This last month

My girls turned 1 and 3 yesterday!! They are both so much fun and i don't know what i would do without them. I feel so blessed to be able to stay at home with them and enjoy every new thing they do and learn. Lately Kaitlyn has been talking in full sentences and saying the cutest things. We are still trying to get her potty trained. She tells me potty like 30 times a day. Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn't. It's making me crazy!!!!!!!! Ashley has been walking for about a month now! It's so cute to see someone so little walking around. Well, as we all know she's not so little :) but at least she is on the growth chart now and her weight has actually gone down since her last appointment. Her 12 month Dr. appointment was today and the stats showed she is 24 lbs (85%), height is 95% and head is 92%. She received 6 shots today, poor thing :( Not to mention her molars are coming in and have been very painful for her. Not such a great day for her.


Bryan and I went to our first OSU Football game! They played Illinois and beat them 30 to 0! Go Bucks! It rained almost the whole entire game. But while everyone else was wet and freezing, we were warm and dry in our full body rain gear (coat and pants). he he...I wish we had taken a picture. YES i know i am wearing a blue shirt. (An absolute no no because it is our rivals color) but i just hadn't put my red jacket on yet. (luckily i didn't get yelled at or beat up) :) Football for Ohioan's is like a Religion. They even change the days you trick or treat (Nope we don't trick or treat on Halloween) because they don't want that to interfere with football if it happens to fall on the same night. CRAZINESS!! Kaitlyn is turning into such a big helper. She wants to help us do "everything". Daddy let her help mow the lawn. Kaitlyn is also such a good big sister! The other day Ashley fell asleep on the couch and Kaitlyn took her "favorite" blanket and put it over Ashley. It was the sweetest thing!

They are peaking out the window of there new little play house. My girls are starting to play so good together. Kaitlyn is aways saying, "Ashley come here".

At the Zoo with the Gorillas.

Our September Utah Trip!

Bryan finished up his Summer quarter of school on September 2nd . That morning we boarded a plane to Utah to see our family and friends for a much needed vacation. (thank you so much Sheena for taking us to the airport at 4:30 AM.) It went by so fast and we were able to do so many fun things, i don't even know where to start.

We went boating a couple times at Willard Bay. Once with Bryans family and once with mine. The second time we went with my mom, sisters Rachel and Tara, and our good friend Holly and her little boy. The day started out beautiful! We knew there was a good chance it would rain later in the day but we still wanted to go out for a while before the storm came in. It started getting a little windy so we decided to head back to the dock. The second we got there the rain started pelting down so hard it hurt. Lets just say Bry vowed to never go by himself with a boat full of girls again. We had quite the adventure :)

Grampa let Kaitlyn drive the boat

Girls night out with Mom and sisters!!!! We went to Leatherbys for dinner, mmmmmmm. Then bowling!

Check out our form! LOL!! We played around at the little arcade attached to the bowling place and won some serious tickets. Wow Rach your rich :) We bought some bling with some of our tickets.

Aren't my sisters beautiful! I miss you guys so much. I love being completely goofy and nerdy with you. Don't worry i didn't post our nerdy pics. lol

Kaitlyn, Ashley and their cousin Cash swimming at Grandmas.

It was fun to see you Tyler and Amy. your little Cash is such a little cutie!

Our cute little princesses Kaitlyn and her cousin Kylee. These two used to play together at least a couple times a week when we lived in Utah. The older they get the more fun they have together. Too bad we are so far away. I miss playing with you too Lisa. It was fun hanging out!

Cute picture! Too bad Bryans eye was still crazy looking. I was surprised how fast it healed though.

Here is another picture of the big water slide Grampa Hendriks got for the girls Birthday party. Kaitlyn had a blast playing on it before we even turned on the water.

We got together with our good friends , the Offrets, and went to the park to hang out. We love you guys! We couldn't ask for better friends.

We finally got to meet there new beautiful little addition, baby Scarlet.

Everett and Kaitlyn. Soooo cute!
My sisters and there hubbies thought it would be fun to have a date night! Since Tara is not married we set her up with our friend Kurt. We went to eat at Texas Roadhouse then went mini golfing. This is a few of us after our date at Leatherbies. I think i went to that place 3 or 4 times while we were there. I just can't get enough of there ice cream. yummmmmy!

My cousin Kyle just returned home from his mission in Australia! We went to his homecoming and lunch at his house afterwards.

My girls crawling all over the table.

It was so fun to see everyone! We can't wait to see you in December!