Today our nutshell was a partially smashed pumpkin

So today looks like it's turning into the most expensive pumpkin patch visit we'll ever do!
Start of day went well, tried to get girls down for a nap early, Sky didn't take one even though she needed one badly. Serena took like an hour nap, then we wen to leave about 11:15, was supposed to meet Sheila and the gang at noon. Needless to say she was running late also so we were going to get there about the same time. We're driving, getting kids lunch in the car, doing alright, get off I-10 and start down I-19 toward Agua Linda farms (nice place by the way), and I feel the car vibrating what seemed to be more than would be normal. I comment on it to Audrey as we're continueing down the way. All of a sudden it got really vibration, and I think in my head, ok there's an exit, I'm going to take it. So I was getting ready to try to merge right in traffic and then shake rattle and roll went the back end of the car and you hear this thunk thunk thunk bang. I was like holy crap what did I just run over? And the back end of the car started to shimmy bad. I of course by that point in time had taken my foot off of the gas pedal and began slowing down and looked in my rear view mirror in time to watch part of my tire fly over the car behind me. I had to get onto the left shoulder of the highway because I was surrounded by traffic. I made sure everyone was ok, and put my head down on the stearing wheel and went "holy crap!" to put it mildly. I was shaking so badly. I got out of the van to go look at the tire and see how bad it was. ALL of the tread had stripped off the tire. Luckly for us didn't blow also. Was still full of air. Let me tell you someone was watching over us today on that one! So I call my insurance company to get the number for road side assistance because the numbers not on my insurance card. I get ahold of his office, explain my situation, and they give me the number, but ironically I"m stranded like 10 minutes from my agents home. His office had called him after they gave me the number, which it was a good thing they did! So I tried the number, no answer three times! So I call his office back, they told me that Dan was going to call me asap. He calls me, he's in his car on his way to come help me fix my tire! One of the many reason I love my State Farm agent! So Dan shows up, with Amy in tow, and changes my tire for me! How lucky am I! So that was our adventure for the morning! We get the donut on the car, and away we go to finish our pumpkin trip (we were only like 20 minutes from the farm by this point, and they kids were so excited to go!) So tomorrow morning after I take Sean to school, I get to go find out how much a new tire is going to cost me on top of having just did a good bit of maitenence on Chris's car, and we're both due for a transmission flush on our next oil change which costs a hundred bucks a piece for Pete's sake!

So we get to the farm, get the kids out and headed to the fun and let me tell you they had a blast! It was so fun watching them go on the tire swings, go through the petting zoo area, climb the hay "castle" they had out, and we bought a pony ride ticket for them too. Pictures pending me getting them on my computer hopefully tomorrow! We even rode the tractor out for Sheila to pick out a pumpkin (we have plenty). The kids loved it and had a blast, and were in pretty good behavior, even Gabriel, for the day that we'd had. Coming home was... interesting with 4 sleepy kids and two worn out adults. Poor Audrey, I thought she was going to kill me ehehhee. We came back home through town off of I-19 due to the tire thing, and towards the end, the kids were all yelling and playing in the back at such a loud volume and I couldn't get them to stop. They'd been stuck in the car for an hour, and they were playing and not fighting at that point in time, so I just looked at her and said "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" and I started yelling and making noises with them too, it was hillarious. She thought I was nuts. But we had fun and that's what counts!

Well it's late here now, I've had a pretty long day and need to get some sleep so we'll catch up with you tomorrow folks. Have a wonderful monday!

The Fennimore Clan

We had a good anniversary

Thank you Sharon, Vince, and Audrey. We were able to go out to chinese food for our anniversary. It was pretty good stuff! Audrey stayed at home with Sean and Serena so we cold go out alone, Sky stayed at Debi's house today and tonight so gave us both a break that way LOL. But tired now and going to go snugggle up and watch an on demand movie with chris.

Have a good night everyone and once again, thank yoU!

Love Tiff and Chris

People can be beyond me sometimes!

