A fun game to play

Click on the expectnet icon at the top and guess when the baby will arrive.

Class Mascot

After five years of teaching, I can not tell you how many times I sent Ricky the Raccon home with a student. They children were always thrilled to be going home with Ricky. He had several outfits and a journal in his backpack. The children loved to tell about Ricky and what they did over the weekend when they came back Monday morning. Now that Ricky is enjoying his retirement, I got to experince a new bear come to life through the eyes of my child.

Well, this weekend Corduroy, Dylan's class mascot came home to our house for the weekend. They were both thrilled to have him visit us. Corduroy goes home daily in their Kindergarten class, so Dylan and Ethan were thrilled that he came on Friday because he got to spend three NIGHTS with us instead of one. It was neat to be on this side of the fence and see that Corduroy was cared for every minute of the day. He went out to dinner and had ice cream with us. He played soccer in the backyard. He went to a game and cheered on Dylan and Ethan. Dylan just knew he scored a goal because of Corduroy's cheering and clapping.

KINDERGARTEN

Today was the first day of Kindergarten! Such a big step in letting them go. They are ready, academically, socially, emotionally...but am I ready to hand them off every day for six hours. Hard to believe in many ways that they are old enough to attend school. It seems like yesterday that I was giving birth and wondering if I would make it through the sleepless nights. In other ways it has felt like a long 5 years, after all I have been there for every diaper change, every time out and every cough and cold. Good luck my boys. I hope that today is a fun day, filled with
many happy memories.

Theater Camp

The boys attended a Theater Arts camp this summer. They enjoyed learning many songs to movies and musicals. Their age group performed, Little Mermaid, Enchanted, and the Good Ship Lollipop. The final culmination of camp was a performance. Dylan was sick with Strep throat, but Ethan stayed healthy and was able to perform.

you can see Dylan's picture under Ethan's right arm.

9 Fun Things to Do

9 Fun Things to do When Grandma and Papa come visit
1. Go to Disneyland

2. Watch you garden grow. Tomatoes and Zuchini

3. Go to Sea World at night

4. Catch waves with Papa

5. Go to the San Diego Fair and watch the pig races

6. Go the the beach again and watch lifeguards play volleyball

7.Playing hours of Uno

8. Padre game

9. Walle

T Ball

We are now a t ball family. We have one game and one practice every week. They make for some cute pictures!!

Dylan is number 10 and the white glove

Ethan is number 5 and the black glove

Thursday

What does a family do on Thursday? We head to Hollyywood for an audition for a big movie audition coming up.

Then we decide to stop by Disney land for a few rides before we head back home.

This time, they had tinkerbell at the front who would spread pixie dust and light up Mickey Mouse

SNOW

On Thursday, we received a lot of rain, which means one thing for the mountains SNOW. We headed up to Julian and treid to find a patch of snow to let the boys experince what cold was like. They loved it!! They built a snow man, slid down a hill and threw snowballs.

In Loving Memory

April 23, 1921- January 27, 2008

Oliver Joy Hendriks

Grandpa you have meant so much in my life. I am so happy to have the last years as memories. They mean so much.

The first time you came to meet the newest additions to our family

April 2003

Thanksgiving in San Diego 2003

Four Generations

Thanksgiving in Texas 2004

The last time we were together August 2007

Four Generations

Great Papa Joy with Dylan and Ethan

Halloween

I thought it would be fun to cover the last five Halloweens. I can hardly believe that they have had 5 costumes. They love to go trick or treating and knock on everyones door, however they do not like candy, and despise chocolate. So Halloween works out great for me, I do not have to buy candy for tick or treaters and I have a snack for the next few weeks.

2003 Bumble Bee

2004 Giraffe




2005 spiderman



2006 Luigi and Guido from the CARS movie



2006 Prince Charming



2007 Buzz Light year from Toy Story

Soccer

Fall, the time of year for fall sports. The boys play soccer. They have a practice and a game once a week. They just started but throughly love it. They run for an entire hour. It is great exercise. They games consists of 4 10 minute quarters. They do not keep score, but they sure have fun scoring. Ethan is number 4 and Dylan is number 5.

Here is Ethan in the "heat" of the game.

On Location Day 3

Okay I never finished our filming pictures. So here is Day 3. We went off site to do some filming that will occur as flashback scenes.

This scene shows Dylan on the far side in the orange shirt, Ethan is on the left in the green shirt. Dylan is to reach over and grab Ethan's juice and take a sip. The flashback scene is the mother recalling that there are no illness going around in Josh's preschool class.

Next we move to a house in Hollywood for the gardening scene. Josh (Ethan) is out in the garden with his mom and he finds worms.

Next picture is of Grandma working hard to help us. She flew out several times to be with one while I was filming with the other. On location day the boys were able to be together and grandma came with us to help.

Then we moved inside where Claire the mommy) has fixed Josh( Dylan) plate of carrotts and spinach to eat, instead he decided to pull a piece of candy out of his pocket.

The last scene for the day was back at the hospital where Josh (Ethan) is playing in his mom's office, who is a reciptionis at a DR. office.