Spring Time Fun

Barefoot Gym Review

As part of the pre-school program at Barefoot Montessori, Kaia and Taylor were able to take gymnastics. At the end of the year, we had a gym review showing us parents what the kids had been doing all year long. It was great fun to watch them on the balance beam and the bars!

Mother's Day Tea Party

Kaia and Taylor's preschool had a "Mother's Day Tea Party". It was so cute! The kids sang songs to us, read stories and made plates of food for each of their moms. It was one of the cutest things I have done with my girls!

Evan's First Swimming Pool Experience

Shortly after Easter, we decided to try out Evan's new swim suit and hit the waves... however, we only made it as far as Sand Hollow Aquatic Center. It's not the Kalahari or The Great Wolf Lodge, but it was still fun to watch the kids swim. Evan was a total hoot! He wasn't too sure of the water at first, but after a few minutes, he was splashing EVERYONE around him! I love his facial expressions in these pictures. I think they are priceless.

Easter weekend 2008

We had a neighborhood easter egg hunt and breakfast. It was a lot of fun and the kids where able to walk away with a lot of booty and prizes.



Kaia and Taylor with their very good friend Macee

Easter Morning was a hoot, the kids are always excited when some big bunny or a fat man in red come to visit our house!



However, I don't know if Evan really new what to think. He just loved playing in the grass!!



Brandon and the kids modeling our artistic easter eggs!
Evan modeling his new swim suit and starting to sit up unassisted!!

Henderson Update!!!!

Well, the last 6 months for the Henderson's have been QUITE eventful. This is in part why our blog hasn't been updated recently. We have had about a million and one things going on, and I have had a hard time finding some time to just sit down and update our blog.

As far as some of those events that have transpired, I have finally recovered from my little jaunt to the hospital, we have celebrated two birthdays, went to a few family reunions, been on some vacations, bought our dental office and are in the process of a total remodel...new floors, all the walls and ceiling re-textured and painted and all new decor. It has made such a difference!! It has been so much fun, but also A LOT of work.

We are also trying to build a home. We are just in the approval stage of getting a loan... so we will see what actually happens over the next several months. We are excited and life has been really good to us. Everyone is healthy and well and just plugging away at life. Kaia has started Kindergarten and Taylor is in her 2nd year of preschool. They are taking music lessons and have started a dance class too. They are both on a soccer team with Brandon and I being the coaches! They are having a lot of fun so far and we have even won our first 2 games, not that we are really keeping score, it's just for the little ones to have fun.

Not too much more to tell... I will post photos, since that is what most people like to look at anyway! Soooo, for those that have chided me to update our blog... Here you go!!!

Appendicitis Gone Wild!!

For those of you who have heard through the grapevine and those of you that haven't...here is our latest news. On Thursday April 10th, I started having some pain in my lower right abdomen. I didn't want to rush to the ER, so I waited until Friday morning to see how I felt. When I woke up and the pain was still constant, I figured there was something really wrong. So, I went about our normal routine, got everyone ready, had naps, lunch, stopped at the park to visit a friend in town and then headed out to the ER. By the time I got there it was about 4:30 pm. After some blood tests and an ultra sound, the doctors determined it was appendicitis. When I finally got into surgery, it was about 9:30 pm. It was to be a fairly short surgery, so when I woke at about 1 am and was in some immense pain, I knew that things hadn't gone as planned. The nurse was trying to comfort me and tell me that they had to open me all the way up because they had found a mass inside. The next morning I learned that they had removed about a foot of my colon, the mass, my appendix and 4 inches of my small intestine. I was told they were treating it as cancer, but thought maybe it was crohn’s disease because of the way the colon looked. Five days later we got the pathology report back and found out that it was not cancer or crohn’s, but a severe case of appendicitis. The doctor said it must of been "smoldering" for some time and the mass they found was just infection from the appendix. What happened to me was pretty rare, most people have appendicitis come on within 24-48 hours. I don't know why I was elected the lucky one to have such a rare case. Why couldn't it be the lottery or something? So, because of appendicitis that had gone wild, I now get to sport a 12-inch scar down my abdomen. I also get to say that I have had a bowel resection at the young age of 32. With pre-eclampsia last year, a bowel resection this year, I wonder what next year has in store for me?

Just Fooling Around

Brandon took the girls behind our house to play, climb and jump on the rocks. They had a ball and loved posing for the camera. Look how beautiful the view is from where we live. What a gorgeous March day!

Now and Then

I was going through photos in our computer and came across some pictures of Evan when he was born. I have already forgotten how tiny he was. It still amazes me how those little preemies can survive. They are truly little miracles! Evan is growing so much and is such a blessing in our lives. He sure has come a long way. ********************************************************************
Just sampling a biter biscut... (taken yesterday 3/13/08)


Right after he was born and taken to the NICU (taken 6/18/07)


A few days old...that is Brandon's wedding ring around all his little fingers. For those of you married, look at your husband's wedding ring and imagine a baby hand fitting in it. Reminds me how little he was. (taken 6/23/07)

A Lifetime of Romance

Brandon took me to "The Prom"


The ward had a mock prom that was pretty elaborate. They cleared out the Ford Dealership and had it decorated just like prom was back in the days... We even got our "prom photo" taken in front of a 1963 ford falcon. It was a lot of fun to see all the young couples dancing to the oldies, but even more fun to see the older couples dancing to modern music. We had a great time and it was a hoot to dress up.

Husband of the year Award‏

A friend of mine sent me an email with the Husband of the year Award, I was laughing so hard and then I realized how good I really do have it!

3rd Place goes to: Greece

2nd Place goes to: Serbia

And the winner of the husband of the year is:
Ireland
Ya gotta love the Irish,

The Irish are true romantics. Look, he's even holding her hand.


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