Henry Family

Wow....

2010-01-28T13:55:00.001-08:00

Where has January gone?!?!?!

Things are going great with us!!! Its so hard for me to grasp the concept that in just a few short weeks I will be the mother of a 1 year old and a 4 year old....I sure hope that at some point I can find that slow motion button for life!!

Breckin is walking, although he knows that crawling is so much faster! He thinks he is a big shot, and everytime he takes a step Aspen acts likes it was his first step so that doesn't help the little ego! HAHA. He is a ball of fire, keeps us up and running all the time!

Aspen....wow 4 years old...if I didn't know it I would swear she was turning 16!! She is doing great. Growing and maturing every day. She is has recently learned how to write more than just her own name. She now can write mom, dad, Breckin, Brian, puppy and kitty. Although her absolute favorite is hearts! She is such an absorbant learner. She has a new found love of sign language and spanish. I love that she is so eager to learn sign language. There are some great books for toddlers to learn sign language!

Brandon is still busy busy working....we are just patiently awaiting the final verdict on some testing that has to be done on the new mine site, to find out if he will be layed off.

I have started my photography courses. So far they are going great! I am really excited about all the things I am going to learn!

Christmas

2010-01-17T08:16:00.000-08:00

Well Christmas came and went...We had Brandon's mom and dad here for christmas. We had a good time. Brandon and his dad went ice fishing, and caught LOTS of fish. Aspen, Lisa and I went to Alvin and the Chipmunks, what a cute movie!

Thanksgiving!

2009-12-11T08:58:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving......

My mom, dad, brother and sister came out for thanksgiving. Unfortunatley my other brother and sister could not come but we had a great time. We had a very relaxing thanksgiving day, then on Friday we took them out to see where Brandon works and proceeded to get lost on our way back, as Brandon thought it would be a good idea to take the back roads....haha. Saturday we went to Lamoille and took some pictures.

He wanted to go outside so bad!

He had lots of fun with Aunt Randi

9 months!

2009-12-03T13:22:00.000-08:00

Where has the last 8 months gone.....my baby turned 9 months old last week. He is growing like a weed! He had his 9 month check up today, he is a BIG boy! He is 21.6 lbs-66%, 29 3/4 inches-75% and his head is 18 3/8 inches-85%. He is not as big as aspen was in comparison to percentiles but is about the exact same as far as weight and height. Not head....her's was much bigger! haha He didn't have to have any shots this time. Just a check. He does have an ear infection, but I already knew that. I have been talking to my Chiropractor about the kids, as i have heard that chiropractic care helps with ear infections. He told me to bring the kids in, as they both have ear infection problems, and Aspen snores like her Papa!! So they went in on monday morning and got adjusted. They both did really well. I am in hopes that this will help and will prevent any more infections and possibly prevent any tubes being put in! Its a much less invasive fix! And I do not like giving them antibiotics all the time! I asked Aspen monday afternoon how her back was doing and she replied...."its pretty great mom" On a brighter note, I know that its helped already as we have not had any bears sleeping in her room anymore!!

Surgery update!

2009-12-03T13:19:00.000-08:00

This friday is my 5 week mark for post surgery, I am doing good. I had my 1st post op check up this week. Dr got my pathology report back and it was confirmed that I had Adenomysis. Other than that he thinks I am doing good. I go back in 3 weeks and have another check up!

surgery.....

2009-11-05T13:57:00.001-08:00

I had my surgery on October 30. It went very well, and I am proud to say that I never had to take any percauset. I was able to manage my pain on 3 advil every 8 hours!!! Woohoo for me! haha. For those that don't know, I had a hysterectomy. The Dr removed my cervix and uterus, left my ovaries so that my body is not thrown into menopause. I have not received a pathology report back yet to confirm what the dr thinks. But I had it removed because I have adenomyosis. Adenomyosis is uterine thickening that occurs when endometrial tissue, which normally lines the uterus, moves into the outer muscular walls of the uterus. There is no treatment except for removal. So that is what we did. So we are officially done having children. Just means I get to spoil neices and nephews that much more! :) I am 6 days post surgery today and I am feeling pretty good. I can't laugh or sneeze without pain, but I am walking vertically as the dr says so that is great news! I go back on Dec 1 for another check up and then again on Dec 15 will keep you posted on them!

Halloween

2009-11-05T13:39:00.000-08:00

The trick or treaters!!
My little goblins!

He wanted the "guts"

Getting ready to carve pumpkins!

Halloween was fun! Aspen went trick or treating all around the neighborhood. My mom was here so she had lots of fun with Gramma! She had a halloween party at school on Thursday and she had so much fun. I helped this year, and it was much better than last years! She actually participated in all the games. Very interesting to see her interact with the kids in her class. She is very mature! :)

Kids fall pictures!

