Update

I know that is has been awhile since I have posted so to give you an update here is what has been happening. NOTHING...no just kidding.
* I finally started to potty train Hannah. I had been saying that I was going to start over the past few months, but it just seemed that things would come up and I would postpone, but finally I set a date to do it at the begining of January and stuck to it. We have been doing it now for about 2 weeks. The first week did not go as well as I hoped. My patience at the time was very little so I would get discouraged and we would start all over the next day. So we have kept at it and she is somewhat finally getting it. Today we had only one incident were she went in her pullup. That is milestone in its self. I am enjoying not have to deal with two sets of diapers though.
* This last weekend Bryan and I went up to Billings. He volunteered to pick up a company truck and bring it back so we saw it as a good opprotunity to go to the temple. The kids stayed with PaPa and Gama Jackson for friday night and pretty much all of Saturday so that we could get up early and leave by 6 to make the 10:30 temple session so that we could go through with Geralding and Shawnee. Then afterward we went and ate at Old Chicago. It was very good and I ate more than I should have. We of course did a little bit of shopping. And Bryan let me get a new church outfit so that I could feel pretty (he is the best).
*Bryan had found a new hobby making signs for other people. It has brought out his creative side and it is really neat to see the different signs and how he decides how to make them unique. He has also got a new calling in church he is assitant advisor for the young men which pretty much means they want him to help with the Duty to God.
*I have not been up to a whole lot. Last week I finally started working out on our new treadmill and love it. I love the burn and its one of my natural highs. I also read the Twilight series. I caved into the craze of it and have to say that I really enjoyed the books. I also have a new calling in church. I have been called to be a teacher in the Primary to the CTR 8. I am really excited about it.
*Hannah is crazy as ever and seems to just be go go going. She has started playing with Barbies and loves to have me switch the dresses that they are wearing over and over again. She also loves to wear dresses herself. She comes to me in the morning saying she wants to wear a pretty dress. Just for a little change I make her wear pants every now and then especially on the cold days. She also loves to play in her playroom. For Christmas she got a slide and also a kitchen. So she will be down there playing at her kitchen usually making soup.
*Hayden is still very happy. There are sometimes if you smile at him he will start fake laughing, well that is what it sounds like at least. He is really working on trying to crawl. But he does get around really well without. He scoots backward and rolls and then will turn himself around. He is getting really good at. I imagine any day now he is going to be crawling and getting into Hannah's toys. He has also got hit two bottom teeth.
So all in all we are doing great and cant complain. Hope that things are going well for everyone else. Have a great Tuesday!

Bryans Birthday

The Birthday Boy

Birthday Pie (Banana Cream)

On Jan. 11 we celebrated Bryans birthday. Of course like any of our specail occasions Bryan was on call and right before we left for church that morning at 9:30 he got a call saying that a water line broke. So needless to say the kids and I did not see him until around 7:30. For his birthday I had invited my family over for his birthday dinner. He had chosed to have Baked Potato Soup and Banana Cream Pie. I do have to say that he made some good choices. Luckily he was able to make it home to be able to be sang to and enjoy some pie before he was called out again. I just hope that this next year we will be able to celebrate some special occasions without having to worry about him being called out.

Guessing Game Answer

Just to let everyone know that the picture was of Hannah. Good guessing everyone.

Christmas

This one is heavy, how does Santa do it?

And if we just peek in here...

I heard that it is better to eat the paper first

For Christmas this year we packed up ourselves and the kids and loaded up a few presents and headed over to Lovell to spend it with the Hendershot side of the family. We all had a great time. The drive over wasnt as fun. Bryan decided that it would be best that we left Monday night instead of Tuesday morning so that we could beat the storm, but actually we ended up right in it that night. So a 3 1/2 to 4 hour trip turned into 5. One goodt hings was that the kids finally fell asleep after we got off of the mountain and slept the rest of the way. We pretty much just hung around the house except on Christmas Eve we went over to Powell and helped Sariah celebrate her 7th birthday at McDonalds that morning. Hannah had a great time climbing on the equipment. I was surprised that she sat down and ate some breakfast. For Chirstmas we had gotten the kids a Tree House Climber and since we did not want to haul it over to Lovell Bryan put it together Sunday and Hannah woke up to it Monday morning and played on it all that day. And had to drag everyone who came over down to watch her play on it. I hope that everyone else had a wonderful Christmas and that you this New Year brings you much happiness!

Guessing Game

Hayden

Hannah

Bryan was looking through some pictures and found a picture that confused him he was not sure which of his children it was. I thought it would be fun to see how many people know the Hendershot Clan children.

Who am I?

Santa and Winter Weather

This last weekend was our ward Christmas party and of course they had a special visitor, Santa. Hayden of course did fine he sat on Santa's lap no problem, but when we went to put Hannah and Kaitlyn on his lap Hannah started freaking out which of course made Kaitlyn start to freak out so needless to say we were unable to get a picture. This is of Grandma carrying them away with there gift boxes.

There are days that I love living in Wyoming and then there are days that I wake up and question why I am still here. Especially since I hate the cold. Saturday afternoon temperatures dropped and since then we have been below 0, yesterdays high...-9. I am looking forward to Wednesday when we are supposed to be back up in the 20's.

Choices

I have had time to ponder on one of the wonderful gifts our Heavenly Father gave us and that is our agency and our ability to choose for ourselves. I recently caved in to the craze of Twilight, I went and watched the movie and then read the book. In the book there is a character that can see future events and as long as the people keep making choices that take them to the future event it happens, but if a different choice is made then it changes the future all together. I think that relates to life. We were sent down here to prove ourselves and return to Heavenly Father. I am sure that before we came down we had a plan outlined with all the right choices that we were going to make. But as we became old enough to decide for ourselves we realized that it wasnt as easy to always make the right choice and sometimes ended up off course and on a different path. We then had to make a series of good choices to get back on course. It seems that it is a neverending cycle b/c there will always be a time that we make choices that are not always right and take us off course for a little bit until we are able to find the right path again. I am very thankful for all the good choices I have made and for the blessings that I have recieved from them.