Babies. Big boy beds.Thanksgiving. Halloween. A LOT has ben going on. Does anyone even bother looking on this non-updated blog anymore?

Unfortunately what happens when you go MIA in the blogging world for two months is that you wind up with one extremely LONG blog. I'm warning you in advance that this is going to be one of those.

Did you miss me?

Fisher is happy to announce that he will have a baby brother or sister sometime around the middle of 2009.

Since I don't know how long it will be before I blog again we thought we might as well tell everyone that I am pregnant. I am entering week 13, whoo hoo! After having miscarried at almost 10 weeks last February, we were really nervous to get too excited before we were sure everything was okay. This ultrasound was done when I was nine weeks along and so far everything is going well. The due date is around June 18th. I wish I could have been in better shape going into this pregnancy but after all my back problems it was going to take a while and we were ready for Fisher to have a sibling. So I guess the work out regime will have to get started after the baby :)

We started a new tradition this year with "The Elf on the Shelf" and Fisher just loves it. The elf moves every night and he will wake up and look for it in the morning. The idea is that the elf reports back to Santa. Fisher doesn't understand Santa so much but he does love the elf who he named "Elf." Thanks Grandma Lund!

I absolutely love Christmas. One of my favorite things to do every year is make sugar cookies. This year Fisher was my helper. Here he is testing the batter.

Fisher + knife + frosting = I had every right to be scared. J/k. He actually did a really good job with frosting the cookies.

All I can say is that I have sprinkles EVERYWHERE.

It took him about five cookies to be sure, but I am pretty sure he liked them.

The final product.

Fisher really enjoyed helping put the ornaments on the tree this year. Hopefully his enthusiasm will continue through the years. The tree and decorations come out the day after Thanksgiving (and I normally have to force myself to wait that long) and although Todd likes the tree, he isn't one to get all excited about putting it up or doing the decorating.


Adding a few finishing touches to the tree. Apparently it was missing a few cars, airplanes, trains, boats and of course, a computer mouse.


G & G Church gave Fisher his own little tent that he just LOVES. Not only did he spend all Thanksgiving weekend asking everyone to go in his tent with him but he has spent every waking moment in there since receiving it. I

I can't tell you how ready we were to get the bed into Fisher's room. It took about a week for the mattress to arrive. We were dying with the bed frame in the living room. And Fisher's tent. And all of the Christmas decorations/boxes everywhere. And we still have the extra leaf in the table...Basically our house has been a mess. It was wonderful to move the bed into the room where it was supposed to be.

Can you feel the excitement? This was the first few minutes in his new bed.

Posing in the new bed. I couldn't bring myself to buy a Spiderman comforter so we settled on sheets. He's happy and Mom's happy.

The first night in the bed. (Thanks Grandma & Grandpa Church!)
Although it was a little difficult helping him settle down, once asleep he slept in until 8:00 the next morning. The last few nights have been the same so hopefully the early morning phase it over for a little while.


We spent Thanksgiving with Todd's family in Louisville this year. It was a nice relaxing time and Fisher loved having Grandma, Grandpa & Jedd around to play with him. He always gets so excited when we tell him they are coming to visit.

The two ladies who slaved away all day long. I have a lot more respect for my mom and all the years that she hosted Thanksgiving for 15-20+ people. It is insane and exhausting and I wish I would have given a lot more help over the years...especially during clean up when those that have cooked all day are spent and ready to sit down and put their feet up!

My mom came into town on a last minute visit. One day we went to Bernheim Forest after a few days of rain and let Fisher run wild. A lot of the leaves had dropped and the colors weren't quite as vibrant as they had been even a week before but it was still beautiful.

Fisher loved throwing rocks into the water.

And throwing more rocks....

Walking backwards is so much fun when you're two. You can imagine how long it took to walk that way down the entire walk. Grandma was a trooper and did it for about half the way. Thanks for coming to visit, Mom! It was nice having you out here even if it was only for a few days.

Fisher loves to hang on the bars at the park. This is a new development.

You will see in the next few pictures that Fisher has officially entered the Spiderman phase. We can't get him out of his pajamas that Grandma Lund gave him.

He still loves to help in the kitchen. Sometimes it is a pain, but most of the time I try to enjoy the enthusiasm of helping Mom out. I know it won't last forever. Note the pajamas...

The costume is another daily outfit. He hasn't worn it for a little while now that I think about it...out of sight, out of mind :)

Todd's family came down for a couple of days to drop off his mom to have a girls weekend with her sisters and cousins. It was fun seeing Aunt(s) Pat, Jill, Jean & Jane! It was even more fun seeing them pack into their van blasting "It's My Party" as they left for their little adventure. Fisher still mentions "Grandma Pat" who is Mom Church's identical twin. It is still trippy for me to see the two of them together :)

Mom Church was kind enough to make a few visits down to Louisville on her days off to help me with Fisher...or maybe it was to help Fisher with me :) I was extremely tired and Fisher decided to stop napping right when I found out I was pregnant. He also started waking up earlier and being grumpy and tired the entire day. With both of us being tired it was an unpleasant combination. Thank you so much for the help!! It was greatly appreciated :)

We carved pumpkins for the first time in our 6.5 year marriage. We always said once we had kids old enough to enjoy doing holiday things then we would be better about it. Fisher had a lot of fun holding all the carving tools but thought the pumpkin guts were "gross!"

