Fair 2010

Well our trip to the fair was very short this year.  We planned on going on Wednesday since Kendall is out of school at noon and the weather was going to be great.  What we had not planned on was Avery continuing to get sick!  We thought it was just a cold, so we headed to the fair.  We had dinner of our usual favorites-corn dogs, burgers, and curly fries.  Then we hit the barns, petting zoo and stables to see all the animals.  In the petting zoo I thought Avery was never going to stop coughing! We washed up headed to the Pioneer ares for some hands on fun and then to get some ice-cream.  At that point we decided it was time to go home since A was still coughing.  The fair was short and sweet, but we still enjoyed ourselves, we will have next year to look forward to.

As for Avery, hate it when I am right, but it was not allergies she has fluid on her lungs beginnings of pneumonia and on antibiotics! 

Who's cat is it?

We have only had Yoda for about a month now, but can you guess who loves him????????????

Avery is so cute and evil with him!  She chases him, pulls his tail and ears all while smiling big, but he just lets her with no complaints, and when she is not around whose bed and blankets does he choose to cuddle with but hers!  It will be fun to watch the two of them grow!

Labor Day 2010

Gosh, I guess I am a little behind on the blogging, oh well.  The weekend after school started was Labor Day.  We decided we would stay home and finish up projects around the house before the rain comes.  So we did that, but on Sunday we joined our close friends the Marcele's to celebrate their new property! They purchased an amazing piece of property in Orting and will be building their dream house soon.  We had a BBQ, brought the trailer for all our needs and even had a bon fire with s'mores.  It was a great ending to the summer and we can't wait to see what the Marcele's do with their property!

School's in

Hard to believe but, September is here and the kids are going back to school! Kendall is off to second grade at a new school and Logan is officially in Kindergarten at St. Nicholas. I know everyone wonders where does the time go! Logan started school on Wednesday September 1st, 2010 and Kendall started on Tursday September 2nd, 2010!


Logan was thrilled to go back and see his old friends and Mrs. Adams!

Kendall was a little nervous, but also really excited to start her new school and make some new friends!

Here is to a great 2010-2011 school year!

Meet Yoda

Well after our vacation we were all pretty tried, but needed to gear up for Fall.  Kendall started soccer, we finished up school shopping, worked around the house, had a playdate with the Cyphers, Avery got sick with a horrible ear infection and the we got our new kitty- YODA!  He is a boy and about 8 weeks old.  We lost our last cat to a Coyote and we won't be declawing him.  Yoda will be an outdoor cat once the spring comes, but until then the kids are overjoyed to play with him!

So Cal Vaca Day 9 Disney

Well sadly, day 9 was our last day of vacation!  It was amazing, but we  conquered the parks so we decided today would be  kids choice.  Each one picked a ride or something they really wanted to do.  Kendall went on Screaming California again 4x total over the trip!  Logan wanted to do Buzz Lightryear again and happily for him Buzz was there!  Avery wanted to go see Minnie so we played some in Toon Town! We had packed up the car before we headed to the park, so we did the parks and then headed to the hotel to get the car. We left around 2ish ate "Linner" at Buca De Bippo and then headed to the Long Beach Airport!  On the way Austin and I were talking about how great and smooth the traveling had been!  What were we thinking!  We dropped off the rental car and headed into the terminal/portable to find out the flight was delayed for at least 2 hours due to mechanical difficulties!  Great- glad we ate so much because there is nothing at the Long Beach Airport!  We finally flew out at 9:30-the time we should of landed in Seattle.  We arrived in Seattle to an open ramp, picked up our stuff to find out we couldn't up to the main terminals without security clearance.  Since I am wanting to remember this trip happily without the nasty taint of Alaska, I will stop the story there, but let's just say I don't ever want to fly Alaska again!   All and all it was an amazing trip and I know we will be back to California again!

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So Cal Vaca Day 8 Disney

It is now day 8 and this was planned to be a long day!  We had lots to do-shopping, parades, rides, world of color and a rock star! It was our second to last day so I told the kids they needed to shop instead of looking because we didn't want to rush around looking for things on our last day, so shop they did! I had also made an appointment for Kendall to be transformed into a Rock Star and we had fastpasses to World of Color in the evening.  So we spent all day between the 2 parks only going to the hotel to drop off our purchases- one downside to not staying at a Disney hotel, but we got our exercise for sure that day walking over 20 miles according to my pedometer watch, which is really accurate :0) It was a long, but great day!

