Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Proud Gram C

Here is my first picture with Tennyson.  he is cuter than you can imagine. 

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He was born at 9:48 AM. He was 7 lbs 2 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long.  He has strawberry blond hair with some cute little curls.

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We even got to watch Mike change his first.  It took one dad, 2 Grandmas and a lot of butt wipes to clean the mess up!

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Mike was not happy!

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Monday, April 26, 2010

One Week and Still No Baby

 

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I have now been in Utah for a week and Tennyson still has not made his grand entrance.  Besides graduation we have all just been buying time until he arrives.  The first day I got here I went and saw what changes have been made to Grandma Stringham’s house.  Golda and Susan have been busy painting and making it their own.  I wonder what we will end up referring to this house as? 

On Wednesday I picked up Mike’s favorite Costco cake for dinner.  He made us some yummy hot dogs.  I did not realize until I got to the cash register that the cake was a little crooked.  It just keep getting worse.  This is what it looked like when it looked good.

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On Thursday it snowed.  Yes, it snowed on Tennyson’s due date. We ate graduation lunch at Tucano’s.  They bring meat around to your table on big skewers and you basically just pig out!

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Being the typical Utah spring the snow turned into a beautiful sunny day.  So we went for a game of putt putt golf.  I actually got 3 hole in one shots, but I still did not win:(

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Tennyson even helped Nichelle out.

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On Friday we went to Mike’s graduation.  It was good but long.  It took about an hour and a half to read all of the names.  He looked very handsome in his cap and gown.  It was a proud day.

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On Saturday I spent the day at a parenting class.  It was an excellent training!!  For more information you can click here

On Sunday I went to Nichelle and Mike’s ward and then they made dinner.  It was yummy Italian Chicken.  The brought it over to Carol’s to eat.  They then taught me how to play the game Munchkins. 

This morning I went out with my Mom.  We went to some bookstores and out to eat. We even went by the Bundt Cake Shop and bought some yummy dessert for tonight.  Tomorrow morning I am going to the temple with my Mom. We are then going to twirl our thumbs a little longer until we help Tennyson make his debut on Wednesday.  My next post will be pictures of my grandbaby!!!!!!

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Easter

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The morning started with a little egg decorating.

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I got the official dying job. I even did my traditional sun and lion. Yeah me!!!

We then watched conference and had a little dinner.

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We had ham, green bean casserole and funeral potatoes.  I was all excited to have Lion House Rolls that Nichelle and Mike gave me for Christmas.  I even had yummy homemade orange honey butter.  I had been looking forward to eating it for weeks.  When I got it out to make it I realized I had no yeast..I threw it out when I got the new fridge.  Dang!!!!!

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We then had the traditional scavenger  hunt for Easter baskets.  Eddie made the clues really hard this year so we even had to call Shaylin for some helpful tips.

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Finally success!!!!!

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Mike told us we had to eat the bunny butts first this year. So we did!!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Another Moment in Lori’s Lonny Life

We went to Nauvoo the other day and the kids really wanted to go into the school house to show their Dad how smart they were. They did pretty good on figuring out the phonetically spelled words. Then came the hard part ….math. So they each have a little chalk board to help them figure the problem out. The teacher starts with “there were 350 brick houses in Nauvoo” At this point Amanda needs to come sit by me so she knows what 350 looks like “There were 650 wood framed so write down 650” At this point Josh erases the 3 in 350 and changes it to a six to make 650. “There are 2,500 cabins. How many houses were in Nauvoo?” At this point the adding begins….Amanda is still trying to figure out what the numbers look like. Josh is trying his hardest to add even though 1 plus 6 plus 3 plus 5 equals 3. And Ashley was just pretending to be deep in thought erasing the whole time thinking we would not notice. Needless to say after Eddie and I rolled in hysterics we now really realize what we have.. All this after just finishing laughing because the lady asked what is Ohio known for and Ashley blurted out as fast as she could“Potatoes!”

(This picture is to remind us how old they really are)