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!

Happy Birthday!

While we were in Utah this month, we decided to throw the girls a little Birthday Party! Even though their Birthdays are not for another month (Oct 12th) we wanted to be able to celebrate with family!
Grampa Hendriks rented a big water slide for the kids (and Bryan, he he) to play on. It was a big hit! the kids had a blast going down the slide and playing in the water!

We made a little cake just for Ashley! As you can tell she loved it!Presents! Need i say more.... We were so glad that Grandma Wilding was able to be there. I called her earlier in the month to see if we could drive to Idaho to see her since we would only be 4 hours away and she said she would be coming to Utah to see our cousin Kyle that just returned from his mission. So she was able to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and we didn't have to drive to Idaho.

Shiner...4 days later

Although the swelling has gone down a ton, Bry is left with an eye that is every color of the rainbow.
It has been quite interesting trying to study for finals when he's barely able to open his eye. Fortunately each day he has been able to open it just a tad more.

Shiner

Bryan and I got in a fight last night and i didn't realize how strong i was......
Just kidding. Last night while Bryan was playing basketball with some guys in our ward, he got an elbow to the eye. Poor guy couldn't even see to drive home. We thought it looked bad enough that we should go get it checked out and make sure everything was ok. Our good friend Nate stayed at our house with the girls while Bry and i went to the ER. We were there from 10:30 last night to 6:30 this morning. Well, i left at 3:00 am and got a few hours of sleep while Bry sat and waited. Isn't that soooo ridiculous. It didn't even seem that busy to me. The Dr. said just by looking at it he was 95-99% sure it was fractured, but the CT scan showed that everything was ok. Once again we are sooooo lucky. Poor Bryan just crashed when he got home. He only got 3 hrs. of sleep the night before because he's been studying so hard for finals next week. Good luck honey! Don't worry, i still think you are one sexy man! :)

My little helper!

We get to visit all of our friends and family in Utah next week! We can't wait to see all of you!

Ashley looks for any opportunity to "help" me in the Kitchen! :)

Boating!

More fuzzy pictures. I wish i would've found Kaitlyns finger print on the lens earlier. :)

Our good friends Chad and Kate were nice enough to take us out on there family's boat a couple times this month. The Scioto River is only about 20 minutes away and is great for skiing. I was pregnant with Ashley last summer, so i haven't been able to wake board forever....and it showed, but we had a lot of fun! Of course Bryan didn't get any pictures of me but i got a couple of him.



Here are my kids latest injuries. Katlyn decided to just skip the two steps from our kitchen to the back yard and did a face dive onto the cement. She skinned up her forehead and her nose pretty good.

Ashley pulled on the cord to the blender that someone left hanging down (I'm not going to name names) :) and got a huge goose egg on her forehead.

This is Kaitlyn and her friend Mason at the Zoo holding hands. How cute is that!

We love the Fair!

This year we were able to go to 3 Ohio Fairs! We went to the Jefferson County, Franklin County, and the Ohio State fairs. We just can't get enough of the delicious fatty fried food, people watching and hanging out with friends. The Ohio State Fair was by far the biggest! You know it's big when you have to take a shuttle from the parking lot during Their "not so busy time". I have never seen so many food stands in my life. Bry and i will be working off our enormously large and fatty corn dogs and funnel cakes for weeks to come. :)


Thanks for Fair hoppen with us Watkins. (nice baby Hannah!) :)
Our first time at a Tractor Pull! I think i still prefer Rodeos and Demolition Derbies.

Kaitlyn had so much fun petting and feeding the animals and going on all the rides. She barely made all the height requirements. Our little girl is growing up.

Kaitlyn and Daddy going down the big yellow slide with our friends Jeremy and Dax. They loved it!

Sorry about the fuzzy and discolored pictures. After inspecting my camera to figure out what went wrong, i found a little Kaitlyn finger print on my camera lense.