The Hendricksen's: December 2011

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

My Ty Guy...

Ty celebrated his 6th birthday this last weekend. SIX!? How can that be? He is still such a little tyke and I cant believe that he is actually six. He only weighs about 35 lbs soaking wet. But he is tough!! He is VERY into building his muscles up. He thinks he works out. Even though Chase has just barely passed him up he makes sure that everyone knows he is the bigger brother.
Ty is a smarty pants and he loves loves loves learning. Its so cute to look over at him with his little "nerdy" glasses. I just love him.

For his birthday we went to Chuck E Cheese for some playing and then went to Wingers with my parents for lunch. Later that night we went to the Hendricksen Family Christmas party that Ty thinks was just for him! Thanks Emily for giving him a great birthday party. ;)
I remember the day I had Ty...he was just about to be born and I looked over at Scott and said.. "You are about to be the dad of THREE!" At that moment our lives changed forever. Our first little boy!! I was so excited (as was his dad, of course). He has grown up most of his life with his best friend. They haven't known life without each other. How nice to have a best friend for life. I have one with my sister. All of my other kids are 4 years apart and that has been nice... but theres something about having these two boys close together..

I love you Ty Guy!

Thursday, December 01, 2011

14 years ago...

I became a mom! I am so blessed to have an awesome daughter like Jentry. She seriously makes being a mom easy! She is such a great helper! She is also a great babysitter. (Which I thoroughly appreciate!!)She is doing great in school and is way beyond her reading level. (Which she always has been!) I just thought I'd write up a few things that Jentry is into this year.
1. Zebra print. She loves it. Her whole room is one big zebra. So is a lot of her outfits. If she could be a zebra, I think she would.
2. Boys. Though not one specifically. Which I am all for! Have LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of boyfriends...just stay away from having one!
3. Music. She is still in love with Taylor Swift. But she is also into all different kids of music.
4. Friends. She's one popular girl! Though, I think her cousins will always be her best friends.
5. Sleeping. She loves to go to bed early and sleep in late. Her mom will let her sleep in late...her dad wont.

Looking at that list...Shes a typical teenager. And I love that girl!

Her favorite foods are Pringles, sour patch kids, salads with lots of ranch, and shredded bbq chicken sandwiches.

She hates anything on her plate to touch. (That makes me laugh)

She hates onions, whip cream, pizza and anything she doesnt know the ingredients of (she will pick through her food to make sure she knows what everything is before she eats it.)

She makes me laugh daily. Sometimes thats a good thing...sometimes not. But she is one funny girl! I love you Jentry Anne!

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.