to be nice to each other because when all is said and done, all you really have is your family. 

Britton and Jordan on the banks of the Willamette River, Portland 1997.

Happy Halloween

Cameron went as Indiana Jones this year!  When we were at Disneyworld this past summer, he loved all the Indiana Jones stuff!  He said he wanted to be IJ for Halloween so I bought him all the stuff there!  He's been saving it to wear on Halloween, only the coat only came in one size fits all!  Oh well!  What can a busy mom do?

Maddy wanted to be Dorothy again!  We took Toto along but he's gotten white over the years!

Flashback Friday (Sunday!!)

I tried to do a post on Friday but Blogger was so slow to add the photos that I gave up and went to bed.  I recently started taking my old negatives (before digital camera's) and have been having them put on disk at Costco.  It's much faster than scanning them all in one by one!  

I came across these photos of me and the boys when we were in Hawaii in the summer of 98.  I was 7 months pregnant with Cameron here and still feeling pretty good.  Craig had to do two internships while in dental school and we got to go to Hawaii each summer.  We had a blast and still love going there whenever we can.   We spent most of our time on Oahu but the last week there, we flew over to big island and spent a week there.  We went to Volcanoes National Park but couldn't get to close to the lava flows so we didn't see too much as far as the active volcano went.  We were not up to hiking 5 miles with the boys over the lava beds! 

Hangin' Loose!

Here we are on the big Island before our miserable horseback ride!  It was not a fun ride, especially since I was pregnant and it poured rain on us the entire time.   I have no recollection of the turkeys being there?? Hmmn?  Love the overalls!

Going on Sixteen Years!

Sixteen years ago Craig and I were married in the Salt Lake Temple.  This was such a wonderful day.  It is also a special day in that we had Britton sealed to us at the same time.  I had waited so long to go to the temple and to be able to be sealed to both Craig and Britton the same day was really special.  This day is always extra special to us.

Great Grandma Jolley bought a little white tuxedo for Britton to be sealed to us in.  Craig's Great Uncle Joel Jolley was the sealer and then after we had been sealed they brought Britton in. He screamed the entire time, true to form.  He was ten weeks old.  Here he is with my mom, Grandma Benson, still screaming!

Britton and me outside the SLC Temple taking photos.  I think he had finally cried himself to sleep!

We had our wedding dinner at "The Inn at Temple Square".  Here I am looking thru the window and Craig's dad snapped this photo of me.  It's one of my favorites as it reminds me of how happy I was that day!  

Enjoying a moment together during the dinner.  We then left to go to the Little America for our honeymoon and then headed down to Farmington NM for our reception there.  

I'm so glad that we found each other!  Our story of how we met is like no other.  I'll save that for another post!  Craig is like no other!  Today, I woke up to roses and a funny (okay, inappropriate card!) then we went to dinner at Jak's and he had a gift certificate for a facial and then took me down to costco to pick out a piece of jewelry.  I know, that is not terribly romantic (the costco part) but at least I picked out what I wanted.  I avoided the $158,000.00 4 ct. emerald cut and went with a simple pearl ring.  He jokingly told me that instead of a huge diamond, he bough a dental chair for me!  Ha Ha!  

Really, Craig is the real Diamond!!  

Britton Jolley Headlines in the Seattle Times HS sports!!

SPSL 4A Britton Jolley's three field goals lift Tahoma

MAPLE VALLEY --   For the third consecutive week, Tahoma (5-2, 5-2) did not score a touchdown, but it didn't matter as sophomore kicker Britton Jolley hit three field goals as Tahoma beat Kentlake for a 9-7 SPSL 4A North Division win.

Tahoma was shut out last week, and scored three points the week before.  The last time the Bears scored a TD was in Week 4 in a 48-13 win against Kent-Meridian.

Jolley hit on field goals fo 21,23, and 27 yards. His 23 yarders in the thrid quarter proved to be the game-winner.  Kentlake (3-4, 3-3) had the ball at midfield with 2 minutes left but a bad snap and a couple of sacks stopped the drive.

Benson Family Reunion 2008

Benson Family Reunion 2008

Holly, Cheryl, and DeAun, two of my sister-in-laws.

Holly with sister Suzy

Me and my Mom!

In August, we went to Island Park, Idaho for my family reunion.  This was the 3rd Benson Family Reunion.  We rented a cabin and had a great time.  We floated the Big Springs Outlet, hiked up to our family tree, celebrated Britton's 16th Birthday and my Mom's 60th Birthday.  We decided to do a family reunion this summer so that we could honor our Mom on her big day (even though it was in February!)  It's hard to get us all in one place at once so the fact that we were finally able to get a date that worked was a miracle in itself! 

Floating the Big Springs Outlet

Brinlee, McKayla, and Maddy

No family adventure is complete without our Mom.  She is the free entertainment and keeps us all laughing.  This is before she fell into the water.  

Here's Jack, the best little dog anyone could have.  He enjoyed the raft trip too!  

Grandma Benson with all 17 of her 19.  I don't know where the other 2 kids went?