Here is my first picture with Tennyson. he is cuter than you can imagine.
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.
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!
Mike was not happy!
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.
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!
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:(
Tennyson even helped Nichelle out.
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.
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!!!!!!
The morning started with a little egg decorating.
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.
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!!!!!
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.
Finally success!!!!!
Mike told us we had to eat the bunny butts first this year. So we did!!
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)
Ok so here it is the long awaited unveiling of the new refrigerator. Our old fridge has pretty much been broken for 2 1/2 years now and we finally decided it was ready fir the grave. The shelves were falling out but that didn’t matter because you could only use 1 self anyway because the rest would freeze your food. So here are the pictures. Drum roll please……..
Shiny and new…
It even has a cool shelf for my diet drinks..
And, yes, it does crushed ice as well as cubed ice in the door!!!!
It was a sad reason for a trip, but it was wonderful to see the family. We left at about 4 PM on Wednesday for the long drive to Utah. We drove all the way to Kearney Nebraska arriving at about 1 AM. The next morning we were up bright and early to finish the trip to Utah. We arrived at around 6:30 PM and went by Grandma Stringham’s house. It was a lonely feeling not having her burst of energy meet us at the door. We spent a few minutes helping prepare the house for the funeral lunch. The lose of Grandma really began to sink in at this point.
On Friday we had a few extra minutes so we meet my parents at Crown Burger for lunch. The were able to bring McKayla and Trey which made the kids happy. Carol then met us there to take our kids to her house for a sleep over. The fry sauce was yummy but the company was even better!!!
That night we met Nichelle and Mike for dinner at the Cheese Cake Factory. We had to laugh because there just happened to be a Carter’s baby store right next to the restaurant. We knew the wait for a table would be long so Nichelle and Mike went a few minutes early to get our name on the waiting list. With that accomplished they went next door to Carter’s. They called us on the phone and told us there was an hour wait so to meet them at Carter’s. How convenient for them. Grandpa once again gladly pulled out his debit card to buy more clothes for Tennyson. He sure is going to be a well dressed kid.
Saturday was the funeral. It was a day full of love. Grandma was truly a lady who could bring her whole family together. the talks were perfect. Grandma wrote a short history of her life which was read. We laughed and cried reliving memories of Grandma. All of her Grandkids were there. We had the lunch at her house afterwards because grandma wanted to continue having her house be the center of her families life. It was great to see all of the cousins and siblings together. Even though it was a sad day as we will miss Grandma it was a comforting day being with family knowing we will all be together forever.
Next came the hard part. We had only been in Utah a little over 48 hours before we had to turn around and do the drive again. It was a very long drive but were blessed with great weather. We even made it home before going insane!!!
