Life with Bug, Bean and the Boy

Nothing too new and exciting to post today, but I thought I would load up some of the latest pics of our little bundle. We have more pictures after 2 months with her than we do after 2 years of being married- awesome!! And for all you family and friends who are keeping tabs on the Kettenring's on The Web page, I promise I will have new galleries and info up soon...really...I swear....


you are my sunshine....my only sunshine....



ready to hit the road!

Play time...see you all soon!!

If anyone happened to be reading our posts, I figured we should post an update. Our house didn't blow up- it just turns out the previous residents never put a filter in the furnace, so God knows how many years of dust and ick had built up on the blower motor. What we smelled was it about to smolder, or burn out the motor. Luckily we had turned everything down and saved the motor from burning out. A quick filter and all is set. No pics to add, as I am posting from Ohio- we dropped Shannon and Amelia at her parents as I was in Montreal the last 3 days meeting with the new team of folks who bought our company. Good meeting, good folks- it is a REAL business, so it is nice to be in a real professional environment again.
On the baby front, she has been a smiling, cooing, holding her head up beauty for the last several weeks. Her 2 month shots went better than expected, I had to look her in the eye while someone hurt her, which broke me inside, but then after about 3 minutes she dozed off and slept all day. She is a good kid- we ask a lot of her with our hectic schedules and constantly having to travel and be out and about. She handles it all better than we deserve. She is amazing....

I'm sure there will be much much more to post soon, but for now that is it.

It is 11:30 on a Thursday nite- do you know where the Kettenrings are? You would hope we are snug at home settling down for the night- you would be wrong, but you can still hope. Nope, here we sit at a hotel out at Hamburg for the night. Why you may ask? Because the Kettenring curse has struck again. It seems just when we are recovering from one annoyance/pain/emergency/money pit, another strikes.
Around 7 PM this evening our furnace began emitting a wonderful burning/smoking smell. I said to my self, self...that ain't right. It was severe enough that it woke up Shannon, who had been dealing with a major headache and nausea all day, from a deep sleep. We made some calls to the rents, and to my uncle who is a plumber and used to work in HVAC and we were advised the furnace may be busted and may be filling our house with carbon monoxide- perhaps the reason for her sudden blinding headache and nausea?. Awesome. So we grab up the baby and our gear and head out on a little family adventure. After everything we have dealt with lately, we are actually laughing about this and I think we have finally just given up trying to figure it all out. I will recap more later, but here's a little look back at the last 9 months or so for us (the birth of our beautiful baby trumps all this pain, but I just feel the need to share the sheer lunacy of all that has happened)
May- my truck needs new brakes. $400
June- the Rodeo we have had less than a year dies on Shannon in the pouring rain on New Circle Road. No one stops to help the pregnant lady in the downpour. New alternator-$400
August- the Rodeo's glitchs continue, we begin looking at getting a new ride.
September- we trade it on on our Durango which, knock on wood, to this point has been great.
October- my truck's clutch goes out. A full repair would be $1500. We can get by with fixing the cylinders only for now- $450
January 15th or so- right outside my office, my truck throws a rod, blows the engine and leaks oil all over the road. After 8 years, 209,000 miles and a lot of fun, she has died.
One week later-it is announced my company has been bought..job security is scary, but seems hopeful still. (ask me on Monday for sure)
One week after that- our house blows up.
I am sure there is more, but for now...you see what I mean