tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46456628675270979342024-03-12T23:30:17.696-04:00Abe and Meredith FishMeredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-85023838686940268122016-02-14T23:10:00.000-05:002016-02-14T23:10:14.938-05:00Free CFA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
As many of you know Chic-fil-A (known as CFA in our house) has a day where if you dress as a cow they will give you a free meal. Well Meredith is a BIG fan of free things. This is the picture that I get from her as I'm leaving work to come home. Of course something had happened at work to make it so I was leaving later than expected and apparently everyone was excited for me to get home so we could go. Yes that is Brooklyn in the front.</div>
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This is the outfit that I came up with. I didn't have an old shirt to color on so we just pinned some spots on. And that isn't a one feather headdress either, those are ears, you just can't see the other one. Somehow I missed out on the black nose paint. Maybe next year. Ethan on the other hand got the nose paint but missed out on the ears. Maybe together we combine to make one cow.</div>
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Brooklyn is our "cheese" girl. This face comes out every time the camera comes out. She is pretty cute with her hair done up in cow ears.<br />
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Moo anyone?<br />
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This is the mastermind behind all of this. Notice that her cow costume is the most inconspicuous of them all. That's ok we sure do love her. Taylor got the works for her costume, she had painted on spots, nose pain and the ears. She must very special.<br />
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I know that Meredith does a much better job with blogging and coming up with cute things to say about what is going on in our lives, however your going to be stuck with some Abe post for a while. This whole Relief Society President calling kind of takes a lot of her time. So in order to try and keep our memories of our life in Yuma she has asked that I help out.Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-16011478091923407422016-01-24T23:11:00.001-05:002016-01-24T23:11:22.462-05:00Another Dog, What Was I Thinking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I swore that I wasn't going to get another dog after Zoey died but back in May an ad came up on Craigslist for a black lab puppy that was free to a good home. I have no idea what made me do it but we went and picked up Shadow from a town on the Mexico border and she has been a great dog. He said she was 5 months so I was hoping she was out of the nipping puppy phase but her shot record when we got her said she was 3 months. For an outside dog at her first home, she did awesome at house training and is really good with the kids.<br />
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She has quickly become Brooklyn's best friend and heaven help anyone that tries to scold the dog in front of her. Brooklyn will tell you "That's my dog and you can't be mean to her." <br />
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She is a great running partner and is a big desert rat, just like Brooklyn. Both of them love long walks in the desert, where Shadow is off her leash and Brooklyn is out of the stroller. They will both run and dig and chase each other for as long as I let them. I don't know what we will do when just a few blocks away we don't have a giant sandbox/off-leash dog park. <br />
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And who doesn't love a friend that will lick your feet sometimes.</div>
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Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-290433779059523742015-11-09T23:16:00.000-05:002016-01-24T22:26:12.702-05:00Sedona and Capital Reef National ParkIn July we had another chance to go camping with our family. With Abe heading off to San Antonio for a chunk of the summer we decided to make it into a little bit longer vacation and hit Sedona on our way north. As usual we had a great time exploring new places and being together.<br />
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Our only full day in Sedona we spent hiking Devil's Bridge and it was gorgeous. We had such an amazing day with our tough hikers.<br />
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The hike ends with a very cool natural bridge. And by very cool, I mean terrifyingly high. There is a reason that I was the one taking the picture. It was an amazing view.<br />
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This is one of my favorite pictures. Such a great day being together as a family!<br />
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Our tired hikers at the top of the hike.<br />
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After a day in Sedona we took a long drive through Arizona and Utah to get to Capital Reef National Park. It was a lot of miles of nothingness to get to a beautiful place. The drive felt like quite an adventure as we were never quite sure when we would find civilization again. At one point it seemed like we hadn't seen another car in forever. In the distance we could see some big mountains coming and it was hard to see what direction the road was going to turn to take us around the very steep mountains. As we got closer we started seeing warning signs about gravel road ahead, don't continue if you are towing something, if you want to live turn back now (okay not really), but we quickly realized that the "road" was taking us over the mountain. The 2-lane road quickly became 1 1/2 lanes of dirt winding up the mountain. I think I held my breath the whole time, hoping that we didn't have to pass another car. Thankfully no one us was crazy enough to take that route and for future trips we will take a closer look at where the GPS is sending us.<br />
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The camping spot was in an orchard so it the kids loved picking fruit and watching the animals that came to eat there too.<br />
