Santa Pictures 09

Well, we finally had the formal picture with Santa! We tried to go Sunday night, but left when we saw the line that stretch into the Sears store! I thought I will just be her early on Monday morning, they opened at 9am so should be fine. Wrong, apparently I was not the only person with the idea of being first in line. I was there at 9:10 and the line was almost to Sears-UGH! I was not getting everyone dressed for a third time so we sucked it up and waited an hour. Finally to the big man in red! We had 2 minutes with him, but the kid’s expressions and the really great picture make it all worth it! Merry Christmas!!

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Bowling 1st quarter 09

Bowling just ended it's first quarter! I survived the humiliation of lossing weekly to women twice my age! It has really been so much fun and Avery and I are both looking forward to continuing in the new year. For the record my highest score so far is 135, so hoping to do better, but really just spending time with Grandma Marilyn and all the ladies is such a blast!

Signing Santa 09

Since I am working in a classroom again, Signing Santa was coming to visit! The Sertoma Club is a wonderful organization that has been doing this for years now! They are in with Santa and have one sent who is able to sign to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing kids. They make the rounds to all the local programs, so on Friday Avery and I had to visit my classroom at Lakeland as well as my old stomping ground of Zieger. It was great to see all the kids as they loved seeing Santa! Just another event that makes the season special! Avery was so cute with all the kids and she even signed "Thank-You" to Santa for her teddy bear.

Santa Breakfast 09

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Santa Breakfast 09

Last weekend we headed up to Lakeland Elementary. Kendall is in first grade there, because I also teach there part-time in the DHH classroom. So as she refers to it we went to "our" school for one the school's fundraisers. We bought tickets to have breakfast with Santa. The kids loved it! We had pancakes, ham and applesauce. We had our time with Santa and I even won a ham in the raffle we will be enjoying it on Christmas now!!!

It's Official

Congratulations to Jacqui and Chris who are officially engaged! The wedding planning has begun with the date set for June 2010! Chris is amazing and we can't wait for him to join the family. Congrats! We love you guys!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving 09

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Happy Thanksgiving 09

We had a great Thanksgiving! It originally started with me just cooking for the Fisher 5 and my mom coming up. Usually we have all went up to the cabin in Packwood for Christmas, but it has just become too much with Black Friday (Yes I go every year and love it) and now Apple Cup the same weekend. So later in the week the rest of the Fisher clan decided to join us for Thanksgiving! This was exciting to me since I had done Thanksgiving for 6 before it was going to be a challenge to do it for 11, but really it came out great and I have new confidence in my cooking abilities! After dinner we hit the bowling alley. Wow! The lanes at the Daffodil Bowl are really different from where I bowl weekly, Pacific Lanes. Our scores were not so great, but the kids and everyone had a ball!
Grandma Spencer stayed the night and watched the kids on Black Friday while Austin and I hit the stores at 4am, there was nothing I needed to start earlier than that! We finished our shopping and went to see New Moon, it was a nice relaxing and productive day. We spent the rest of weekend relaxing and watching the sad Apple Cup.

Epi-pens

Ok, so the kids go to the allergist every October for annual check-ups. They do some skin testing for the food allergies get flu shots if they don't react to bad and new perscriptions. Well this is the first year that instead of one kid I have two. Both Avery and Logan are allergic to Eggs and Nuts. The eggs is already getting better in Logan and most likely they both will out grow the eggs- YEAH! The nuts is probably a forever kind of thing--Sooooo every year I have to fill perscriptions for Epi-pens and weed out the expired ones. During Thankgsgiving I rounded up the pens and didn't think anything of it until someone pointed out the large quatities of adrenaline sitting on the counter, so I had to take a picture. Crazier is that this is not all of them- There are at least 8 more at Daycare, School and my purse!