Our Christmas

Daddy and erik opening Erik's stocking


AJ opening his present.


both of the boys presents

AJ's presents

Erik and his presents

We had a wonderful Christmas. The boys received loads of gifts and it was just a lazy day. I did not even cook. Luckily Carl's Jr was open so we ate there. But I think I need to start making it a tradition that after presents I make Christmas breakfast. Well brunch since this year we were done opening gifts at about 10:30 am. Like I said the boys were spoiled. Erik did not know what was going on but was super excited at looking at his toys. He is a kicker when he is happy and he was kicking away for like 10min while playing with his toys. AJ opened 1 present, wanted it out of the box and then was done. He just wanted to play with that. If I would have known that I could have just gotten him 2-3 presents. But oh well at least in our family we never throw toys away. So we will have them for a long time. Arli and I just spent about $50 on each other. Our "Christmas" presents for each other come at tax time. I am getting a $600 DSLR camera and Arli is getting a blue ray dvd player and some blue ray dvds.

Gosh darn hooligans

So yesterday one of my neighbors knocked on my door. He was telling me he knew what happened. Well it turns out it was kids! I could just scream thank goodness! I am so glad that it was not someone trying to break in. It was just hooligans throwing rocks over the wall. I could give them a beating though. I have called around for estimates and so far the cheapest one is $278! This just really sucks. It is a good thing all of my christmas shopping is done.

Wonderful day....Horrible night

Introducing Oaklie Lenea Edwards-Fisher

Born Dec. 2,2008

7lbs 10oz

AJ and Nicole going down the jump house slide. This is the only picture I got of both of them because they both did not want their picture taken yesterday.



Kaci and Oaklie



Malaki

Nalani

Ashton and Erik

So yesterday was our family's Christmas party down in Mesquite. We had a wonderful time. I was finally able to see my new niece who is a very beautiful baby girl. She is also named after me. Well she has my middle name.:) I love going down and seeing the whole family. AJ had a blast just playing in the gym and he found his favorite things there....hymn books! lol He loves these things he can sit through all of sacrament just playing with these. He did get a little beat up by we think my niece Nalani. But Emily says she does it to everyone. Erik had a good time too. He was held ALOT more than usual which he loves! And just slept. He loves his little glow seahorse he got and AJ loves his new cell phone. Arli could not make it unfortunately he had to work (I hate mandatory overtime). I had a great time too and like I said it was great seeing everyone again. It is amazing how in 6mo to a year everyone can change. My brother and his girl friend Amber rode down with us. Sorry again Amber for the ride. She was squished in between both car seats. They had a good time too. Amber was sucked in by Alanna and Kaci. But she had a good time just playing with them. They loved her especially Alanna. Kenton just played ball with the guys.

Now the horrible night. It was about 8:45 after I put AJ to bed and we were going to bed ourselves. We heard this loud crashing come from our living room. Of course we screamed because it scarred the crap out of us. We go out and our front room window is broken! I think someone tried to break in because there was no rock or anything around, and there is a bunch of glass a little bit away from the window on the other side of the side walk. But we got it all cleaned after 3hrs. I had to make sure there were no shards anywhere cause of the boys. I vacuumed for like 30min just in our living room. I hate to think of the bill this is going to be since our landlord does not pay for broken glass no matter what and BOTH pieces of glass were broken and Arli had to remove the rest of the unbroken glass so AJ would not get hurt. We did get it secured though. We put our hutch in front of the window after boarding it up. Arli was able to screw it to the wall too and then he screwed the other window shut. I know he ruined my hutch but I do not care. As long as we are safe. That thing is not antique or anything either. So now that I am scarred to death to be here alone a night I think we will be getting an alarm system. Or I can just keep one of Arli's swords by my side at all times at night.

Erik's blessing

This is a little late. But I could not get a good picture to put up of Erik in his blessing outfit till now. But Erik had his blessing on Dec.7th. A good friend Doug Nebeker gave it and it was wonderful. He did a great job. I would like to thank everyone who could come and join in this wonderful day, and a very special thank you to my mom who made his outfit.

Let it snow!!

Yesterday it snowed here in Vegas. It was so much fun. We got a total of 3in and more is supposed to come tomorrow:) Well I took AJ to the park and let him play. He LOVED it. He had such a good time. But was done when he kept touching the snow and his hands got sooo cold. I love when it snows. It reminds me of home.

Ward Christmas Party

This year we were lucky enough to play the parts of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in our ward Christmas party. We had a wonderful time and at the end Santa came!!! I am glad that he came too, because now I know that AJ does not like him and we do not have to waste our money at the mall:) He had no problem with him giving him a present though. He went over took it and ran. It was funny. Erik liked him. He was just getting hungry so he was starting to get fussy.

