Halloween costumes

Caden and Halle got to wear their Halloween costumes for the Hendrickson family party. We took some pictures at my parents house before we went. I had this cute monkey costume for Caden to wear, but he would not put it on. Two year olds are so stubborn! We decided to let him be an American Idol contestant because that's what he pretends to be all day anyways. Halle loved her bear costume!





Don't you love the mohawk?! He got his "golden ticket to Hollywood!"

He wouldn't let us put the sign on the front of his shirt so we had to trick him and put it on the back. He didn't even know it was there.

Halle is a very cute teddy bear!


FYI-If you haven't checked Mike and Keri's blog yet there is a funny video of Caden and Kylee playing the Wii. I could not stop laughing!

Family Update

I was going to post pictures from our Moab trip last week, but I forgot our camera at my parents house. I'll let you know what's going on in our family instead. (sorry there's no pictures)

Caden is almost 2 1/2 years old. He is always on the go and he won't stop talking, especially at church. He hasn't learned the reverent thing yet. He loves to sing. His biggest goal is to make it to American Idol. He loves to pretend he's on it. I have to introduce him and he'll come running down the hall. I can't believe how many songs he knows. I swear he learns a new one everyday. His favorite TV show right now is Caillou. He asks just like him, which can get annoying. We have checked out all of the Caillou videos from the library so hopefully they order some more because I have all of them memorized. He is such a fun kid and I can't believe how big he is getting!

Halle is 11 months old. She has finally figured out the crawling thing and she is making up for lost time. It was kindof nice when she wasn't mobile. I didn't have to childproof my house for Caden, but I will definitely have to do it for Halle. She is learning so many new words and it is so cute to hear her talk. Her favorite thing to do right do is throw things and say "Aah Oh." She is following in her brother's footsteps with Elmo. Everytime she hears him she gets very excited. She likes to steal all of Caden's Elmo toys. That doesn't make Caden very happy because he can't share anything. Halle loves Caden even when he is mean to her. She gets really excited when he walks into the room.

Lucas and I are pretty boring. He is still working for Tax Commission. He gets to go to exciting places like Price! I stay at home with the kids. If anybody knows of any jobs you can do at home with two kids let me know. Hopefully I will get my camera back so I can post some pictures. It always makes the posts more interesting!

Chicken Pot Pie

I've always wanted to make chicken pot pie, but I've always been too scared to try. Don't ask me why because it's really easy. I decided to make it the other day and I was so excited with how it turned out that I had to take some pictures. Lucas thought I was a little weird. Here's the pictures of my big accomplishment...

Viva Las Vegas!

Lucas had to go to Las Vegas for work so we all decided to go. I know it isn't the best place to bring two young children, but we thought it would be a cheap family vacation. I didn't do a slide show so you can look at as many pictures as you want.

We spent a lot of time in the car. I was worried that we were going to have multiple melt downs, but it really wasn't that bad. Luckily Lucas' brother let us use his portable DVD player. It was a lifesaver!



We stayed at the Tuscany hotel for part of it and then we stayed at a condo for the last night. They were both really nice. I was really worried about the first hotel because it was so cheap, but I was pleasantly surprised.

A lot of the pictures we took are of Caden and Halle in their strollers. It was too much of a pain to take them out and when we did take them out, they didn't wan to get back in.

This is Caden at M&M World


They slept a lot....


This is us in front of the Paris Hotel. (fyi..The Paris Hotel buffet is very delicious!)


This is me and the kids on the bridge that goes over the strip




Caden is very cute!


And so is Halle!



This is Caden waiting for the show to start at Circus Circus



This is Halle and Lucas waiting for the show. The show was so good that we stayed and watched the next one too!


This is Lucas and the kids by his favorite Paris landmark, The Arc de Triumph (I don't know how to spell it, sorry Lucas)



This is Halle at the aqarium at the Silverton Hotel. We found out everything you can do for free in vegas and that's what we did.

The kids at the aquarium.


Lucas at the Venetian Hotel

We ate at my favorite place... In and Out Burger









We ate at a lot of buffets too (stay away from the Sahara Buffet)







This is Halle by the fish at the Flamingo Hotel



We had a lot of fun and we can't wait until we make it all the way to Disneyland!!!

Our new floor!

I forgot to post pictures of our new floors. We took out the carpet in the great room, hall, and living room and put down wood floors. It turned out really good! We are very grateful to Adam for helping us. There is no way we could have done it by ourselves.

Here is the before picture...


Here is the during picture....

Here is the living room after...



Here is the great room after....

Halle is 10 months old!

Here's Halle with some really cute bed head when she woke up.

Here's Halle with the bear. She turned 10 months old a couple of days ago.



Here's some cute pictures with Caden and Halle. Halle hasn't learned to crawl the conventional way, but she is really good at scooting on her bum everywhere. Her favorite word to say right now is "hi". She says it constantly.

Kids are crazy!

For Labor Day weekend we went with Lucas' family to Wolf Creek. We had one good day of boating until the weather turned horrible and very cold. It was still fun hanging out inside and playing games. Of course we brought the camera, but we forgot to take pictures. I've been wanting to post some other crazy pictures of Caden and Halle so I will do that instead.

The other day I heard screaming and laughing in my bedroom so I went in there to check it out and this is what I found...



Who knew it was so much fun to lay underneath the bed?! They find joy in the weirdest things!

Caden was playing in his sandbox (dirt box) the other day and I heard him start crying. I went to see what was wrong and he had some how dumped a pile of dirt on his head.


Don't ask me how he did that, but he was very upset.