The Hendricks Family Experience

March 29, 2009

Best Birthday Cake Ever!!!

Filed under: Birthday — Steph @ 8:38 pm

This is my slice of birthday cake. Thank you Michelle for finding and introducing me to the best cheese cake I have ever made at home. I missed that she wasn’t here to help me make it. It was so good I had to have some for breakfast too. Then I didn’t look at the scale at the doctors office. It was worth every extra pound. That is why I try to make one only once a year, otherwise I would become very fat.

It is 32 oz. of cream cheese, 1 cup of unsalted butter, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup cornstarch, 2 cups heavy whipping cream, and 6 eggs. Whipped up and then cooked in a water bath, which insures it is cooked evenly. It comes out extremely rich and creamy.

Click here to see more pictures of my cheese cake.

March 23, 2009

Happy Birthday to me!

Filed under: Birthday — Steph @ 8:43 am


Chris thinks he will be ridiculed for buying me a washer and dryer for my birthday. I could have certainly had a new ring or something but boy am I excited. They are going to make my life so much easier. No more bending over, so many washing, and drying options, quieter and most important a much larger capacity. I was able to wash and dry twice the amount in half the time it normally takes me. Now on to my yummy water bath cheese cake!!! Yum Yum!

Claire’s baby quilts

Filed under: Kids — Steph @ 7:49 am
Claire's baby quilt Claire's patchwork baby quilt

I have finally finished Claire’s quilts!!! I normally only make one, but when I went to buy the backing for the first quilt I saw the cutest new fabrics and I just couldn’t pass them up, so I decided to make a smaller patchwork quilt as well. They both turned out really cute and I am very glad I was able to get them done before she was born. Click here if you would like to see some close ups of her quilts.

March 19, 2009

Happy 8th Birthday Alexandra!

Filed under: Birthday,Kids — Steph @ 2:50 pm

Yesterday we celebrated Alexandra’s 8th birthday. It took me most of the day to convince Kate it was not her birthday. She is catching on and Alex was nice enough to let her help open her gifts. She even sang a nice happy birthday song to Alexandra instead of to herself which is what she has been doing since the party on Saturday. Between the two of them we have the cheesiest grins I have ever seen! If you want to see more pictures from her birthday click here.

March 16, 2009

Only 7 Weeks Left!!!!

Filed under: Parents — Steph @ 8:57 am
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It is hard to believe how time flies. If I have my way it will be more like 5 weeks. It has taken me 6 kids to let Chris take a picture of me pregnant some where other then at the hospital. I regret this, especially when the other kids want to see pictures of me when I was pregnant with them. We all know you look your best while you are in labor. I was trying to get a picture of Kate feeling the baby, which usually involves her sticking her face right into my belly. She would not cooperate, which is pretty normal for her when the camera is out. We can’t wait for Claire to come! (I think everyone here is tired of me being pregnant!) March is such a busy month it should help us all pass the time.

Build-A-Bear Party!!!

Filed under: Birthday,Kids — Steph @ 7:44 am

Final shot!

Originally uploaded by Hendricks_NY

Alexandra has been going crazy for weeks waiting for her birthday party at Build-A-Bear. I think she woke up at six in the morning and started asking if it was time to go every 30 minutes. I took her to pick out an ice cream cake and balloons to pass the time. Everyone had a great time picking out their animals and marching all over the store. We then came back to the house for cupcakes and ice cream. I think everyone ate 3 or 4 cupcakes before running off to play. Later in the evening we took her out to eat at 5 Guys burger and fries. Thats one party down and one more to go. What was I thinking having 3 birthdays in March all a week apart.

March 13, 2009

Daddy-Daughter date!!

Filed under: Kids,Sightseeing — Steph @ 8:07 am

I am playing a little blog catch up before I get any further behind. Last Saturday Chris took the girls out for a date. They told me I was a girl too, so I got to tag along. He took them up to the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie. We spent a little time checking out the ice floating in the Hudson River and then they spent an hour running all over the museum checking everything out and doing most of the activities three or four times. The museum was really small and we knew it was time to go when all Allie was doing was playing hide and seek, or playing tag with a new friend she had made.  We had time to kill before dinner so Chris, Sarah, and Alexandra played a round of miniature golf, some ski ball, and air hockey. Kate’s favorite part was pulling the tickets out of the machines and stuffing them in her pockets. The girls thought that was the best time ever. He then took us all out for teppanyaki. The girls loved the susi and their dinner entertainment. Even though we were all stuffed the girls insisted on topping it off with some Cold Stone Ice Cream. We had a great date and the girls are already asking when they can do it again.

Click here to see more pictures from their date.

March 1, 2009

New Videos! This time on Vimeo… UPDATED!

Filed under: Kids — chris @ 2:44 am

Well, after a long wait, and even longer comparisons and feedback, we decided to STOP publishing videos to YouTube due to the changes they made.  These changes affect the quality of videos viewed.  We decided to go with Vimeo because the quality is better.  You can even do HD, which is good because we now have an HD camcorder.  Vimeo is free, but  you can upgrade to a better class of service, which you cannot do with YouTube.  Apparently people have been complaining about these quality issues with YouTube for the better part of a year, but YouTube isn’t quite sure why they are occurring.

Anyway, here are some of our videos.  They are a combination of piano recital videos, and Mason’s choral concert.  Both occurred in January instead of December due to New Yorkers’ fear of winter weather. Click on the photo to go to the related video album.

Kids’ Christmas piano recital Choral Concert
Mason’s 7th Grade Choral Concert		 Chris with the All-County Orchestra

And more to come soon! We’ve got video of Chris in the All-County High School Symphony Orchestra, and it is about ready to go.

UPDATED!  I ended up quickly editing the video we took of Chris at All-County Orchestra at the end of January, and published it last night, well, early this morning.  My lack of sleep is your gain! Click on the All-County Orchestra link to go to the corresponding video album.

Now we should be mostly caught up, but you never know what I’ll find going through other videotapes!

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