Easter pics

Please excuse the convoluted way that blogger decided to put the pictures together on this post. Not sure what happened and I couldn't fix it. But here are the pictures of Easter, and the end of them are the kids playing in the bubble maker that Serena got from the Easter Bunny. They had a blast! ((And Yes.... that is a sword she is trying to pop them with...))

Hope everyone had a good Easter, these are just a few that we took. If you want to see all of them, they are on my picasa web site. Have a great week.

Love, 

Tiffany and Family

It's been awhile...

Hello everyone,

Sorry for being so lax in my updates, it's pathetic it's been 4 months! So new adventures in our life, we have a new niece from Aaron and Katie, she's cute as a button! Lilian was born on February 8th and her and mom did great! The new family looks awesome!

We've been plugging along with the 3 extra kids in our house since November 4th. It's been a joy and trial, but the good news is it looks like they'll be able to go home to their mom soon! I'm going to miss them, but it's whats best for everyone involved! I'm looking forward to just my 3 kids all the time. You think it's crazy with 3? Try 6 ranging from 7 down!

We had a good visit with Vince and Sharon when they came down from Alaska in February! We had a lot of fun hanging out at the condo with them, and Sky got her special grandma grandpa time! She asks all the time when we're going to see them again. She gets to go to AK this summer for like 3 weeks. I get to go up and pick her up, it'll be my first trip to AK. I do hope that it's not freezing cold when I get there LOL. Chris said should be in 60-70's so thats not to bad I guess... LOL!

Sean is getting to go to his Grandmother Ellis' house for a month this summer. He gets out of school on May 26th and then gets to go to San Antonio on the 29th, and will come home a month later! I'm going to miss my kids this summer a bit I think! But they're both excited about it.

Sean got an award this trimester for Academic Achievement, basically it's honor roll. He was so proud of himself it was so cute! He got to choose what he wanted for his treat, and he decided he wanted to go to a movie with dad, so they went out last Friday night. He was so excited it was cute.

Emma is doing well with school and things. She had another loose tooth on Saturday that I imagine that she's lost already. Not sure what her grades or anything are I haven't seen her report card.

We're getting ready for Easter this sunday, we're going to color eggs on Saturday so I'm hoping to post some new pictures this weekend or early next week with the coloring and the Easter egg hunt here at home. We're going to just do that here at home this year, and then in the afternoon after nap time we're going to be going to my cousin Liz and her family's house for the afternoon dinner and family time. The kids are looking forward to it! I still have to go get the stuff for the baskets but hopefully I can do that this afternoon or evening. I already know what I want to get them, but just have to wait to see! LOL. Below will be a few current pictures of everyone, mostly from the Ren Fair. We had a blast!

Hope life is treating everyone well, and I'm going to try and keep everyone a little more posted now that life seems like it's going to be slowing down for us. May the powers that be keep everyone safe and well til we talk again.

Love,
The Fennimore Family!

Sean and Mommy

         Skylynn, Sean, and Madison

      

          Aunt Audrey, Sky and Sean.           

Skylynn being held up by Tony.

New Year in 2010

So we're all hanging in here over in Tucson. We've gotten a pretty good rutine down with Audrey and I at night. Jennifer is now getting the hang of it also. We do dinner, bath, teeth, story, and bed. Kids starting to get the hang of it and not fighting as much as they were in the begining. Christmas went well. We got to be able to go to San Diego for Christmas and see my sister Michealle, her husband Daniel, and her children Imala (9), and Lore (5), along with Deshi my aunt, and Joan my grandmother. We had good family times while we were there. Was a little stressful at times, but when is it not when family gets together. I got to go to see Sherlock Holmes while we were there with my sister, Dan, Uncle John, and Michealle's friend Kamela. It was a pretty good movie.

Looks like the boys might be with us as long as May, but we're thinking it may not be that long. So Chris, Audrey, and I have signed a six month longer lease just to give us more time to get things together to get ready move without the boys here cause it makes it really hard.

