REWIND!

Here's a mini-rewind for all those protesting of my lack of posting for the last while (mom)! Love you!



We had a fun little Halloween...Ella was tinkerbell of course, and Jack was a monkey which pretty much speaks for itself! ( Both costumes were a quick rendition that I put together pretty much the day of due to the fact that the whole fam had swine flu the 2 weeks previous and were pretty much dead to the world) But they turned out pretty cute and our kids had fun which is what counts!



El was super excited to be her favorite fairy and of course to go get CANDY! Which by the way I never got the memo that people go out before it gets dark! We went out at about 7:20 and seriously people were already closin' up shop! There were signs on people's doors saying they ran out of candy! I was totally shocked! I remember when I was little you waited till it was dark to go but i guess that is not the procedure these days! Nonetheless we got "some" candy way less than I expected which was dissapointing being that Chad and I wanted to raid it! But pretty much Ella was ecstatic at just getting one piece so she was on cloud 9 with about 2 handfuls!



Waving her wand saying, "Bepity-bopity-boo" -Cinderella-Peter Pan it's all the same right! It's all Disney at least :)



Daddy and Jack looking pretty tuckered out and we hadn't even left yet!



Monkey-boy and Tink crackin herself up.



She wore those wings around everywhere for about the next week and every night she would ask to be "tinkewbell again and go get candy?"



So I had sewn the Monkey stuff onto Jack's brown coat and I wasn't quite ready to cut it all off before I took some more pics of him in it.



He's a cute little monkey-boy isn't he?



Ok so it's not that amazing but I wanted to show the tail that i made that I thought turned out pretty well.



I accidently chose to upload the pictures small and it takes so darn long to upload them that i'm leaving it! Anyways we had a fun time carving a pumpkin and making Halloween cookies together!



Kissing over a pumpkin, it's the mistletoe of Halloween!







Happiest kid ever cause she got to have a Halloween cookie that she helped me make (which was a huge mess to clean up but a lot of fun as well-mostly she just wanted to eat anything she could)...if this kid could live off sugar and cheese she would!



Attacking daddy after he comes home from work (Yes he got a awesome job doing project management for Fox Webstores out of Rigby, ID- we are real happy and vlessed to have a job and that we're no longer moving across the country at this point in our lives ;-)



Jack and El havin a blast together on thier car even though they barely fit on there together.






Jack was real determined to keep walking and holding on to the car no matter how fast Ella pushed it!

BIG NEWS!

Jack is now officially walking (Just turned 10mo.)! Well he has been taking steps for quite awhile now but pretty much this week he has started to prefer walking for place to place over crawling. It's so cute watching his bowlegged little infant body totter around!

Ella is potty-trained! She has been for the past month actually and boy what a joy it is! It can get annoying at times to have to rush her to the bathroom when you're out and about but it's so much nicer not to have to change 2 sets of diapers! She loves her Tinkerbell panties (thanks mom!) and being a big girl!

I will post more pics and video of Jack walking but it is already way past my bed-time and I know i'm going to be regretting this when my kids wake up at 6 tomorrow! Hopefully this will appease those who have been complaining (haha j/k) for at least a little while! :)

Ella-isms

Ella has been saying some pretty hilarious things lately that I thought I'd share and record for posterity! :)

Ella Talking to Chad being very serious, "Dad I wanna go somewhere..." (Chad) "You wanna go somewhere, Where do ya wanna go?" "I wanna go somewhere Dad... I wanna go the distance."

(She had been watching Hercules the day before and there's that song that he sings, " I will find my way, I will go the distance..." She's obviously thinkin' if Hercules wants to go " the distance" it must be a cool place right?


Talking to me, " Hey mom come sit down and eat dis wif me and be best friends."
(melted my heart)

We were all dressed in our church clothes to go to the temple and Ella saw us and said, "I wanna go to church mom, " (me) "We're not going to church El, we're going to the temple," (Ella)"I wanna go to temple and get married mom." (She just kinda figured that one out on her own cause we hadn't really talked to much about that with her yet. It was cute)

One of her favorite phrases to say is, " I can't want that." " Or I can't like this." She says it to pretty much everything that she doesn't want or that she doesn't think she wants...It's kind of annoying because she is really stubborn about trying new things but it's funny how she says it!

When she is reprimanding Jackson she will say, " No no Jackie You-wis (Louis) don't do that!"

She made up her own word that she will just say randomly, we're not sure what it means..."Shampoobutt" Don't ask me where she came up with that one, i have no clue!
She will use it to answer most questions we ask her like for example," What do you want to eat?"
"Uh...Shampoobutt"

She calls her Gummy Vitamin her, "Gumin" and asks for it everyday.

She gets "Yey-yoes" (Marshmallows) for going potty on the toilet.

I got her some books from the library and one was about "Thomas the Train" and she asked me, "Mom, I wanna read the Thomas Monson train book!" She came up with that one on her own accord!

Lately when I put Ella to bed she has wanted me to follow a very strict routine which originally started out with just telling her a story that either Chad or I make up, then I sing her a song which she almost always requests "Popcorn Popping" and then I would give her a kiss and she would go to bed...but now after story and a song she must have a hug then a kiss...then last night she added on a high-five, then tonight she added on "knuckles" or what others might call "Pound it" and then started putting up her fingers and said 1-2-4-8 (and then she got the right fingers up) and said "Peace-out mom, Peace Out" What will she think of next! haha

One day I was talking to Ella and telling her something and she said to me, " Are you kiddin me Momma? you kiddin' me?