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The kids had a great time taking hikes through the area.<br />
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Probably the most time was spent playing in this little water area behind the campsites. The kids played there together for hours. We are so lucky to have cousins close enough for fun camping trips.<br />
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Nothing like hiking through a muddy pass for some fun.<br />
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These two made the cutest playmates. Brooklyn and Brighton stayed together all the time. Mainly pretending to be animals and feeding each other old apples. Brooklyn's huge smile tells how much fun she was having.<br />
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After our time in Capital Reef we headed through St. George and stopped at Zion National Park. We didn't get to really check out Zion's but we can't wait to go back.<br />
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I love these troopers who are always up for an adventure.<br />
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Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-86576982490602494052015-11-05T23:03:00.002-05:002015-11-05T23:03:29.575-05:00My family is so patient with me.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I absolutely love abusing my family by making them take pictures. Abe and I are bad about pulling out the camera and capturing moments on anything but our cellphones so sometimes its necessary to have some pictures to remind me of how little they once were. And bribed with enough candy the kids are pretty willing to play along. Abe, on the other hand, is not so easily persuaded. Maybe if I force enough pictures these kids will eventually learn how to smile and look at the camera. Its my favorite when they can even look like they like each other while we do it. I love these beautiful kiddos of mine.<br />
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<br />Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-85728175539672609252015-10-05T16:31:00.002-04:002015-10-05T16:31:23.961-04:00End of Another School Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another great year in school flew by for the kids. The kids had a great time at the awards assembly at the end of the year as they both got awards for Honor Roll and Ethan got an award for perfect attendance. But the award that Taylor had wanted all year and not gotten was the Good Citizen Award. Every time they had awards she longed to get that award, probably because the teacher usually gave it to a child that didn't get the Honor Roll award and Taylor usually is a very good helper so she felt it wasn't fair. But at the end of the year there is a Principal's Award for the student in each class that has been good all year long and is the kid that every teacher wished she had 20 of. Taylor was super excited to get this award for her class. She is a good friend to the kids in her class and a great helper to the teacher. She was always willing to take over the class and teach if the teacher ever needed a day off :)<br />
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Taylor and her best friend were always so excited to get their pictures taken together with their awards!<br />
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And Miss Brooklyn, who never wants to be outdone, is always ready to set up her own stage and sing Frozen songs to us. Its so great when she gets the toilet paper holder from the kids bathroom and uses it as a microphone. It grosses me out so bad!</div>
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<br />Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-73638272992194525222015-10-05T16:15:00.001-04:002015-10-05T16:15:59.886-04:00Spring Break in Payson, AZ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We love living closer to family here in Arizona and one of the biggest perks is family vacations. This year Spring Break for our kids lined up with Spring Break for Abe's brother's Chad's kids so we planned a joint camping trip to Payson, AZ. Abe's parents came too and we had such a great time. Payson is lovely because its at a higher elevation so its cooler and greener (I probably would not have considered it green 4 years ago but compared to Yuma and San Antonio its pretty green).<br />
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The weather during the day was perfect for hiking. We did several different hikes in the area but the kids favorite was one with tons of rocks to explore and a grandpa always willing to go off the beaten path for a good challenge.<br />
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I love my little rock climbers. I'm so glad they all love the outdoors as much as Abe and I do. The nights were really cold but the kids were such troopers. The first night we all stayed in the tent and pretty much wore every layer of clothing that we had. When it got down into the 40's we thought we might freeze to death and we had some nighttime wanderers looking to get warm. Poor Brooklyn had on 3 layers of pajamas and we covered her crib with a blanket to keep as much heat in as we could. Once she was all dressed she looked like the kid in A Christmas Story who can't put his arms down. But since she only took naps on her dad's back during the hikes she was tired enough to fall asleep anywhere by bedtime. On the second night Ethan and Taylor decided to take Grandma and Grandpa up on their offer to stay in their pop-up. <br />
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The second day of hiking was more trails through the mountains rather than rocks so my kiddos weren't as thrilled.<br />
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Good thing Abe is such an amazing pack mule. All that Army rucksack training really pays off on these trips.<br />
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One day we decided to rent some side by sides to go drive through the mountains along with the ATVs that Dad and Chad had. At first we were all just going to take turns going for rides but in the end we decided to rent enough equipment for everyone to ride so we packed our lunches and headed off into the mountains. The kids were so excited.....<br />