2009-10-09T17:19:00.000-07:00

Dallas VS Denver

2009-10-09T16:43:00.000-07:00

He goes all the way!!!!!!!!!!!

Aspen's favorite...She says "I love Tomy Romo forever"

Loads of fun!!!!!

Las Vegas!

2009-10-09T14:39:00.000-07:00

The kids and I went to Las Vegas September 23-26 for my cousin's wedding! We had so much fun considering we were all on antibiotics! Breckin and Aspen both had double ear infections and I had strep! There was so much family there, the kids were spoiled rotten! M&M World

Island Lake Hike

2009-09-20T07:18:00.000-07:00

At the top!

We hiked to Island Lake last weekend. The kids did great! We took the dogs and they were wore out before we hit 1/2 mile of the 2 miles up. Aspen played in the water when we got up there, and on our way back down it started raining on us. Unfortunatley this will probably be the last hike of the summer! :(

Preschool

2009-09-11T12:43:00.000-07:00

Aspen and Breckin before she heads to preschool

Aspen in front of the sign at Preschool

Her cool new backpack for school

Going to preschool

Her first day of preschool was sept 8. She did so great, we got there and she walked right in, hung up her backpack and walked off. Didn't even tell me good bye. Then I made her come give me a hug and tell me bye! When I got there to pick her up she was very excited to see us. She was talking to Breckin in the backseat on the way home, and said "its ok brother, I was just at school I wasn't going to be gone forever"

1st Annual Labor Day Camping trip

2009-09-11T12:17:00.000-07:00

The Flaming Gorge
Us in front of the Flaming Gorge

This is how they were the whole weekend. And when I told Cooper "Aspen can walk" his respone was "Terrisa this is what unlces do"

Uncle Brian and Cowboy Breckin

Sitting around the campfire waiting for everyone else to show up.

We met my family in Flaming Gorge, Utah over Labor Day weekend. It was BEAUTIFUL out there and we couldn't of had better weather or a better camp site. It was Breckin's first camping trip! He did great, he LOVES being outside. Aspen enjoyed spending time with her sidekick Cooper! They are two peas in a pod!

Ending the summer with a round a pictures!

2009-08-27T12:30:00.000-07:00

My BEAUTIFUL children! I took some fall pictures of them! Hope you enjoy!

Remember there are lots more pictures at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/henryfamily06

Kim's Senior pictures!

2009-08-27T12:19:00.000-07:00

My gorgeous sister! She came out here for Breckin's Baptism and so I took some senior pictures for her! They turned out great!! So hard to believe she is a senior this year! Makes me feel REAL old!

Baptism

2009-08-27T12:04:00.000-07:00

Breckin was baptized on August 23, 2009 at Faith Lutheran Church here in Elko. Kim, my sister, was his Godmother. It was a great service and he was all smiles for the church to enjoy!

6 Month check up

2009-08-27T11:42:00.000-07:00

Breckin had his 6 month check up today, on his 6 month birthday! He is very healthy and VERY happy baby. The Dr asked if he was always this happy and I said ya and he just couldn't believe it! He weighed 19 lbs which is the 77%, 27 inches in the 75% and head circumfrence was 17 1/2 inches which is 72%. He is perfectly fat all the way around!!! HAHA. He got 5 shots and screamed for all of them! Other than that he got all A+++. We have started giving him cheerios at breakfast and he really likes french fries! So we are going to start him on more solid foods! He doesn't stay full on the jarred baby food. He is really starting to army crawl VERY fast and VERY good. He gets his knees up in the crawling position and leaves his chest on the floor and moves his knees and uses his arms to pull himself around, its quite a funny scene! But it works for him and it really works too well for him!! The movements have started and I think I am really going to be in for it now!

Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins! Our new names!

2009-08-17T13:07:00.000-07:00

Well on August 9, Levi and May added a beautiful little girl to the family! Reia Elizabeth was born at 1:56 am in Okinawa Japan. That now makes us Aunt and Uncle and Aspen and Breckin now have a cousin!! She is healthy and doing great! We are so happy for them and can't wait to meet May and Reia in the spring!!

Goofy Goggles!

2009-08-14T14:48:00.001-07:00

Aspen has these goggles that go to her swim to me puppy and she for some reason thinks that they are better on her and Breckin! I got a few good laughs out of these pictures so had to share!

