Good luck, Kylee!

Speaking of Inventions

So I just did something that I think may have been an ingenious idea.

I really should of taken BEFORE and after pictures, but imagine your sharing-with-6-roommates fridge in college again. That is what ours looked like!

[I bought a lot of food lately because a WINCO opened near our home and I love it]

But now our fridge looks like this!

Because the fridge doors look like this...

Where are the condiments, you may ask?

When I open my fridge I need to be reminded of the leftovers I need to use, and especially the fruits and veggies I need to use. I do not want to see the condiments! I know they're there. So wal-lah! I think it'll be a success, if I can convince Bobby it's a good idea. I'm going to not tell him and just let him figure it out. Haha. Poor guy, I'm always changing things around in the kitchen, he never knows where anything is.

Which reminds me of another great invention...

I know they're huge (2.5 gallons each!). But it'll remind me to bake from scratch more often. AND they will count as food storage, right?

So much better than the bags you buy them in! Thanks to their inventor!

I'm a Nerd

So. Deep down inside of me, I have this really nerdy, dork appreciative, SciFi-loving side of me. And I am grateful for all those geeks out there who are truly themselves, who inspire "thine own self (to be) true" and to memorize Harry Potter spells so I can use them in every day life (CONFUNDUS!), or memorize a ton of digits in pi, or rent books from the library about aliens, or take IT classes at school, or talk in an accent at the grocery store check out line or in a pretend language on the phone to no one, or to talk on the phone to no one about something incredible you've just done like, "No grandma, I'm back in America now...Yes I'll pick you up in my plane..." when you know that people are listening....See what I mean??


Here are some nerdish things I'd like to share.
"The long wait is over, as Electrolux has finally unveiled their Bio Robot Refrigerator concept. Designed by Yuriy Dmitriev, the fridge works on the principle of biopolymer, so no more flying drawers now. The biopolymer gel helps to keep all the food items cool through luminescence. The non-sticky gel surrounds the food and the strong surface tension of the gel helps to build separate pod for them. The fridge offers plenty of space to hold your eatables without mixing the odor. It is also capable of being placed horizontally, vertically or even on the ceiling, so adaptable to any space easily. It is four times smaller than other fridge, and the volume is used as efficiently as possible. Amazing concept, it’s the futuristic refrigerator." -Pinterest

How about this alarm clock which you have to aim at to turn off? Wishlist.I kind of want to wear this swimsuit. Especially at a Cruise, or San Lagos or somewhere classy.

And who is excited for this???

Some of my fondest memories have been roommate competitions for using big vocabulary words on dates, or playing quidditch (so fun! anyone interested?), reading Harry Potter for the first time (sigh...)


That's all for now. May the force be with you.

Still Young at Heart

This week we celebrated Bobby's 25th! Can you believe he's a fourth a century old???

Bobby is the sunshine of my life. The apple of my eye. The yin to my yang. I couldn't imagine being happy without him. Our future is so bright together and it is pure bliss to think of being with him forever. I married the most handsome, funniest, hard-working, playful, genuinely good person I know. And won't he be the best dad? He makes me want to be better. He makes me feel pretty and loved. He always apologizes first. And I am so grateful for him!

Bobby is also very funny. After saying those nice things about him, hopefully he won't mind me sharing some unique moments that you can only experience after living with Bobby Rampton...

The other day, while getting ready for church, he had the song "Two little speckled frogs, sitting on a speckled log..." stuck in his head for some reason. He sang it over and over again, but to my surprise, when he got bored of it he began singing it in different accents! French was a favorite. Low voices. High voices. I heard his entire repertoire, I believe.

One afternoon, while wearing pants and a shirt, Bobby asked me, "Is that a one piece you're wearing?" It wasn't. Obviously. They weren't even the same color?

While pulling clothes out of the washer, I found not one but two latex gloves full of water. I kept going and found not one, not two but three scalpels! In our laundry!

A friend asked me if Bobby would be the angel in our ward Christmas party. I texted him, but he didn't answer, so I just told her yes. Mistake. He later responded "Angles are girls. No." Long story short, it was quite a rift in our marriage. And he did not act in the play this year.

