christmas

i love christmas. i love my family.

especially topher and carrie.

they are my favorite. not because they are so pretty or smart...they just have something special about them. i hope my kids grow up to be just like them.

thanks topher and carrie for being so great.

now...the rest of my family.

GO HOME.

stop eating my food. stop making my house a mess. stop being so loud.

get out. you eat too much and stay up too late. you're the worst house guests.

merry christmas.

it's a miracle! (i spoke too soon...)

As you may notice below, I was finally able to upload a few pictures! And as soon as I wrote the title of the blog, it stopped working.

So 3 pictures is all you get. And for those of you who checked the link to my facebook album from last time, you've already seen these pictures. Whoops.

But other news... Logan Walker, is now a walker! (Walker is his middle name in case you didn't get that...) He still crawls a little here and there but it's obvious that all he wants to do is walk. He gets so excited about walking that most of the time that's what knocks him over. Haha. Funny kid.

in front of the flamingo exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Silly little penguin following my finger.

Me and my cute little man.

lame

So...my blog still hates me and won't let me upload pictures. I promise I tried a ton of different things, but I think it's just a fact that my computer and my blog just don't get along. Sad.

So I added a ton of pictures to Facebook of our AWESOME trip to California this last week. We loved every minute of it. Ate awesome food, went to awesome parks with the kids, the Monterey Bay Aquarium (awesome!), and tons of super awesome other things. We can't wait till we get to go back again!

Here is the link. :( Let me know if it doesn't work!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2193503&id=193302356&l=96b6a71893

love

I love lots of things. People, places, animals... the usual. But one of the things I love probably more than I should...is the Goodwill. Wow, I have found more things that I've wanted or the kids needed there for the best deals. It's kind of ridiculous. Kid clothes, my clothes (the only place I buy myself clothes), kid toys, books, kitchen stuff. Seriously, it's ridiculous. There have been some things that I've bought there and then sold on Craigslist for a killing. Like an exercise bike that I got for $22 and then sold for $100. (a bike which I know wish I still had...) It's almost like things I say outloud that I wish I had, the next time I make a stop at our favorite place, there it is. Waiting for me.

I have been waiting for a double stroller for a few months now. So Tuesday when I went, there it was. For a whopping $27. This is the stroller that I found. (mine is black, but the same model and all. and if for some reason that link doesn't work, it's a double stroller by Zooper.) A $500 stroller for $27? WHAT???? Little did I know that I was buying a BMW of strollers. I also found this cute little art table for Kendalynn for $5.95. It sells new for $80.

But enough of the Goodwill. One of my other little loves is Kendalynn's new and expanding imagination. She's just now getting to the point where she plays with her toys outloud and has voices for the people and what they're doing. She currently has princesses in the bus and plane on their way to California and it seems to be on a dangerous adventure cause they keep falling.

I promise I'll try and put pictures up. If it lets me.

why

this is a no picture post. i'll try and post pictures later for all of you who only like me for my children.

Lately I have been asking myself, "why do we live here again??" It is getting sooo hot outside that it's no fun to do anything outside. After switching the car seats the other day I felt so disgusting that I wanted to shower all over again. My sister Jamie and I were discussing this the other day (she's up in Raleigh in the same miserable weather boat) and I guess we were just spoiled growing up in a land with perfect weather. (perfect weather I get to experience in 39 days!)

Another reason I question our location is the bugs. Wow... Again, in good ol' California we were spoiled with an existence free of large many legged creatures. Just today I killed this critter outside that is so cutely named the "cow killer wasp." I stepped on it about 5 times or so, splitting it in half, and still it's upper half with only TWO LEGS tried to get away. WHAT? SERIOUSLY???? Ahhh it makes me want to laugh out loud.

At least the people around here are spectacular. We LOVE our ward beyond reason, even though they banished us to outer darkness....I mean Nursery. :) So I guess we can tolerate the heat and the devil creatures for at least a few more years.

it's been a while...

We're still alive if you were wondering, I just never get around to doing these kinds of things anymore. But I did manage to add some pictures to facebook so I'll put a link of those at the bottom so you can check em' out.

We had a nice little Father's Day yesterday. After church we came home to hang out with the kids, and then put Kendalynn down for a nap around 2 and Logan down around 2:30 (and they didn't get up til 6!!!) so Tyler and I were able to get an awesome 2 hours nap, and then played games on our phones til the kids got up. Ha. Tyler really stressed that he didn't want anything, so instead I just made his favorite meal. Tyler kept offering to help with dinner, but I'm a firm believer on Father's Day he should get to sit on the couch and do nothing while I make dinner and clean it up. :)

Other than that, we're all doing swell. Tyler is working hard, and has had some bummer weeks where he's had some long days but of course he's a good sport about it. Kendalynn sure cracks us up all the time. Some of her new things are saying, "Logan...what's going on here?" and insisting that she put on her clothes herself (especially the ones with buttons in the front...she loooves to do the buttons!) and when you ask her "what did you do today?" she alllllways responds with "I played with animals!" then she'll list off the animals she played with... lions, panda bears, alligators... the usual household pets of course. Logan is doing good (when he's not grumpy...) and is getting pretty good at scooting around the house. No crawling...just scooting. He has his bottom two teeth, and I can't wait for them to be big enough so you can spot them in pictures when he smiles. I'm doing okay myself. Lately I've gotten into making these necklaces (I'll put pictures below) and I loooove them. I'd like to try and sell them (not online or anything...just by word of mouth I'd hope) to make a little money here and there for other projects. There are too many cute crafty things out there I want to do!

