The Hendricksen's: November 2011

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Disneyland 2011

Well Scott's sister did it again....she talked us (ok, Scott...I need no "talking into) into going to Disneyland for Fall Break. We had a great time!!! We only were able to stay three days in the park this time...but it actually was just right. The weather was a little cool in the mornings and perfect the rest of the time! Wednesday the kids played hookie and didn't go to school. I drove them all down to Parowan where we waited for Scott and my brother in law, Greg to show up after they were done with work. And then we were off! We made it to CA around 10:30 pm. Not too late. We were up and at 'em early in the morning.

The park was decorated for Halloween. It looked awesome!

We let the kids get one thing each. Brinley got her hat she wanted with her name on the back.

The boys got to make their own light sabers

And Jentry got a Tower of Terror shirt...that I did not get a picture of. Whoops, sorry.

We did the "Trick or Treating" with Mickey Mouse. That's where they close the park down at 7 and you have to buy different tickets. You dress up and go around to different trick or treat stations and they give you LOADS ( and I do mean LOADS) of candy. It was nice because there wasn't a ton of people there so you basically walked onto the rides. Except for the Haunted House...I think EVERYONE wanted to go to that) But we went on a few rides over and over again. Didn't even have to get off of them. Just stayed on and went again. The boys konked out half way through so we went back to our hotel. But they also had dance parties with the characters and lots of things going on.

The next day was Saturday and I think every person in Utah and California went to Disneyland that day. WOWZERS! It was our Magic Morning so we got to go in earlier and get done all the rides we wanted so that afternoon we went back to the hotel and did some swimming and resting (For Scott)

It was a great vacation...but Scott wont be doing that again, anytime soon. We have Disneylanded that boy OUT!

St George

For Scott's parents anniversary they treated all of the kids to a trip to St George. (They were married in the St George Temple) We had a great time! The girls got to go down a day early and go to the Tuachaun and see The Little Mermaid. It was amazing. The girls really loved it!!! I didn't bring my camera. So all I have are iPhone pictures. Which don't turn out well in the dark. But you get the idea...

When we first got to our hotel I told the girls that it was ok to jump on the beds. They thought that was awesome. Brinley said, "Dad would NEVER have let us do this." Score for Mom!!!

When the boys finally showed up we had a fun time swimming and going out to eat.

We also had family pictures at the temple.

The next day we headed to Cedar City to celebrate Scott's grandma's 85th birthday.

We did some more family pictures and headed on our way home.

Scott's grandma had an open house that night that I hear went really well. We were sad to have missed it but the kids were beyond ready to go home and I know they wouldn't have lasted! It was a GREAT weekend getaway!

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.