C-O-U-G-S . . . Go Cougs!!!

C-O-U-G-A-R-S

THAT'S THE WAY WE SPELL THE BEST,

THE BEST,

COUGARS ARE THE BEST

GO COUGS!

 Friday morning {6 a.m. YIKES!} we packed into our car and headed over to Pullman, WA

to visit WSU and cheer on the Cougs in their first home game of the season.

Our last trip to Pullman was in 2008 when Alli was 18 months old, 

and we decided it was time to get all three of the little fish over there.

While the 5 hour drive is never fun, the kiddos did a remarkable job, yeah for DVDs!
On the drive over, they watched McKenna (new American Girl movie) twice,
as well as Toy Story and Peter Pan.  They did not sleep at all!
Poor Luke was exhausted but didn't give into sleep until the evening.

The weather was fabulous ~ sunny and 80s ~ and the kiddos loved WSU.

Looks like we now have three CITs {i.e. Cougs in training}

Meeting Butch T Cougar was a huge highlight of the trip!

So was ice cream at Ferdinand's ~ we had to go there twice.

 Mommy wised up by the second trip and ordered Eli his own shake 

since he and Luke polished mine off the first day ;-)

All three munchkins also enjoyed some "Cougar treats" that Mommy and Eli made before our trip.

 {red rice krispy treats dipped in mint dark chocolate}

Another highlight was seeing Nathan and Brent, who Eli has informed us are his very best friends!

 Nathan and Brent were over visiting a friend and were kind enough to make time 

to play with the kids, who loved every minute of it!

Of course, the biggest highlight of the trip was watching the Cougs win their first home game!

Eli was so excited to see some Cougars, as he had spent the whole trip looking for Cougars ;-)

Although he had a few meltdowns during the game, he did pretty well and LOVED the binoculars.

Alli was the perfect little cheerleader for the Cougs & very concerned about any player who appeared hurt.

Even Luke got into cheering for the Cougs and practicing his "touchdown" pose!

By the end of the game, poor Luke was done for . . .

No idea how that could be comfortable but he was out!!!
Kept sleeping even when I put him in the car seat.

The long day did not wear out Eli, who was full of energy on the walk back to the car and had to stop to do some tumbling in the grass with Daddy before catching a ride on Daddy's shoulders.

We are exhausted but had a fabulous trip and are already looking forward to the next one!

This photos screams Christmas card pic doesn't it???? ;-)

Changing times :)

Since we've been at this for awhile, I decided it was high time to change the look of the site.  Given that we just spent the past weekend in Pullman for the the WSU Homecoming festivities, I decided to go for a Cougar theme.  Probably won't last too long (particularly since PLU's homecoming is soon!) but I'm sure the Fishers will be thrilled as it works toward their brainwashing of Alli ("Cougars are the best, you want to be a Coug . . . ")  In all seriousness, we had a such a fabulous weekend over there.  Alli was great on both the drive over and drive back. We, of course, planned to be driving when she would be sleeping ~ such sneaky parents we are!  We arrived late Friday night and woke up early on Saturday to a beautiful, warm, sunny day.

Perfect for watching Zach play in the Alumni vs. Students baseball game. The Alumni lost but only by 1 run and Zach pictched very well ~ 88 mph!!! We had so much fun watching him play again. We took Alli for a walk around parts of the campus, enjoyed some ice cream and then on to the football game. Cougs didn't do so well (63 - 14 ~ ouch!) but they were not expected to so no one was too disappointed. We had a great time in the stands and Alli made it to half time ~ we were thrilled she lasted that long!

Overall, the move to WA has been even better than we hoped or could have expected. We are enjoying being close to the family and are thrilled to see Alli bonding with everyone. She is loving all of her g-ma time! I'm still enjoying the commute to Boston.  It really is not too bad and I find I actually get to spend far more time with Alli than I did when we lived in MA.  Fortunately, it is working well for my work as well so I figure I will keep it up for as long as it is feasible.  Garrett is really enjoying his position at Honeywell. As much as he (and I) enjoyed being part of the Air Force, this is the first time in 8 years that he is excited by his work and it is AWESOME to see and hear this!  Being the go getter that he is, Garrett has begun taking accounting classes at UW.  Although he has his MBA in Finance, he is hoping to ultimately sit for the CPA exam and needs a few more accounting classes before he can do so.  So far, he is enjoying his class.  I find it interesting because with being a securities attorney, I deal with accounting issues constantly and now I can actually have an intelligent conversation with my husband about this ~ woo hoo!  While he was getting his MBA and talking to me about issues, it always went right over my head. But now, I'm actually able to explain some things to him Who would have thought that would ever happen???

As for pictures of the house, I promise to get some up soon. I just want to finish a few more things. More updates soon . . .