Ogden's Tree House Museum

Derricks cousin had her wedding reception in Ogden this past week and Mel and I were in charge of the decorations for it. We had to set up on Wednesday and then we couldn't take down until Thursday evening. So we were left with nothing to do, but play all Wednesday evening and Thursday day.

We ended up spending Wednesday night eating dinner at Cafe Rio, swimming at the hotel

(which I didn't get any pictures of) and watching movies in our ajoining rooms.

Thursday we went to the Tree House Museam and the kids loved it!

Logan off to fight the fires

Sydney and Croydon ready to help

Justin being the Ruler, he thinks he really is...

Allie learning all about our wonderful nation.

Is this what the future hold for my Logan?

Or maybe my Justin? We shall see...
Sydney, Logan, Croydan, Justin and Allie

What do you get...

When the kids get a hold of the camera?

"Maybe next time Jesus will be home!"

The boys were so excited when I told them that we were going to the temple and they got to come with us. "Oh, finally" was Justins actually comment. Once there, Justin LOVED the baptismal font and said when he turns 12 he is only going to do baptisms at this temple because of the oxen. His face lite up when I told him that ALL the temples had oxen under the font. The next funny thing happened when Justin asked "When are we going to see Jesus' tomb?" ME: "We aren't going to see his tomb silly"! Justin: " But Kally (8 year old cousin) said we were going to get to see his grave". That Kally is always good for a laugh.... What a tease! But best of all, my heart was touched when we walked out of the Celestial Room and Logan said "Maybe next time Jesus will be home!" Apparently, when we were getting ready to go into the Celestial Room Derrick wispered to Logan to let him know if he saw Jesus. Last, but not least, when we got home I asked Justin if it was what he expected. He said "No, I thought all the walls would be made out of Diamonds and Crystals, but thats ok it was REALLY pretty still". I love the special spirit these kids are born with. I am greatful for the opportunity we had to take them to see the Lords home. They have begged many times to get to go inside, so it was wonderful to see the excitement in there eyes and comments. I hope they are always that excited to do the Lords work!

Justin's 6

Justin was so excited when we took him to Game Crazy to buy the Lego Batman Game for his birthday. We then took the kids to Cold Stone and let them create there own ice cr eam. Which ended up being Cotton Candy Ice Cream with Gumballs, YYUUUMMMMMMMMMYY (they thought so anyways)! The whole evening Justin kept saying "This is the best birthday ever, you're the best, thank you, thank you, thank you"!
We had a Hendrickson Family Party for him over New Year's, while we were at Grandma H's house and he was pretty excited once again when Grandma pulled out the Spiderman Pinata for all the kids to take a whack at.
We had his friend party scheduled for Saturday the 3rd, but when I came down with the stomach flu friday night, plans had to change and it was posponed until the following Saturday. It turned out to be alot of fun! The party started when the 'real live Indy' (aka: Uncle Cameron) showed up at the party and needed help finding a treasure, but all he had was a map with 1 clue, that led him to the forest where they had to chip away at the cyrstal skull (block of ice) to find there next clue. They then had to cross the raging river (a big piece of blue material with 2x4's propped up, going across it that they had to get over without falling off) and wrap up the birthday boy as a mummy to find the next clue. Which led them to the spider cave (Allie's room with black plastic table clothes making a hut with spider webs and spiders everywhere. I also made torchs for the kids to hold out of paper towel rolls, with yellow and orange tissue paper sticking out on end with the little batterie operated candles stuck down inside to let off some light). Once in the Cave they had to fill inside the bowl of monkey brains (a bowl of spagetti noodles) for there final clue, which led them to the grave yard to find the treasure. Indiana then had to leave the party so he gave the kids his hat, jacket bag and wipe to play with while he was gone. It was so funny to see all the kids trying to be just like him. Over all it was a HUGE success. Thanks Cameron for being such a good sport to help me out. You made the Day!