Bobby had to run back to the library one night after dinner. So as I was clearing the table I found some change. A tip, perhaps?

Usually after church we bid our kiddos goodbye and meet halfway between our classrooms. Well last Sunday I circled the church and no sign of him. Then again and again. 19 minutes after the hour, when everyone had gone home, I found him. He had forgotten to tell me he had a meeting.

We were playing nertz on his birthday and decided to play best out of 3. I won. He proposed best out of 5. I won again. He wanted to play best out of 7. I won again. Best out of 9? Bobby won 5 straight games! And beat me best out of 9. Then he was done playing.

He broke his glasses while helping a friend move. Strangely, our prescriptions are really similar! So he wears my extra glasses all the time. Even to school. Another thing I love about him is that he doesn't really care what anyone thinks.

Bobby is really good with money. So we had to make a stop at Fry's to pick up some Midol. And he found the Midol facebook page. If you "liked" it, you'd get a coupon. So he did. You can find it on his facebook. Remember what I said about not caring what other people think?

This is why I married him.

Sure love you, Robert Wesley Henderson.

Christmas. 2011. New Years.

Separate flights :( Sweet homecoming. Snow but no snowmen. CPK with the girls. Tradition. Hours of catching up. Resolution to stay in touch better. Bobby came in early! Romance in the airport :) High school friends party. Welcome back from Lithuania, Jo! Huge snowstorm. Bobby in minor snow accident. Basketball with McConkie. Shovel sidewalk. Test snowmobiles. Help set up a reception. Ice skating double date. Bruises. Soul surfer. Hearts. Chelsea unseen :/ Christmas Eve! Deliver news of Ukraine. Ted Montanas. Gingerbread house. Pajamas. Lots of games. Bingo. Christmas morning. New addition to stairs tradition. Grill, tandum bike, cooling rack, Whoonu, cards, gift certificates, necklace, mustache erasers, hat, gum, candy. JoJo's homecoming. Skype our favorite missionary!! Rocky mountain snowmobiling. Jumps. Mexican food. Stuck in powder. AFA football. Nertz. Airport. Shop for wedding. Bobby basketball. Airport again. Puppy and Lindsey. New resume. BYU wins! Basketball. Fredell family. Flight home. Trade seats to sit together. Home at 9:00 PM. Friends over at 9:30 PM. Lots of games. Happy 2012!!!!! Pictures on Facebook.

Thanks for Thanksgiving!!

We had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving. Pictures are worth a thousand words, so I will let them do most the talking.

We made it to California in a short trip. Besides pulling over because smoke was coming out of the vents, a everything went well :)

We got to the Goodman's house and did a LOT of this:

Nertz, for those of you who don't know us.

So for some weird reason, we thought we were supposed to check in a 4:00 PM. It was about 3:45 when we got out our itinerary to see what address we should put in our GPS, when we noticed that check-in was from 12:30-3:30!!!!! The boat left the port at 5:00! We were so stressed. We thought we were going to miss our cruise! We had to call and say we were late, and run from our car to the port! According to pictures you can buy in the boat, we were 13th to the last on the boat, but we made it!

This picture is on the bridge from check-in to the boat, so we weren't rushed anymore, but we're probably still sweating!

It was Bobby's first cruise, so it was fun to explore the boat with him. This boat had clubs, theaters, restaurants, ping pong tables, pools, hot tubs, a library, a mini-golf course, a slide, basketball court, shuffleboard, lots of places to lay out, and more I'm sure that I can't think of. They're huge! I remember the first cruise I went on just being in awe of how big it was! And it's floating!

We got an oceanview room because with the military discounts we got, it was cheaper than an interior cabin. And it was so pretty! It was always a shock whether we'd see land or water outside.

We had a very spacious room too! Maybe it's the fact that I shared a room with all my siblings last time, but we definitely could have fit two more in our room (Jacksons!).

Bobby's phone was still getting GPS in the middle of the ocean. "Middle" being relative.

Here we are at Catalina.

We rented a golf cart and drove around the island. It was surprisingly really fun! We got to see all these cool sights and shops.

