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

In San Diego!

So, Uncle John and I have brought the kids to San Diego for my grandmothers 78th birthday tommorow. We went to the beach this morning and had a blast. I've posted, or should say in the process of posting the pictures to my picasa site now. It's been a tiring day, and I'm going to head to bed. We've had loads of fun though! 6 am comes so early.... here's to hoping the kids sleep in! (yeah right,,..)

Love to all!
Tiff and Kids

P.S. Yes I miss my hubby hehehhee

Pictures are up

I have given up on getting the birthday pictures edited and such before posting them. Both parties are now posted. i'll be rearranging them a little in the next few days so that they are sequential. Please visit my website to the right saying Picasa Pics 1 and they will be listed there. Just as a warning, there are aprox 180 for Sky and Emma, and 200 for Serena. Not all are best of quality, but if there are some you see that you would like a digital copy of, please feel free to tell which row, and how many over and I'll be happy to send to you!

Love to all,

Tiffany

The Tuesday of another week

Hello all friends and family,

We had a pretty good weekend with Emma this week. We got to do some pretty fun things. Saturday was jam packed. We had my friend Emily's daughter Kayla's first birthday party in the morning, came home, took a nap. After they all woke up, Chris got to hang out with Emma for a little while, while I took the younger three to Malinda's house for Nick's birthday party (he's my psuedo nephew). Fed them dinner there and hung out and let the kids play. Got them home, bathed and in bed. Then went to Kareoke for Lisa's birthday at 9. Got home later than I like to admit, but it was fun! Got a video of Audrey singing, but the music was up way louder than her singing so can't hear her very well. My vertigo seems to have been getting better, until I smacked the car door into the left side of my jaw. Let me tell you that sucked! Oh and last night, as Sky is telling everyone, mommy fell butt first into a full bathtub. I was sitting on the edge of the tub, putting the bubbles in, Sky asked for a hug all nice and sweet, so I turned the other way (while still sitting on said tub) to give her a hug, and apparently I turned to quickly. I lost my balance, yes while sitting down, and fell in butt first. Hey, at least I was sitting! Audrey came running when she heard the bang and they the ow come from me. When she ran in she stopped, and busted up laughing after she asked if i was ok. I can't be mad at her because it was pretty darn funny! Chris (the rat) took a picture of it, he says he'll send it to me so I can keep the copy of it.

Sean is doing better in school with keeping his hands to himself. He has to sit at a table by himself for the moment, that way he stops trying to play and actually do his work. He doesn't seem to be having any learning difficulties or anything like that, he's just more interested in playing than working. He'll concentrate when he wants to, and does do it, which is the good news. I took Sky and Serena to the Zoo yesterday with my girlfriend Jen and two of her boys, Joey and Tommy. I posted the pictures on my picasa website if anyone is interested in seeing them. There are quite a few cute pictures in there.

I have updated my blog here (as you may have noticed), and gotten access back to my previous blog (from Sky as a newborn), and the link is to the right. It's full of pictures of Sean, and the top is mostly from when sky was about a month old and younger. If you want to see them, feel free!

Our love to all, I'm going to go dive into the pictures I got in the mail today!

Tiffany and family