Surgery

2009-08-14T14:44:00.000-07:00

Well I had Laproscopy surgery done on Monday (8/10). The Dr thought I might have endometriosis so he was going to do a conservative surgery to get rid of the endometriam. Well during surgery he found no endometriosis. He found a fibroid tumor on my left ovary, but said it was not what was causing my pain. So now that I am healing up from surgery I have to keep a calendar of every pain, cramp, "female" stuff that goes on for the next 10 weeks. He is looking for any patterns that will give him more indications of what it could be. After that if he can't find anything he is going to do a partial hystorectomy. He will take everything but my ovaries, so that I will not have to be on hormone supplements and my body will still be able to produce my own hormones and I will not be thrown through menopause. I go back on Oct 15 and will have more answers then hopefully!

Randoms

2009-08-14T14:21:00.000-07:00

Brandon finally got his Guitar Hero Complete Band set for his birthday! Aspen loves the "singer" (microphone), she sings her little heart out trying to sing along with the songs!!

He is sitting so good on his own!

Up in lamoille!

Our new addition

2009-08-14T08:58:00.000-07:00

Aspen and Cloey

Breckin and Cloey

Gracie and Cloey

Meet our newest addition to the family. She is a lab husky mix. She is about 9 weeks old and is a ball of energy! She has fit in perfectly with our chaotic schedule and crazy life!

Idaho Falls

2009-08-04T09:10:00.001-07:00

We met Joe and Lisa in Idaho falls on Saturday to get Aspen. She was excited to see us, but not excited she had to go home!

Showing brother the waterfalls

Gramma, Breckin, Aspen and Papa Joe

Our little family

Three generations of Henry's boys!

Sitting in the hotel room

Aspen's week in Montana!

2009-08-04T08:24:00.000-07:00

At the Fair in Great Falls

The kitty she made for herself, and the pink poodle she made for cousin Reia

Her first fish! If you look close you can see it!

Aspen and Papa Joe out camping

Aspen and Gramma Lisa in the camper!

Wow August already...where has the summer gone! I have been really bad about updating this on a regular basis!! :) Sorry..

Aspen went to Montana the last week in July and spent a week with Gramma Lisa and Papa Joe. She had a blast as you can see! She asked me on the way home, why do I have to go home mom, I want to stay at Gramma's! And I said cause I missed you and she said well Gramma will miss me now!

Stitches

2009-07-23T09:41:00.000-07:00

Well another notch in Aspen's Henry belt!! HAHA. She was outside "jumping over my rose bushes" which are almost as tall as she is, and well needless to say white girls can't jump! She hit her chin on the edge of the sidewalk and we went in Friday night for stitches!

too cute!

2009-07-20T11:01:00.000-07:00

He has found his voice and we are all hearing about it!! HAHA

Happy 4th of July!

2009-07-06T14:42:00.000-07:00

We had a great 4th! The Basque Festival was on the 4 also so we went to the Basque Parade and met Katie and Jude down there. Aspen loved the parade, she tried to run out in the street to pet the horses! We then came back to the house and Jude and Katie came over for lunch and the pool! After 3 hours in the pool we took naps and then went to watch the fireworks. Brandon and Darren actually got home in time to watch them, this is the first year we have all been together to watch the fireworks! And it was Brandon's first time seeing the fireworks here in Elko which are considered to be the best firework show in the west!! Aspen loved them! Breckin laughed at them! All in all we had a great 4th! It was Brandon's last day with Liebherr on saturday, and today is his first day with Cortez! We are very excited about the new changes!

Breckin's 4 month

2009-06-30T13:02:00.000-07:00

What an eventful day in our house hold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breckin went in for his 4 month check up today...he got all A's. He is 16lbs 6oz (77%) and he is 25 5/8 inches long(75%). While we were in there waiting for the dr to come in, he finally rolled over! He rolled from his belly to his back about 2 weeks ago, but today he rolled back to belly! And he kept doing it over and over! He was so proud of himself! The dr said he is very healthy and is a VERY happy little man!

Aspen is doing great. She is really loving her dance class, she is still in gymnastics as well!

We went to Southfork lake last weekend and Aspen really scared me! She has NO fear of the water, we got there and she went running into the water. And would go all the way out until it reached her shoulders!! She had a blast. Breckin loved to sit and let the water splash him. He would laugh everytime the water splashed him!

Brandon starts his new job on Monday July 6. He is very excited! Thats about all the news for us!

New Job!

2009-06-29T10:19:00.000-07:00

Alot of changes have been happening around here! Brandon got a new job, he is now going to be working for Cortez Mine. He will be working at the same place he is currently working, it will just be a different company. He is very excited about getting on with them, as they have ALOT more opportunity for growth!

few randoms!

2009-06-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

Aspen is picking his toe fuzzies out!!

First time eating food! He has been on cereal for about 1 1/2 months and now he is eating food! He actually really liked the carrots and the green beans. He ate the whole jar both times!