But that's enough talking, I'll just put the link to the pictures for now. But I'd like to share one more cute Kendalynn story first.

(at dinner last night all sitting at the table...)

Ty: Kendalynn, what did you do today?

Ken: I play animals!

Ty: No you didn't...you went to Nursery today! What did you do in Nursery?

Ken: I play Dawson! (a little boy in the ward)

Ty: Oh do you like Dawson?

Ken: Ya....Dawson.

Ty: Is he cute?

Ken: Ya...Dawson.

Ty: Who else did you play with?

Ken: Nathan!

Ty: Oh, do you like Nathan?

Ken: No...Dawson!

Ty: Is Nathan cute?

Ken: No...Dawson. I play with Dawson!

It was soo funny the way she kept smiling whenever she would talk about Dawson. We've never heard her talk about him before, it's always been about Nathan! (And of course to Nathan's defense, he is very cute and Kendalynn really does like to play with him.) It was just too cute!

necklace link:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2168786&id=193302356&l=c9e33df537

other pictures link:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2168789&id=193302356&l=596ed7cb24

family pictures

Last saturday as many of you in the area may have noticed was a beauuuutiful day, so we decided that it was a perfect day to take some family pictures. We got all dressed up and headed over to this bridge/gazebo random place near a church about 10 minutes away and stayed for about 2 hours I think. Tyler took pictures of me with one and or both kids and I took them with him, and then after about an hour our friends showed up to take pictures of all 4 of us together and we did the same for them. It worked out quite nicely.

Afterwards we went to Aldi (just down the road about a half mile) and got a bunch of fun foods and grilled out in the backyard with our aforementioned friends (Audrey and David with wee little Nathan if you were wondering) and enjoyed our wonderful backyard. (thanks again Uncle Ron for finding us the perfect house!) We have the perfect backyard for hanging out on the deck and for letting the wee children run wild around the backyard and play on the swing set.

But enough rambling, here is a link to the photo's that I added to facebook today. I'll try and add more of the millions of pictures we took last weekend of the kiddos outside. :)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2159711&id=193302356&l=e219ec3af3

time to get serious

Alright people. All of you who have had kids in the last 5 years and have helpful hints on how to get in shape, I am in great need of your assistance. I'm getting to that point where I really need to get serious about this junk. But having 2 kids makes it a little difficult to just go out running or things like that, so I feel a little stuck.

Here are some options that I have.

#1 - I do have Wii Fit (plus) but it's not exactly the most intense workout. But at least I can pause that if kiddos decide to get bothered.

#2 - I also have some workout DVD's, but I don't like being interrupted doing those and I can't seem to find a time to do them. (you may think, get up early and do it in the morning, but whenever I've set an alarm for even an hour before either kid should get up, Logan magically wakes up before my alarm even goes off.) but I guess I could try to do the morning a few more times before I give up.

#3 - I'd loooove to get into running again. The problem is, when to go run? Tyler's schedule is different everyday, and it makes it real difficult to stay consistent when some weeks I get to go 3 times a week, and other times not at all. I'm not a huuuge fan of running late at night, and again with Tyler and never being home at consistent times, it gets tricky.

#4 - My friend Audrey goes to a gym nearby that is only $5 a month, and another $5 for daycare. It's only weights and machines, but still that's probably good enough cause I could easily put some workouts together from when I was out at school. But then I have to pay a sign up fee and that makes me angry. Blugh.

So...anyone with super helpful tips let me know. Cause I'd loooove to get in shape. And I really don't mind exercising, but with kids who's schedules never seem to be the same, it gets a little tricky. I've gotten much better at snacking, and according to wii fit I did lose 6 lbs in January. Yay me. But I've still got a ways to go I think. HELP!

happy birthday tyler!

#27!!!!!!!!!

Kendalynn has been "helping" me decorate the house all morning to celebrate our dear daddy/husbands birthday! Tyler is not much of a birthday person, but we Fischers most definitely are. Little does he know the house is now filled with streamers and balloons, and after I'm done with this blog he will be the proud owner of his very own true Fischer style birthday crown. Oh yes...it will be wonderful. Even Kendalynn is feeling the birthday spirit, she has been singing her version of the b-day song this morning, "happy day to you, happy day to you, happy daddy!" its cute.