As always, I waited until the last minute to buy Fisher's costume. I didn't think he would care what he was...I was very wrong. He refused to wear the costume we bought for him and kept insisting on being Spiderman. I can't tell you how many stores I went to looking for Spiderman. Thankfully Todd saved the day- found a costume and took Fisher out trick-or-treating. He caught on very fast and loved it until he grew tired after his 15 houses and laid down on the sidewalk. :)

Nothing happening.

I don't have any new pictures (I think the re-chargeable battery on our camera has finally gone bye-bye after about four years...) but I realized that I have posts I uploaded the pictures onto but never actually posted. There is another one coming up in the next few days with Fisher and his cousin Abby.

Todd is busy studying for another big test. I got bored today and painted a wall mudslide brown. I tend to like dark colors which is going to stink when we have to paint over it all when it comes time to sell the house.

Fisher had a fun day going to pre-school and eating a chocolate cupcake, playing with his friend Abby while I painted my wall, and then going to his second birthday party this week where he proceeded to eat about a pound of skittles and M&Ms (he was sneaking them from the game), cake, ice cream and topping it all off with a blue ring pop. I can't even begin to estimate how many minutes we stood in front of the mirror while he made faces at himself with his blue face, blue lips, blue teeth and blue tongue. To be almost three again...

Random picture of Fisher. Singing, talking, meditating, trying to catch bees...Not sure what he is doing.

Fisher is a loud kid. This picture says it all.


A couple of these buckets found their way onto Abby. Poor thing.


Jumping in the pool.

Jumping out of the pool.

Jumping into the pool.

Who knew there were so many combinations of pool jumping?

Playing it cool after all of that wild man jumping.

Fisher's impersonation of Titanic. "I'm flying Mama!"

Hi there.

Fisher posing for the camera.

He recently started a little pre-school group that a few of us moms are doing. So far Fisher loves it-every week he comes home with the cutest things. It is making me a little nervous for when it is my month :) This picture was taken his first day of school.

The second day he brought home a miniature Fisher along with a picture taken by the mom whose turn it is this month. It is good to know that he poses for everyone with the same face.

Fisher loves his miniature self and carries it around with him. Here he is tucking mini-Fish in with his blankie. :)

This is Fisher experiencing his first McDonald's ice cream cone. I know- pathetic it has taken us almost three years to accomplish this milestone.

Helping mom make pumpkin bread. He loves to help with everything.

We've had another traumatic experience with one of Fisher's stuffed animals.

Thanks Grandma Lund for the glow-in-the-dark pj's. Thankfully only the eyes on the shirt glow. We were a little worried that he wouldn't be able to fall asleep :)

Another pose at the park.

The park we went to was one of the drop off locations for trees and debris from the wind storm that we had a couple weeks ago. Louisville is still cleaning up from it.

Fisher was tempted to go and play in the trees. He was contemplating whether is was worth the wrath of mom to go and play where he knew he wasn't supposed to.

Fisher has started to climb out of bed in the morning and come into our room around 7:00. This has been a hard transition for me and I am having to change my sleep schedule. Mostly it means that I can't stay up reading until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning anymore (which means I will be reading a lot less now.) While I try to wake up Fisher hangs out with a snack in my bed.

Abby & Fisher plotting their escape.

Fisher Rockin' to Rare Earth

Shouldn't the temperatures be dropping soon?

Summer in Louisville...one of my least favorite things.

Fall in Louisville...one of my favorite things.

Hurry up temperatures. It is time to DROP. Humidity- go away. I detest your very existence. I am ready to start going outside again!

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For all of our family and friends living out west you probably have no idea what these are but the folks out here play a game called cornhole. Todd and a few of his friends decided to make their own sets because apparently it is fun to play. (I haven't actually played it yet so I can't say.) On another note, I have an extremely happy husband now that he is able to watch the BYU and Utah games all the way out here in Kentucky. Thank goodness for cable and Direct TV picking up the Mountain West.

On the never ending quest to "domesticate Meagan," I made some bows the other day for an enrichment activity. Thanks to Michelle for her patience :) Andrea &Michele, I don't think you will be requesting me to make any for you anytime soon since I like the mondo huge flowers. Hee hee.

Too bad for Fisher that I didn't have any female models to work with. Too bad for me he chose to use this particular smile for the camera. I will use this to torture him later on in life...along with the ponytail, headband and high heel pictures...I've got a lot of blackmail material.

Fisher had fun licking the chocolate off the spatula . I think the sugar had hit his system.

While he did kill Oscar in the last post, this demonstrates Fisher's softer side. Poor, thirsty Grinch. I am noticing a pattern of green and grumpy favorites.

Just popping out to say hi. (Yeah- still trying to work up the motivation for potty training.)

Right before I took this, Fisher was practically asleep on the table while his friend, Noah, was working really hard on his picture. So although Fisher may look like his daddy he has my skills when it comes to school.