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So Cal Vaca Day 7 Disney

Day 7 of our trip to sunny southern California was pretty warm, somewhere around 92 degrees.  We started the day in Disney where we tried on several more hats before the kids decided on getting visors!  We then headed to the California park to finish up some rides and hit the Disney Playhouse Live show.  We ate tons that day and Avery found the Minnie Mouse she could not live with out.  It was perfect for her since it is a Minnie dressed up as Tinkerbell-Perfect.  After lots of treats, shows and rides we had done everything in California and the kids were dying for the pool so we spent the rest of the day in the pools!  Logan and Avery hung out with Dad in the kiddie pool and I watched Kendall swim in the deeper pool.

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So Cal Day 6 Disney

Well Sunday was our second day at Disney and I had planned a character breakfast to start things off. We ate at Minnie's Breakfast in the Park and saw lots of cool characters.  Since we finished breakfast about the same time the park opened we headed straight to Pixie Hollow to see Tinkerbell which normally had a huge line, but this time we only waited about 25 minutes.  We had to see Avery's favorite Tinkerbell! Then Austin and Kendall headed to the bobsled ride while I took A and L to get in line for the princesses.  The line moved faster than I thought so Kendall missed seeing Belle, but she was able to see Ariel and Tiana.  We then headed to California since it doesn't open til 10am we were there when it opened and spent the day with rides, parades and puddle parks! We were able to take another picture with Mickey which made me happy since we were all wearing our personalized shirts!  We also started our tradition of trying on all the different ears and hats!  At the end of the day we were watching a show and this man just kept staring at me! I was polite mad eye contact and smiled, but then the next time I looked up at him I started to get self conscious because he was looking at me and laughing then I realized Logan had moved from sitting on my lap to laying on the nasty floor almost asleep using me as a pillow- ok time to go! 

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So Cal day 5 Disneyland

Saturday was our first day of  Disney and because it was so crazy busy and honestly we were tired we took it a little easy.  We were there when the gates opened at 8am and headed to Fantasyland! We did all the rides there-Dumbo, Teacups, Canal Boats, Carousel etc. then we headed to Toontown.  I had made the kids autograph books so they were on the hunt for characters and we found them in Toontown and scored big with Mickey! Normally there is a huge line to see Mickey, but because there was not a big line people thought he was not there, so after making our way through his house we walked right up to him! Yeah which was great considering, we had just waited 20 minutes for Minnie-one of Avery's favorites. We did the rides there too and then headed to Jedi Training! Jedi Training was something I knew Logan would love, but didn't say too much about it since they pick kids from the audience at random and I had no control over weather either one of them would be picked.  We were there early and in the front row and thankfully they were both picked and loved it!  There is video in the slide show.  After Jedi Training we headed to Critter Country for sometime with pooh.  We meet Pooh and Rabbit, but at this point  I was starting to  feel claustrophobic with the mobs of people so we headed to lunch and back to the hotel for some pool time.   Avery took a 3 hour nap while the kids and I were in the pool! We still did quite a bit and had 4 more days to go!

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So Cal Vaca 2010 Day 4

Day 4 of our vacation was spent at SeaWorld finishing up what we had not seen yet.  We pretty much saved the best for last! The weather was really not that warm the whole time we were in San Diego, it was about 75, but not really swimming per say weather.  Austin and I decided to split going on the water rides so he got the shipwreck falls and I chose Atlantis, as you will see by pictures I did better on the deal :0)  So we started the day with shipwreck falls since there was no line.  We hit the tide pool pond and manta rays again as the kids just loved them and then it was time for what I was waiting for--dolphins!  We had to get in line right away as they only take so many people and you pay 6 bucks a person, but you get to feed the dolphins with a personal trainer there to tell you about them-Loved It!!  Then we hit the Shamu show-Believe, and it was great!  We then finished up with the Atlantis ride and just going through the things we had already seen but really enjoyed. We even poped in on a show about pets called Pets Rule-super cute. We finished up SeaWorld with some shopping, Logan bought his Shark and Avery her Shamu, but Kendall still was not parting with her money!  She bought a 4 dollar mood necklace and figures at Legoland and I thought she would buy the SeaWorld Barbie, but she decided that 30 dollars was way to much, too funny when she is spending her money she is a miser!  It was really fun to see the kids think so hard about their purchases.  At any rate SeaWorld was a wonderful time, but it was time to head to the happiest place on earth! So off we headed to Anaheim, it took a good 2 and a half hours, but we arrived and our hotel was nice! We ate dinner and then spent a couple of hours in the Downtown Disney area.