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for a while until the wind blowing and the cool, mountain air put them to sleep. Brooklyn had been acting really whiny that morning and after about 30 minutes of driving we realized she had a stomach bug. The poor little girl threw up everywhere in her carseat and all over herself. We did the best we could of cleaning her up on the trail and Taylor donated her long sleeve shirt to wear as a dress. <br />
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After about an hour of driving Abe said our vehicle started responding really weird as we tried to make it up a very rocky trail. He took a look at the front wheels and something was obviously wrong with the front axle. We were the last vehicle in line but luckily everyone eventually noticed that we didn't make it up the hill and came back to find us. We had the phone number for the rental place and luckily there was cellphone signal to call them for help. We weren't too far up the trail so we could tell them the trail number we were on and they told us to wait for them to send help.<br />
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Thanks to our planning we just stopped and ate our lunch on the side of the road while we waited for help to come. I love our laid back, go with the flow family. They are so awesome.<br />
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Instead of complaining, Dad pulls out a gun and sets up some targets for shooting practice.<br />
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Sometimes the roads got a little steep and Ethan, my usual daredevil, got a little nervous. It was funny to see that some things do rattle him. What a beautiful day to spend with our family.<br />
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The rest of the time we hung out at the campsite where the kids explored the woods around the site and practiced shooting Grandpa's little bow and rode their bikes for hours. They loved having great cousins to spend time with. We soon realized that Brooklyn is a desert baby who really didn't know what to do with herself in the woods. She was afraid of all trees because every living thing around our house has some sort of spikes. And she was deathly afraid of pinecones. She would point and cry at all of them lying around the ground in the pine forest. We had to clear them out of her path all the time.<br />
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All winter this crazy boy has begged to get in the pool. On FEBRUARY 1st, I gave up trying to convince him that the water would be cold and let him go swimming. True to form he never would admit that I was right, but after a few jumps in he decided that he had had enough. I love this crazy boy.<br />
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This little toddler is as crazy as they come. But I sure do love her. I love her crazy hair and her crazy fashion sense.<br />
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And her love for rearranging furniture.<br />
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Her love of trying new and exciting ways to give me a heart attack, usually while saying "I'll be fine, mom."</div>
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I love the time I get to spend all day with this crazy girl.<br />
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These girls are crazy about each other. Brooklyn loves to be read to and to play games with Taylor.</div>
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After Ethan's birthday in December he was able to start attending Cub Scouts. He has loved it and especially loves that his dad, and hero, is the Cubmaster.</div>
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Mid-year awards assembly was packed with awards for these cuties. Perfect attendance and honor roll all around!</div>
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<br />Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-56115451550683974672015-09-25T00:42:00.000-04:002015-09-25T00:42:03.226-04:00A New StartSo 2014 really got away from me when it came to blogging so I decided not to worry about catching up and just move on to 2015. (Which is pretty sad since it is almost October). I do print out our blog pictures so I just put them into the book and our 2 readers will just have to wonder about what we did for the rest of the year.<div>
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In February Taylor finally turned 6. Taylor is always anticipating the next birthday the day after her birthday. She just can't wait to grow up (which we all know is highly overrated). I really don't love planning birthday parties but it was her turn to have one with friends so we did it. My girlie girl wanted a princess party and any excuse to wear her Elsa Halloween costume again (yep, we had Elsa and Anna and a ninja for Halloween even though I didn't blog about it last year). So she invited several sweet girls from church and the neighborhood and we had a fun time playing princess games, girlie crafts, eating delicious snacks, and just being fancy. Girl parties are so much easier than boy parties! And it helps when we have so many sweet friends around.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love her pictures with all of her adorable friends. You can tell how happy she was in each of them. She is so easy to please.<br />
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Ethan decided that he wanted to be baptized and he wanted it to take place in Utah since his birthday is over Christmas and more of the family could be there. We are so lucky to be within driving distance of family again and lucky that my parents and sister were willing to come out and visit us as well. It was such a special time as Ethan's grandmothers taught him about baptism and receiving the Holy Ghost and his dad performed the baptism. His grandfathers served as witnesses and help confer upon him the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Ethan has some pretty amazing people there to support him and love him and we are so proud of him for making the decision to follow Jesus' example and be baptized.</div>
