The Newest Henderson

As if 4 kids isn't enough, we decided to throw another girl into the mix

And by "we" I mean ME. About a month ago I picked up Will from school and thought it would be fun to visit the Animal Shelter. It was just supposed to be a quick visit, until I came across her...

Ray then got a call that went something like this:

Me: Hi Ray......I am at the animal shelter right now....

Ray: Oh no, what did you find....

Me: I found the PERFECT little puppy for our family. I know she will be great. I promise to take full responsibility for her. (I basically had one breathy run on sentence for about 2 minutes straight)

Ray: She sounds great. Bring her home.

And that is just what I did. I brought her home to a place where she is being loved up!

Maybe a little more than she would like.

Summer is here!

Summer is finally here. And with Summer comes playing outside, and with playing outside comes critters!

The first day of summer last year bulldozed me over! I was in the kitchen ALL DAY fixing various snacks, sandwiches, drinks, etc! Toys were flying everywhere and I was refereeing fights every 3 seconds.

This summer I wised up a bit and started "The Henderson Family Camp".

Sounds pretty cool huh?

Ya, the kids think it is pretty cool too.

Want to know a secret?



"Henderson Family Camp" is really just a schedule!

Shhhhhh

Every day the kids wake up, have breakfast, do chores, pack a lunch, and then we hit a different park each day.

We definitely have some happy campers this summer!

Happy Hippie Day

Benny had his first "Hippie Day" on Friday. He has no idea what a "hippie" is. That is why I was able to get away with having him wear this crazy wig with a blue head band. Some how it all kind of worked.

Happy Hippie Day!

Our Gingerbread Temple

Every year on Christmas Eve we make a gingerbread house from a kit. This year while we were hanging out at Costco (one of our family's favorite past times) we saw this ENORMOUS gingerbread house that you could buy at the typical Costco price of about $100. I said to my family, "I bet we could make that ourselves at home". This then started the talk of all the different cool gingerbread houses we could make. Which then lead us to the idea of building a gingerbread temple.

As soon as that was said, I could see Ray's eyes light up with ideas.

Once we got home plans were drawn (Ray's plans are in the middle, Benny's are in red, and Hannah's is on the left),

and the model was built.

Avril was hopped up on sugar before we even started!

We found a great recipe online for gingerbread dough, then cut it out according to Ray's model.

Then we got to the fun part of decorating!

We all had our own areas to decorate.

Benny and Hannah's side




Hannah's goldfish pond

Benny's Missionaries

Aww, Ray made a gingerbread family in a garden. haha

The front was mainly decorated by Ray and I with Will and Avril squirting/eating the icing

Ok, so we we took more pictures of this thing than some of our children at birth!

Our gingerbread temple just before we ate it!

My Lovey...

A few months ago as Ray was leaving for work, instead of the normal "I love you" we say everyday he said, "Ok Sara, Lovey" in a very Thurston Howell the third sort of way. We both cracked up for a minute before he was on his way.

Then later that day I got a text from Ray ending with, "Bye, Lovey" I laughed again at how silly that was.

Over the next few days, we kept saying it with a laugh.

Then we just started saying it.

And that is how we somehow replaced "I love you" with "Lovey".

I will post later on how we ended up looking like we were on "Little House on the Prairie"