Just fair warning, I'm venting so there will be profanity....

I don't get why after you've known someone for 12 years, why all of a sudden over the last, I don't know, year and half or so they have to go dig themselves down into a hole and not freaking talk to you unless you pester them into it. They say "oh yeah, we're still family, we're still friends," but they don't fucking contact you except by text message. I'm sorry, a friendship cannot be fun soley via text message. Some text  messaging is fine, but there has to be some voice contact over the phone, and in person for christ's sake! I understand you're not a big phone talker, I get that, some people aren't. But ok, I'm not going to sit here and try and corridinate schedules via text message because that'll take an hour, vs a five minute phone call. Or when I do try an corridinate something, oh we're busy, oh we can't do that. They only time really in the last year that we've hung out, has been childrens birthday parties, and thats when I've pushed it. My son loves them, I love them, my daughters love them, but it's really starting to piss me the fuck off. I mean, I call her, I text message her, I get a phone call back from her damn husband, not her! Or a text back from her husband, not her. What am I not good enough for you any more? Have you moved onto better friends than I? Do you just not want anything to do with me anymore?? If thats the case then fucking tell me and I'll leave you the hell alone and tell my kids that they're not around anymore. It happens. But damn, just tell me. I mean, I have no problems helping. I've shown that in the past, but you are alienating a HUGE friend. Figure it out. Seriously. Stop hiding in your god damn house, if you need help ask for it, and actually have some contact outside of your house and  of right where you live. It's not healthy! And I am so worried for you because of it that it's not even funny, but I try to get in and I get pushed back out again. I've done the battle for two years now, and I'm about sick of it. I can only take getting pushed in and out of your life so many times before I say fuck it all, I'm gone, regardless of the consequences on my concience or our kids. Get it together, figure out that you have friendships that YOU also have to nurture, not just the other fucking people, or get the god damn balls to say "Go away!"

Ok I'm done now, going back to my day....

Sunday evening

So we decided not to go to the farm today. We've decided to go to Agua Linda farms on Sunday instead. It's 7 bucks per vehicle to park, and then free to get in, do maze, do sack races, do horseshoes, do wagon ride, only thing that really costs money is the Pony ride, and the food. Is a lot cheaper.

Chris and I went out to eat tonight for our Anniversary dinner. We went to a new restaurant I'd never been to before. It was pretty good food! I tried their chicken rice soup, had zuccini in it, and it was pretty darn tasty! Chris and I went out for a drive tonight, ended up in Green Valley and that is where the restaurant was. Ironically enough, it was a little north of where the farm is that we're going to on Sunday. The invite for said farm is on FaceBook under my events for those who wish to join us.

Hoping to be able to get up in the morning to go work out, figured if I wait until the evenings to do it, I am consistantly not getting in three work outs a week that I need, so thinking maybe if I get up early, work out, then get through my day I'll be able to get to sleep earlier, and be up and running to meet my day as I need to to be able to get my stuff done. I take an easy/lazy day and not really do much and my house explodes. Like today.... so tomorrow I have to catch back up on my house, i'm sure it'll take me most of the day just to get it back together, not completely straight. Wow that was one heck of run on sentances wasn't it? LOL

Well all, that being said it is nine o'clock and I'm going to try to go to sleep. Hopefully Chris is able to join me soon as he is doing homework.

