Christmas!!

Our little Christmas traditions are making the holidays a very special time for our family.

Christmas Eve we decorated cookies for Santa.

We sprinkled reindeer food on the front lawn.

Milk and cookies set out for Santa!

Christmas Morning starts with reading scriptures.

The Christmas haul.

Letter from Santa

Emi got a couple more ponies for Christmas and promptly rushed off to find her other ponies to make introductions.

Gavin and his "Claw" Light Saber.

Emilia with her princesses.

Gavin with his remote control robot.

Merry Christmas to all!!

Christmas In Zarahemla

This year our ward had a different idea for the church Christmas party.

There was a presentation acted out portraying prophets from the Book of Mormon and their prophecy's and experiences with the birth of Christ.

Nephi's Vision

And the Lord said unto me: "Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh."

"And it came to pass that I beheld that she was carried away in the spirit for the space of a time the angel spake unto me, saying: Look!"

"And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms. And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father."

1 Nephi 11: 18-21

We believe that the birth of Jesus Christ was foretold by the ancient prophets in the American continents and that the signs of his birth were seen there.

We believe that there were followers who had faith in the words of the prophets and awaited the arrival of their Savior.
We've recently been called to the activities committee and helped with the setup for the event. Ammon made one fierce warrior.

I got to make the costumes for the event and had a lot of fun with the assignment.

(Thanks to Chrissy who actually did most of the sewing!!)

Gavin loved running around as a little warrior.

The spear was a big hit amoungst his friends.

Merry Christmas

Dear Santa,

Gavin & Emilia have been especially good this year. They are kind to each other, kind to their parents and kind to their friends. This year Gavin would like a Light Saber for Christmas and Emilia would like a Care Bear.

Thank you,

The Henrikson Family

Pictures with Santa don't always go as planned and when I say I take 100 pictures for every good one you see I'm not exaggerating.

Merry Christmas!

Halloween 2009

I was prepared to let Emilia be the "bumblebee". But when she was presented with the princess dress alternative there was really NO looking back. She was ALL about being a pretty princess. Gavin decided to be the Transformer Bumblebee. Emi got the "Trick or Treat" concept down early and has since tried it out just about everywhere we've been and I would not recommend trying to seperate Emilia from her Jack-O-Lantern trick-or-treat bucket...unless you would like to lose an appendage or suffer from permanent hearing damage from high decibel shrieking. (Don't worry I took it away from her lollypop-drool-sticky fingers and I hid it after she passed out in a sugar induced coma...) I'm starting to remember why Gavin asked Santa for a Jack-O-Lantern last Christmas. We were fortunate in getting to lots of early Halloween activities: pumpkin patches, pumpkin carving, preschool, parties...because when the big day arrived the Henrikson family was out of commission. We had planned on going to the Duck game and trunk or treating but I came down with a bug on Thursday. Now if this is the infamous H1N1 swine flu we are doing exceptionally well thus far. However I have self enforced a quarantine just to be safe and thus we officially MISSED HALLOWEEN!Princess Emilia!

The Horse belongs to Woody and the sword belongs to a pirate...Boys.

Gavin's Vampire Jack-O-Lantern

Emi's Transformer Jack-O-Lantern

Dr. Seuss Halloween!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

Another Pumpkin Patch

We can't seem to get enough of going to pumpkin patches in October. Johnson's has the BEST hayride in town kind of like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. We were fortunate to be able to go together as a family and I had a lot of fun taking pictures of the kids playing around the farm.
Getting ready for the adventure!

Not sure what Preschool fashion magazine this belongs to, but if you know please drop me a line.

Gavin? What Gavin? I see no Gavin?

She was SO focused on taking the pumpkins to the cart, she would have picked up every pumpkin and marched them to the trailer. Yes this applies to cleaning up her room also and no she is not for hire.

Corn Flags!

I Love Oregon!

Meet Mr. Rooster. He thought he was in charge around here.

Mr. Rooster meet Emi.

Where are you going Mr. Rooster?

Not so tough are you?

Super Hero Training Camp.