William's Birthday

I love my sweet little William!! He brings so much life and joy into our home and he keeps us smiling. He reminds me a lot of Jake. We had a great day. He had requested pumpkin soup for dinner and candy pumpkins on his pumpkin flavor cake, so we decided to have a pumpkin party and played a few pumpkin games to top off the pumpkin theme.

What we love about William...

His smile, and jokes. I love when his big brown eyes light up when he is happy, and when he is happy it is almost like he can't hold it in so he shares it with everyone, giving everyone hugs and kisses. He is such a great brother to his sisters and takes such great care of them. Katie loves whenever he is around. Whenever I tell him he is my favorite little William, he tells me that I am his favorite little mommy.
I love the things he comes up with. He was once telling me about his cold pokies (goosebumps). He told me that he never gets cold because when the cold comes to his arms, the cold pokies just poke the cold away. He loves creating things. He told me once he wanted to make a craft. I told him I didn't have anything to make it with, and he said, all I need is some garbage and I can make my craft. He makes some pretty cool things out of the garbage that I have.
William loves to collect things. He always has something in his hand that he carries around all day. I finally got him a bucket to put all of his little treasures in. Here is a picture of his most recent collection. I think there is even a moldy carrot in there he won't let me throw away. It might just disappear one of these days.


He loves to play computer games, and play school. One day when we were playing school he told me that he wanted to change Brooklyn's name to Lana because Brooklyn was to hard to write and spell, and Lana was much easier.

We love our little William!!


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The perfect fall day

On Saturday we went to my Grandma's to pick apples for her. I see fresh apple sauce and apple cobbler in our future.

Then we went for a little hike up to Stewart Falls. I wasn't sure if our kids would make it all the way, but I think it helped that there was a waterfall at the end of the hike. That was great motivation for them.





The fall colors were beautiful up there. I wish that a picture could capture how beautiful it really was.

That night we had our annual Harvest party. We ate yummy soups, played games, decorated cookies and pumpkins and had a great time.

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Halloween Party

This past weekend we had our Halloween party. Lacy always has a Halloween party and she always does a great job planning it.

At the party we had a little lamb, Spiderman, witches, a clown...

... a pirate, a super dog,...

...Shrek and his lady, and a hillbilly.

We also had some yummy creepy food.

I love this picture of Hannah.

We played pin the nose on the Jack-o-lantern,

and we make gingerbread houses out of homemade graham crackers (thanks to Lacy and Ben).
Lacy's and Ben's house looked professionally haunted, Lindsay's and Adam's was cute haunted and...

mine turned out scary haunted.

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Kids pictures

We had some pictures taken recently of the kids. I think they turned out so cute. If you would like to see them all, here they are.

Katie at 2 months

Katie is getting so big. We took her to her 2 month check up last week and she is now 13 pds 1 ounce. She is in the 95% for weight and over 100% for height. She is a lot more active then my other babies have been. She rolled over for the first time at 1 1/2 months and already likes to put weight on her legs. Even at the hospital the nurses would comment on how strong she was. This is so unlike my other kids who were not even rolling until 6 months. I am hoping that she is going to be my little basketball player.

And I just had to put this picture up. Look at that tongue.


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September

Hannah' first day of 1st grade.
She loves her teacher, and she says that her favorite thing at school is lunch, especially when she gets to have school lunch on Wednesday, pizza day. She also loves jumping rope at recess with her friends and reading.

She loves jumping rope and is getting pretty good. Jake told her he would give her $10 if she could jump 200 jumps in a row. Right after that William told Jake he would give him $10 if he could jump that many. Jake tried and missed on the first jump. Then William told him that if he could jump 10 jumps he would give him $10. Jake once again missed on the first jump. Then I think William was feeling a little bad for his dad, so he told Jake, "If you can jump 1 time I will give you $10." (In Jake's defense, the rope was made for a little kid, not someone who is 6'3".)

Grandma Hendrix turned 106 this September. The Governor has a dinner every year for all those who are over 100 in the state of Utah. This year Grandma was the oldest there. She is absolutely amazing, and we all love her so much.



On Labor Day weekend we blessed Katie. Thanks to all the family who came. We had a great day and are so blessed to have a little angel fresh from heaven.



Father's and son's camp out was in September. William was so excited to be able to go camping with his dad, he talked about it the whole week before. They had a great time and I think it was good for William to have a little guy time with his dad. His favorite thing about the trip was going to "old McDonald's" to eat and seeing a moose.

While the boys went camping we had a little girls party of our own. We got a little take out from McDonald's as well, and watch a Tinkerbell movie. I love my girls.

The last weekend of September we went out to Lund for my dad's birthday and for Kaylee's blessing. It was fun to get out to Lund again, and the kids had a blast. Here is a picture of Katie with her cousin Kaylee. They are 3 weeks apart. I wonder what goes on in heaven before little babies come to earth. I think Kaylee and Katie were friends up there, and I think they got a kick out of us down here on earth thinking that Kaylee was going to be a boy, (because that is what Christiann's ultra sound said). We are sure glad that Kaylee is a girl.

Grandma Jeanne caught a horny toad for the kids to hold. They really wanted to keep it as a pet but I don't think it would have lasted very long. William wanted to give it a bath and filled up the container it was in with water. The horny toad did survive all the attention and his bath and we let him go.

Brooklyn loves having braids in her hair.

I think William is Katie's favorite. He always gets the most smiles. For a while he was the only one who could get Katie to smile.

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