We celebrated Sarah’s 13th birthday and Halloween in the middle of a power outage! An early winter snow storm dumped over 10 inches of wet snow. The heavy snow blanketed the trees and weighed down the leaf-covered branches, causing all sorts of trouble. Every couple of hours during the storm, one of us would [...]
Just before school started Grandma & Grandpa Hendricks took us to Walt Disney world in Florida. We had a blast going to all the parks. We stayed in the Fort Wilderness Cabins and housekeeping even made it fun by propping the toys into different positions while we were gone. The first night we came [...]
Kate turned 5 and started kindergarten this year. I was worried that she would be too young to handle school. Boy was I wrong. She loves riding the bus and if she could she would go stay at school all day. She was so excited to celebrate her birthday at Cinderella’s dinning table in her [...]
Claire loves birthdays. Being the youngest she has had the privilege of helping the other kids blow out their candles and unwrap their gifts. Earlier in the day she found her gifts behind the couch and started unwrapping them. We had a hard time keeping them out of her reach. After a round of happy [...]
I can’t believe my baby boy is 15. He is already asking about driving. They grow up way too fast.
Happy Birthday!!! Boy time flies, I can’t believe that my baby girl is 10. I still imagine her as my little blue eyed Boo with piggy tails.
This is a little late but Mason turned 14! They are growing up so fast. I am having a hard time believing he will be in high school next year. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I still see him as my sweet 3 year old boy. (unfortunately he doesn’t smell the same). We love Mason. He will always be [...]
I am once again way behind. I have given up on catching up. Last month we did hit a milestone. We now have a 16 year old. This also means that Chris was able to get his learners permit. AHHHHHH!!! They do things a little different here as far as drivers licenses. You can’t get [...]
Stephanie is making me write this. She is also making me write that I have only one more year until I am over the hill. Yay. Now that the formalities are out of the way, we had some Halloween fun outside of making fun of my age. We only carved 8 pumpkins this year, they [...]
Sarah turned 11 (almost a teen) and had a happy birthday. She got the vest she has been asking for since last year, a hoodie, and a set of Legos, since the boys are not very sharing with theirs. She also got a watch and some games (both board and electronic) so she was thrilled. [...]
Here I am getting behind again. Having three birthdays six days apart makes it difficult for me. At least that’s my excuse. A few of Mason’s friends came over on Saturday and Chris took them to see Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D at the IMAX theater. When they came home the ran around outside playing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
