New Beginnings

Lots of changes have happened to the Henry's since the last post... I am no longer working and have been staying at home with Carter since the end of April.  I am truely blessed that family has helped us get through the rough spots and it seems as though the sun is finally starting to shine on our lives. 
Our house has now been on the market since the end of April- our real estate agent, Anne, is planning another open house on the 26th. We finally got all the landscaping done to the best that we can and I must say the house looks great!  The last thing we have to do is stain the decks... I am having a garage sale the 17th and 18th, so my mother in law is coming down to help me with that and Carter and Adam is going to spray the deck in time for the open house. 

Tomorrow I will officially join the Thirty-One family and I am soooo exited.  The ladies that I have been working with so far are wonderful and I feel like we're friends already! On the 25th from 1-3 at my house, I am having my debut party for my first Thirty-One party and I am quite nervous about it, but super excited at the same time.  These products are great ladies- high quality and affordable. Check out mythiryone.com and click on the link to view catalog. Please let me know if there are any questions I can answer or orders I can place for you!! All are invited to the party if you live locally!

The next big thing is that Carter and I are flying back to Wisconsin for 3 weeks starting on June 27th until the 19th of July.  Few projects in the works while I am there and hopefully some parties for Thirty-One, so if anyone back there wants to host of party get in contact with me- opportunities for free stuff!!!!

Getting Closer

Last Saturday we met with our real estate agent Anne to discuss what we need to do to get our house ready to put on the market, thankfully we don't have a huge list of stuff to do!!!  I have already started to depersonalize our living room and spackling the holes on the walls while Adam's big projects are to get the bathroom done and pressure wash and repaint the deck- other than that a whole lot of cleaning and straightening up! The goal is to get everything finished so that we can list in 8-12 weeks- just in time for the spring market! I am hoping for a quick sale so that we could potentially be back in the northwoods for the beautiful fall colors.

Carter and the rest of the family are finally getting over the upper respiratory thing going around our area and to add to the fun, Carter is also teething again so I'm running around the house with Kleenex and the snot sucker so the boy guy can breathe. He's such a trooper though! I will be happy when the nasty viruses have taken a hiatus for the spring and summer!!

Our Big News

Big changes are in the works for the Henry Family. We've decided to put our house on the market and move back to Northern Wisconsin.  I am hoping to get it listed early spring and pray for a quick sell!  Adam has been given the go ahead to continue to work for the same company only working remotely from our new home- thank you to IPF for working with us! We are meeting with our real estate agent next Saturday to over what we need to fix or update before we actually get it listed... so after the big chrirstmas and birthday that Carter just had, we are scrambling to figure out where to put all the toys before the agent comes!

We are also the proud parents to a 1 year old little boy who has now starting walking on his own! He is also the proud new owner of 2 front bottom teeth that are about 1/4 of the way up- late bloomer, but hopefully, he'll have no cavities like his momma!! Carter has also started to use some of the sign language that we learned with Amy! He can wave bye-bye and uses the sign for more, we are working on adding in the sign for please and thank you! He's growing up so fast! He also just had his 1 year well child check and has weighed in at 20.7lbs and 29.5 inches tall!

We wish everyone a happy and healthy 2011!!

A Birthday and Christmas

December was a big month for the Henry crew...

December 3rd marked our little man's 1st birthday! It's so hard to believe that the year went by so fast, if only the pregnancy would go by that fast!!! We celebrated by driving back to Wisconsin during a horrible snow storm in every state EXCEPT Wisconsin! Carter was a great little traveler, while mom and dad on the other hand were a little stressed and anxious about the weather situation. Carter's party was held at the Americinn Splashland and boy did he enjoy that- he took right to the water and it seemed like he actually remembered some of what he learned in swimming lessons!  We had lots of fun playing in the pool with all our friends and then afterwards we had pizza and cake and then opened presents! Carter got lots of great toys that he is still enjoying!! It was so great getting to see everyone and thank you to everyone who helped celebrate our little man's 1st birthday- you all made it a very memorable one!

We were in WI for two weeks and had a great visit- but as always, never enough time to do everything we wanted! Carter and I will be flying back in July for a week so that the little man can experience Lake Superior- not froze! Hopefully, we will get to do some stuff we weren't able to do in December!

Carter enjoyed his first christmas at our home- he was quite fascinated by the tree, but thankfully, never tried to pull it over or take down any decorations. We enjoyed the holidays by having grandma and grandpa come down christmas morning and have breakfast with us and open some of his presents.  We then Skyped 'nana' and Dennis so that they could watch Carter open his presents from them. Carter made out so well, that it took ALL day to open everything. Some highlights of gifts he got were: a new Radio Flyer wagon, Dino the Dino, building blocks with a table and my old bouncy horse, Bingo!

Other New Things...

Other new things with the family include:
1. Carter is now a mobile guy and has been for the past month or so, he's pulling himself up and walking with help of the furniture. He's a lean mean speed machine and a handful! He just turned 9 months old already and we're already planning his first birthday party!
2. I recently passed my mastery level coding credential test- so I am officially done taking anymore mandatory coding tests!!!
3. I also just got diagnosed with having gallstones and will be having surgery on September 16- what a great way to celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary :-( The highlight of having surgery though is that grandma will be flying out and staying with us for a week- we're all excited, including Adam- who will take this opportunity to go out elk hunting without his wife lagging behind!
4. Bowhunting season officially got underway this past weekend- we had a couple of elk within 70 yards but nothing came in close enough to shoot. Sunday we went deer hunting on a family friends land and had a blast- the weather was horrible- super windy and we saw nothing, until we started to pack up and had 2 bucks come in, upon further packing up I noticed 5 more out in the field, I tried to stalk them and got pretty close, but got busted by one that was bedded down- can't wait until next weekend, hopefully I will get one before my surgery!

New posts to follow soon, as I no longer have to study!!!  Wahoo.

Fair Time!

This year we went to both the Missoula County and Ravalli County Fair. Carter enjoyed looking at all the animals and petting a few of them too. Among all the animals we saw were camals, cows, horses, sheep, goats, alpacas, pigs and even baby pigs. This past Friday night we went to the Ravalli County fair with grandma and grandpa to see the picture of Carter that I entered. I ended up taking 2nd place in the division- we were all excited and even Carter smiled at the picture when we showed him. We enjoyed walking around looking at all the exhibits and watching the kids ride the rides and of course enjoying the fair food! We can't wait until next year when Carter is a bit bigger and mommy is excited to enter in some more pictures!!

Celtic Festival

This summer we enjoyed many fun family activities at Caras Park, amoung them was the Celtic Fest. We had lots of fun watching all the dancing and musical entertainment.  The other inside sales guys that Adam works with is the leader of the bagpipe group that performed- we enjoyed listening to the play and Carter learned how to clap that day and has been doing it ever since. Here are some pictures of the fun!!