Tuesday Tell All

Answer the following with only one word.
1. Where is your cell phone? Purse
2. Your significant other? Bill
3. Your hair? Gray
4. Your mother? Helpful
5. Your father? Gone
6. Your favorite thing? Family
7. Your dream last night? Ridiculous
8. Your favorite drink? Water
9. Your dream/goal? Children
10. The room you're in? Den
11. Your children? Wonderful
12. Your fear? Water
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Here
14. Where were you last night? Home
15. What you're not? Creative
16. Muffins. Lemon
17. One of your wish list items? Freedom
18. Where you grew up? Midvale
19. What you read last? Cookbook
20. What are you wearing? Pants
21. Your TV? Off
22. Your pets? Fish
23. Your computer? Broken
24. Your life? Greaat
25. Your mood? Happy
26. Missing someone? Rylee
27. Your car? Clean
28. Something you're not wearing? Shoes
29. Favorite Store? Target
30. Your summer? Relaxing
31. Like someone? Bill
32. Your favorite color? Yellow
33. Last time you laughed? Today
34. Last time you cried? Sunday

Tuesday Tell All

My friend Angeline told me about a fun blog that gives ideas for journaling. I thought that I would give it a try since I am using my blog to journal what is going on with our family. The topic this week is "What do you remember about your childhood summers?" Here it goes. I have many fond memories of the summers during my childhood. We lived by my grandma and grandpa and we loved to spend time at their house. We would play in their backyard. They had a intercom system in their home and also on their back patio. My cousins and I would put on the music and dance and sing on the patio. I loved it when my cousins would come to visit my grandma. I have two cousins that are my same age, Darrien and Ann, we loved to hang out together. I would spend time with my cousin Darrin at his home in Morgan. We would ride our bikes all over the place. Darrin was a riot because he would always make up crazy stories about people he knew and places that we went. Of course I was so gullible that I believed him. We spent a lot of time making up dances to our favorite songs. The danced to Pat Benetar, Olivia Newton-John, Fame, and many other songs. We called ourselves the shadow dancers. Darrin found some black and red material and he cut it up into strips, then we would use a wooden dowel as our microphone and we would hang the strips of material on our arms and the microphone. We had a blast and we would make our younger brothers and sisters watch our dances. They of course hated it but we loved to have an audience. Another fun game we would play with our cousins was Dracula and Becky. Darrin being the brain child of all our crazy games would be Dracula and I would be Becky, Draculas wife, I don't know where that name came from. We made poor Ann be a servant, she was a good sport. The younger brothers would be the gargoyles and had to do whatever we wanted. Can you tell that we were the oldest? If I wasn't playing with my cousins then I would play with the kids in the neighborhood. We would play The Jolly Butcher Boy, Red Light Green Light, Mother May I, and of course kick the can. I loved to sleep outside in the summer with friends. I loved to look at the stars and watch for satellites, my kids enjoy doing the same thing in the summer. I just remember how fun and carefree those days were. I would dream big and hope that someday my dreams would come true. Most of my dreams have come true. We were not able to go on many trips when I was younger but it didn't matter because we would come up with our own adventures and we had a blast.
That was fun to remember some of the things that stand out in my mind from my childhood, I just might continue on with the Tuesday Tell All tradition.

Hendricks Clan

This weekend Dennis and Sylvia come to vist from Idaho. We always love it when they come. Grandma was able to come and see Megan's play and Grandpa went to see Tanner do his karate. Grandpa has a new toy it is called a trikke. He brought them for everyone to try. The kids had a blast riding them. Bill and I were trying to get the hang of it but it just didn't come as easy for us as it did for the kids. We went to dinner with the family. It was fun to have Stacey and her kids, Carrie and Jon, Erin, Taylor and Tanner. It is great to be together with the Hendricks family.

Walk of Rememberance

We were invited to a walk of remembrance for children who had died in Utah County. It was held at Thanksgiving Pointe gardens on Saturday May 10, 2008. It was a beautiful morning and the gardens were absolutely amazing. There is an IHC program that helps grieving families who lost children and they were the ones who sponsered the walk. When we arrived we had a continental breakfast and then the names of all of the children who had passed away were read, and then there was a moment of silence. We were able to walk around the gardens to reflect on our loved ones that we lost. The kids had a blast running up and down one of the big hills. They loved the water fall. Parker said that he just needed to go home and pick up a few things then he would go back to the gardens to live. It was so nice to have time to celebrate Rylee and her life. We think about her and miss every day, but it was so nice to make our thoughts of her public. I think we will make this walk of remembrance a yearly event because it was just such a special time for us to think of our little Ry. We miss you so much baby girl!!

Treasure Isand

Megan with the cast of Treasure Island

Megan was involved with the school chorus this year. It was for the students in fourth grade and up. The new music teacher at her school used to work in California and she did plays there with her students. She moved her and started this program at Megan's school. They really did a great job. The kids worked really hard. She had a lot of fun doing this. This year she was in A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island. She was a Flint dancer, however she really wanted to be Capt. Flint. She was very sad when she looked at the casting sheet, and saw that she was a dancer, she cried and cried. She did have fun playing with her friends during practice. The friends she hangs out with in school are in this picture they call themselves the jellyfish. They have a little theme song about jellyfish, it is very cute. Megan and her friends really are quite entertaining, they make me laugh.

Megan with her friend JJ from our ward. There were girl and boy pirates. They would have the girls play some boy parts becuase there weren't enough boys.

The Buddha Boy

I have decided that Jake's new nickname is Buddha. As you can see by the picture it is a fitting name. He has the cutest tummy, it is the shape of a pear. I think it doesn't look very comfortable to sit up with his tummy the size and shape that it is, but he doesn't seem mind. He hit his due date and decided that eating isn't a bad thing. We had some friends weigh him on Sunday and their scale said that he was 11 pounds 4 oz. Way to go Jake!! We just love our little Buddha Boy.

Sorry I just got a new camera and I am learning which way to hold it when taking a video.

Are You Kidding Me?!!!