My love to the family and friends out in the world!
The Tucson Fennimores

Good Morning everyone

It's Sunday morning, and all is well in the Fennimore household so far. Sean spent the night at Jeanne's house last night, Chris and Sky are at Church, Audrey, Serena, and I are here at home. Serena is down for her morning nap, and I'm being lazy and not doing my chores. Alas it does happen that way sometimes. Yesterday was Brian's 7th birthday party at the bowling alley across town. The kids had a blast. Serena face planted it into the raised flooring, and didn't appear to break her nose, but it is swollen. At least not quite as much as yesterday, thank god. It was huge yesterday, as was her top lip. She just made a bee line for the raised area where you actually bowl at, and she didn't realize it was a step up, and just went down like a tree. No hands to catch her or anything, timber down she went. Poor thing screamed so much for like 5 min then was fine. Her nose bled a little bit, but not more than a few drops and it stopped. If it is still swollen in the morning I'm going to take her to the doctor just to make sure she didn't break it, cause if she did it needs to get set back. Serena was so cute because on our way there yesterday, she was sharing her snack with Isabell who was sitting next to her in the van.
That morning, we found a very sweet black kitty in our garage. The evening before I had closed the garage up at about 8:00 and didn't check it since we'd never had anything trapped in there before and I didn't hear anything. Audrey got up, went to feed cupcake and here comes this meowing from next to her feet. She looks down and there is this really sweet black kitty. He's fixed, has no fleas, is a love bug, and was very hungry. We assume that he'd come into the garage to eat the cat food that had been spilled when Sean fed the cats that afternoon and I forgot to clean up. We've put up posts out in craigslist and such, but have gotten only one phone call and the lady came and looked, but it wasn't her cat. So hopefully we find his owner soon, he's staying in Audrey's room during the day since it's been so hot and the garage just boils when it is, then he's in the garage again at night so CupCake and Audrey can sleep in her room with the door open. The cat doesn't seem to mind cupcake, but we don't know how my cats will take to a strange cat around here. Hopefully his owner comes out of the woodwork soon as someone has to be missing him!
The night before, Audrey and I went over to Malinda and Misty's house and went and played a game of Catan and hang out. Chris had gone to bed at about 6 that evening, Audrey and I got the kiddos in bed, and went "You know what? It's a friday night, kids and husband in bed, lets go do something." We called them, and they were good with doing a board game. It was a lot of fun. We played til about 11:15, and then sat around talking til about 2 in the morning. We totally lost track of time. Got home, and to sleep at about 3. So I got like 4 hours of sleep that night, and was surprisingly awake yesterday LOL. By bed time last night, I was bushed let me tell you! I tried going to sleep about 8, but for some reason I couldn't get to sleep til like 11, which sucked. But Chris let me sleep til 9 this morning, so that helped a lot. We're going supposed to go to Buckley farms today for the corn maze and such for the kids. I'm not sure as of yet if we're actually going to go, just to get in and do the corn maze it's going to cost 28 bucks. That doesn't include the cost of any of the things for the kids they have there, or the cost of a pumpkin or anything. I just don't know as of yet. I'm going to talk to Chris about it when he gets home from church. Ah well such as life. It's just really expensive. Misty/Malinda were telling me about another one that is closer, and it's 7 bucks to park per car, and they have free things for the kids to do, it's like 3 bucks a kid to ride the ponies and are pretty cheap too on the pumpkins. Going to talk to him about doing that one maybe instead. I'm not sure yet. We're supposed to meet people at the expensive one at 2. It'll happen, we'll figure it out. I'm going to go not be lazy anymore, maybe, and start cleaning things up. Have a great rest of your Sunday! Love the Fennimore Family.

Wow...

So, it's Thursday evening, watching CSI and Mentalist with Audrey as we try to do every week. I am so bush wacked, but the good news is that I went and worked out today and have improved already, and burned 405 calories this evening. yeah me! Hopefully this'll get me smaller soon, I can't stand this much anymore. I mean it's not the number on the scale, its the comfort with the body. It's hard to be uncomfortable all the time in your own skin unless you're laying down, if that makes any sense. I've had JC all week, which has been an interesting time, not bad, actually pretty good. We've made some progress, and hopefully get to transition them into home life with his mom. Finally joined Facebook, go figure, been fighting it for over a year and finally got sucked in. HA HA. Got to make homemade pizza with the kids yesterday, we went to the store and they got to pick out what they wanted on it. JC helped me make the dough and roll it out, Sean and jc helped with the cheese, i got to add teh toppings, I got deserted at that time go figure huh? LOL but it was fun, turned out pretty good too, needed little more sauce and cheese towards the edges but I know for next time. Serena even liked it LOL. Well I'm heading to bed now, gotta get some sleep before tomorrow rolls around. Sleep well all and have a good night.

