The Hendricks Family Experience

Birthday girl

There is just no way I can catch up on our blog now that I am so far behind.  We took hundreds of pictures and had a million exciting things this summer but I will save all that for a future photo album.  We did have a great summer.  It was not long enough.  We were tired and so glad to come home yet we were also very sad to leave our family.  The kids had so much fun with their cousins and grandparents.  I was also  able to catch up with some old friends that I haven’t seen in years.  It makes me homesick for family and friends out west.  Claire started rolling over and moving all over the place. There will be no holding her back. Our kids are growing up too fast. So now I am going to start over with what is up with our family today. We celebrated Kate’s 3rd birthday. It is hard to imagine where the time has gone. We try to spend every moment enjoying them, still the time seems to go quicker and quicker. We had a fun day with her.  She got a special lunch with us and special time with her brothers and sisters. Thanks to technology and my husband both grandparent’s got to join in on the festivities. Kate loved opening her gifts and finally getting to eat her teddy bear cake. When it came time to pick which part of the cake she wanted, she chose the entire head.  After biting each ear and the nose off she just laughed wickedly and hacked it to pieces.  We spent the remainder of the evening entertaining her with some of her gifts.  She is such a cutie, and we can’t imagine life without her.  Next week the kids go back to school, I am going to do school with Kate twice a week and hopefully we will be able to settle into a routine. (Ha Ha I think it gets crazy once again.) If you would like to see more picks from Kate’s birthday click here.