So here's to our super Tyler who is superly awesome in every way. He is the life of the party around here. Kendalynn just looooves to play with him whenever she can, and even Cali begs for some Tyler lovin'. Life just wouldn't be the same with our very own superman. :)

WE LOVE YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

A picture of our very own Superman/Heisman trophy.

A superman daddy indeed.

and its only noon.

Today has just been one of those days. A lame day. A day where people just seem to be...poopy. A day that I joke with Tyler and say, "the world hates me today." The kids have been fine, but everyone else just seems rude. Blugh.

But going into great detail won't really help any. I am not a big fan of people who complain about things all the time. I always feel bad when hearing the same negative stories about people because I don't know what they're going through and I know that I am in no place to judge anyone else. It just makes me feel uncomfortable to talk about other people even if they did do something wrong.

So maybe the driver that was following behind me so rudely and waving his hands around had somewhere to go to help someone. Or maybe the ladies at Ross who never got around to ringing me up and instead went to take a smoking break (so yes...I eventually left, sadly without my cheesecake pan..) had some crazy drama going on so they never noticed me standing around for 8 minutes. Who knows. And if not, if they were only being rude then maybe I'll sit next to them in heaven and they'll feel bad and apologize. (that was my moms way of guilt tripping us about being rude to people, cause we might end up sitting next to them in Heaven.)

Maybe today will just make me more aware of how little things can really affect someone if they're already having a bad day. Like me. So hopefully from now on my day will get better. That'd be nice.

for you buggers.

Okay, so I'm not so good at updating my blog that super often. But I've got two crazy kids and sometimes I forget to even take pictures of things that they do. (Sorry Logan...you don't have nearly as many pictures as Kendalynn did.) So for you people who bug me about it, I'll try and add pictures more often. Because apparently after you have children, no one particularly cares to hear about you or see you anymore, they just want your kids.

So since it takes way more effort to upload pictures to this thing cause my computer and blog don't like each other, I will once again add a link to some pictures I put on facebook. I took Kendalynn into the backyard today and just followed her around (as she followed the dog around) and took pictures of her randomly. I didn't stage any, just played along. So here's a link for you people.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2154896&id=193302356&l=000e0a4f4c

2 posts in one day. lucky people you.

Okay, so Christmas and all that may have been almost a month ago, but I just now figured out how I can post pictures to my blog from my computer. I have to make each of them smaller first and then it usually works. So here we go, I'll leave out the mumbling and just put up some pictures.

Before Christmas we got to see Kara & Ryan when they came in town for the reception.

Kendalynn is especially fond of Ryan. She kept asking him to "come" and she'd make him crawl under the piano with her to play with toys.

For Christmas we went to Bentonville, Arkansas! My sister and her husband (and brand new wee baby Ainsley) live there, since both of them work for Walmart. My parents flew there along with my brother Topher, and so we figured since it was only about 10.5 hours, and Aldi pays for Tyler's car and gas no matter where we take it, it was basically a free trip for us. Fun times were definitely had. And in true Fischer style, there was plenty of yummy food.

a happy christmas Logan w/ his "1st christmas" pj.s (ainsley had matching ones.)

Tyler and kids with their Christmas pjs.

Tyler and his present from my parents. Superly awesome.

Carrie got Duben and Topher (and herself) mugs with their names etched on them.

At first this was about as much as we saw of Topher when he opened a present.

Ainsley's first Christmas present.

Lip gloss from our stockings.

My mom found some wanna be Harry Potter nasty beans. There are like, 12 different colors. Each color has a good one (like peach) and then a bad one (like vomit) that look exactly the same. So cool.

And it even snowed so we had a white Christmas. :) Awesomely awesome.

too bad I don't have any pictures of our 5 course meal on Christmas day that left us all feeling incredibly full. Wow.

perfection with a wiggly tail

So...if I was to make a list of all the things the perfect dog would be, it would go something like this...

1. doesn't bother my kids in the slightest. in fact, almost ignores them completely. (even when toys are being piled on them while sleeping, eyes are being poked, and "wake up" is being yelled at them while sleeping...)

2. doesn't make any messes in my house.

3. never has any "accidents" in the house.

4. wants my love constantly. (which I'm happy to give.)

5. doesn't bark in house. ever.

6. is so calm and mellow that sometimes I might forget the dog is even there.

7. retreats to a designated blanket for the ENTIRE night while we all sleep.

8. follows me just about everywhere.

9. just down right loves me.

So ya...there are a few other things that might go along with that, but you get the idea. And the greatest part of this story? I have found that dog. That dog is named Cali, and she is on the blanket behind me laying peacefully while Kendalynn yells "wake up" over and over again at her. Tyler and I have been going back and forth about getting a dog because I absolutely love them and he is not the biggest fan. But last week we finally agreed to get one. (yes people, agreed. I did not force him in any way, with a smile on his face he said that as long as I prayed about it and picked the right one he would be okay with it.) Even Tyler has admitted to liking this dog, and our friends are jealous of how awesome she is. She is definitely the dog for us. :)

AWESOMELY AWESOME IN EVERY WAY!