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!

Have a Very Merry Christmas

The kids were very excited when I told them Grandma and Grandpa C. along with Uncle Cameron were going to be sleeping at our house on Christmas Eve. Justin kept asking when they were going to get there, I finally I told him that maybe they were taking so long because Grandma got ran over by a reindeer. He insisted on calling to find out if everything was okay and when grandma didn't answer her phone, it brought even more concern, until shortly after they showed up.
Christmas morning was great! Santa left a trace with more then just presents, I'm thinkin' I'm going to need to leave a mat for him to wipe his feet on next year because this is the 3rd year in a row he has left a big mess... Justin had been telling me all week that he was going to wake up in the night time to open the presents, so when 7:00 a.m. arrived and Allie woke up and the boys still sound asleep I thought I better wake them up or it wasn't going to be dark much longer. I tried to wake Justin up with out him seeing me, but by the 4th or 5th time of tickling his face and running back to jump in to my bed, I wasn't fast enough and he caught me. Oh well! We all were spoiled for sure. Allie got a BIG unicorn stuffed animal from Santa and some My Little Pony's for her Brothers and a few touch and feel books from mom and dad. Logan got the Batman Lego set he asked for from Santa, a robot for his brother and sister and this Geo Air set from mom and dad along with a few other things. Santa gave Justin the Batcave Lego set he asked for along with a robot from Logan and Allie and a RC Car from mom and dad and like Logan a few other things. I myself got a new kitchen table and a watch and sweater from the kids. The kids gave Derrick a toolbox and Santa left a 46" TV for him along with and Blu-ray dvd player. As if that wasn't enough Santa left a Wii for the family with the Lego Indiana Jones game... SPOILED ROTTEN!
We spent the afternoon putting together lego sets and when we got tired of legos we played the Wii. Back and forth, back and forth, all day! We were suppose to head to Heber that afternoon, but when the weather didn't cooperate, Derricks parent called and told us not to come. So we went to my parent to visit that evening. All in all it was a GREAT christmas!

Christmas Eve Jammies

I thought these pj's were super cute and found them and Downeast outfitters for $2 bucks. I couldn't resist the little butt flaps. I was sold!

My VERY Own

Allie was so excited when I finally gave her, her very own chocolate chip cookie to eat. I didn't have time to sit and give her little pieces her and there, so I just let her go to town with it. As you can see, SHE LOVED IT! It was just a couple of days later when daddy decided she was big enough to have her very own oreo as well and once again SHE LOVED IT!
But then we had to take a picture of her all cleaned off after the oreo mess... What a cheezer!