Grandma is in the hospital currently with pneumonia, but looks like she'll be going home tomorrow thank God! Thank you for all your prayers and support through this. Colleen went out to San Diego to go take care of Grandma when she comes home from the hospital cause she's going to still be really weak. Thank God that she can do that, otherwise I'd be figuring out how to get out there myself! Wouldn't that be fun?

But otherwise things are going well all things considered, and we're all staying in pretty good spirts otherwise. So heres to everyone feeling well and having a wonderful new year!

New pictures are up

Sorry haven't updated recently, but will eventually get there, just not at the top of my list. So new pictures are up on the picasa website. Check them out. From November, December, and Christmas' that we've had. Let me know if you want copies and of which ones and I'll send you soft copies to print them out if you can't download them. Happy New Year to all and ttys we love you.

www.picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyhammar

Enjoy!

We've survived the first week

Hello all, sorry been so lax in putting an update up, but getting everthing and everybody washed, laundered, put away, homework done, fed, and everything that children entail I've basically dropped into bed at night. Audrey has been a wonderful help in getting things together and done in a timely manner with all of them. Good news is they're adjusting, bad news is that means that the middle one is more prone to tantrums now, but that is the beauty of them having their own bedroom. Can just put him in there until he decides to stop screaming. I go in every few minutes and ask if he was done yet, and just got screamed at, so said ok and left and repeated it until he decided to stop screaming at me. Took a little while but he did eventually stop screaming. He was decidedly unhappy at that moment. Now I'm told by the courts that I cannot discuss anything about any of the court hearings that will identify the children, or possibly harm the case in anyway shape or form, so if you ask, I am unable to give any answers other than we're working on it basically. Hopefully we get everything to happen the way that we want it to go. Good news is that the older two boys have been granted permission to go on the Polar Express train ride in Williams like they have every year for the past 4 years (I think 4 years...). They're so excited to go, they get to go this weekend. They travel to the North Pole, pick up Santa Clause, and go back. Is pretty cool if you ask me. I'm going to look into how much it costs for us to maybe go next year. The kids say it's pretty cool. I'll have to see.

Things are starting to fall into routine around here, which helps alot with the kids. We had JC here to day also, his mom was feeling really bad, she seems to have caught something that isn't looking very comfortable. So I kept him today after picking him up from school for her to get some rest. At this point, what is one more fairly self sufficient kid? But over all everything seems to be going fairly well. I'm glad that I have loving friends and family that are so supportive through this! I know some people think we're crazy  for doing this, but I think that it's crazy not to. Have to give and love as you would want to receive and be loved. With that note I am off to my show and relaxing. Have a wonderful rest of your week.

Love, The Tucson Fennimore Family (and then some).

Addition

So it has come to my attention through me rereading my blog that I have missed giving credit to someone that it is due. Audrey, my deepest and sincerest appologies. I did miss putting out there all the help that you have given me. She has been an angel with helping with bed times, nap times, snack and dinner times, cleaning up after dinner, helping with the laundry. Things that my overwhelmed brain has recognized, but failed to publically ackenoledged. My brain is currently in Tahiti drinking Mai Tai's so I'm currently missing things straight in front of my face. So Audrey, I'm sorry, and thank you for all that you have done for all of us in this time of need.

