Henrikson Family

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Fire Station

May 22nd, 2009 we made a trip to the Coburg Fire Station.

The kids got to play with everything!

Gavin was really excited about getting to drive the firetruck.

The firefighters told Gavin he can come back anytime!

Guess what Gavin wants to be when he grows up...

Emi seems ready for anything!

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Fun Outside.

Hiking the trails at Armitage Park.

Gavin's Smile.

Fun at Saturday Market.

Tie Dye is a way of life in Eugene.

Not sure he should be driving....but if he says so.

Ammon Wake Surfing.

Jen Wake Surfing.

Gavin smiling.

Looks like we're going to have some fun this summer!!

It has been a very interesting couple of weeks! Ammon & I were asked to speak in church a couple of weeks ago. I get really nervous so I spent a lot of time preparing for my talk. My children object to me paying attention to something other than themselves. Obviously destruction and chaos commenced... I didn't get pictures of the episode were my kids opened a bunch of yogurt containers so that they could lick the lids. I also missed documenting the throwing of dog food at the windows and the pages torn out of a picture book.

Couldn't find their jammies...didn't think to look in the bathtub.

We've seen this before. My poor apple supply never stands a chance.

They were feeding goldfish crackers to the army of toys in their bedroom.

I honestly wish I knew how this happened. I loved this dress *sniff*.

Tore apart my bathroom looking for my wedding ring. Frazzled and frustrated I took a chance and asked Gavin where Mommy's pretty ring was. Gavin's response "It's my treasure."

Looks harmless enough right?

Didn't see that coming. Sidewalk chalk cleans up very easily.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Trip to the Zoo

Props to the random stranger that took this...it might be one of our best family pictures to date.

Bears have claws and sharp teeth, they are not to be underestimated.

This nice Bear sent Emilia into a growling frenzy. Gavin was kind enough to point out the Bear's sharp teeth and claws to every stranger that passed by. No, he did not mean his mother...

Emi & Gavin howled with all their hearts but could not get this Wolf to howl back.

Ammon feeding Gavin to a Polar Bear.

Emi running for her life from the crazed Polar Bear.

Anyone else feel that the surrounding exhibits are sometimes more entertaining than the sleepy animals?

This is a MANDRILL-not to be mistaken for a baboon, which was brought to my attention rather pointedly by a more than annoyed college student wielding a clipboard. With similar arrogance I now shove the Wikipedia reference in your faces.

The Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is a primate of the Cercopithecidae (Old-world monkeys) family, closely related to the baboons and even more closely to the Drill. Both the Mandrill and the Drill were once classified as baboons in genus Papio, but recent research has determined that they should be separated into their own genus, Mandrillus. The Mandrill is the world's largest species of monkey. The word mandrill means "man-ape" according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
(Still looks a heck of a lot like a baboon to me....)