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So Cal Vaca 2010 Day 3

Ok, so we made it to day 3 and this was the day Logan was waiting for!  We headed to Legoland! Since Legoland was only a 20 minute drive and it did not open until 10am we were able to sleep in a little and rest up!  Truth be told I think I was as excited as Logan was to see the Lego creations!  We were there when it opened and although there are 3 parks- an aquarium, traditional Legoland and the new waterpark, we decided to just do the traditional Legoland.  The weather was not quit warm enough for the waterpark and we had seen so much when it came to sea life between the zoo and SeaWorld we just wanted legos and rides!  There are sculptures all throughout the park and by far Logan's favorite's were the star wars ones!  It was pretty busy so the lines where long, but because it is not that big we were able to do everything in a day.  The kids even watched a performance by the "Jump itz", they are the up and coming American version of the Wiggles.  The only down side to Legoland was that there was not as much for Avery to do, but she still had a good time.  Kendall and Logan built cars and raced them in one room of Legoland and Avery was able to play in the Duplo designed room.  We left mid-day for lunch outside of the park and to my surprise there was an outlet mall across the street with a Joe's Jeans outlet!  Score for me :0)  Logan spent over half his souvenir money at Legoland which I expected to have happened, but was hoping he would listen to reason so that melt downs didn't occur when hit the magical land of Disney. He and Kendall were able to built their own Lego characters for ten bucks and he bought a star wars kit and of course some swords! The highlight of the trip for Logan and Avery was them being picked for a show-it was soooo cute! The video is in the slideshow.  Logan had a sword fight and Avery was picked as a princess to judge the fights! She actually sat on stage for the whole 10 minutes in costume and all! Afterwards she had to buy a cool princess sword to play with.  Kendall loved the driving school where she learned to drive the car by herself and even has a license to prove it!  Legoland was a blast!

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So Cal Day 2

For our second day in San Diego we headed to the San Diego Zoo!  We were there right when the zoo open, and started the day with the bus tour.  The bus tour was really cool, it is a double decker bus and we sat on top, so we had a great view.  The tour covers 70% of the zoo and most of the animals were out so we felt like we accomplished a lot!  After the bus tour, we headed out to see the Pandas!  The San Diego Zoo is world renowned for it's Pandas and it can get really busy in their area because the amount of people who can come see them at one time is limited, because the Pandas are really bothered by noise.  We were lucky enough to walk right in! I asked the kids if there was an animal they really wanted to see? Logan wanted to see the snakes, Kendall wanted to see the Koalas and Avery wanted the monkeys.  We walk around the zoo, checking out all the animals, making sure we hit the kids requests. We did the play area and petting zoo too. We took the sky ride-Logan was terrified!  We stopped for lunch and the kids kept asking if we were going to SeaWorld?  The zoo was not as big of a hit as I thought it would be-guess we have created ride junkies and since the zoo lacked rides and we had seen all the animals it was time to go!  We left around 2:30 and headed to SeaWorld to finish up the night!
At SeaWorld we did a couple of rides and headed to the seal show!  It was super cute and the kids loved it! We did a few more exhibits too-starfish, manta ray, and the sea turtles.  Then we headed back to the hotel to rest up for Day 3!

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So Cal Vaca 2010 Day 1

August 10th- August 18th the Fisher clan descended on Southern California for an amazing vacation!  Since I take a ton of pictures I am breaking things up by the day and this will help me later remember for my scrapbook pages :0)  That said here we go! 
Day 1- August 10th 2010
We flew into San Diego around noon, the kids did great and traveling was better than I thought it would be.  We had 2 bags that we checked, 4 carry-ons, 3 car seats, and one stroller, Austin did great balancing everything on the cart!
We road the bus to pick up our rental car- the kids loved the bus ride!  We got a mini-van and the kids were disappointed to find out it did not have a DVD player since all the commercials on tv show mini-vans with DVD  players so all of them must come with a DVD player.  Those ad makers are doing a great job!
The van was loaded and off to the hotel we went.  We were a little disappointed in our hotel to be nice.  The staff was rude, and despite me telling them daily there were 5 people in the room we still had to ask for towels everyday and their idea of a suite is a joke!  It was basically a small hotel room with a partition sticking out of the wall.  Anyways, we were only a mile from the beach and Sea World and the first stop was Mission Beach!  We checked it out for a couple of hours and then headed to Sea world for the evening.  We did some rides, the blue horizons show and some of the exhibits.  We even saw the fireworks that night from our hotel room.  So day 1 was a great success!

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