All my love and hugs,

Tiffany Fennimore

6 kids and counting and death in the family

So this week has been a little interesting. So my girlfriend left her husband Sunday evening, called police on him since he did something stupid, and she had a long night talking with them and such. Come Monday morning she got arrested also (cause TPD is STUPID), and CPS took her kids.... Tuesday we had CPS meeting with her whole family in town (her mom flew in monday night from ND), and I got placement of all 3 boys in my house. We couldn't be more happy about that outcome. I'd much rather deal with having 6 children in my home under the age of 7 then have the boys split up in foster care! CPS is working on long term placement at the grandmothers house in ND, and eventually back to mom, but it takes 2 months minimum to get all the paperwork and such done. But it's worth it for the babies! Thank god for Kathy, she's the grandmother, and she has been here everyday minus today, helping me not only with those kids, but also my own. She's here to help me in anyway that she can. Her other daughter, the kids aunt, is helping me out by getting me some stuff for the kids that is just theirs and not just stuff here that is my kids. I think it is really important that they have some stuff here that is theirs, not just the basic essentials. The kids entire family is rallying together to get them anything and everything they need to be comforatable and for their basic essentials. I am so touched to see a family rally together like theirs has. I know that I have stunned some people with what they're calling my generosity of taking these kids in. I have to give credit where credit is due. My family is my example. My mom, my aunt and uncle that took care of me growing up, and the others that have been an example in my life show me daily to open my heart to people. If you have a friend in need, give them the shirt off your back to help them. If they're close enough, they're family. The kids mom and I have been friends for going on 14 years. We've been watching each others children grow up. I'm aunt Tigger to her boys. She's an aunt to my kids. I am just touched enough that she trusts me enough to take care of her babies. I have been taken in officially by the rest of her family as a part of her family LOL. The great grandparents of the kids have just been wonderful, they got me things i needed for the boys no questions asked, AND I didn't have to go to the store to get them, even better huh? hehehehehehe. So needless to say, I currently believe I have the worlds best husband. He told me when I left for that CPS meeting "Do what you need to do" and I came home telling him, "Honey we're doubling the size of our family tomorrow." He took a deep breath, looked me in the eye and said "Ok, what do I need to do to help you?" I'm not lying when I say I got teary eyed. It was the best thing in the world when my  heart soared from what he said. It proves the metal of the man that I married, and that I knew his true character inside and out. I love him a little more each day, but that was a lot more after he told me that let me tell you!

Now to top this upheveal in our lives, my Great Grandma in bisbee, more commonly known as Nana Horn had a heart attack last week. Just a minor one and all things seemed to point that she'd be able to go home. Unfortunantly her body gave up. She passed away thursday evening around ten fourtyfive at night. She went peacefully in her sleep and just sighed out and never inhaled again. My great aunt donna her daughter said it was a peaceful passing. My only thing is I feel guilty for not going down there in the last two months. I promised her next time I came I would bring the children with me. In September kids were sick, in october she was sick and at the urgent care when I went to come down, and just didn't seem to be up to me coming down. Now here we are in november, and she's gone. I know that those aren't things I have any control over, and that I shouldn't feel guilty that i robbed her and my children of the last time of them seeing eachother, but as we all know, we can't order our emotions to feel the way our logical thoughts think we should feel. I'll get there eventually but it's still too new. With all of this going on, I'm currently in my box as I put it. The feelings are there, but they're boxed up for now, and there they'll stay until the funeral on tuesday morning. I just have to much here to let that out without freaking out the kids, and that's the last thing the 3 boys need added to their own upheaval. But I seem to be doing ok. Not great, but ok. Thats not me just saying it to pull the wool over anyones eyes, but I'm ok with her being gone. She's not in pain anymore, she's not struggling to be alive anymore. She's at peace. And that knowledge and that knowledge alone is enough for me to make it through. I'm touched that my great Aunt Donna has asked Chris to be a pall bearer in her funeral. She's having Grandma Joyce's urn placed into her casket with her. Grandma Joyce was Aunt Donna's twin sister, and my Father's mother. So Nana was my dad's mother's mother. If that makes sense I hope I explained that right, my brain is pretty dead right now.

Well it is a quarter after ten, I'm going to head to bed. My love to all and if anyone has any suggestions on scheduleing for 6 kids, routines, or large meals for everyone, I am open to suggestions! Will post again as soon as I can get the time to do so.

Love,
Tiffany and family

P.S. I posted the Halloween pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/TiffanyHammar/200910Halloween#