The Hendricksen's: September 2013

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Summer 2013

What a summer!!! It went WAY too fast and I don't feel we did as much as we should have! But we did enough.... I'm always always always sad when summer comes to an end and this one was no different. I was dreading it. I don't like my kids going back to school and I felt like we could have used at least another month. But it is what it is...
Thank goodness for pictures because I have the worst memory. If it weren't for pictures I would forget everything we ever did. That's probably why I should use this blog more. I do love going through my blog book and remembering everything.

Anyway, on with the show...

Summer started out with T-ball. Both of the boys were on the same team. This is Ty's second year of tball. I made him do a 2nd year so that I wouldn't have to go to two games. Lazy? Smart? I don't know which one I am. They absolutely loved it and the first game was hilarious. I guess we never explained to Chase which way to run the bases and that you didn't carry your mitt with you when you bat. But it made for some great laughs.

We painted the boys room and dug up the back yard...

We had ourselves a staycation in West Valley at our neighbors hotel. The kids absolutely loved it. We were supposed to go to Lagoon the next day but got rained out. We were super bummed about that. :(

Jentry got herself a rabbit. His name is Lasidopolus (Lassie for short) And he is pretty cute. He even comes up to you instead of running away...like the guinea pigs.

Put on the Young Women's Yard Sale Fundraiser. (Oh yeah, did I tell you I was called as Camp Director?)

Went swimming and to the Reservoir

Jentry got some nerd glasses

Jentry went to Trek while the rest of us went to Yuba

Did Swimming Lessons

Put on Girls camp

Played at the Splash Pad and had cousin sleep overs

Sang for the construction workers at the Payson, Utah Temple

Started Braces on Kid #2

Lost First Teeth

And ended the summer with a little bowling...

Sorry if all the pictures are messed up but Blogger isn't liking me at the moment and I'm too lazy to figure it out.

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.