Fun Christmas gift

Here's what we made for some gifts this year. Lanessa had fun helping me with these. She could actually assemble one all by herself....with the exception of me just helping with the main pipe-cleaner. She was such a great little helper :) We thought they turned out pretty cute. I've wanted to make these guys for a few years now.

Melting Snowman Cookies

 The kids have been out of school for Christmas break since Friday. Here's a little holiday project we did today. They are so stinkin' cute!!! Here is the blog I saw them off:  Crazy Domestic

Teacher Gifts

Wow! It's been a really long time since I've posted on here! No way I'm going to be able to catch up with whats been going on...sorry :(

I just wanted to show you what we gave the kiddos Teachers this year.....

They each had 3 apples and a clear baggie of Hearshy's Hugs inside the clear wrap. The Saying on the card says "Teachers can't live on apples alone....sometimes they need "Hugs" too!

Simple but cute! I'll post what we made for our neighbors this year too.

GymTastic!

Jenaya, took gymnastics all last school year. I was pretty excited that she wanted to try gymnastics out since it was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I was super amazed at how far she had come in such short amount of time. She is such a natural athlete. Here are a few pics from her last day in May. *I didn't take these pictures*

Let's Dance!

I really haven't been a good blogger the past few months. I havn't even posted any of the fun things we did this summer! There are a few older post I want to catch up on firsth though and one of those is Ben & Lanessa's dance pics from May...yes MAY! Geez its been awhile ;)

Benny, loved his dance class just as much as ALL the girls did :) I'll see if I can upload the video of their recital dance and post it soon.

Jenaya's First Day

Jenaya, started school last Monday....has it already been a week? Man!
We feel very blessed to have found the Christian Private School we did fore her. She is LOVING it! I can't believe she is in 3rd grade this year!

First Day of School!

This Monday Ben & Lanessa started their first day of school. They are so excited to be FIVE now and old enough to be Kindergartner's! I can't believe they are old enough to be in school full day. It is bitter sweet for this momma I must say :(

It's all new schools this year for the 3 of them. Jenaya, starts this coming Monday at a private school in town. I'll post some pics of her first day next week.

My new photo blog is up!

We have had a lot going on here the past couple of weeks. We still don't have our house put back together since the water pipe that broke and flooded our house 2 months ago! We are in the middle of one of the worst situations we have ever been in with a really bad flooring job from Royal flooring here in town (don't ever use them!) ok, I just had to get that off my chest :) I hate to complain on here so I'm not going to go into all the ugly details. I just can't wait till my house is more functional then it is right now. The sad thing is, it's going to get worse before it's all over and done with :( I just want it to hurry up and be all purdy again :)

Okay, on a happier note, I'm finally launching my new photography blog YAY!! Here is a link http://trishachristensen.com/blog/ come stop by and check it out :) I will be adding some more info on there soon like pricing and a bio and stuff, but for now I have it up and that feels great!

Love,
Trish

Happy Anniversary the BIG 10!!!

Two posts in one day? This must be some type of record for me ;) I had to fit this one in, even though its 10:30 at night. It's not every day that you have your 10 year Anniversary now is it?? Josh ended up needing to close tonight so we will have to wait until tomorrow to go out and celebrate.....well maybe, Benny hasn't been feeling too great today ;(
Anyway, I was out making some portrait deliveries today and when I came home these beautiful rose were waiting for me on the porch!

I

LOVE

roses

a lot!

Thank you hunny!! I love you sooooo much. I can't wait to see what another 10 years will bring ;)

All Dressed Up

The kids looked cute so cute all dressed for church last Sunday. I just had to snap a few quick pics of them :)

Hoppy EaStEr!!!

I'm finally getting around to adding some Easter pics from last week. We went to the annual Easter egg hunt the Flack family puts on every year. We had so much fun hunting with lots of friends. On Sunday the kids where excited to see that the Easter bunny had filled their baskets and had hidden their eggs they had decorated the night before.

After the kids found all the eggs (or so we thought. We actually found some the next day) we had our traditional Henke Easter breakfast Golden Egg-rod Sunday mmmm yummy!!! We had a great Easter!! I hope you all did too :)

Hanging out with the kiddos

Jenaya and Lanessa were out looking for bugs to put in their jar this afternoon. They were so cute looking all around for one. Jenaya finely caught a Hornet! She was pretty exited (as you can see on her face). It was pretty warm even though it was overcast and breezy. Too bad I didn't feel like doing some spring cleaning it would have been perfect for pulling weeds. I'm glad I spent the time playing outside with my kiddos though. They really are growing up way to fast!!

Testing, testing, is this thing on??

I know that I've been a bit of a blog slacker lately, but that's only because I've been working so hard behind the scenes. I've been putting together a new photography blog...YAY! I've felt a bit bad about combining our family blog with my photography business. So very soon I will launch it and then make this blog private. So please stayed tuned for a peak at my new blog and some exciting new products available to my clients :)

Earlier today Lanessa brought me a cup and sad "I made you some lemon aid out of oranges" awwww! I had my camera right here on my desk so I grabbed it and took a picture...it actually was very under exposed. I tried saving it in PhotoShop. It's not the best quality but the subject most certainly is :) After I drank my delicious "lemon aid" I went down stairs to the kitchen to see what mess awaited me and to my surprise it wasn't as bad as I feared!! I was very impressed at her persistence...look at all those oranges she squeezed!!

Sweet little flower!

This little sweetie just turned ONE! Bella, is the cutest little girl ever!! But don't take my word for it, check her out!!