She has also started saying, " Momma you ridic-o-wus" or "that's ridic-o-wus!"

The other day I was telling Ella something she needed to do and she said to me, " Momma I frwustrate" with this face of pure dismay, it was hard not to laugh, while trying to be comforting.

Pretty much my child is a little sponge and you can't be around her without her picking up what everyone says!

There's so many more little Ella-isms (I stole that term from the Rakozy's- I thought it was the perfect way of describing the way she does things) that crack us up and keep us on our toes, that I can barely keep up with writing them down! We love our little fire cracker of a girl and learn a lot from her.

Hangin out with the Henkels

So I am so behind as usual on my Henkel Happenings...we have had so much going on that I have not documented...so I am going to try to play catch up and take you through a little rewind of the things we've been doing over the past while.



So all the way back in July we hung out with our friends Abby and Ryan Bell before they left for Arkansas to go work for Walmart Corporate. We went bowling and all did pretty well if I do say so myself! :)



Aww Just Precious huh?



We got to go say bye to them the day they left and took a couple pics with them as well. Sam & Lexi Christensen were there as well so we had to get a pic with the wives and the babies (of course Ella was not up for taking pictures!)



And of course Chad and Ryan had to get a pic together as well (well actually we told them to stand there for the pic and they listened :) )

It was truly sad to say bye to our buddies but we're really happy for them and the opportunity they are pursuing!



Another pretty big thing we've experienced lately was Chad's second ACL surgery.
He actually tore it and his meniscus back a couple years back but finally got the chance to do it a couple months ago.



A couple days after the surgery it had this crazy bruising from his mid thigh all the way to his ankle! But he healed up pretty fast and is now able to walk on it without any problems! We were really blessed to find a really good doctor and to have everything go so well with it all!



So next on the list of things we have been through lately was the morning that Ella decided to put Bag Balm (a balm like Petroleum Jelly) all over everything! I went to go take a shower and asked Chad to watch Ella but he was quite tired from taking Hydrocodone for the pain from his knee surgery...and well he fell asleep...so Ella took it as an opportunity to experiment with the Bag Balm. I got back from taking a shower and found her whole face, hair, arms, neck, hands and my dresser were covered in it! The pictures don't do it justice! We washed her hair at least 7 times and she still looked like a grease monkey as if she hadn't been bathed in weeks. So of course it was Sunday and we were going to church, the best solution became to just put it in a greasy looking pony tail. It took a few days before her hair looked normal again but I guess it probably gave her some good conditioning though ;)



We also got to go to the Rexburg fair which was really quite fun, mostly because of how much Ella and Jackson loved it.



We got to eat lots of yummy fair food like corn on the cob, funnel cakes, hotdogs etc!



Ella got to go in the bounce house and she absolutely LOVED it!



She was bouncin' all over the place and laughing hysterically!





Having the time of her life! You can imagine what leaving this place was like...



Jack just being a happy little camper!



Petting goats and loving it.



A really weird looking chicken thing!



Jack thought the animals were pretty cool as well!





Then the Henkels came down to visit and to open up Dallon's mission call with the whole family together! He got called to the Carlsbad California mission and reports on Oct 14th! We are so proud of him and really excited for the experience that he's going to have! Go get 'em Dal! We love ya!

So there's more that i am still behind on but this post was getting pretty long so i'll have to split it up into a few posts to cover it all!

Zoo ZOO ZOo!

So a few weeks ago we went to the Tautphaus Zoo in Idaho Falls with our in laws Didi and Jason Barnum and their daughter Macazlyn. It was quite fun, the zoo was actually pretty impressive for a smaller zoo. Ella absolutely loved every bit of it, especially the monkeys! Actually it was quite a sad day for her when we had to leave but she was pacified to find out that there was a park with a playground just across the street and exclaimed, "Bye Jungle, see ya soon!"



Tiger riding...it's all the rage! As you can see our kids were really into it...haha!



So there was this little joey that got loose into this part of the zoo where we could get pretty close to some of the animals. It was so friendly it was just hopping right up to us. Ella kept trying to pet it but it was just a bit to quick for her.



Then their was this crazy angry goose that came running toward us like it would attack us if there wasn't this wood fence thing in between us and it. Once it realized it couldn't get to us it just bit this log as if to show us what it would do to us if we got any closer! It was wierd!



Ella got to pet this big ol' fat goat and though that was pretty cool. Cazzy on the other hand did NOT like this experience and was then freaked out by pretty much any of the other animals. Poor thing...there's always next time!



So Ella is officially against taking pictures...she will literally do anything to avoid being in them or looking at the camera! It is SOOO annoying. Any tips on how to get her over this phase?



SO Chad thought it would be a good idea to try to turn her head toward the camera...obviously this one's a keeper!



Here's little Caz comin' down the slide, not quite sure what's in store for her...



looking a little nervous....



than POOF she aged 30 years and turned into a male! haha i know I'm a dork!



this was her actual reaction...you would think it was one of fear but she kept wanting to go back for more!



She couldn't wait to get back on the slide again for another try! What can we say, she's hard core!



Ella thought the little hut part of the slide was much more fun than the actual slide. She just wanted to hang out there and block access for anyone else...good times!



and of course there's always the ever entertaining dirt piles on the slide which of course is much cooler than the actual slide itself!

All in all we had a fun time with our fam and had quite the yummy dinner after the zoo/park festivities! Barnums it's always a blast when you're around! Thanks for inviting us!