Halloween

Kilynn requested this Cinderella pumpkin, but wasn't too excited about it in the end.
I don't think Cinderella is supposed to be scary.

Downtown trick-or-treating

Marjorie was out for all the excitement and while walking home, Kilynn dropped out as well. We carried Kilynn to bed and she almost missed all the excitement that night of trick or treating around the neighborhood and handing out candy to kids at our door!

Marjorie got to experience eating candy for the first time Halloween night. At least I think it was the first time. Joseph does like to sneak things he shouldn't to the girls from time to time.

After this video was taken, Marjorie kept getting more and more assertive in asking for candy. She was constantly screaming at Kilynn if the sucker wasn't in her mouth!

Yesterday Kilynn picked out some milk duds from her Halloween candy. A while later I noticed that Marjorie had chocolate dribbling down her chin and on the carpet all around her. So she is learning all about the wonders of candy now. At least I know Kilynn is good at sharing!

Vacation part 3

On our last day at my parent's place, I was able to squeeze some more life out of my camera! Maybe I'm biased, but I really believe I grew up in the most beautiful place in the world! Based upon the pictures I took, here is a small tour of a part of this magical place.

This rock wall is just outside the back door. Mom and Dad created just this year.

 

If you continue up the rock steps into the backyard and look straight ahead, you see this beautiful view that is also the view through the big picture window in the living room.

Now looking slightly to the left-

Many many memories were made under that clump of trees near the edge of the field. One tree was blown over in a big storm years back but continues to live. The horizontal trunk was my imaginary ship and the vertical limbs served as mast and sails. The tree that is still standing holds a tree house made from a calf shelter. It is pretty high up and was always a little scary to get in and out of. There is also an old tilting shed underneath the trees that was sometimes fun to play in if a cow or wasp's nest wasn't occupying it.

And the view looking all the way to the left.

Those are rows of raspberry bushes you see. There are four rows that used to stretch all the way to the barn. Now the the rows are shorter but a bigger patch has been added across the road in the front of the house. Below these raspberries is an orchard with several of every fruit tree. There are also blueberry and strawberry patches and the vegetable garden.

 Still standing in the middle of the backyard and looking to the right. I should have taken a better picture, but there is a cherry orchard over there. This ends my little tour:)

 Mom and Dad

I love these next three pictures. Mom and Dad didn't know I was taking pictures. They both love thinking about, working in, and admiring their garden together.





 I also love how Dad is carrying some toys around. He can't go anywhere without his toys:)



 Uh-Oh, they just realized  I was taking pictures of them!



 

 

Dad with Kilynn and Kiley



 Mom went through her fabric cupboards while I was there and found this material so we could make these dresses while I was there!

Vacation part 2

Over the course of my three week vacation, I got to see all Joseph's siblings (minus a brother-in-law) and all their kids, as well as all of my siblings and their kids. This is no small feat. Counting parents too, I think that is 23 on Joseph's side, and 51 on my side. Joseph's side was easy because they were all at the reunion. All but two of my siblings live in surrounding areas of my parents so they were fairly easy too. My oldest brother Nathan, however, lives in Seattle, WA and my sister Amy lives in Rexburg, ID. I actually technically didn't get to see Nathan and his family while on my vacation, but they showed up at my house the day after I got home so I'm counting them. Amy called at the beginning of my two week stay at my parents and convinced us to go down for a visit and to see my niece perform in a community play. We spent five days there and I'm so glad I got to go! Mom, Amy and I went shopping, I got to go to the play "Hello Dolly," Kilynn and I got canoe rides from Kami and Caden, Kilynn had so much fun with her cousins, and there was always a lot of laughing going on. I was also excited that I finally got to see the new house they built. It is beautiful!

Adorable Madeline all dolled up for her part in "Hello Dolly." She did a great job! I have to say how amazed I was with how awesome her hair is! She has naturally curly hair and all Amy had to do to get these ringlets was wrap the hair around her finger and then pull her finger out in a downward motion. The hair then would stay perfectly like this all day long!  I Love it!

Kilynn and Abram.

Cooling off in the evening.

 Eventually, I couldn't resist cooling off all the way. 

When Amy posted this photo, she captioned it, "You might be a redneck if..."

Vacation part 1

We traveled to Eastern Oregon beginning of July. It was a great vacation- especially for me because it lasted for almost the entire month! Joseph was there with us for a week in LaGrande, returned home to work for a week, and then go on a scout camp the following week. I stayed behind and spent two weeks with my family. It was great!
One Sunday afternoon some of us hiked up on the hill behind Joseph's parent's house. I took a ton on pictures this hike and don't have very many pictures of the rest of the vacation because my camera was being weird and eventually pretty much quit on me altogether.

Happy 4th of July!

 

We headed up to Catherine Creek on the fourth to start our thee day Hendrickson family reunion camp out.

The Waite family all got to camp together in a nice big meadow. There were little games of football in our meadow, lots of games of Pinochle going on at the lodge, lots of good food, and lots of playing in the river. For me there was lots of following Kilynn as she trip trapped over the really cool bridge again and again, lots of holding Marjorie and watching Kilynn play in the volleyball sandpit dumping sand on her head.
I got pictures of our first afternoon there and then got too fed up with my camera to bother with it further.

Sisters

 More pictures that have slipped through the cracks. Hope I'm not boring you, but it sure feels good to start getting my pictures organized again.

I feel so blessed that Marjorie has been such a good baby because this sister relationship has certainly been quite the challenge. Kilynn just gets so hyper around Marjorie and gets out of hand. Sometimes her abuse happens toward her because she's too excited (which is most often the case), sometimes because she is giving too much love, sometimes because she's jealous (which I actually believe is not usually the case), and sometimes because she wants to satisfy her curiosity and use Marjorie as a scientific experiment. I keep hoping she will grow out of this. We've tried so many different things. It has gotten better... a little, but I think it's just because Marjorie is a little more sturdy now than she was as a newborn. I'm hoping the older Marjorie gets (such as when she starts walking and talking), the more Kilynn will regard her as an actual human being instead of a rag doll. *sigh*

 

Enjoy pictures of my sweet beautiful daughters!

2/8/12

I happened to have this outfit in newborn size and 24 month. Both hand me downs!



3/17/12


5/29/12



4/26/12
 





Marjorie at 4 months 

Kilynn almost 6 months old



I put Marjorie in this outfit, set her on this blanket and noticed that it looked oddly familiar. They are 2 months apart in these pictures.



6/21/12

6/21/12