The Hendricksons

Monday, October 12, 2015

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Ava became a Vikings cheerleader this year and she is having so much fun! She's met tons of new friends and really enjoys going to the games and cheering. Each practice and game she gets better and better and louder and louder. We've had a few instances where she wasn't very focused and was the one on the end of the cheer line watching the birds, but we've been working with her. She really wants to win that spirit stick!

We have practice 2-3 days a week and games every Saturday on top of Gymnastics on Saturday so we are really busy these days. We like that cheer has gotten us all outdoors and into the fall football spirit!

Monday, September 28, 2015

Gymnastics & Tumbling

Ava did great at her Gymnastics Event for Tumbling

Brynn's first attempt at a handstand- I will never stop laughing at this.

Family Time with our Girls

The girls love family movie night, family game night, slumber parties in our bed, slumber parties in their rooms, Saturday morning gymnastics, Kids Bop, the library and frozen yogurt! Here are a few pictures from our summer :)

The most beautiful little Elsas I've ever seen

Gymnastics Time

Family Game Night

Fun times at the dentist

Slumber party in Brynn's room. Complete with puppy surprises and American Girl Dolls

Brynn's picks at the Library

FroYo!

Ava riding her bike

In May Ava finally got brave enough to ride her bike all by herself with no training wheels!

Ava Michele- My kind little soul

Ava has the kindest heart and is highly creative and sensitive. She cares about everybody's feelings and all of God's creatures. She even cries if Magnum kills a Lizard in the yard or when she see's a pet that needs to be adopted. When the storms were coming all Ava cared about were that the horses, cows and all of the strays were going to be okay. I'm proud of her for that. She is a beautiful human being. Sometimes at night she wants to sleep with me so Steve will let her and he'll sleep upstairs. Well, then she'll say she feels sorry for daddy that he's all alone. So she'll make Brynn sleep with me so I won't be alone and she'll go up and snuggle with her daddy.

She is my little helper around the house too. She cleans her room, the playroom and helps Brynn clean her room. She vacuums the hardwoods and she makes the beds. She likes things very nice and neat. She told me one day that I needed to organize the pantry because it was a mess and she couldn't find any of her snacks.

Helping Dad with the yard

Her latest thing is Youtube kids and she's always asking me to video her while she talks about her various toys. It's so cute! I'll post a few later.

Every morning while they eat breakfast I read them a devotional from a kids bible devotional. Last week the lesson was about being kind and what you give is what you get in return. That day Steve picked them up from school and a fight ensued in the back seat. Ava had punched Brynn and Steve got on to her and told her that she could not hit Brynn like that. Ava got really upset and said "that's not what the bible says! They bible says you get what you give and Brynn hit me so I punched her!" Steve had to hold back his smile but said "Ava I'm pretty sure the bible doesn't say to punch your sister."

She begged me to buy her this maxi dress and wanted to put it on as soon as we got in the car. Here she is modeling it proudly. She felt like such a big girl in this dress.

She is obsessed with forts! If there is a blanket in this house she will find it and make use of it.

This is her best friend at school- Ava M.

I'm so proud of this child

This is the party she had set up for Steve and me

She and Brynn made sure they dressed in their party dresses for the big event and even had the proper signage made (see behind Brynn).

All dressed up for the party

Ava and Trent are two peas in a pod. They play so well together.

Brynn Elise's personality

Brynn has the cutest personality. She is such a mommy's girl and some of the stuff that she loves makes me laugh and I often think how cute it is that she picks up on things that I don't even have to talk about. She loves doing Yoga. One night she told me I was the best mommy ever for letting her watch PiYo. She loves essential oils and every night reminds me to put thieves on the bottoms of her feet. She picks out the oils that she likes best (lavender and lemon) and helps me put it in the diffuser in her room. That was at her request. At bath time, she runs to my cabinet and pulls out the lavender or chamomile Epsom salt and sprinkles it in the tub. She also loves fruit smoothies. She begs us to get her a smoothie or make her one all of the time.

She constantly begs me to take her to the nail salon and if she finds out I've been without her, Lord help us.

When she has a stuffed up nose she comes to my room in the middle of the night, gets in my face and whispers "mommy, it's me Brynn. I need nose spray (saline mist)" In the winter when she gets stuffy she asks me to get her "midifier" and plug it in. Future wellness expert I tell you!

Tonight she was helping me load the dishwasher and she was putting the utensils in. When I put a spoon in she said "no mommy, no keep it organized!" She wanted it organized to her liking.

The other night Steve was trying to put Maleficent on in our bedroom (this is her all-time favorite movie) and he wasn't able to find it. We realized we need to watch what we say around her because when he couldn't find the movie she said "Damn, mommy's TV is a crapper"

Her favorite song right now is Cool Kids. We were listening to it in the car one day and she said "mommy I wish that I had cool clothes like the cool girls do" What??!!