Busy Getting Ready for the 'Lil Fish

What a busy weekend we have had! The babytizing of the Fisher residence has officially begun.

On Saturday, we picked up our princess' crib which was an adventure in itself. Picture this -- torrential downpour and windstorm going on and the box our crib comes in was way to HUGE to fit into our car. Uh oh. Luckily we were able to unpack the crib a bit to find that it was really three smaller boxes inside which we were able to somehow get inside the car. Aside from being drenched, we definitely dodged a bullet.

We also did some random shopping on Saturday and found yet another Halloween outfit (caterpillar) on sale for a price we couldn't resist.

So all in all, the little one is good to go for her first two Halloweens (huge relief to have that taken care of........). After we got home, we got the crib all assembled officially checking off that parenthood milestone making for a pretty great day. Saturday would later gain "perfect" day status when the Cougs spanked UCLA catapulting them into the top 25 (AP) for the first time in three years and the Dawgs fell short once again effectively closing the book on any bowl game aspirations they might have had this year.

Sunday continued Saturday's perfection as the daylight savings fairy flew in and gave me an extra hour of sleep. We then went to church where they were having a bake sale ~ we made some very delicious Nordy bars.

Afterwards, we cruised over to Babies R' Us and got ourselves a baby mattress for the crib and registered for all kinds of stuff. Registering is always fun but I gotta tell you that I am still pretty clueless with the baby gadgets. The research is ongoing but we were able to zap lots of fun stuff for the kiddo. Hope everyone has a great week.

A Relaxing Weekend

We had such a fun and relaxing weekend. We planned to go out to eat Friday night but wound up ordering pizza and eating it by the fire. It was a very stormy evening so sitting by the fire was great! On Saturday, we went in search of a Red Robin that we heard had finally opened in MA. Turns out it is only about 15 minutes from our house and is in this huge shopping complex that we never knew existed. It was Heaven!!! Apparently the folks out here are as excited about Red Robin as we are because even going at 1:45 in the afternoon, we had quite a wait. The restaurant did not have the Red Robin feel that we are used to but the food tasted the same so we were happy. After lunch we decided to check out the rest of the shopping complex - did I mention it is HUGE? Garrett's cell phone was on the fritz so we stopped into Cingular to get him a new one. He wanted the new black Razr. Now mine was doing fine but since I was eligible for a new one (and I thought Garrett's was really fun) I wound up getting the new PINK Razr - I know, how silly but I do love it! After becoming stylish with our new semi-matching phones, we went to Babies R Us right next door just to take everything in. We were a bit overwhelmed by how much babies need! We went home and subscribed to Consumer Reports and spent numerous hours researching every baby item imaginable. Armed with this new knowledge, we decided we would go back next weekend and really focus on the registry. Who knew such a little person could need so much?!?! After church on Sunday we went to our favorite mall so that I could spend some of my birthday giftcards on some maternity tops - my regular ones just don't cut it anymore. It was successful, but more exciting - we got the 'lil fish a Halloween costume - a GOLDFISH! How cute is that?


Well that's about all that is going on with us. Hope you have a great week!

Pics of our 'Lil Fish

We finally scanned in some photos of our princess and decided to share - as you can see, she is quite a looker . Our two favorites are below - she tells us she loves us and cooperates by opening the legs!!!  Hope you enjoy!!!

Apples & Pumpkins

What a perfect Fall day in New England . . . clear skies, lots of sunshine and crisp air with temps in the low 60s. It doesn't get much better than that! My mom had never been apple picking so I decided it was high time she experience this fun pasttime. We went to Clearview Farm, an orchard not too far from our house, and spent the morning picking some very delicious apples. Of course we had to taste one and agreed that it was the best apple we had ever had. Unfortunately, there were no carmel apples there so we were forced (yeah we really had to twist our arms ) to go to another farm stand where we got carmel apples, mums, and baby pumpkins. The carmel apples were made as we waited, making them warm, messy and very yummy!!! We had such a great day, as you can see from the pics below.
 

I'm going to hate to see my mom leave next Friday but I'll survive since she'll be back for Thanksgiving (when she'll bring my dad too!)


The only thing that would make this weekend better is having Garrett home. Thank goodness he gets home next Friday night! I know we survived six months and this has only been five weeks but I really miss the guy and cannot wait for him to get home

Hope you are all enjoying the weekend as much as I am.

Two more weeks in Alabama

Well, I've been down in Alabama at Squadron Officer School for three weeks and have got just two more to go. It's been fun and all but I can't wait to get done and back to life in MA. I know, I know, how could I possibly be getting sick of Alabama? It will be tough living without the grits, monster trucks and rebel yells but I've got a lot of pink to be buying when I get back and I just can't wait to get started. Seriously though, I/we are really excited to be having a little princess and if anyone has any suggestions for good, intimidating shotguns I should start shopping for just let me know. I figure it will come in handy 15-16 years from now...............


Nikki's mom flew into Boston yesterday morning and will be there until I get back which is great! Nikki has been a real trooper the last couple weeks but I feel much better now that she has someone there to help her out. Plus I hear that we are getting stocked up with home made chicken soup and lasagna. Nothing to complain about there.

Hope you all have a great week!

Garrett

It's official . . . we're having a GIRL!!!

No mistaking it, the Fishers are having a little GIRL!!!

our beautiful BMW

We got our car back from the autobody shop on Wednesday and she looks as good as new. She should since her the backend is new!!! There was more damage than first thought but, fortunately, no damage to the frame. What a relief to have her back. I must sing the praises of BMW once more. I truly did not feel much impact when I was rearended, however, the other guy's car looked totaled and the autobody shop said they could tell the car was hit very hard. I am so impressed that so much damage could be done and I barely felt a thing and had absolutely no injury - I was not even sore! I originally bought the car for safety and am now a complete believer - I will never buy another type of car :)

The 'lil fish is on ???her??? way . . .

Although 'she' was a bit uncooperative at 'her' ultrasound, it appears the 'lil fish is a girl!!! Since we want to know for sure, we're having another ultrasound in October to check again.

Fun in the Sun!!!

We just got back from a very fun and relaxing weekend in Washington. Everyone was extremely excited with our news - the moms were especially happy because it meant they could finally talk about it (they had been under a gag order since the 4th of July and were ready to burst!)

We spent the majority of the weekend at the beach house on Treasure Island and the weather was perfect - sunny and in the 80s

On Sunday, we had my entire family out for the day and the guys all had fun getting dumped off the intertube - although, we are not too sure Kyle was a fan of the tube even though he did not get tossed.

My best friend Cori and her husband Kevin also joined us for the day. Cori is also pregnant and due 12 days before us - we could not have planned it better if we tried! Sunday evening, Cori, Kevin, Garrett, and I took the boat down to Olympia and had dinner at Anthony's. It was a great time and fortunately, we made it back to Treasure Island minutes before the sun completely went down or we would have been in for a very exciting (or scary) moonlight boat ride.

On Monday, the Fishers and my parents came out to the beach to join us and it was another perfect day.

Leaving was very difficult. Weekends like that make us want to move back to WA!

Now it is back to work (and rain) it seems that summer is over for good, at least in Massachusetts. Oh well, the Falls out here are usually quite nice.

We hope that you enjoyed your "last" weekend of Summer as much as we did. Stay tuned for updates on the 'lil fish . . .

We're expecting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Fisher Family is growing and the 'lil fish is due to arrive February 12, 2007. Stay tuned for more updates . . .