Fall November 5, 2008

Last Thursday the trees in front of our house looked like this; the very tops with just a hint of fall. Just four short days later . . .

the trees are brilliantly yellow and orange! I’ve never really observed how quickly the trees change but with these two beautiful massive trees in our front yard. Apparently other people in our neighborhood also appreciate these trees too. Yesterday I got a knock on our door while the girls were napping. It was a couple with their children asking if they could take some pictures in our front yard! Certainly if they could go to all that trouble I could throw some clothes on the girls, wash their faces, comb their hair and mosey on outside for some pictures of our own.

Of course, 4 o’clock on an empty stomach right after a nap is not the best time for pictures, but I was motivated! Another few days and the trees will be bare naked . . . and that would not be appropriate for family pics.

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I put this one of Ellie up on facebook and I struggled to come up with a suitable caption. Within seconds Leah commented with a line from “The Sound of Music”: “the hills are alive, with the sound of music”. Very appropriate.

My beautiful family!

And just to keep it real – Ellie with her finger up her nose. I challenge anyone with a two year old to get through a photo session without a photo a little nose-picking. I think I’ll frame this one.

Cool Montage September 21, 2007

Is it time to make the stylish move to a minivan??? February 8, 2007

Yesterday Zac and the kids and I made a trip to Sam’s to get some yeast, wipes and long grain rice. A trip to Sam’s is no longer so simple and quick though. Our Sam’s is being renovated so they have displaced everything. In our walk around the store we found some additional items we could not live without (ha!). A movie for Zac, two boxes of diapers that were marked down on the “as is” cart, and half a ton of napkins (we had company over last Thursday, he got the last napkin and the rest of us used washcloths). With our overflowing cart we happily payed for our goods and made our way outside. We got to our CAR and realized we had no room for all this stuff.With some creativity and not an inch of spare room we got all of our goods into our car. This is when I thought to myself “why don’t we have a minivan”. Well I suppose the reasons are obvious. It was another reminder for me to be content with what we have. It is indeed what the LORD has provided for us. He has given us no more or no less than what he wants us to have. He owns the cattle on a thousand hillsides and everything in between.

So the answer is, no it is not time for a minivan. It is time for us to be content with our little car, and everything else we have and don’t have.

My arrows January 24, 2007

Sophia, sick again December 16, 2006

After being sick for a little over three weeks, and having a week of health, our little Sophia is sick again. She is coughing, her nose is a faucet, and all she wants to do is watch ‘La-La’ (Cinderella). We are being rather diligent in washing our hands, and changing our clothing or covering them up before we handle Ellie. So far, so good.

Anywho, congratulations to Daniel and Marcia! We will see you at 2pm.

Reason to celebrate December 14, 2006

Ellie is sleeping through the night!!!!!!!! Well this post is three weeks overdue because that is when she started. She also, for the first time last night, rolled over from her belly to her back. For those of you without children this is an exciting thing. To see a once useless little creature do such simple things for the first time is exciting. It is especially exciting for us as Ellie has an arachnoid cyst on her brain and we were told this may cause her to have some physical developmental delays. So far Ellie has been more advanced than Sophia and she was born three weeks earlier!

As for Sophia, she too is doing well. She enlivens the Hensley household with much chatter, singing, and dancing. Much of her chatter has become communicable. She is speaking well over seventy words, which our pediatrician has informed us is about the vocabulary of a two year old. The other morning she rolled out of bed and said, “Pancake. Pancake, please?” Our frustrations no longer come from the department of communication, but more from that of excessive curiosity. Imagine that, a curious toddler!