Where do I start?

Geesh, where do I start? For starters, I'm proud to announce that Savannah had FINALLY decided she wants to potty train. She hasn't had any accidents in her panties the past couple of days so yay! We've also begun something we should've started long ago in our family. Scripture study! I got the kids the books I remember having growing up, a summary of the big stories, with pictures. We also started up with the Living Scriptures series. I loved them growing up and Payton at least really like the one we watched last night. Worked out well since it was on the Journey to the promised land, which we just read about the night before. Anyway, onto other news. Tony got me a new camera for Valentines Day, I love it! It's the Canon Rebel. Awesome. I need to figure out how to re size the pictures though because I can only send one at a time via email. =[ Blah blah blah. Other developments....Tony and I have reached a point in our marriage where we really don't know if it will survive. We both want it to, but I'm not so sure I can get past some hard feelings, and lack of feelings that should really be there. Relationships have been severed and honestly, even if we work things out, I highly doubt other relationships will ever mend. I have been incredibly hurt after my integrity of being a mother and a wife have been questioned and challenged. I loved my husband, and I love my kids. I have done everything for them that I could possibly humanly do. I am not perfect. I cannot stay home all day and night everyday, I have to work. It's part of life. MY LIFE. My children are happy, healthy, and loved. I sacrifice my own wellbeing so I can stay up with them as long as I can during the day. I pretty much only sleep when they take their naps for a couple of hours. Yes my house is messy at times. Sorry. I am not Wonderwoman. Anyway, as for the rest of the family, I love them all dearly. Enough of my ranting and raving, I really shouldn't have to explain or defend myself to anyone, but there ya go.

Not such a great year afterall

This will be fairly short as I'm posting it via my wii. We went to Las Vegas for a few days last week to celerbrate my new job and hopefully a better year. Our car was broken into and our laptop was stolen. Thousands of pictures of our kids are now gone forever. Not to mention every piece of personal information since Tony had pretty much done our taxes on there. Yay. There's just been more and more negatives coming our way since then too. Awesome. Can it be 2010 yet?

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.

We love parks

For as much as I hate the desert (and most of this state), I must admit, I do love staring at the mountains every time I drive home. Sure beats skyskrapers and smog!

Savannah, Ben, Anke the dog, and I went to the park today. Shhhh, don't tell Payton! For being such a wild beast at home, Anke is rather well behaved out in public. For the most part she can be allowed to run around with the kids, off the leash. To my surprise, Red Rock Park (by Red Mountain Ranch) is gated in now! How great! Anke LOVES playing on the slides with the kids, it's hilarious. She really needs to be in some sort of agility thing. Anyway, we had a fun afternoon. Nothing more to report at the moment, we're boring.