Hanging out in sissy's chair. Aspen was really mad that I was letting him sit in it because it had pink on it and he couldn't sit in it! lol

Bouncing

2009-06-11T07:34:00.000-07:00

Here is Breckin playing in his jumparoo!! He was so funny!

Family pictures

2009-06-09T14:29:00.000-07:00

We finally got some decent family pictures!! Here they are!

More smiles!

2009-06-01T08:20:00.001-07:00

So I have to share this story cause it was really funny. We went to church yesterday and during the summer they only have one service so it was really packed in there compared to normal. During Communion, the kids and I go up and are kneeling on the alter step waiting our turn for communion. The pastor got to us and Aspen and Breckin obviously don't take communion but they get a blessing, so she gave Aspen her blessing and then I took my communion and then she went to give Breckin his blessing and he had the BIGGEST smile on his face and Aspen pipes in and tells the Pastor "He smiles cause he thinks your funny." Mean while she has a mic on and the WHOLE church hears Aspen tell her that! And the whole church just busted up in laughter. It was the funniest thing! And for some reason or another he really likes men with beards!! HAHA, everyone at church that fit that description got some of the biggest smiles ever! Needless to say, he is a VERY happy baby and is so full of smiles.

On to the next child....haha. Aspen signed up for a Creative Movement dance class during the summer. So she will have Gymnastics on Tuesdays and Dance on Thursday. I am very insterested to see how she does in dance, as she is not the most graceful little thing!

Poor Finger....

2009-05-27T07:21:00.001-07:00

Well we went out for our normal nightly walk last night and my daughters true side really came out! She is so not the most graceful thing yet and she tripped and fell and this was the result!

She ripped a good chunk of the nail off along with a few layers under the nail and skinned the tip of her finger up really good! She was so dang tough, she shed a few tears and then was done. And was really upset that we weren't still going for a walk, so we came home cleaned it up and went for our walk!!

2009-05-25T14:34:00.000-07:00

Here is a video of Breckin talking...He is much more talkative since this video

This one is of Aspen and Gracie playing in the hose!

This video was taken when Breckin was one week old. I like to watch it when I am having a bad day...seems to always make me smile!

SMILES!!

2009-05-25T14:24:00.000-07:00

So I FINALLY figured out how to get my pictures from my phone on my computer....246 pictures and 2 days later they are all on here! I have some really cute ones of Breckin smiling, so I thought I would share them! He is such a happy baby. He is always smiling and is really starting to talk alot!!

My lilac bush out in my front yard. Aspen runs out and picks one for me every morning so that I have on on the table! They smell AMAZING!!!
Eating like a big boy!

Smiles!

Smiles at 4 am!!

Pool time!

2009-05-22T12:04:00.000-07:00

Aspen finally got Jude to ride in the jeep with her!! We have been trying for 3 months!

Here are just a few pictures from outside yesterday!! We finally got warm enough to break out the pool and hose!

Hanging

2009-05-20T08:15:00.000-07:00

Brandon was hanging Breckin upside down by his feet and he loved it!! We all got to share in hearing him laugh!! It was so cute!

We went to the park and had a picnic, Aspen thought it was so cool to get to eat lunch at the park with just us!! Yesterday was her last day of 2 year old Preschool!! Now she moves on to the 3 year old this fall, she is very excited, she is telling everyone that she is on summer break from school!

Out of the mouth of a child!!!

2009-05-18T08:04:00.000-07:00

We finally caught a smile on camera!! I was making him smile while Aspen played photographer!!

On our way to Church.

We started going back to church a few weeks ago and Aspen loves it! During the greeting she goes around and shakes everyone hands, its pretty cute to see how much more social she is these days! There is a lady that always wears red (different outfits but always red!! ha ha) and for some reason Aspen just is fascinated with her, and when we get there before this lady Aspen sits and watches for her and then when she sees her she yells mom there is the red lady!! Got to love children!

At Kailees soccer game Saturday morning!!

Well we are all finally getting better around here!! Brandon and I had bad colds (sore throats, runny nose, achy body) and fortunately the kids only got the runny nose part!! It has been so nice here, we have been spent lots of time outside this weekend! This Wednesday is Aspen's last day of preschool until the fall. She has learned so much at school and loved going! She is such a smart little girl it amazes me everyday at the things that she knows! Good and bad...ha ha! We are now ready for our busy summer!! Can't wait to go camping and Aspen is so excited to go out on the four wheelers and go camping!

Mothers day

2009-05-14T17:03:00.000-07:00

Mothers Day 2009

First Blog

2009-05-14T16:56:00.001-07:00

Well I have decided that instead of sending out emails
all the time I would just make a blog and keep it updated
and let you read it when you want or have time! So I will
just keep this updated on our lives and how things are going!