San Diego Visit = F.U.N, fun!!!

It may have been 2 years since our last visit, but you would never know it by these two!

Seriously, they picked right back where they left off, as did the rest of the crew.

How adorable are these 7 cuties?

As a comparison, here they are the last time they were all together . . . 

They look so little and Lukey wasn't even born yet!!!

We have had the greatest visit with the Lynch family the last couple days.

Rather than try to do everything, we stayed at their house and played in the pool, 

having THE BEST time!!!

All three of the kiddos LOVED the pool and so did their parents!

There was a ledge that Lukey thought was the kiddie pool and he had a blast.

He even called it "Lukey's pool" ~ of course they built it just for him ;-)

 He finally jumped in and swam with Mommy.  I even got him to practice kicking, crab walking, blowing bubbles, floating on his back and jumping.  Woo hoo!!!

The girls were all so excited that I got in the pool they insisted on taking a picture :-)

As it turns out, Eli is quite the little fish and loved jumping in and diving.

He and Abigail played for hours diving for toys and jumping.

The kiddos got in the water first thing this morning and didn't get out until almost dinner time.

Lukey wanted a snack and then crashed while eating it by the chair ~ too cute!

After dinner, Mrs. Lynch was sweet enough to make brownies for Eli ~ he loved the attention!

Big sis thought this was pretty great too!

After all the swimming and fun, Eli crashed HARD after dinner.

The kiddos didn't miss a beat playing together this morning . . .

 Though they were not quite two the last time they saw each other, you would never know that by the way they took to each and played together all weekend!

Could these big sisters be any cuter???

Alli's joyful face completely sums up our weekend visit.

Thank you for an AMAZING visit Lynch fam!!!

For more San Diego pictures, check out our photo site.

Disnyland 2012: Getting Ready

We had been planning our Disneyland trip since February 2011 

so I had plenty of time to do lots of little projects for the family to make the trip extra special ;-)

To begin, t-shirts for the family . . .



Yes, everyone on the trip had one of these beauties, which we wore on the plane ride down.

I LOVED them and they were quite handy for finding our party ;-)



We also wore our snazzy red "Fisher Fam" shirts our final day in the park and the plane ride home.

For Alli, I designed a birthday shirt . . .

and sent all of her buddies somewhat matching shirts . . .

 The five little girls were so cute!

Aside from the shirts, I decided to put my crafty side to work and sew some reversible bags for the kids.

I wanted to be sure they had fun items to entertain them during the travel portions of our trip! 

I was very pleased with how these turned out and the kids loved their Mickey/Minnie bags!

I filled them with all things Disney . . .

 stickers, candy, playdoh, crayons, dry erase markers, and their new activity and autograph books.

Alli was soooooo excited with her goody bag and kept saying "thank you" over and over :-)

Inside the bags were two items I created over the past couple months and they were a huge hit . . .

Personalized autograph books for each of the kids (each character had its own page)

These were such a hit with our family and the characters!

So easy too, I downloaded free clip art and fonts, created it in MS PowerPoint, printed it at home and had it bound at Staples, cost me a total of $10 for both books ~ we spent more buying two character pens!!!

I also made both Alli and Eli their own activity book complete with coloring pages, games, learning worksheets, maps and more.  These were also a huge hit with the kids on the plane and at home!

I had to chuckle when someone told me, "you know you can just buy coloring books right?"

Yes, I know that but this was so much fun to do and the little fish loved it!

Tons more Disney posts to come so stay tuned!