My hubby loves me :)

So last night my Aunt Debbi and Uncle John took me out to see the new movie "Couples Retreat." It was a pretty funny movie, I definantly enjoyed it. They took me out for my 27th birthday, and it was nice getting to spend sometime with both of them. Normally I spend time with one or the other, not often am I able to spend time with both of them at the same time and it was really nice. Sean spent the night at his friend Cobalts house, Emma spent the night here, Audrey took the younger two girls to Pizza hut for dinner while Chris was picking Emma up, while I went to the movies. Ok that was a little confusing, did you catch all that LOL. Chris was nice enough to let me sleep in this morning. I woke up about 8:45, debated if I actually wanted to get up or not. Then my girlfriend Angie from Texas called me, and I got to wish her a happy birthday on time this year! We talked for about half an hour, then I dragged my lazy butt outta bed. Chris spoiled the older 2 girls this morning, took them out for breakfast, and then brought donuts back. So Chris spoiled me this morning a little bit too, hehehhe. Audrey was kind enough to watch Serena for us when he took them out and let me sleep. Ok so maybe didn't spoil me with donuts, I just checked them and all that is there is iced and maple bars with sprinkles. YUCK! The things little girls like, shesh. Aw well anyway.

So I feel like I take two steps back and one step forward sometimes. I get the house picked up, things put away, and then BOOM, tornado times three comes through, and occassionally times four comes through... laundry lays there folded, waiting to be put away, and alas I can only do so much at one time. Once I get caught up on it all, again, I've devised a plan to make it a little easier for me.  Laundry in washer every night, moved to dryer when wake up, folder and put away later that after noon after baby wakes up from nap. That combined with deciding which days to do which things in the house that have to be done weekly. Rather than Saturday is day to clean all the weekly crap, cause we all know that never happens, do like Monday is for mopping the floors, tuesday is and friday is dusting, weds is cleaning bathrooms, and of course there's the daily chores, vacuming, dishes, picking up counters, putting things away, getting kids to pick up toys, cooking dinner, cleaning cat boxes (chris does this one cause he loves me), cleaning up spills from the kids. All the usual things that come with kids and life.

So the kids are all excited because we got them a new sandbox, it's shaped like a frog, but big enough for two of them to fit in. Sky and Serena play in it a lot together. I was lucky enough to find it on craigs list for twenty bucks, and then it needed a few bags of sand which aren't that expensive at the local Ace hardware store. They're cheaper than HomeDepot or Lowes for a lot of things. I went to lowes again to make myself a tool to be able to pack down the ingredients in my cooking gift jars that I am making for Christmas presents. They're pretty cool because I mix the ingredients, and such, and include the instructions, all they have to do is dump the ingredients in a bowl, add the few things that are wet that are needed, like eggs and such, mix it in a bowl and bake and there're ready to eat. They are pretty too look at too, so it makes it nice. I was able to make a pretty nice gift basket for Sean's school for their Holiday Raffel, it had a large jar of brownie mix, two types of hot cocoa, and two mugs, it was pretty. I also gave them like a bath set, with scented salts, lotion, and body scrub with a diffuser to match. Was all very nice. But alas they get to go out in the world and be enjoyed by people I will not know.... LOL. Well I'm going to go off now and get dressed, and play with the chillins. Oh did I mention I get to go to another 5 year olds birthday party at a blow up jungle jim place called pump it up... headache city I'm sure. I'm taking alieve before I leave.

My love to all and we'll update again soon, hopefully!

I painted it myself :)

Sean learning to ride his new skate board.

Sky in my mom's old sweatshirt going to decorate for halloween

"cheese" says it all...

