Luke: 4 Months

Luke Daniel Fisher

4 months today!!!

Weighing in at 15 lbs, 4 ounces and 25.5 inches.

Lucky for him, it's Leap year so he actually gets to celebrate his 4 month birthday :-)

He was very excited to be taking his monthly pictures!

At 4 months, this sweet baby boy is such a joy . . .

He giggles, is becoming ticklish (especially his belly!), loves his tubby time and big siblings.

He lights ups when Mommy or Daddy enter his line of sight, making us feel so loved!!! 

He still spits up almost constantly and meds don't seem to make any difference so we gave up. 

 Fortunately, the spitting doesn't bother him too much.

He typically sleeps most of the night (7:30 pm to 4:30 am). 

He was sleeping all the way through until we went to Disneyland :( 

I have high hopes he will be sleeping straight through again soon! 

Luke LOVES to eat but lately REFUSES to take a bottle,

 meaning that Mommy and Luke are never too far from each other. 

Oh well, with a face like this, I can't complain too much:-) 

At 4 months, this rolly, polly sweetheart is our littlest love and we are so thankful to have him in our family!

Our Winter Wonderland

Almost the end of the February and we were greeted with a lovely snow storm this evening . . .

Although I was none too impressed, these two thought it was AWESOME!!!

As soon as they finished dinner (and Girl Scout cookies for dessert!),

they were racing to grab snow clothes from our "cold weather bin." 

We owe a huge thanks to the Lynch family for giving us some "boy colored" snowsuits when they moved to sunny CA ~ Eli loves that he doesn't have to wear all pink.  Yep, he's still stuck with Alli's pink snow boots from last year but at least you can't see them thanks to the size 4/5 black snowsuit he gets to wear ;-)

Eli could not wait to get out in the snow and had a blast driving his dump truck and throwing snowballs. 

Although she too enjoyed throwing snowballs (once she put on her mittens!),

Alli was more interested in trying to eat the snow ;-) 

Definitely a fun after dinner, pre-bath activity but I am so hoping that it is all gone when we wake up tomorrow morning so that school is not affected!!!

Happy Heart Day!

Today was a great Valentine's Day for all!

Yep, that was the best photo I could get of three kiddos!

Once again, Alli's precious little smile makes up for the less than cooperative boys,

who looked absolutely adorable in their matching shirts ;-)

Both Alli and Eli were over the moon excited with their Valentines ~ a cup filled with M-n-Ms and suckers! 

They also had a great time making Valentine's for their school friends.

It was a great teachable moment for Mommy too . . .

I had these grand plans of making rice krispy pops and printing out cute labels when Alli said:

"But Mommy, I want to make the hearts like last year"

Can you believe I actually thought about trying to talk her out of it???

It's her Valentines and we did exactly what she wanted and she could not have been happier!

Neither could I for that matter!!!

She did such a great job writing all of the names, putting on the suckers and adding stickers.

I think they turned out way better than anything I had planned.  Good reminder for this Mommy to back off! 

When Eli saw them, he wanted to do the same thing for his buddies.

I wrote his name but he had Alli help him add his Toy Story and Cars stickers.

He had so much fun decorating them and delivering them to his friends' bags ~ so cute! 

Not sure why I got so into it this year, but for breakfast,

I made the kids heart shaped french toast and white chocolate covered strawberries with their names written on them (so bummed that I forgot to take a picture but Garrett said they were very cool!)

Eli should have gotten a prize for managing to eat all of the white chocolate with the least amount of strawberry :-)  Such a silly boy!  I was feeling so puffed up at one point when I heard Eli say "yummy!"  I thought he was referring the breakfast I made but when I looked over, I saw that he had snagged on the suckers from his Valentine cup ~ oh well, I tried!

After breakfast, I attempted to get some pictures of all the kiddos.  Those silly boys refused to cooperate!

Luke was smiling so big and giggling but refused to do it for the camera. 

