the best sister, the best bag

I just have to say, my sister is the bomb. She is the cheese to my macaroni. When we were in Richmond there was a cute little baby store in Carytown called "It's Hip to be Round" where I saw the ultimate diaper bag. However, it was very expensive and out of my price range at the time. Of course she remembered and when they had a sale she bought it for me! YAY! I cannot say enough how much I love this bag. If you have a Petunia Pickle Bottom bag, you already know that they are the bomb-diggity, but for those of you who don't, check it out:

I know. Isn't it the best? Tonight I will probably comb over ever inch of it, find every feature and pocket, and stuff it with many amazing things... maybe sleep with it because I can't part with it right now. The next time you see me, I'll be toting diapers in extreme style, but don't be jealous, just know I have the best sister in the world.

published!

Yay! Threadless approved the picture and we're on! If you need Brenner for any of your modeling needs, you know, any magazines or movies, just call me and we'll discuss the fees.
Here is the link to his amazing shot: http://www.threadless.com/profile/656665/emfonz/photos/132938

Model B.

During Christmas time I stumbled on a really unique t-shirt company called Threadless that I really enjoy. This is the way it works: artists design and submit their artwork to become a t-shirt, then Threadless makes the design available in any t-shirt size, long-sleeved or hoody, and sometimes in kids sizes and onesies. After you buy a shirt, you take a picture of yourself wearing it and submit the pic to the company. They review it and pick which one they like the best and then they display it for the shirt's advertisement! So basically anyone can be a supermodel and I think that's great. (And if they pick yours you get points that go towards merchandise-sweet!)


So anyway for Christmas I bought some of my family these shirts, and today I finally got around to taking some pictures of B in his, and submitted one. Here are some of my favorites:

As I'm sure you can imagine, he wasn't too thrilled about his glamour shots but cooperated pretty well once I gave him some granola bar. The middle picture is the one I submitted. I liked the one of him biting the shirt but it didn't fit in their window well enough.
This is a really fun site, I highly recommend it to anyone, if not to buy, then to just check it out and have a good laugh, because there are some really funny and creative designs. So take a peek: threadless.com

Weekend Update With the Fonnesbecks

Well it has been a good President's Day weekend. Friday night we went to Salt Lake and Travis and I were able to have our Valentine's day dinner while Grandma and Grandpa Ballou watched the boy. We went to the Gateway to get my iphone replaced and got Trav some hunting stuff from Dick's with his birthday money, 50% off which he was very happy about. Then we wanted some sushi so we went over to Happy Sumo, which OF COURSE had a huge long wait. I really like that place but the wait is ridiculous, I think they should have built a bigger establishment. Anyway we decided to expand our horizons and go to Ichiban Sushi on about 3rd S and 400 E. I had never been there but my all knowing sister- queen of the Salt Lake sushi scene- told us it was good. After eating there Trav and I both agree that good is an understatement, and since our favorite restaurant closed (Pierpont Cafe) then Ichiban is our new replacement. If you go, try the Mars roll and the Ichiban roll. YUM. Saturday we dorked around in Salt Lake, Nancy and I had sad toes so we got pedicures. (Meg our toes are missing yours) Then we went to to Dinner with my Mom and Craig for Trav's birthday. Brenner was a little devil the whole time and then we went home! Whew!
I'm sure some of you know, but for those that don't, Travis and I are nursery workers, and when I say workers, I mean slave laborers. We have over 56 nursery age children in our ward, and that is why we have 3 nurseries. Travis and I work with another couple in the "middle" nursery, which is the oldest kids in the Jr and youngest of the Senior. It's a fun job but it is a challenge. We have some kids that cry, and when they do, liquid comes out every where on their cute little faces. When we get home from church, we throw our clothes immediately in the hamper and wash our hands up to our elbows- just a standard precautionary procedure, as recommended by the Primary Presidency. We had a good group on Sunday though, not too many criers.
Monday we went swimming at a hot springs in Idaho with Travis' extended family, which was fun, Brenner loved it and I'm sad I didn't get any pictures. Yesterday we went to a wedding all day, one of Travis' friends from high school, and then I made friends with him while I was a freshamn in college. I love weddings, and maybe that's the girly girl in me but they are so fun, especially when you're invited to the wedding, the luncheon, and the whole shabang. It was a really beautiful wedding and the food was great so no complaints. Good job Brett and Tiara.
So that's it, we had a great weekend spent with family and friends. What more could you ask for?

