weekend of goodbyes

This weekend, Todd's Brother Jeremy moved to Oklahoma to be closer to his son Austin. We are sad that he moved away, but are happy that is gets to be closer to his son.
Lily LOVES Jeremy. He is always so fun and Lily loves to play with him. I think he was sad to leave Lily. So they played a lot on the last day.
Lily also got to play with her cousin Robbie. Now that they can both crawl, there was some definitely wrestling going on. Robbie still did circles around her, but not for long.
To say goodbye, we all went to dinner at Chili's. It was yummy. Lily tried her first Lemon... it was funny....

It's official...

Lily has officially started crawling. The dreaded day has arrived! It's nice that she can get around more and become more and more independent, but that also comes with more bumps, and having to keep a closer eye on her. As you can see in this picture, Lily has a big bruise and goose egg on her forehead. Poor thing... She's still kind of slow and is getting a hang of all this moving around, but she definitely has a new rebellious streak in her. Who knew?

Crazy Fun Weekend!

I've been meaning to blog all week about this last weekend, but all this fun loan stuff for the house has kept me busy! This past weekend Todd and I went up to SLC for a fun friends weekend. It was a much needed break. It started out Friday night it was the Liv International Sxinney Mist Launch. AWESOME night! I learned so much about the product and what it can do for us, I was completely shocked that one product can help with so many things, in a natural light. All the way from weight loss, stress, to fertility. I'm all pumped about the product now and I can testify that it works!

Saturday morning we were able to go visit Todd's friend Jimmy and his new baby boy Jae. He is ADORABLE! It was so fun to hold him. He's so little, it was a good reminder of where Lily has come from. I stole this picture from their blog, but I think he's so stinking adorable!

The rest of Saturday I spent with my Girlfriends from High School while Todd hung out with Jimmy and Mikensi, his wife. We started out at the cheesecake factory and then went shopping and tried on some WEIRD glasses at Claires. We finished it off at Temple Square of course on the hottest day of the year. We about died but I'm glad to report we made it! We had so much fun and I was great seeing everyone.

THis is the traditional bride-groom spot, but I like the view.

Jamie, Katelyn, and Me. It was so warm but we were enjoying our photo shoot! :)

WE HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED!

It's official, our offer was accepted, and the closing date is August 15th! I can't believe that in a month,we will have a HOUSE! That is NUTS! My dad is coming down this morning to inspect it, so hopefully nothing will go wrong in that area, but we're so excited to move in! I'm already planning what to do with the house. It's exciting for me! It's exciting to think that Lily will spend her first birthday in a HOUSE! Not an apartment! Woo hoo!

Hopefully our New Home!

This is a house out in Enoch, just north of Cedar City, that we have fallen in love with! It's three bed 2.5 bath and is on a .5 acre! It's beautiful! We never thought that a home like this could be in our price range and are so excited that it is! We're going to be putting an offer down on it on Monday! Cross your fingers and hope that it's accepted!

Our 4th of July

Lily right after she got ready for the day, she knew it was going to be fun!
The end of the day, right before the fireworks! They never saw it coming!
Our little family celebrating! We had such a fun time! We spent the first half of the day in Richfield and were able to see a lot of old friends! I miss you guys! It was fun to see all of you though! And then we traveled to Milford to spend it with Todd's family! They were a lot of fun and we laughed all throughout the day! It was a fabulous way to celebrate our freedom! Lily didn't even get scared from all the fireworks! She was actually just trying to sleep and they kept waking her up, it was cute!

9 Month Pics!

We took Lily to get pictures done today. These are a few of our favorites! She is just too stinking photogenic and completely adorable! We were just going to get one picture, but we couldn't help it with how cute the pictures were! It also baffles me that she's going to be 9 months tomorrow! It's ridiculous how quick the time passes! Only three months and she'll be ONE! CRAZY!

Crazy two weeks!

Summer Games Opening Ceremony with Fillipe Fa from the Biggest Loser
Lily and Christie with the Elephants
Lily on the Carousel
April with Lily
The Fisher Cousins Robbie, Austin, Lily and Taylor

The last two weeks have been absolutely crazy! First off last week I went and did the biggest loser boot camp with Fillipe and Sione Fa... kicked my trash! But I loved it and it was fun to meet a lot of cool people! Then we had the Utah Summer Games Opening Ceremonies the night after and they were there again so we got a picture with all of us there. Then that weekend I had a Liv Sxinney training in St. George that I went to, AMAZING! While I was there, Todd's sisters April and Rachel came to Cedar City. We hung out with them all last week. With that, we were able to go to the zoo, Lily LOVED it! We also visited boondocks! It was so fun to be with family and enjoy our time with them! What a crazy couple of weeks it's been! Lily has been awesome through it all and Todd is still looking for a job! IF you hear of anything, let us know! Sorry I've been a slacking blogger lately!