Who's who??

I found these pictures of the boys each of them their first smiles. I think they look a lot alike. So my challenge to you is who is who?

Typical man and not even 2

Gotta have the magazine to read.

I'm a big kid now, well almost

So we have decided to start potty training AJ. He keeps waking up dry after bed and nap time. Not full time yet. I just put him on the potty before and after bed time and nap time. He is doing GREAT!!! He has gone pee pee about 5-6 times. I am so proud of him. But also so sad because he is getting so big.

Happy Thanksgiving

My boys



So handsome

The only one I have of him by himself. He wanted to watch T.V.

I like this one because they are both looking at me.
I just wish AJ did not have his bottle.

I know this is just a tad bit late. But Happy Thanksgiving. This year I have decided to name the things I am Thankful for.
So here they are.
I am thankful to still be alive after my traumatic delivery.

I am thankful for the time I had with Joslynn even though it was short, and can not wait for the day that I can be with her again.

I am thankful for my boys, they are the best boys in the world and I love them so much words can not even describe.

I am thankful for the fact that I have the best father, husband and most of all best friend in my life Arli.

I am thankful for the Gospel and everything it comes with. I am thankful for everything and everyone who led me to it. Looking back I do not know how I lived without it and it has only been 1yr. I am thankful for Our Saviour Jesus Christ and all of the work that He did and is still doing today.

I don't want to be a big brother today

But mom..... I want to be an only child again

Today AJ had a bad day. He was just in a mood. He has never done this before so it was quite surprising to me. He was just really whinny all day then at about 5 or 6pm he was back to his old self happy, smiling and playing. But everyday or so I try to get him to hold Erik, and he will for about 1min if that. Then he is done. Well I tried that today and he did not like it one bit. I was able to get a few pictures of it and I think it is the funniest thing ever. Every time I would put Erik in his lap he would start to cry. Then the second I would pick him up he would be fine.

TSO

Arli and I's anniversary was November 12. We went to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra's winter tour concert last night and let me tell you it was the BEST!!! We had a blast. I am now officially a TSO fan. We had awesome seats too. We were on the floor and in the middle of the stage. They only come to Vegas once a year and I can tell you this I will be going back. It was so neat to hear these nice Christmas songs be rocked up a bit. They do a whole light show and pyrotechnics to go along with all of the songs. And not to mention...no babies!!! lol. I love my boys but Mommy and Daddy needed a night out without them. The only bad thing is you can not take a camera:( But I definitely recommend you go see these guys.

More pictures

So Erik is 2mo old! So I had to take more pictures. I think they turned out good. He is getting a little bit better at being photographed. Which is good cause I am a picturehollic.

Custom car seat

My mom made this carseat cover for Erik. I absolutely love it. I found it online but the lady wanted $85 for it. So we decided to do our own. It was only $25 tops. She has also made a head rest and shoulder straps to go with it. But he is still so little that I am going to keep using the ones we have in it now.

He is watching over him

I took this picture of AJ and Erik. This is my favorite picture.

Trick-or-Treat

My knight in shinning armor

My hero


Batman, a butterfly and a knight

All of his candy

Happy Halloween everyone!!! We had loads of fun. AJ got lots of candy which I will mostly eat. Haha. He had a good time. First we went to the Galleria Mall for mall-o-treat. It was neat. Every store passed out candy. But I think we will pass on it next year. All the stores gave out hard candies. So it is not good for little kids. Then we went to our ward trunk-or-treat. It was fun they had hotdogs, hot cocoa, cotton candy and more. AJ had a better time there. All in all we had a blast and made out with lots of candy too.

Brotherly Love

Since Erik has been born I have only gotten a couple of pictures where AJ is by him or holding him. He mostly has no interest in him at all!! I got lucky with that one.:) He is not jealous or anything. He loves him very much though. He is even giving him kisses now. Here are all the pictures I have of the boys together. This is just their beginning of being best buds forever.

Aunt Rosie's visit

My Aunt Rosie came into town this past week and stopped in to see us. We had such a good time. She loved getting to see the boys and get some practice with Erik (her son is having twins, boy and a girl, in February.) She did a great job too. We love you Aunt Rosie!! Thanks for coming to see us.

1 month old

Erik was 1 month old on October 19!! He is getting big. He is 8lbs and 20in! He is in the -5th percentile for both height and weight. But he was early so it is ok. He loves being held and loves to be in his swing.

memories

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