hivey

It seems like it's always something doesn't it? Yesterday I got home from school and Travis told me he was a little worried that Brenner was having another allergic reaction to his antibiotics. So we stripped him down to take a look. Sure enough he had hives all over his upper arms, the back of his neck and on his little round belly. Unbelieveable. This is what the doctor (not his regular, some other guy) told us when he prescribed the medicine for his ear infection "Well it's a very distant cousin to Penicillin, there's only about a 5% chance of him having a reaction, and if he does, it really limits our ability to treat him."

Here is Brenner's history with penicillin, he was about 10 months old at the time:

Enough said right?

So once again we get steriods to tame down the hives and we're off to the races. They were a lot different looking than last time, more scary but less of them. Of course he was still a happy camper throughout the whole ordeal, although he cries now when the doctor comes into the exam room and is always quick to say a tearful "bye bye". We were able to get in to see his regular doctor too, which is nice. He was about as sad as me that Brenner was having a reaction, but reassured me that in the future we can give him other medicines and everything will be just fine.

He's doing well today, the hives are almost completely gone, I wish I would have taken a picture lastnight but the camera was in the car....

So that's the latest with the Fonnesbeck family. Brenner is running full speed around the house today begging me to put on "pumba" which is his name for The Lion King. Travis bought in Linkin' Logs today, we'll see how long they last and stay together on one bucket.

Whew! Two posts in one week! I didn't think I was up to it but I decided I needed to vent a little.

blog virgin

Well here we go, my first blog. I figured since I'm kind of obsessed with checking other's blogs every day, then maybe someone else out there would enjoy reading what I have to say, even if it's only my Moms.
I just got back from driving across the country with Megan, my sister, ending up in Richmond Virginia. She was moving for fun and a change of scenery, so she needed her car and someone to go with her to make sure she didn't get kidnapped. We had a really good time, and I must admit the drive wasn't that bad. we left Thursday afternoon and got to the Vail pass in Colorado by about 10:00. Approaching the canyon, there were many flashing lights and signs that said "CHAINS REQUIRED. ENFORCED" Well we really didn't know what to think about that so after asking some questions and getting incredulous looks, we were pointed in the direction of the local Wal-Mart, where we purchased chains. Now here's the part that didn't work out so well: Neither of us had ever seen someone put chains on, let alone tried it ourselves. So after a freezing attempt, we decided to throw the chains in the trunk and head up the canyon, stopping if we thought we needed them. Thank goodness there was a friendly policeman at the mouth of the canyon! This is how our conversation went (we'll call the friendly policeman FPM)
me: "Hi, could you help us put chains on our tires? We don't know how."
FPM: "Oh that's only for the truckers, you'll be fine."
me thinking to myself- wow we just wasted an hour and 40 bucks on these chains that we don't even need!
FPM: "Where ya from?"
me: "Utah"
FPM "Then what ya worried about?! Get in the car and get up there." (This was said to us like we were a couple of idiots)
me: no comment, just got in the car.
So we made it through the pass with no problem and we spent the night in Denver. The next day we got up early and headed ino Kansas. Now in my opinon, Kansas is a hellish state. The speed limit is 70 the whole way through, and it is very barren and empty. Also every time we stopped it felt like we were on some alien planet and got stared a by freaky people. No offense to people living in Kansas or from Kansas but I really don't like it there. The rest of the trip was relatively uneventful, we stopped in St. Louis which was beautiful and fun, also Louisville was very nice. We got to Richmond on Sunday afternoon (and found Eric and Nicole's house all by ourselves might I add) Monday we shopped in Carytown and all got coordinating purple shirts, a picture which I'll post later. On the flight home I missed my connection and they lost my bag, but delivered it Wednesay, so that was good. The problem is that my makeup was missing, which I'm really sad about because it was all my favorite most expensive stuff. So I'm filing a claim to Delta and I guess we'll just see what happens. Anyway I'm home and back to school and most important, back to Brenner and Travis. So that's all for today, I'm new at this so bear with me. I thought I would post this picture of Brenner because I think it's so funny.