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We had almost forgotten what Fall looked like after our time in Texas and Arizona. It sure was a lovely reminder, although when we had to take a bathroom break on the way back and it was snowing we decided we weren't quite ready for that cold of weather yet.<br />
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We can't wait until the next Fish reunion. Hopefully we won't have to wait quite so many years for it to happen again!Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-47227329282179286382015-04-29T17:04:00.001-04:002015-04-29T17:04:37.837-04:00Has it already been 18 months?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9yqi9s8IANfn3j28L2DtcOmUnQzSY4hApvQawKngT6p95NGyCl_62GvPuCzy0FkE3lLNeukbP7go_1YWZGF0Hens5tNaPFK9kJEGaXJOlwjPIGtODpjM0MTyWGd0000raTQ9zG18UeXu/s1600/20150211_152853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9yqi9s8IANfn3j28L2DtcOmUnQzSY4hApvQawKngT6p95NGyCl_62GvPuCzy0FkE3lLNeukbP7go_1YWZGF0Hens5tNaPFK9kJEGaXJOlwjPIGtODpjM0MTyWGd0000raTQ9zG18UeXu/s1600/20150211_152853.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a>The 18-month milestone is big in our house since it means that Brooklyn is finally old enough to go into the nursery at church. I think it is even more highly anticipated than the 1st birthday at our house. I can't believe how much Brooklyn has changed in the last 6 months so it is a great time for me to catch up on what she is doing.<br />
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Brooklyn is starting to realize that she can make us all laugh with her choice of words. She is getting a little bit bigger vocabulary but it is totally random. Her favorite words are "taco" and "attitude" right now. Ethan was getting a lecture on having a bad attitude and Miss Helpful decided to chime in by saying "attitude" over and over again like she was taunting him. If you ask her if she has an attitude she will smile and nod her head yes. And she is usually right. She is full of sass and attitude, just like her siblings. If you ever ask her what she wants to eat she will always say "tacos". She can even identify a few places in town that sell tacos and point them out to me as we drive. She still doesn't say Ethan or Taylor but she can say: mom, bye bye, socks, shoes, up, cracker, chip, ball, dog, no, dad, more, cheese, book, waffle...and a few more. I need to get a video of the way she says "no". It is pretty darn cute. She holds the "o" for a really long time and pushes her lips out. She will probably out <br />
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She loves to scrunch up her face for pictures when she smiles and although it makes for some terrible pictures I love it because it is usually when she is the happiest. <br />
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She loves to dance and loves any type of music. She constantly begs for "Elsa" while shaking her shoulders, which means she wants to dance to the Frozen soundtrack. She has learned that it is more fun to dance with someone and hold their hands. But she is just as willing to shake it in her carseat if she hears a song she likes. She is still obsessed with books and would let you read to her for hours. Luckily I have a lot of good readers in the house so no one person goes crazy, except when they are all gone during the day and I have to read the same books over and over again because that's what she wants to hear. She always asks for books to look at in the car so I have to have a good supply ready to hand back while I drive.<br />
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She is a daredevil when she tries to keep up with the big kids and loves to stand in the 3-wheeled scooter and rock herself down the drive with its slight slope and she screams if anyone tries to touch her. She figured out how to climb out of her bed using stuffed animals for boost, which I say as I found her laying on the railing of her bed. But she is terrified of anyone in a mast (which Ethan loves to torture her with), large stuffed animals, Cabbage Patch dolls, and many other toys at the store that are even a little creepy. She doesn't cry but just says "no" in the saddest little voice to let us know she is freaked out. She loves to play with older kids but she is a terrible sharer when kids her age try to get near what she has.<br />
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She loves being with her big sister and reading together.<br />
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After way too many years I think Abe would say that he is back in his element. He is back in the Army where he gets to do Army things. I may not understand it but I sure know that it makes him happy. And we love having him home every weekend and seeing him most nights. </div>
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There are definitely some perks to being the only doctor at the clinic, like a sweet parking spot. <br />
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And not every doctor gets paid to play around in the wind tunnel during the week. I think any other job Abe ever takes won't quite compare.</div>
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Abe finally got back in the air for his first freefall jump in a very long time. I don't think I am ready for him to be jumping again but he sure does love it. Now if Abe could just stop seeing clinic patients and get an ER out here to work in then it would probably be the perfect job. But we will take what we can get.<br />
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In October we took our first trip to San Diego. I totally understand why people love this city. The weather was amazing and such a contrast from the 100+ degree heat of Yuma. We took the dog with us and went to a dog beach and had a blast. Zoey was a little bit of a handful with some many other dogs around and all her puppy excitement so we never got the camera out at the beach. But Coronado Island is beautiful. After a day at the beach I tried to convince the family to take some pictures near Balboa Park but I didn't have the most cooperative subjects at the end of a long day.</div>