Kids cuddling under blankets on a cold morning.

wow it's been awhile

So I keep telling myself I need to sit down and wrote a blog post to keep everyone up to date, and here we are now a month later. Shesh I'm horrible :)! Ok so here goes.

Sean is now officially 5, and he had a few birthday parties, and got some pretty cool things for his birthday. He got a Nintendo DS Lite system, with a couple of games with it. He also got a docking station, a darth vader skin and lightsaber stylus kit, car charger kit, carrying case for things, and screen protectors. He got some star wars action figures, and some marvel comic action figures. He thought they were totally cool! He also got a Ben 10 and Bakugan (sp?) shirt and short outfits. Spiderman backpack, and a camera with changable spiderman face plates. He loves to take pictures.

Along with his birthday, mine came around also. I like to just think about his, but alas mine is the day after so we have to remember mine also. LOL. So Chris and i went out for dinner, and then I got to go to Bed Bath and Beyond. I got a new bed set for our bed, It's pretty :). Has the comforter, two sets of sheets with pillow cases, two pillows, and 4 pillow shams... have to get the right pillows for those though. I also got some collapsable measuring cups, spoons, and funnel. They're pretty cool! Along with this, I got two pie plates (I'm going to try to bake pies), a new cutting board (mines nasty), a bigger cooling rack that will hold the two loaves of bread I make at a time, and a shower shelving unit. One that brases against the roof kind. But here is the best gift of all...

On September 29th, my girlfriend Kim went into labor. We all headed off to the hospital, and things really started rolling at about 10 that night. We went through til about 2:30 or 3 when she got the epidural. We then got some sleep (or at least I did), until 7. Apparently they came in and broke her water at lik 5:30. I vaguely remember that happening, but alas, I was passed straight out. So at 7, she tells me that she thinks things have changed. We get her nurse in, call her mom to come to the hospital, and she was finally at 4.5-5 cm dialated. We finally hit 9 cm at 11, and ten at pushing at 11:40ish. The baby Telana Jade Anne was born at 11:55 am, weighing in at 6 lbs 10 oz and 18 inches long. She's so cute but tiny! It was a miraculous thing to witness a new life coming into this world. Johnny's grandmother and I helped hold her legs while she pushed, and Johnny and her mom helped to support her shoulders and back. She did a beautiful job! Can't beat pushing for only 10-15 minutes of pushing by much! I just can't put into words how miraculous it is. I mean it's intense when you're the one giving birth, but to be witnessing it, especially when you've been there since the test came out positive is totally cool!

I was so proud of Sean last week at school, on Monday he had a spelling test, his first ever. He got 100% on it! Not only did he write it once but he did it like 3 times for each word lol! He did so good. I'm so proud of him. Tonight he's out with Jen and her boys going to go watch G-Force at the cheap theaters. Sky is sitting here on the couch with us watching the end of Willie Wanka and the Chocolate factory. Poor Serena's got a head cold going on, she's got a sinus infection so she's on antibiotics.

Sharon and Vince came down for the weekend in the middle of the month, and it was a blast while they were here. The saturday they were here Chris took the older three kids with them to Funtastics and they had a blast apparently. That was they day that we did my girlfriend Kim's baby shower, hence why i wasn't there :). Sky got some good time with grandma and grandpa, she loves them to pieces, always asks to talk to them on the phone. And of course, they have no problems talking to her, they love it too. Sky also loves to talk to Keaton, and to see pictures of Keaton, from baby on. It's hard to believe that he's only a year younger than her. It seems like there was so much of a time difference but there really wasn't. Aaron and Katie, (my brother-in-law and his wife), are expecting again in Feburary, and just found out that they're having a little girl! How exciting is that, they've got one boy, and now one girl! Mom seems to be doing well and is healthy and hardy. Congrats to Aaron and Katie!

Well that's all I've got to say for now, so I'm going to go head off and get something to drink!

Our love to all!

Tiffany and Family