The Hendricksen's: April 2008

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Cedar or Bust

I decided to take the kiddos on a trip to Cedar City for the weekend since we werent able to go to Arizona this go around. Scotts grandma lives there and the girls are always begging me to go there...so I gave in. We rented a hotel this time because I didnt know how the boys would do sleeping in a new place and I didnt want to keep his grandma up with crying babies. Also I thought it would be a fun treat for the girls. Imagine my supirse when the boys both slept through the night. Missy (scotts sister) asked if she could go with us too! Of course!!! She had a few college friends (boys :-)) that she wanted to see in Cedar so it was a fun trip for her too, I hope!

We are going back for the 4th of July (hopefully) Im excited.

Grandpa Scott turned 80!!

We had a suprise party for Grandpa Scott. I dont know how I feel about suprising an 80 year old...but he didnt have a heart attack or anything so all is good. He still has a lotta spunk left in him. Now if he would only go get a hearing aid...

Happy Birthday Grandpa, I love you!

Officer Scott....the third

Well Todd graduated from the academy. He is now an offical officer for the State of Utah Corrections. WAY TO GO 'LITTLE' BROTHER!!! Now there are three Officer Scotts (mom dad todd) working at the prison. Heaven help them. ;)

Chasin Chase

He is now a walker. :( Tho he still crawls most of the time, he thinks its a great game when he does walk.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7501903806416277866&hl=en

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

"Why Mom, why?"

This is Ty's new thing to say to EVERYTHING!!! I hear this at least 100,000 times a day. And I dont even think he knows what it means.

Ill say "go pick up your toys."

"Why Mom, why? "

"Cause they are all over"

"Why mom, why?"

"Cause you made a mess with them"

"Why mom, why?"

and on and on.

Today he got the RED finger nail polish out. Why we have red finger nail polish I dont know. Im not ever going to paint my nails RED.

And painted his face with it. Along with dribbeling it on the couch and floor. I coulda beat the boy. So as Im frantically trying to get it out of the couch and floor I said,

"GO SIT ON THE STAIRS!"

He goes and sits on the stairs and I look over at him with the carpet cleaner blaring and I can see his little lips mouthing (cause I cant hear him over the cleaner) "Why mom, why?" And he does it in such a cute little innocent voice.

I know kids say "WHY" all the time but I think Ty is taking it to a new level.

I belong

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in speaking of the divinity of The Book of Mormon said: For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.” I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies. I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. I hope I have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.