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Brooklyn had no nap and was totally slap happy so she wouldn't stay still to save her life.<br />
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This was pretty much all she did as she ran around in the soft grass. I think she was just as excited as I was to see green grass and trees. <br />
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These kids were pretty darn patient with me under the circumstances so I will just be happy to have a few pictures of their adorable faces.<br />
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<br />Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-9676536842775972722015-01-23T22:41:00.002-05:002015-01-23T22:41:44.146-05:00Brooklyn Turns One!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I can't believe my baby is already one. Time has been flying by. The poor little girl was so sick on the day of her party that I didn't get a single cute picture. Since we didn't really know many people in town we just had a bbq with a few friends for her birthday but Brooklyn had a 103 degree fever and just wanted to be held by her mama all day. I had put a lot of effort into making a special cake for her because we are having a hard time figure out foods that don't upset her stomach. So I made a gluten free, sugar free, milk free chocolate cake and she didn't even want to look at it. It took her almost 2 weeks after her birthday before she ate a piece from the freezer. She did end up loving it so all the effort wasn't in vain.<br />
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Here she is when she finally agreed to try her birthday cake. She was pretty skeptical (as was I) until she put it in her mouth. <br />
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Brooklyn is so darn independent and strong-willed just like everyone else in the family. She doesn't want help doing anything and thinks she should be able to do just what the big kids do. She isn't much of a talker like the other kids were. Around her first birthday she probably only said mom, dad, shoes, and Elsa (from Frozen) on a regular basis. But she understands everything that is going on around her and is learning some signs to help her communicate. She knows how to say "please", "thank you", "milk", "more", "eat", "drink", and "book". I love to see how enthusiastically she does them when she wants something really bad. "More food please" is just a panic of flailing arms.<br />
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Brooklyn has a love-hate relationship with the dog, Zoey. She wants to be her best friend but then gets so frustrated when she knocks her down or steals her toys. But they have moments when they are great together.<br />
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Brooklyn is quite the fashionista, which should be apparent from one of her first words being "shoes". She loves all the accessories at Target, but who can blame her.<br />
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I love the fact that my little baby is a book "reading" machine. She has an amazing attention span for books and will sit to be read to for a long time and flip through board books constantly. I love this sweet, fiesty, opinionated baby more than words can describe. <br />
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I have fallen so far behind on blogging with everything we have going on. So just ignore me as I catch up on the past 6 months here. The weather finally started to be reasonable, which means around 100, and we have been able to get out of the house a little more in the evenings. We had a nice walk down the bank of the Colorado River one evening. </div>
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The sun is still so bright that it is blinding.<br />
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Brooklyn is an outside girl through and through. Even when it is too hot for clothes she loves to play in the rocks in the backyard and sit in the little house. She will open and shut the door a million times and is so proud of herself every time.<br />
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We love the flat streets of our neighborhood for bike rides. And now Taylor has also learned to ride without training wheels!<br />
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We even managed to find some real grass at the park. And shade!<br />
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Taylor and Brooklyn have a lot of fun together. Taylor is definitely "motherly" and always wants to tell Brooklyn what to do. Some times it works and some times it doesn't.<br />
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Taylor stayed home from school one day and the girls played so great together. Taylor can't wait to have someone to play babies with.<br />
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We love picnics in the park on the warm fall days. <br />
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Poor Brooklyn has had so many run-ins with the tile floor. Her little forehead may never heal.<br />
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Brooklyn loves to help her dad. She is a total mama's girl unless there is a project and she has to get right in her dad's space to "help". She is an all around amazing helper for a one year old. She can pick up clothes and put them in the basket better than all the other children and loves to organize things. It amazes me how they just come out with such little personalities.<br />
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In November we went to visit the new Phoenix temple for the open house and it was so wonderful to walk through it with the kids. They were so great and we all felt such a wonderful spirit there. It is sad to move to a place where the temple is 3 hours away when it was in the same town in San Antonio but it is neat that we have 4 temples that are all about 3 hours away. And now we have seen all of them, Phoenix, Gilbert, Mesa, and San Diego.<br />
