Can You Guess?

Which one is older?

Back from "The Ick"

Sorry for the lack of posting lately...my entire family had "the ick" last week which got us all down. It was the pukey flu, so as you can imagine, it wasn't fun. But we all seem to be healed and back to normal.

Easter was pretty quiet this year for us. Unfortunately, my mother-in-law got the stomach bug from one of us and was down most of the weekend. It was quite chilly and spit snow. Morgan did get to Easter egg hunt at her great-grandparents' house and the whole Tenney clan was together on Saturday to watch the girls open their Easter baskets. It's lots of fun to see them together now that they can run and play with each other.

I have posted a few pictures in some previous posts of some of the things we have been doing. Now it's back to work and back to Ms. Ellen's for Morgan. April will be very busy for both Patrick and me at work...great another busy month!

Cousins

The girls got to spend a lot of time together over the past week. It was wonderful to see them together!

All in the Family

The Kids

Morgan and Big Pop


Daddies and Daughters

"Sisters"-in-law

Silly Girls

Easter Sunday

All dressed in her Easter Sunday best!

On the way to church

Morgan and Great-Aunt Lola

Hunting for Easter eggs

Found another!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Morgan's first theatre experience

All dressed up for the performance

I have my own seat!

What's the program say daddy?

Tonight we got the chance to begin exposing Morgan to "the arts". Patrick and I have been looking forward to taking her to see The Peking Acrobats since I bought the tickets last fall. I thought it would be flashy enough to keep her attention while still entertaining enough for Patrick and I not to want to slit our wrists (scenes from Barney and The Wiggles concerts we have seen on TV flew through my mind). Morgan made it through the first 45 minutes of the performance before having a total meltdown aided greatly by a) the fact that she had NO nap today, even though I left her in her room for over an hour by herself and b) the fact that the show started at 7:30 which is the normal time we start winding down for bed. Poor planning on Mama's part. She seemed to really like the performance at first, especially when the men were doing gymnastic moves on the floor. The slower portions where the women would show off how flexible they were didn't impress her much, although I quite enjoyed them. We left at intermission. I didn't want Patrick or myself to have to stand outside with her during the show and I figured since we came as a family and wanted this to be a family event that we should leave as a family.

We did see advertisements for Elmo Makes Music, which I am sure is very Barney-esque with show times at 10:30 AM and 2:00 PM, a much better fit for nap schedules. So while we learned very valuable lessons about planning events around sleeping, it was a good time, I believe, had by all.

29 and holding...

Happy Birthday to...well to me! Today is my REAL 29th birthday. My friend said it is the last birthday I will really have since I'll be 29 the rest of my life! My husband is just happy that I am now staring 30 in the face, something he has been doing for 3 months. HAHA. It hasn't been a real exciting birthday since I am in Louisville, KY by myself at a conference. I did treat myself to TGI Friday's for dinner and an early night of PJs and TV. Apparently the chefs at the hotel knew it was my birthday because they served the conference (400+ people) Boston Creme Pie cheesecake for dessert at lunch! It was good. I guess when you get to be in your late 2os birthdays just aren't as exciting anymore. But here's to another year, hopefully better health than last year, and lots of love and happiness before my next decade birthday!



Since I don't have pictures of what I did today, here are a few pictures of what Morgan did in my absence.

Happy Birthday Big Pop!

Today is Big Pop's 51st birthday. He is officially over 1/2 century old! Morgan got the chance to celebrate his birthday early this year with him. She had a great time and really loved her Big Pop!

Happy Birthday Charlie. Hope you get to do everything you want to do today.

Fun Food

Today for lunch my friends Amanda, Donna, and I went to IHOP. It's a no-meat Friday for me and Amanda said she woke up thinking about IHOP for lunch! Coinciding with the premier if Horton Hears a Who in movie theaters this weekend, IHOP is offering some special dishes. Amanda and I were brave enough to each try two of the 3 new dishes. We didn't try the green eggs (scrambled eggs and spinach) and ham for many good reasons. I had the Who-Cakes, which were super fun, delicious, and topped off with a bubble-gum flavored lollipop. Amanda tried a Beezle drink, which was Sprite with cubes of red and blue jello floating in it. Sounds gross, but tasted pretty good. And because you all know I carry my camera everywhere, here we are with our Whoville inspired dishes!

Amanda enjoying her Beezle drink.

Don't these look delicious? They were!

Dish Carnival

Today my friends Catherine and Alaina participated in an online dish carnival, hosted by Rocks in My Dryer. Not to be left out, I thought I would show you some of my dishes. I am not nearly sophisticated as my friends and don't have much to show, and unlike my friends I did not have time to take pretty pictures of my dishes, so you'll have to take what I found on the dishes' respective websites.



Our wedding china is a beautiful pattern, Dearborn by Noritake. It has delicate lighter blue flowers around the edges, but not so flowery that Patrick won't eat off of them. In fact, HE picked them out after I narrowed the thousands of choices down to three. We have 12 place settings given as a wedding gift from our friends in Belgium. They have not been out of the box or used in 5 years. They are currently sitting in my garage, and now that I think about it, I hope that what I think is in that box is ACTUALLY what is in the box! I had to sacrifice something to fit in our 900 sq ft home! Often I sit at my desk and dream about a beautiful china cabinet where I can display my dishes and actually have them available to USE. Ahhh, someday.




Our everyday dishes are Summer Breeze by Pfaltzgraff. I have 8 place settings plus many serving pieces. I also have the matching curtains, kitchen rug, and assorted hanging pieces in my kitchen. We stuck with the blue theme and mixed in the yellow. I enjoy all the fun things that Pfaltzgraff comes out with every few months to keep my kitchen fresh.




Finally, we do have 4 West Virginia University dishes by FiestaWare. They were a total splurge, but we use them on football game days when the team is out of town (we have season tickets for when they are here). Sadly there is no picture. Maybe some day I'll get a picture of them up here for you.

Happy Birthday Jeff!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little brother, Jeff. Today he turns 28 and for the next week we remain the same age. He always likes to remind me that I can't boss him around this week because we are the same age. I always remind him that we may be the same age, but in one week I'll be older again! For those of you doing the math, yes my mother had her babies less than a year apart. We are the only two she had. After having my own, I am beginning to see why!

Nannie's Big Birthday

Happy Birthday to NANNIE! She is celebrating a rather big birthday today, but I won't reveal which one because she'd kill me! HAHA. Morgan got to spend Nannie's special day with her, and she had such a good time.

March is "Birthday Month" in our house, so you'll be seeing a lot of our family in the coming posts!