Happy New Year

Happy New Year to All from the Fernets!!Be sure to check the latest video below to the right too. Before playing it, mute the background music playing at the bottom of the the page so you can hear the kids. Have a great night!

Few Random Christmas Pics

Christmas in the Fernet household was amazing as usual. Santa was very, very nice to the kids and brought just about everything on their lists (and then some). We had a wonderful morning at the house opening gifts and having some yummy breakfast before heading to NY to visit family.
Then it was off to Nana Sicko's house to visit with family and have a delicious turkey dinner. Here are Hailey & Cayden relaxing before present time....Next stop...Gramma & Grampa's. The cousin fest was crazy with wrapping paper and presents flying no matter how much we tried to slow them down. They had a blast...

Holiday House

The kids enjoyed the 6 or so inches we had this morning. They've been having a nice lazy day in their pjs. Once I finished the calendars we decided to tackle a rice crispy gingerbread house. We had a lot of fun and really tried although it ended up being a race to see if mommy was going to get a quick picture before we had a complete cave in...hahaha. As you can see the kids didn't mind and were anxiously waiting for the go ahead to eat something....ANYTHING. Fun memories!!

Santa visits!

We had a nice afternoon visiting with the Martinelli's and the kids had a surprise visitor....Santa!! He got a ride from his firefighter friends on the fire truck again this year and stopped by with some Christmas wishes & toys for the kids...The kids all enjoyed their gifts and then we moved onto candy necklace making..

Yummy!

They made some ornaments too before it was time to call it a night. I have to say its one of the most relaxing afternoons we've had in awhile. So sorry the slick roads kept the LeVasseurs away...but we will catch up with them soon!!!

He's Here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our newest nephew has finally arrived!! Joey was born at 5:18pm today - 8.5 lbs and 20 3/4 inches. Congratulations to Joe & Tina...he is absolutely adorable!! We hope the next 2 weeks go quick so we can meet him in person. Love to all!

2nd Snow

Been a rough week for the Fernets. Started last Saturday with Kylie getting Strep #2 for the year. She's been taking the antibiotics for that all week...almost done. Then there was Noah coming down with mysterious bug bite/pimple looking things on his bum on Thursday. Ended up being a bacterial infection so he's on oral and cream antibiotics. Now we have Jason with a fever last night and today. Took him to the dr today and found out that he's got strep now too. So I've got 3 down and out on antibiotics over here....iyiyiyiyiyiy.

The bright spot was spending some time outside with the 2 munchkins with some awesome packing snow that fell yesterday/last night. This is the first time in a really long time that it was pretty easy to make a snowman. We each took a tier and rolled them all over the yard to make them "huge". I think we were outside for a couple hours, but the results were worth it. Checkout below:

Off to finish making dinner and enjoy a relaxing night (I hope). Also have tomorrow off which I'm looking forward to a nice quiet day at home by myself to do whatever I want!!!!

Thanksgiving & Black Friday

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. In tradition we woke up and Jason went to grab the newspapers so we could go through the black friday ads. Dawn and I were like 2 little kids on Christmas morning as we plowed through each ad multiple times making our lists. We watched the parade and then headed to Nana's for dinner number 1 with my family. The food was delicious as usual and then we celebrated the December birthdays while we were all together. Many thanks again to everyone for the gifts and cards. We left there and headed to the JoAnne's house for dinner #2 with Jason's family. Yummy goodies again...I think I gained 5 lbs overall, but we had the perfect plan for working that off.

Dawn and I woke up early and met my mom & my cousin's wife Laura Friday at 3am (Toys R Us). We continued to shop from store to store to store. Grabbed a lot of great deals and finished at least 75% of my shopping. We stopped around 7am for breakfast a Friendly's. Mom and Laura were done by about 11am, but Dawn and I weren't quite ready to quite. Hit another store or 2 then refueled with a quick lunch at Taco Bell. Went to pickup JoAnne and then continue on our shopping adventure. We finally finished (crashed from exhaustion) at 5pm....14 hours!!! A new record. It was so much fun getting to spend such a fun day with some of my favorite girls!! Can't wait for next year!!

Trip to NYC

Ok so I'm far behind again and getting yelled at...haha. Lets go back to November and our really fun trip to NYC. It was my mom, Hailey, Kylie, Dawn, myself, Jason & Noah. We took the train into the city and met Dawn at American Girl (the boys headed up to Museum of Natural History rather than spending hours in a "girly" store). We shopped for a long time and the girls had lots of fun. Kylie & Hailey also got to have their dolls ears pierced which they were excited about. Then it was onto our special lunch at the American Girl Cafe. Here is a picture...isn't it super cute???Kylie & Allison waiting to order their food. They had little chairs that attached to the table for the dolls and brought them their own little black/white saucers and tea cups.
Birthday girl Hailey with Megan...
How cute is this food?? Kylie ordered the "Bitty Bites" shown below. If you aren't familiar with American girl they call their baby dolls Bitty Babies and their toddler dolls the Bitty Twins...
Hailey was admiring the Fruit Kabobs in which the fruit was all cut into different shapes...
This was my yummy lunch that Dawn guilted me into...and I was happy she did. I planned to get the chicken fingers, but she called me boring and predictable so I had to venture out to the chicken pot pie and chicken/cheese rollup...soo good!!
This was the dessert plate we all got....again...sooooo cute. Flower pot was chocolate mousse with cookie crumbs, a snowflake cookie and white heart shaped cake. Delicious!!
Mommy & Kylie after the American Girl adventure. She loves to shop....at least when its for her...haha.
We met Daddy & Noah down at build a bear when Noah made a new dino - "Claws" They are here making a birth certificate for him.
Then it was onto Toys R Us which was absolutely mobbed. Noah got to see the big T Rex and got to meet Spiderman so he was a happy little man.
In the end we were all exhausted, but it was a perfect day. The weather was amazing for late November and everyone was in good spirits most of the day. Can't wait for the next trip down.