We were like the only young people on board. I'm sure everyone thought we were on our honeymoon.

Ensenada was a fun day too! It was warm so a lot of the day we sat out and got sun. Sunburned mostly, no tan. But we had to get off the ship because that was our first time out of the country together :) It's helpful that Bobby knows Spanish, too. He got to talk to some of the natives. We walked around the little shops (Bobby got a shirt) and we got a couples massage!

I was so sad when the cruise ended. I'd like to do a longer one next time :) I wish we would have gotten a picture of our cute Philippine waiter too. And we randomly met up with the Gundersons from our ward on the cruise too! It was so funny. We played ping pong, shuffleboard, and went to a comedy show together. What a great time we had on that Carnival Paradise.

On Friday morning we got right off the ship and headed to Knottsberry Farm with the Goodmans. We got in for free because we're a military family. This was a scary ride we're on. Look how tightly our hands are clasped.

Carly and I went on this straight up, straight down one. Only lasts 15 seconds. It was scarrry but one of my favorites. Bobby- not so much.

After Knottsberry Farm we headed to San Diego to another free admission to Sea World! I had been to Sea World when I was little, but I didn't remember what to expect. Bobby and I LOVED it! Everything except for the crazy expensive lunch. People were feeding sea lions and they'd get so close, I'd pull my hand back because I was scared they were going to bite me.

Of course we watched Shamu(s). We got to the show early to get good seats, but I kept getting nervous we'd get splashed and be cold the rest of the day, so we changed seats four times. Eventually Bobby refused to move anymore, and we were still close up so we had a great view, but we didn't get wet. But people on both sides of us and in front of us did!

They let you pet the dolphins! Probably my favorite part of Sea World. They are so friendly! I was standing next to this man who was making them come to him like crazy. He would clap his hands under water and it would make them come. If you ever go to Sea World, try it out!

To my dismay, Bobby wanted to go to a pet show at Sea World, which I thought would be dumb, but it was actually awesome. I never knew they could train cats! And pigs! And birds! It was actually, yeah awesome, like I said. But we have no pictures.

From San Diego we headed North to St. George for a Marshall reunion. I have zero pictures! But I stole some from facebook. One thing I love is family reunions. We played games, ate a marvelous Thanksgiving feast, swam in the pool, went skating, visited a volcano...

went to Zion's National Park...

ran in a race (Bobby got fourth overall!), visited my first ever apartment, and went Black Friday shopping. Black Friday was quite an experience. My mom, sister and aunts went together to Target at about 11:00 to wait for the opening at midnight. There were still 900 people in front of us! (Someone counted). I got up the courage to ask people at the front of the line to buy something for my aunt (two iPod touches). A lot of people were rude, but we found this cute 16 year old who offered to buy them for us! We trusted him with over $400 cash! Luckily, he got them! But the best part about St. George was seeing my family. It was another sad goodbye.

But after two weeks it felt good to be home! We got home and the next night headed to Mesa for a couples slumber party with the Jacksons:) We went to the Mesa temple to see the temple lights and see the nativities.

It made me really miss Chelsea because there were so many cute sister missionaries. That, and Christmas time always reminds me of my beloved Jerusalem, which we share memories together. This picture is of a nativity set from Chile.

We got home and got to decorate our house for Christmas. Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love the music, the lights, the memories, the anticipation, wrapping gifts, the smells, the jam-packed stores, and everything about it. I think the world loves Christmastime because as we think of Christ more often the whole community is blessed with the spirit. I think that what people call the "Christmas Spirit" is the same spirit we feel any other time of the year when we think about the Savior. And I love that Thanksgiving is right before Christmas. It prepares us for the next season of just giving thanks for our Savior. And I love that New Years is right after Christmas. We can think of the Savior for a season, then commit ourselves to being more like him.

This is our beautiful tree. Bobby went Black Friday shopping by himself and landed this beauty. 7.5 feet, pre-lit and very full! He did so well! And Alice was so kind to send us a bunch of ornaments from his childhood. Our tree only had one ornament before that box.

We are sure thankful for our Thanksgiving break.

Before, During, After