Hi

A few excited things have been occuring at the Fennell household. First off, Ryan and I went on a date this past Saturday night. We went to Roller Derby!!!!! Yes, very interesting and fun. I think I am trying out next Saturday. The only thing is I can barely walk on my own two feet much less with wheels on the bottom. We went out to dinner before at the Saltgrass. It is one of the only restaurants close to the new arena. They just recently moved the Roller Derby from down in the Washington St area up northside. We went with Chris Homer too and some of Ryan's work friends. Tootie and Chad her boyfriend came to babysit. My parents were so crushed they were not asked to babysit, they came over anyways. So there were 4 people watching Guen, that spoiled girl. The weekend before was Tootie's birthday. We had a delcious homemade lunch prepared by mom and opened prezzies. It was a good time and my sister Missy came into town too so it was great. This past Sunday was Guen's first Easter egg hunt and, boy, did she catch on real quick. It was with our Sunday school group at a park by our house. The weather was perfect!!! Here are some pics to keep you occupied til next write. Love, Liz

Wowzers!

It is been exactly a month since I posted. I need to get on the ball cause I have no excuse. I guess it is that not much is going on recently that has been exciting enough to post. But on Sunday, my sweet girl turned 18 months. She is getting so big and has mastered many words. Of course these words are hard to understand unless you are around her a bunch. She knows: park, bus, school, mailman, Elmo, ball, please, bird, moo, baaa, ruff, mama, dada, papaw, memaw, more, hi, hey, car and her favorite word --no. She loves to eat meat, cheese and any kind of carb. She loves to brush her teeth. She know most of her body parts especially her belly button, she loves to show that. When I am off, we go to the park almost daily. She wears a 6.5 shoe. She had her 18 month checkup and is 75% in height and weight and 90% in head circumference. That comes from the side of the Mears family. We have gone to the zoo and out to eat a few times recently and she was well behaved.

About us....My vanpool to Texas Childrens, that I have used for 3 years, was nixed due to the economy, the hospital took it away. I am now driving myself starting April 1st and really want to find a job at Methodist Willowbrook which is 5 minutes away from my house when their NICU expands this fall. Ryan is still having aches/pains with his back 6 months post op so we went back to his surgeon and had back xrays again. Basically he believes that his back is healed but it is just going to take longer for the nerves to rejuvenate and gave him another course of steriods. He said that if his back continues to feel the way it does at a year mark that he can do a CT scan. He offered to do it now but he truly feels like it is healed. He offered physical therapy but says that Ryan is doing all the right things with his exercising so if we did not want to do it, that would be fine. So we are just saying our prayers that he will feel better with time. Here are some pics to tied you over til next month unless something crazy exciting happens this month. It is my sister's birthday this coming weekend so there may be another post sooner than later.