It's going to be a better year...

Belated Merry Christmas and early Happy New Year. Just a quick recap of our holidays. We spent Christmas Eve with Sarah's family, opening presents over there. Christmas day was spent as simple as could be at home with our little family, with Tony's parents and most of my family coming over to watch the kids open the rest of their presents in the morning, and the rest of the day all to ourselves. Payton loved all his gifts (except the clothes...), Savannah insists on taking all her babies, new and old, everywhere she goes, and Ben....well, Ben loves to play with everyones toys. Tony surprised me big time with a Tiffany's bracelet. I didn't notice till the next night while I was at work that the charm had pink (my favorite!) writing on it. Not only was it from Tiffany & Co., but he put more thought into it looking for one with pink on it! In other news, I got a new job (second one....the hospital is so slow this winter, and bound to be worse in the summer) at a long term care facility for mentally retarded/ physically callenged peds. Lots and lots of trachs! But, they seem to really care about the patients there rather than just going through the motions day after day like at the hospital. I start there January 12. I'm excited.

One happy Payton Christmas morning

Ben playing with his little car thing...he loves steering wheels!

Coming down the stairs to see what Santa brought

Presents! How cool!

Christmas was a pretty special one for The Fisher family. It was the first time in maybe 4 years that we have all been home. 7 grandkids and 12 adults make for a lot of noise at Fudruckers, celebrating Matt's birthday.

Jonny also surprised most of the family (Danny/Julie, and Tony and I knew) with a trip home. His army people weren't going to let anyone go on leave for the holidays, but he somehow managed to get them to let him.

Surprised mom! How sweet!

A little bit Kosta, a little bit Fisher

We've had a fun weekend spending time with both Tony and I's family. Saturday we spent time at the playground with Tony's family. The kids had lots of fun playing together, and of course, everything the big kids did, Ben wanted to do too. Like, the monkey bars, the little rock climbing thing, and climbing the fence.

Sunday we went over to my sister's house for dinner. My brother and sister in law are in town for Christmas, so they got to meet Ben, plus my other sister's new baby, and i think maybe even the one before her. It was good to see them again, even if it reminds what a retard my brother Danny is. =p Love ya bro.

Nick names

My sister in law posted nicknames for their kids and wanted to know everyone else's, so here's ours....


Payton: Bubba, Buddy.....and Little Dude. That's about it for him.

Savannah: Princess, Savannah Banana, Savannah Pants, Nana, Pumpkin...I can't think of anything else we call her...to her face. lol.


Benjamin: Ben, BenBen, Benny Boo, Boo, Booboo, Sweet Boy, Dum dum (Savannah's version of BenBen...it's funny) Handsome/Boy. There might be a few others that occasionally come out, bu these are the ones we always call him.


What are your kids nicknames??

Christmas Cheer

Mrs.Claus come to Fiesta Mall every night now till Christmas and reads a quick story to the kids, and then it "snows". They dance around and have fun. Soooo, since Mrs.Claus is the wife of one of my co workers, we decided to go this year. The kids had fun. It was maybe 20 minutes or something like that, so not a huge time commitment. It's something fun, festive, and best of all free, to do for the night. Starts at 7, take your little ones!

Yet another trip to the "park", which this one is really the school playground. It's totally fenced in so Anke can just run around and play with the kids without having to worry about her running into the street at the wrong time. Someday we will take our other puppy too. =] They're both about 8 months old now, feels like it's taking forever for them to grow up!

Well, it's been a rough last half of the year. We've gotten a real tree every year for the past 5 or 6 years, and this year we really just can't afford one, and certainly can't afford a decent fake tree either. So, here we were, trying to figure out what we were going to do for a tree, when Tony's parents show up...with a tree...their tree! After the initial shock of what they've done (sacrified their own tree so we could have one) and feeling bad that they now don't have a tree, I am so grateful that I have such an awesome family, by blood and marriage. I don't know how we'll ever make up for it, but we'll find a way =] So Grandma and Grandpa Kosta helped us put it together and decorate it with the kids.