We love our Ninja Turtles!

Ray and Jess and the boys came to visit this month, and we loved having all the boys together! Especially being the little Ninja turtles that they are! 

Our Family Christmas 2014

Instead of posting 10 different times about our Christmas experience, Im going to cram it into one amazingly long post because that's how I roll these days!!

I haven't mentioned this much, but Ive recently started working again, just a few hours a week. I went back to my fave employers ever, Opeco! So, as little as I work, they still let me come to the Holiday Party this year! It's always at Remington Park, and such a great time! 

Megan and I

Sommer, Liz, Megan and I - Love these gals!

My fave boss!!

Im a lucky girl

The boys loved meeting Santa this year! Both were so excited and told him what they wanted!!

Tommy the Elf came back to see the boys again! He brought lots of fun surprises, and created some mischief to keep them entertained! I love how much they love waking up to find him every day. 

I love our house EVERY day of the week! But I love it 10 times more during Christmas! All of the garland and trees, and lights inside and out...ahhhhhh!!! Makes me smile! Here's a look at our decorating skills, and I think the boys were GREAT helpers this year! 

A cute pic of Crew with his friends at school on Jammie day! 

Our family went looking at Christmas lights this year, and we had a wonderful time all together! The kids enjoyed the lights so much, and of course loved spending the evening having snacks and drinks in a limo!

Love my little man

Christmas Eve and Christmas day were busy but such a blast! I feel like I didn't get enough pics of our time at Nana and Papas, or maybe I misplaced them, but either way, here's a small recap of all our Christmas celebrations with family!

Nana's boy 

Nana and Papa with the boys

Nana and Great Grandpa

Helping Gav open his toys

The whole gang at Grandmas!

Grandpa with all his "babies" 

Fischer's 10th Annual Christmas Party

We had such a great Christmas party this year, and being the 10th year, we wanted to do it right! We had decent weather, lots of great food and drinks, and a great turnout! Im so grateful for all of our friends and family who make this party so much fun and celebrate with us every year! 

The Pooooolar Express!!

Eric heard from a coworker that "The Polar Express" would be visiting Oklahoma for the first time this year. So naturally he found the BEST date, the BEST time, and the BEST train car and booked it right away! That's just the way he is! We didn't tell the boys in advance because we didn't want to drag it out and make them wait forever to actually go! We picked them up from school and headed to Bristow, OK which was a little over an hour away. On the way there, we told the boys where we were headed and Gavin immediately started asking a million questions:
- Is this the REAL Polar Express?
- Do we really get to go to the North Pole?
- Will we get to see Santa?
- Is the conductor going to punch our tickets?
- Do we get Hot Chocolate?
(I could go on forever!)

All Crew kept saying is "We get to go to the Polar Express!!!??? Half excited half asking over and over to make sure we weren't kidding! It was the cutest thing. Crew's obsession started last year at Christmas when Eric wanted us all to sit down and watch the full Polar Express movie. Crazy Crew that never sits still, literally DID NOT MOVE for the entire movie. He loved it so much, and wanted to watch it every day after that, all the way through the summer. I didn't know how to break it to him that it's a Christmas movie, so we obliged and watched Polar Express in 100 degree heat!

I could post a million pictures of this evening, but I will summarize and try to keep it to a reasonable amount of pics!

We made the trip with Jared and Tina and Jax Baker, and all of us grabbed a quick dinner before the train ride. When we parked and saw the train, the boys were all so excited, in their jammies and all ready to go! They received their golden Polar Express ticket, and boarded the train in the nicest car, that also happened to be on the second floor of the train. Music from the movie played, and they passed out hot chocolate and cookies while the story was read over the speaker. We pulled up to the North Pole and got to have Santa visit each and every kid on the ride back! One of the things Gavin cared most about was whether the conductor would punch his ticket, and about 10 minutes before we got off the train, the conductor came around and punched each child's name into their ticket! It was one of the best experiences of the kids' lives, I'm sure of it! We can't wait to go back next year!

Here is my favorite video of Crew Bear on the train 

I Have A 4 Year Old!

Are you kidding me? How do I have a baby that is 4 years old? He's not even a baby, and hasn't been for awhile. I know I have to accept this, but I look at him, and I still my little chubby faced baby boy that always wanted to be held and loved to eat!

Now he is growing by the day, literally so tall, and has such great manners that it almost amazes me. Gav tells me he loves me at least 35 times a day! He does chores around the house, like feeding Lexi and wiping down the dinner table. He is still quite the collector and hoarder of toys, so it seems that he can never have enough of anything. He still requires almost no sleep, but now when he wakes up in the morning, he comes downstairs and quietly watches the iPad until we're up! Very thoughtful...

At 4 years old:
 - Gavin is still very much into Avengers and Transformers, and loves watching the real movies. Not the cartoons, but the real "Captain America" movie, and wanted to badly to go watch the new Transformers movie in the theater, but I worry about the language a little. I wait until we can buy the DVD and we can sensor a little!
- He wears size 12 shoes, and size 5 and 6 clothes
- Insists on sleeping with a lamp on, no exceptions.
- Is Mr Popular at school. Every day when I go pick him up, about 5 kids want a hug from Gavin! They almost tackle him in order to be first to say bye, and it cracks me up!
- He attends MDO 3 days a week, and next year will be starting Pre-K


My favorite thing about this age:

One of my most favorite things about this age is that every night when I put Gav to bed, he "needs" to have a talk with me. The talk consists of the same things every night...he wants to know what time he can get up in the morning. Ive mentioned he doesn't need sleep, so every night he needs to be sure that I am FIRM on my time he is allowed to come downstairs. Next, he asks what our plans for the next day, and needs the answer to be in complete detail.

At some point I have to limit our convos, and I say "You can ask 3 more things, or 4 more things." So Gav will say "Okay...say #1" and then he will proceed to ask his question. It's the cutest thing to me because he embraces the rules of our convo and has so much fun with it. I am in awe every day at the way his mind works.

Im such a lucky mommy, and I recognize this every day. Happy Birthday my sweet sweet Gavin Ray!

Halloween 2014

We had such a great Halloween this year! Gavin wanted to be Optimus, and Crew didn't really care, so he got to be Bumblebee! We went to the Southern Hills Trunk or Treat, which is always a lot of fun. Then on Halloween night, we trick-or-treated at Grandpa's house and then handed out candy! 

Gavin and Reagan

Sheriff Callie Emery

Grandma and Bill with the Transformers!

This must be the year of Super Heroes at MDO

Kitty Kyler and Gavin

The big kids trick or treating at Dads