Love that he was looking so unimpressed with his first Valentine's Day. 

I think he wondered what all the fuss was about!

In true Alli fashion, our sweet girl was very lovey, dovey and more than happy to pose for the camera ;-) 

She was also happy to show Luke that Valentine's day is all about love and smooching! 



Garrett surprised me this year by sending me a beautiful bouquet of one dozen long stem red roses.

Again, so bummed that I forgot to take a picture but I loved them.

Alli was with me when they were delivered and was convinced Daddy sent them to "his girls."  She was so excited by them that there was no way I was correcting her.  She even gave him a big hug when he got home and thanked him for sending "her and Mommy" the flowers ~ love it!!!

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!

Alli's 5th Birthday {Preschool} Celebration

Alli is much like her Mommy in that her birthday celebrations tend to last a week!

The Tuesday before her birthday, she was special person at preschool,

meaning she got to bring in a treat and something for show and tell.

Since we were headed to Disneyland soon, we went with a Disney theme . . .

I made Mickey shaped Rice Krispy treats that I dipped in chocolate, wrote the #5,

put them on a lollipop stick, and made a cute little Mickey bouquet.  The perfect gluten free pop!

Sticking with the Disney theme, for her show and tell item

Alli decided to bring in her new Princess Aurora doll from Ducky Gramma and Papa.

Alli loved the kick off of her nearly week long birthday celebration.

You only turn a whole hand once!!! :-)

Cute kiddos

Before school, the kiddos decided to be extra snuggly and cute, requiring lots of pictures ;-)

Sweet Alli snuggling with Hugs and Tugs (my Care Bears when I was her age!)

Eli "borrowed" this hat from Preschool ~ he loves it so much!

It even says Lightening McQueen,

 not sure he really knows who that is even though he does like the movie Cars :-) 

Eli is so into hats right now.

Since they were being so sweet, I attempted a picture with all three . . .  

Wasn't exactly the most successful as the boys were not cooperating too well ;-)

Oh well, Alli's smile was precious!

Of course, each of the bigs wanted their own picture with their little bro . . .  

Eli thought it was great fun to snuggle and

the boys just kind of melted into one another while they watched Curious George. 

Yep, I may be biased but I definitely think these are three cute kiddos!

Happy Birthday Garrett!

On January 11th, we celebrated the birth of my handsome hubby.

Given that we are not brave enough to go out to eat with three munchkins, we celebrated at home.

Garrett wanted Qdoba for dinner and was nice enough to pick it up on the way home from work!

He requested chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches for his dessert and informed me that he likes my cookies but my mom's are the best!  Thankfully, my wonderful mom was kind enough to make not only the cookies but she assembled the ice cream sandwiches as well ~ thank you Mom!!!!

I thought the tea light candle was quite creative ;-)

While Eli and Luke napped, Alli and I had decorated the house and made/wrapped presents.

Alli made and wrapped her presents for her Daddy all by herself and did a fabulous job!

She was so proud of her work and G loved it all . . .

She is such a creative and artistic little gal!

Eli had to get in on the unwrapping action too . . .

We attempted to get some cute pictures of G with the three munchkins but Eli was less than cooperative :-)

 All in all, it was a great celebration for the world's best (in our opinion!) hubby and Daddy!

The Smile That Melts Mommy's Heart

Snow Much Fun!

It started snowing on Sunday and finally stopped today, making for a very cold and pretty week.

So what did we do while trapped in our house all week???

We played in the snow and built many a Frosty . . .

We played snow soccer and ran around . . .

We played Queen of the snow mountain . . .  

We shoveled lots (and I mean LOTS!) of snow . . .  

There may not be any pictures of me shoveling, but I was in charge of it the first couple days,

G just wasn't as excited about documenting the snow with pictures ;-)

We snuggled with siblings . . .  

We baked yummy, candy cane brownies . . .

We worked, crafted and enjoyed yummy food . . .  



We may be going a bit stir crazy but it has still been a fun week!