Monday we celebrated a really late Father’s Day at Mark and Jeanene’s house. Sean and Siri are still in town from Philidelphia and it was the perfect time to get everyone together to celebrate Mark. In true Henderson fashion, there was swimming, eating, and competition. Mark bought this WIPEOUT inspired rolling log that stretches over the pool and the older boys [or uncles, I guess] took advantage of a little brotherly challenge. Sean won…but technically he is the farthest from the water [tallest] so I don’t know if that counts?
It hit me this week that I have 99 days (at the most) until this child graces us with her presence. I feel like I still have a year’s worth of prepping to do, so I made myself a checklist week by week. One of the items on my list was to clean out her future closet. It was filled with Zach’s old mission stuff, Christmas decorations, and so forth. In a box of Zach’s old things I found a book entitled “SPORTS CLIPS” with football players all over it. Inside were a few baby photos of Zach – there are not many considering Zach was the 7th child and even his parents admit they were over documenting every detail of his childhood. But these were absolute gems…
The microwave photo is my favorite. What child can fit into a microwave?! Most likely my child, I guess…
I got a little extra family time on Wednesday when I went up to Lori and Travis’ house to help them layout their basement. The highlight was when Lola showed me her chicken, Carla Salad. Yes, she named the chicken herself. Carla. Salad. Carla Salad likes to swing, apparently…
Friday was my night to pick the movie for our date night. Zach picked Tepanyaki for dinner and then we went to the AMC in Layton with the reclining seats where we saw Ninja Turtles! It was totally cheesy, but I loved it. But I’ve had a love for the TMNT since childhood.
Saturday Zach had two bachelor parties to attend – my brother’s and his friend Chet’s. He was literally gone all day and night. This left my mom and I to attend my cousin’s shower out in Magna. I about died at the diaper cake…which was a diaper motorcycle, actually. It would make more sense if you knew that all my cousins from Magna rode hogs with giant ape hanger handle bars… I am related to the Sons of Anarchy, basically.
We ended our wicked awesome Saturday night with a crazy time at IKEA. I got all the items on my checklist for the nursery. We met up with my Aunt for dinner at Noodles and Co. where the majority of the meal went like this…
Who let these two have smart phones?!
We ran a few more errands, including a stop to the Nike Outlet Store, before returning home to assemble some Swedish nonsense.
Sunday after church we had dinner at the Fotheringham’s. After dinner my dad mentioned casually that he had a metal detector and Zach overheard. This resulted into digging said detector out of storage and having an expedition in the back yard. They were out there for over an hour. I ventured out after about 45 minutes to find them DIGGING in the grass. Zach couldn’t stop laughing.
Their spoils were 53 cents and a screw. An eventful Sunday, if you ask us.
25 weeks – 99 days to go!