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The kids participated in the school's "stackers" competition. Who knew that stacking cups was a sport but I guess it is something to do when it's too hot to go outside. Taylor has such a serious look of concentration. She approaches everything with that same level of intensity. I love it. Ethan's team won a prize for their grade level so he was pretty darn excited.<br />
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It seems like such a long time ago that school started but I'm posting this anyway. It was already hot and sunny on the day we took these pictures even though it was 7:30 in the morning so I couldn't get a single picture of Taylor not squinting at the sun. We decided to put the kids in a charter school here in Yuma and so far it has been great for both of them. It's a small school so everyone knows everyone and the teachers seem good. The kids have made lots of friends and seem to be fitting in great. </div>
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I have to brag about Taylor for a minute. She was so prepared for kindergarten, thanks for an amazing preschool teacher, that we were worried she would be bored in kindergarten. We were happy that this charter school was willing to test her at the beginning of kindergarten and she aced the test. The principal warned us that it might be hard for her to skip a grade since she won't be at the top of the class any more but Taylor couldn't wait to get out of kindergarten so we put her into first grade. Although she was pretty nervous about a new class and new friends and new rules she has done great. She still sees her kindergarten friends in the morning and at recess so she came home the first week and said that all her kindergarten friends missed her reading to them during center time. She is an amazing reader so she was sorely missed. Her first grade teacher said she is already being an example of good behavior to her new classmates and is rocking first grade as well! She came home very excited a few weeks ago that her new classmates were starting to ask her for help in class and she LOVES being a helper. After enthusiastically telling me about helping her classmates she said quietly "But I learned that you shouldn't help them on a test...yep I learned that one the hard way." It didn't occur to me that she didn't have any test in kindergarten so it was a little bit of a new concept. <br />
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Abe has been wanted a dog for a long time so we decided it was a good time to get one (it wasn't a good time but its too late now.) So now we have Zoey, an adorable German Shepherd puppy. It has been a big adjustment adding her into our normal craziness but she is doing pretty good for being a puppy.</div>
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Both the kids thought it would be fun to sleep with the little puppy. Boy she has grown.<br />
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She has figured out how to ring a bell on the outside door to let us know when she needs to go outside and lately she has done it consistently. She still thinks the kids are playmates and likes to nip more than they would like but she is good at being gentle with Brooklyn, even though Brooklyn doesn't always repay the favor.<br />
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She is now about 5 months old and isn't nearly as little as she used to be. She is a handful but hopefully the obedience classes she just started will help her to be a little less crazy. But according to everyone at the class she is just a typical puppy that has more excitement than we would like and gets a little jealous of the attention the other puppies (i.e. children) in the house get. She will be chilling and the minute I get on the floor to play with Brooklyn she wants my full attention and isn't happy until she has it.<br />
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All the kids love playing in her kennel, even if Ethan pretends not to.<br />
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Brooklyn wants to be best friends with Zoey. But Zoey is getting a lot bigger and is right at eye level with Brooklyn. It makes me have to run interference often.<br />
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Enjoying the cool floor on a hot day.<br />
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They both love the astroturf and the rocks.<br />
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Neither one is good at sharing the big rocks with each other.<br />
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Someone is getting so much bigger!<br />
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For our first few weeks in Yuma I felt like all we did was unpack boxes. Finally I felt like I had done as much as I could and we started looking for things to do around town. Of course when it is 110 degrees in a small town the options are some what limited. We have spent many days at the local library and Brooklyn loves to unload all the stuffed animals and take lots of books off the shelves.</div>
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What's a trip to the grocery store without trying on hats and posing for pictures?<br />
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Brooklyn loves to be in charge of the milk when we go to the store. I don't know if it's just because it is the only cold thing in town but she takes her job very seriously. She cries as we have to give it to the cashier until she gets it back.<br />
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After being cooped up inside the house for too many days straight we decided to head out early one morning and find a park. After the GPS took us to a mobile home park we finally found this gem. We had such a fun time even with the heat. We have been back a time or two but can't wait to enjoy it during the winter.</div>
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Ethan is always trying to strike a pose when I try to take his picture.<br />
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Brooklyn liked the breeze on the top floor in the shade.<br />
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I sure do love these 3 cuties.</div>
