Deck the Halls

Now that Thanksgiving is over we've been putting up our Christmas decorations. The kids were really "helpful" in putting the tree up.

Here's Delia with her jingle bell. She doesn't understand putting things on the tree, but she's really good at tearing everything off the tree...Pop looking for the perfect branch...Isaac liked hanging the snowflakes and candy canes. Mostly he just wants to eat the candy canes...
The kids getting in the spirit...

turkeyday 08

We had another great Fisher Family Thanksgiving this year- lots of friends & family, great turkey, no yam balls, lots of moaning and groaning about the lack of yam balls, tons of snow... fun was had by all! Isaac LOVED playing with my cousin's little girls, Olivia and Sophia.

Here we are post meal... we have so much to be thankful for this year! God gives us so much more than we need and certainly more than we deserve. We are humbled.

Our only "action" photos from the festivities. Jason deep fried another turkey- it was delicious.

He is not actually on fire here. Apparently turkeys smoke a lot when fried.

overheard

Isaac: Mommy, hugging is bery, bery important and nice.

Delia: De de de dat oooh!

Happy Birthday Boogaloo!

Isaac turned 3 on Thursday- according to him he is now grown up! He had an excellent birthday involving lots of cake and presents. At school we brought baseball cupcakes so he could celebrate with all his friends...

When Pop got home we pulled out his big present- an orange bike! This is his reaction when he saw it. I wish I'd gotten a better picture- he was SO excited...

He also got a keyboard that he has been playing constantly since Thursday. He really likes the microphone that you can plug into it. This kid definitely loves music!

Tonight we had his big party with lots and lots of family! Isaac requested a chocolate Mickey Mouse cake, so this is what I made him...
He liked it...
The best part was the heavily dyed black frosting turned every one's mouth black and scary. We all laughed for a long time...

Happy Birthday Isaac! We love you so much!!!!

Turkey Hokey Pokey

Today was Isaac's first school program. To your average Joe it was probably unbelievably boring, but for the 15 sets of parents there it was the most entertaining 3 minutes of the year. We were beaming and waving and clapping, snapping pictures like crazy- you'd have thought Isaac was graduating from Harvard Law, not doing the Turkey Hokey Pokey.

Seeing Isaac lined up with all the other kids I realized how much smaller he is- definatly on the tiny side. I also think he's the palest kid in his school. He gets it from me (Sarah). So far I think it's the only thing he gets from me.

I heart Wenny Gabitz

Isaac said today...

Me: Isaac do you hear the song on the radio? This is Lenny Kravitz.

Isaac: This is Wenny Gabitz!

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Isaac: Pop, I have an owie.
Matt: It's a hangnail, Bud. Don't pick at it.

Isaac: I might need to ride in the ambuwance for my owie.

Random videos Thursday

Couple of random videos of the kids. Man, these guys are cute. We have to remember this when they are being so naughty.

check the mail

Our highlight of the day is usually going to get the mail (pretty exciting life we lead, no?) Today I told Isaac to run and put shoes on so we walk across the street to our mailbox. He ran back to me and told me, "Mommy! I need my frog boots (on the wrong feet), my snow hat, AND my train hat!" This is Isaac in his get-the-mail outfit:

For the past couple of weeks we've been getting toy catalogues almost everyday (how we got on some toy mailing list I don't know). Isaac loves to look through them and asks what everything is and what it does. It reminds me of when I was a kid and my brothers and sister and I would pour over the JCPenny's holiday catalogue and dream about what we would get for Christmas. At least the kids aren't asking for everything in the book yet!

Down by the river

Last weekend we spent an afternoon walking along the river trail that runs through town, having a picnic, crunching leaves, and jumping off rocks- just in time as it snowed a couple of days ago and it's really cold now.

I have been trying to get pictures of the kids for Christmas cards this year, so while we were out I told them to lay down in the leaves together for a picture. My request was met with tears and screams. Who knew this would be such a traumatic experience? Here's the result...