Our life lately!

Todd got a new wi-fi shirt. It actually detects wi-fi! He's such a nerd! We've just been looking for jobs and really trying to find an opportunity that would help us out! Let us know if you hear of anything! hehe
Lily has been growing and getting much more independent! Along with that comes much bigger messes! She's still a blast though so it's ok!
I was able to workout with Sione and Fillipe from the Biggest Loser! They are KILLER! I have two more days left but I'm so excited! They are such cool guys! Way fun!

Sorry I have really been no bueno at posting on the blog lately. I haven't been too busy or anything, it's just our life is in the air right now and it's killing me! This whole finding a job thing really is not my favorite thing to do! We've had jobs that were basically a shoe in for Todd but in the end they decided not to go that route, so we didn't have a job. We've lost our safety net of having a job, so basically... I'm stressed! We have a good job that we would LOVE to have in Texas. Right now, that's really our only option. I have been STRESSING to the max. I can't sleep, I'm scared we don't have money, I feel like we are barely scraping by. It's not a good feeling. So yeah, luckily we don't have any major bills other than rent. If we can't find a job soon, we may be moving in with family by the end of the summer, which I REALLY don't want to do. Anyway, yeah I'm scared and sad, but hopefully we'll get past this soon and have the luxury of a job.

Crazy Eater!

A few weeks ago, Lily had a wonderful dinner, and this is what came of it... He was happy, but VERY dirty and sticky! We couldn't help but take a few pics of the meal.

LIV'N SXINNEY!

So I've been really trying to live healthy and lose weight the past 6 weeks! I've lost 14 lbs, and 20 inches! I have lost five inches around my stomach alone! It makes me so excited! These pants that I'm wearing in the picture used to be tight on me, and now, well I can't wear them without a belt or else they fall off. It's so exciting! I'm LOVING how I feel! I have so much energy and just feel good all the time! I can allow myself to cheat and eat a cookie or something once and a while, but for the most part, I don't even crave sweets. I want fruit or a healthy choice! This truly is the easiest thing I have ever done!

The Best Mothers Day EVER!

I think I have the very best husband in the WORLD! Today for mother's day, I was woken up by Todd walking into the bedroom with a tray of food. He put it on my bed-side table and said, "DON'T wake up yet!" I laid there pretending to sleep then I heard him come in with Lily and then said "Happy Mother's Day!" We all had breakfast in bed today. It was fabulous! He then changed every stinky diaper today, which I was really happy about! He also made lunch for me making sure I didn't lift a finger. I definitely didn't mind for the most part. When we got home from dinner at Todd's mom's house we put Lily to bed and then Todd banished me to the bathroom so he could prepare for my big gift... I was rather curious what he was doing. He came back into the bathroom and blindfolded me. He then took me into our bedroom and made me lay down on the floor on a towel. He put a lei around my neck and I heard the sound of waves hitting a beach. Soon I was able to take my blindfold off and he took me to the "beach". We even had a fishing net! I had been talking about how I wanted to go to a beach and just relax so instead, he brought it to me! I received two dozen roses one from Todd and the other from Lily. I also go two cards from them. In Todd's was money and in Lily's was her cereal puffs. I thought it was cute! Todd also gave me a Willowtree Plaque that I can hang up on my wall. I was so happy because I LOVE the Willowtree figurines and the plaque is of a mother and father with their arms around two children. It made me happy. Thanks Todd for such a fantastic Mother's Day! I love you so much!

First Week of Summer!

Say What?! Mom and Dad are out of school!
May 7th, my mom and me went to Tuacahn and saw Brian Regan. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! He moves A LOT during his act. It was so hard to get a good pic of him just because he was BLURRY! Hehe. It was a good time! It was our mother's day gift to my mom. I hope she had fun!
This is Lily on the swing at the park near our apartment. She was being so cute. I was in the swing next to her and she apparently thought that was pretty funny. Todd had Friday off so we just kind of enjoyed ourselves with going on a walk and taking Lily to the park. She loves the swings. I took her down the big slide but she thought that was pretty scary so we decided to stay away from those for a little while. Then on saturday we took her swimming for the first time! It was so fun! I taught her how to splash the water and Todd got mad because she kept splashing Todd. Hehe. I'm a good teacher! It has been a very fun week, especially since no homework was involved!

We Did It!

