Thanksgiving in Spokane

We all had the opportunity to visit all of the "Fenn girls" who just happened to be in the same spot at the same time....in Spokane! Kristin, Jesse and Landon opened their house and oven to the Fenn's for an early Thanksgiving feast. Kerri flew up from Long Beach, Ca, Kimmy and her friend Tony drove over from Tacoma and the rest of the 4 Fenns drove over on Saturday. Snoqualime Pass was very pretty and we got to experience a good snowstorm to the delight of Nikki and Lindsay. Kerri took a week off and was able to visit with Kristin & Jesse and once we arrived to babysit, they all went out to see that new vampire/wolf/love story movie. Jesse and I enjoyed watching the Seattle Sea Slugs loose on Sunday and at the same time, enjoy 3 plates of "slow turkey", potatoes, cow slobber (pistachio jello jiggly desert), black olives, yams, gravy, dressing and the red stuff I don't like (cranberry sauce). I made up for that with a piece of huckleberry/apple pie and pumpkin pie. We ended up taking a lot of video's of Landon, who is walking all over the place now! Kristin has now lost control! She and Kerri will be sending some pictures soon and we will add them to the blog.

Okay, I'm tired of the rain. I need to find a Navy job somewhere there is warm weather, aqua colored water lapping up on the beach, an endless supply of fruity rum drinks for Kelly and I, a fast food drive through that actually gets the order right, a tire shop that is "fair and balanced" and a 5g network that allows me to talk on the cell phone inside of a building. Here is a good idea, let's save money on sending rockets to Mars or crashing a perfectly good rocket into the Moon to see if there is a dust cloud AND give me a car that gets 100 MPG using good ole gas and a cell phone that works! It's not that hard!

Sorry...I must need a nap....

Chewelah Golf Course Property

We have purchased property next to Noel and Nancy Johnson (Kelly's parents) on the 3rd green. The lot is a perfect size, has power and water already and is begging the Fenn's to start planting flowers. We have recently had a small gravel driveway put in so we can park our 5th wheel while visiting the family and planning our "house". We plan on putting in the septic next year and build within the next 4 years, the Navy willing. I have a very good job with the Navy here at Ft Lewis and just have been asked to extend another year. That will be very helpful in paying off the property and helping build our home. While staying in Chewelah, we are able to park in the Johnson driveway. With the trailer at 40 feet, I really have to be careful when backing into that perfect spot. Kelly and the girls don't watch anymore and quickly exit the truck before backing and head for either "high ground" or a bunker.

Trip to Mt St Helens

In July, we had to take a visit to Mt St Helens. She attempted to interrupt the Fenn Wedding by erupting 6 days before we were married in 1980. Even a volcano could not stop us from getting married! or ever forgetting our anniversary! We walked out to an observation point to get some better photos but the girls soon were tired and "thirsty". Although it was in the high 70's, it was very dry for the coast and we were not really prepared. Next time, we will be and plan on taking the 1.5 mile jaunt to another observation point near the base of the mountain. All in all it was a fun day and we will be back again.

October in Olympia

I have no idea where the summer went but it is gone for sure! I kept saying we'd update the blog tomorrow, next week, on Saturday, after my hair turns naturally brown or when Kelly is pregnant again. Well, none of that happened so here we are in October. The girls have started their schooling here at home and Awana at church, that along with a YMCA membership and a homeschool co-op on Fridays and we are busy once again.

Kristin, Jesse and Landon "David" visited us on Monday and Tuesday. We had fun playing with the grandson, who crawls all over the place! We all went to the Olympia Children's Museum, where Landon got to explore all kinds of new "things". We are planning at trip to the Spokane area next week to work on our property, do some painting at grandpa's house, visit with grandma Fenn and see how Landon is doing at "walking".

More photos to follow!

Trip to Chewelah

Our family travelled to visit the in-laws, swim in a pool in Moses Lake, go to Kelly's 30 (THIRTY) year class reunion, eat huckleberries, have fun at Riverfront Park with Landon, golf with Grandpa and put a down payment on some property right next to Grandpa and Grandma's! We also celebrated Lindsay's 8th birthday and had my Mom and family friends, Dave & Marla stop in as well. We really enjoy the Chewelah area and once the property is paid off, we plan on building our retirement home. Oh yeah, back to that class reunion photo...my bride is the "most beautiful woman" in the whole world, front row, far left. She hasn't changed a bit from high school, but some in the class can't make that statement. More photos to follow!

July 4th

It was an "hot" day here in Western Washington and in the low 90's. We will take any day here when it is not raining, windy or the freeway is backed up all the way to Portland! We drove out to a church camp where Nikki will be staying for a week, so we could see just how beautiful the area was and so I knew where I was going to take her tomorrow. We decided to stay close to home in the evening and watched everyones "money go up in smoke". Our RV park is adjacent to an Indian reservation, so there was lots of explosions and bottle rockets most of the night, but the girls enjoyed the sights! We are in the final stages of planning our trip to Chewelah. Kelly's 30 year class reunion is on the 17-18th in Republic, so we plan on heading over to Chewelah for a week, with a stop in Moses Lake going and a stop at Clear Lake on the way back.

Kerri's visit

Kerri stopped by to visit on Thursday, a day earlier than Jay enroute to the Winterstein Family reunion. The girls slept in to 0930 hours, until I mustered then on the port side bridge wing. We had a fun day of visiting, taking pictures, eating, laughing and playing a monster game of "Uno". She will be back on Monday to stay the night before traveling back to Long Beach, CA on Tuesday morning.

Tolmie State Park

After church today, we headed to Tolmie State Park which is a 15 min drive from our RV Estates. It was low tide and Lindsays favorite time of the day! She would stay out in the surf chasing crabs all afternoon if we let her. Nikki found a rather large sand dollar and waded out into the "deep" water. She wanted to use her boogie board but the waves just were not big enough today. We will come back again soon and next time, we will plan on bringing a lunch and some friends!

Landon Morris

Kelly and the girls just had to go visit their nephew, Landon last week. The weather turned out great in Spokane and Landon had some fun playing with the girls! He is growing so fast, he will be driving his motorcycle soon right along with his dad.

Okay, it's been awhile since we posted something on our blog, however the Fenns have been busy. As you might now notice, we have a new home. We decided to upgrade to a better built, warmer and for the liberals that read this blog, a more "non-global warming RV". Yeah, your right, it is more expensive. Kelly and the girls like the "stuff" it has, basically more girl things....larger refrigerator, convection oven, larger stove, full size sink, a fully furnished bathroom and corian counter tops. I'm more partial to the load range G tires at 110 psi, the larger storage capacity in the "basement" and the easy sewer connections. Yep, its all about how to get rid of the sewer water in style! Did I mention the automatic awning, slides and rear jacks? Yeah, with the push of a button I can close a slide and hide one of the girls for several hours if they need "time out"..hee, hee, please don't tell DSHS..

Oh, did I mention our truck is now white? Well, that's because President Obama's GM company went broke. My brown truck has been at the dealer in Tacoma for 3 1/2 weeks waiting for parts to make the "engine run". I've been told the parts vendors are not shipping anything to GM (or whatever its called now) and I could be waiting for some time. Wonderful news! Hey, don't buy GM, buy one of those noisy Ford or Dodge diesel's! On the bright side we are not traveling full time right now or we could be stuck in Buffalo, WY. I guess that wouldn't be too bad though, as we did enjoy what parts of WY we did see.

More to follow....