Wyatt Lee Henson

Wyatt was born on July 31st to Lee and Andrea. He weighed 8 lbs. 15.5 oz. - a pretty big boy! Andrea is one tough woman - she delivered him at their house with a midwife. She said it was wonderful to deliver at her own home. Her whole labor lasted about 6 hours, so it went pretty fast. Brent and I went to an 8 week class on natural childbirth with a midwife from Little Rock. I felt so confident about labor and then my stubborn (but adorable) child had to be breech. I've always wanted to try a home delivery myself but I doubt I will get the opportunity since Jack was born by c-section.

Brent and I went to see Lee, Andrea, Noah, and Wyatt a week after he was born. He is so cute!! I love his fat little cheeks. Andrea and Lee have two absolutely adorable children - here are a few photos from our visit....









What a good big brother...







This is me holding Wyatt....



I like this one because it looks like Wyatt is saying "Enough Pictures Already!" ...

April Fest 2008

I turned 28 this year on July 23rd. Brent called that day - April Fest '08. He told me I could do whatever I wanted to do... I chose to go shopping! I had already taken the whole day off from photos because who works on their birthday???

Let me back up a bit - April Fest '08 may have been on one day but somehow I managed to make it spread through a whole week. The Sunday before my birthday we had a celebration at Brent's aunt's house for me and for Sunnie. Her birthday falls the day before mine so we always get to celebrate together. We ate some delicious burgers, baked beans, shrimp, and blackberry cobbler and got to do a little swimming in Netta's pool.

Here are a few photos of Jack and Brent from that party....









I don't have any photos of me from the birthday party - but Brent took some of Jack and me today that I'll post later on.

So anyways, April Fest continued to my actual birthday and I went shopping at 1/2 of 1/2. It's a clothing store in North Little Rock that carries lots of name brand clothes at 1/2 of 1/2 the price! Yes, some of the items have a missing button or a broken zipper or something wrong with it, but not all of them. Usually I find awesome deals there, but this particular trip I only came out with two items. I think my bad luck was because the place was PACKED that day and I couldn't get around the store very well. You may be asking - "Well, where is Jack this whole time?" The Subletts were very sweet to offer and keep him and they live conviently close to the store... in fact, they are the ones who introduced me to 1/2 of 1/2. Amber comes to church every Sunday sporting the cutest clothtes that she finds there for amazing prices.

After 1/2 of 1/2, Brent takes me to my next choice store - JoAnn's Fabrics! I love fabric stores but I always have such a hard time choosing which fabric I want for my projects. I have a ton of projects sitting in Jack's closet just waiting for me to finish one day. Who knows when I'll have time to do that.

After shopping in Little Rock, we got Jack and headed to Conway where we grabbed some Cracker Barrell to go and a Red Box Rental movie. For those of you who don't know - Red Box is a rental at McDonald's and WalMart that only cost $1!!! I think that's way better than the usual $4 Blockbuster rental.

You may think that's the end of April Fest '08 - but nope... my good friend Amber Mullins threw me a party the next weekend! She is always so wonderful about making everyone feel so special on their birthday. She brought dinner to our house and showered me with gifts! She made cupcakes and Jello Jigglers too!!! It was quite the celebration. Melissa, Drew, and JB also came over and we all got to sit and chat and adore Anna Claire (Drew and Melissa's new baby)

I think that was the end of April Fest '08. Thanks to my family who all called and serenaded me. Each rendition of "Happy Birthday" was unique and special in it's very own way :)

LivingStones Week 2008

Camp was July 13-19. There is a lot to post about camp so we'll see how much I can get in one blog.


First of all - it was an awesome week of fun and praising God again at Camp Caudle. We always have good, well-behaved campers at our camp session. I would like to thank some very special people that helped to make the week all possible (yes, I'm sounding like the I just won an Oscar again). But here goes....

Cooks - The week would not even be close to possible without you. I LOVE being at camp for a week and not having to think about cooking one meal for my family. Not only that - but I get to eat 3 meals a day, be stuffed as full as I want AND I DON'T HAVE TO CLEAN UP! Now, I will say that, each team did have kp (kitchen patrol) duty everyday... but, thankfully, I'm not on a team :) To Ms.BettyLou .... your upside down pineapple cake was as delicious as always. I look forward to it every year.

Counselors - This year we were worried about not having enough counselors and we didn't end up with just a bunch... but the few we got were WONDERFUL! Thank you so much to each of you for sacraficing a week of your time (most of you your only vacation from work) to help lead these kids to Christ. I wish I could type about each of you on my blog - but I think I might lose some readers if I typed a novel on here. Seriously - we couldn't make it without all of you guys and I pray that you will come back next year.

Lee & Andrea - I want to thank Lee and Andrea for being, not only great friends, but great camp directors and servants. Andrea went to camp 9 months pregnant and watched Noah, their 2 year old son!!! Yes, she is amazing (more to come on another post of her delivery). I really appreciate those two for all the hard work they put into planning the activities and sermons.

Mom & Dad - Last year my parents started coming to Camp Caudle to help out. Mom was a counselor last year but this year she was named "full-time grandma". Dad is the official "Camp Photographer", which is awesome because I don't have to even think about the photos and I know that every photo is going to be GREAT. He also works very hard at putting a slideshow together for the kids by the end of the week. It's always a highlight to everyone. Thank you mom and dad for being so wonderful and selfless. I know that I would not have been able to be a part of camp if it wasn't for my mother watching Jack for me. She is the toughest Granny ever carrying around Jack in his little baby backpack everywhere. She made sure he was fed and napped well and brought him to me for every nursing. I don't think it was torture on Granny to watch Jack... I'm pretty sure she enjoyed every minute of it - but still I'm forever grateful.

The activities were "off the chain", as the kids would say. We had:
• a giant slip'n'slide
• mud pit games
• canoe races
• prayer walk
• marshmallow towers
• capture the flag
• cardboard boat races!
• scripture scavenger hunt
... and much more

Our classes were:
• health and fitness (taught by Katy)
• backpacking (taught by me, April)
• fly tying (taught by Brent)
• canoeing (taught by Lee)

and now for the pictures....

Brent wrestling the kids on the gigantic trampoline...



Images from my backpacking class...





Images from Brent's fly tying class...





Canoe Games...





Fun in the mud pit...



Health and Fitness class - looks like Antonio is getting a good workout...



I loved the prayer walk this year...



And now some photos of the cutest boy on earth...











This will make you smile...



The End

Aunt Lou

Well, I'm a month behind on blogging. I'm very sorry for those of you who check my blog daily expecting adorable photos of Jack to appear. We've had an unbelievably busy summer and I will try and catch you up on everything that has been happening. I will start with the visit from Aunt Louisa. I'll do each post separately instead of doing one super long post.

Aunt Lou came in from Africa this month to see her nephew be born (she actually had two nephews born this month). Thankfully she got to stay long enough for us all to see her. It's always a happy day when Lou-Lou comes over to visit. Jack really enjoyed Aunt Lou and I very much enjoyed catching up and talking about the good old days. I know she is doing wonderful things for the Lord in Zambia - but I'll be excited when she moves back home. Louisa is not really my sister - but she is as close to one as I'll ever have so I will always consider her Jack's aunt. We love you Lou-Lou!