Institute Graduation
SUU Graduation (We have better pictures, they're just on another camera)

We did it! This past weekend we graduated from both institute and SUU. Friday night was the institute graduation. We gave the prayers for the event, so we're kind of a big deal. Just kidding! It was exciting that we were able to do that. Saturday was the most amazing day. We were absolutely exhausted because thursday night we had gone to the midnight showing of the new X-Men movie, and we hadn't quite caught up on our sleep yet. We woke up at 6:30 and eventually made it over to the school by 8:00. At nine, we were at the big convocation of the graduation. President Thomas S. Monson was the speaker. It was amazing to sit that close to the prophet and to listen to him and his powerful words. He is such a wise man! It was cool to listen to him talking about something that you don't often hear a prophet talk about. He was very motivational and it was definitely a highlight of my life. Later at our separate graduation, the main speaker was 104 years old. Yes that's right, 104 years old. It was the best graduation speach I have ever heard! He basically stood up, said when life gets you down, just laugh. And then he asked us to all practice laughing. And then he sat down. Perfect length! ;) It's nice to be done! It's weird to think that I'll never have to do my own homework ever again. I probably will, because I plan on going to get my masters, but for now, it's nice to not worry about school!

AHHHHHHHHH

What a crazy week! Next week is the week of AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! It is the last week of classes, which means, it sucks! Everything is due, projects need to be finished, presentations need to be polished, and all the while, I'm still a mom, wife, working part-time, and trying to find jobs for Todd. I really worry about next week and all that I'm going to be doing. And as if I didn't think I was going to be busy enough, I decided I'm going to be going to a conference for Liv Sxinney in Vegas. (Which I'm completely stoked for!) I hope I make it! I have to present a project that I've been working on with a group all semester long at a scholarship day. We don't really know what to do with our data, and we've run tests but we don't know what they mean. Our professor left for the week last week, so I'm hoping he has time to answer questions for us! I'm really nervous! Along with that, I have two other papers I need to complete along with reading two more chapters and make sure Lily is washed, fed, and happy. Just this past week I felt like I was being the awful mother because I forgot to feed her lunch for two days! I feel so swamped and I just want to be done! Luckily, I only have one final and it's on tuesday of finals week! Hopefully I can really enjoy myself when I go to Vegas!

Busy Busy Week!

Our cool Easter Eggs
Lily in her sweet sunglasses! She's stylin!
She actually smiled for the picture! I was so happy! This is her in her Easter dress and basket!
She was laughing at Todd, they were playing peek-a-boo. It's adorable!
This was me and Todd on his birthday, yeah I know my glasses look funny! It was his birthday on thursday, we had a little get together at our apartment, it was fun. He got a new Wii game and a new computer. I thought he did pretty good! Lily was already in bed when the party started, but she wished her dad a happy birthday! We love you Todd, even though you are old now! hehe

Our First Night Away

This past weekend, we spent our first night away from Lily since she was born. It was a much needed break. Don't get me wrong, I love Lily. It was definitely nice to just concentrate on us and our relationship. My parents took Lily Friday night while Todd and I traveled to SLC and went to conference. It was my first time ever going to conference, and it was so wonderful! We definitely missed Lily a lot though! As nice as it was to be away for a night, it was so fun to come home and hold her and enjoy her that much more. We were kind of slackers and didn't take any pictures, sorry! Todd has been applying for some jobs. Most of them are in SLC and I am REALLY hoping and praying that he'll get hired at one of them. One is an internship working for the church, that would be the BEST job ever! Lets just hope we won't be on welfare anytime soon! Actually that would probably the the LAST thing we do!

Lovin my Liv Sxinney!

I know I've talked to a lot of you about the product I'm taking called Liv Sxinney, but for those of you I haven't, IT'S AWESOME! I have been taking it for two weeks and as of last night I had lost 7 inches and as far as I know 6 lbs. I haven't even changed anything I am doing. I feel so good! I've just recently started selling it as well. If any of you are interested, go ahead and check out my Liv Sxinney website, www.zxoomers.com/christiefisher. Let me know what you think or if you're intersted! It's amazing!

SIX MONTHS NO WAY!

This is Lily with some of her favorite toys to play with!
Close up with her favorite binki

Lily is 6 months old today... CRAZY! I can't believe she's already been apart of our family for 6 whole months. It seems like she just got here. She loves to eat, sleep, and play. Her favorite toy is one that makes lots of noise. We have a baby cell phone and she loves the music it plays. Her jumper is not her favorite, but she's ok in it for a little while. She loves to eat anything really. She still hasn't rolled over completely by herself or sit up quite steadily yet. I think she is capable of rolling over, but she hates being on her stomach. He talks all the time, especially when she's mad. I like to think that she's trying to tell us what to do.

Lately, I've been having dreams about being pregnant again and that freaks me out a bit... I hope nothing comes of it yet! Maybe in another 6 months.