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The kids loved taking Brooklyn down the slide. There was always a mix of joy and fear as she would come out of the tunnel but then she would smile so big. Taylor looks way too old in this picture! She is such a great helper.<br />
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It quickly got too hot for the swings in the sun.<br />
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We built Brooklyn cages, I mean forts, in the house.</div>
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Forgetting that I was in Arizona I suggested we go for a bike ride after dinner. I didn't think about the fact that it was still 107 degrees and I thought we were going to die. But it kept our sanity.<br />
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Holy cow it gets hot here! Yes it is a dry heat but anything over 105 is still pretty hot and over 110 your skin feels like its melting off.<br />
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Taylor decided that she wanted to cut her hair off and donate it for wigs for cancer patients. She was so excited. She looks adorable with it short and has made it so much easier to do in the mornings.<br />
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Another early morning sanity adventure took us to the Colorado River. The kids were ready to go with sunscreen, sunglasses and Camel backs but it is still so hot that we didn't last long.<br />
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Brooklyn loves to sit in the backpack and pull my hair. Where is Abe when you need him?<br />
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The train tracks go over the Colorado here and there was an old engine to walk into that the kids enjoyed.<br />
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And we even found a little bit of shade for a walk. It might be the only shaded walking area in Yuma.<br />
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The kids have been great about being patient with me as they have to watch Brooklyn a lot so I can get things done. It has been a long 6 weeks without Abe but I think we have all survived pretty well. It has been great to have him home this week and start the real fun in our new place. Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-79529026713044184442014-07-30T00:45:00.000-04:002014-07-30T00:45:45.565-04:00Are we there yet?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px;">We are finally somewhat settled in Yuma and I had a few minutes (that I should be using to unpack boxes) to download some pictures from our trip from San Antonio to Yuma. Moving is such a painful process. After 3 years I had forgotten how much I actually hate it. Last time my mom watched the kids at her house while I packed up and moved and that made all the difference. It was a long couple of days waiting for everything to be packed up and living in a sea of boxes. Oh I hope we don't have to do this again in two years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px;">I will have to say that the kids were pretty amazing for such a long drive, especially Brooklyn. She was a trooper who got back in her carseat without a fuss every time we stopped. We spent the first night in San Antonio in a hotel with a plan to leave at 3am so we could get 4 hours down the road before the kids woke up. My mom came with me since Abe still had to work for a few more days and then outprocess. Of course I had forgotten how hard it is to sleep in a hotel room with the kids and how hard it is to fall asleep with the stress of moving on your mind. I think I was awake most of the night and felt like a zombie the next day. But it did work out perfectly that we could make it until about 7am without stopping and then eat breakfast when everyone woke up. So by 1pm we had done our 8 hours of driving for the day and we stopped in El Paso at our hotel. The kids loved the huge slide at the hotel and had a blast until tragedy struck and Ethan ripped off his toenail. Poor kid just managed to hit a paver by the pool at just the wrong angle. Because of all the blood I couldn't tell if he had just cut it or what and the wonderful (completely helpless) lifeguard assured me that the toenail was still there and just put a bandaid on it without washing it off or anything. It looked like it hurt like crazy and continued to hurt for a long time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So the next night we
once again woke up before 3am and got an early start on the drive and my super
travelers were just as good in the car. I can be a little bit of a slave
driver when it comes to wanting to get somewhere but we all managed to survive
and make it to our house in Yuma. I had only seen pictures of the house
so it was so nice to know that we had a house and that it was just as nice as
the pictures showed. Once I was confident that we had a place to live we
headed out and went to spend the week in Phoenix while waiting for our stuff to
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in Scottsdale for the week so we could find more things to do rather than
hanging out in Yuma. The kids loved playing chess and checkers on this
huge board but it was so hot that we could only play early in the morning or
after the sun went behind the hotel. We spent many hours in the pool, playing
mini golf and enjoying the last few days of shopping before we get to Yuma
where there isn't much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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crawling and walking around the condo. But we had a lot of bonks as she
tries to learn how to cruise and walk through the place. She always
manages to fall on the hardest surfaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the Mesa Temple. I can't believe that Phoenix will have 3 temples
operating soon. We walked around the grounds and spent some time in the
visitor center. San Antonio has a small temple so there is no visitor
center so the kids had not been to one in a long time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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back from the temple we ran across a Bass Pro Shop and once they found out that
my mom had never been to one they knew we had to stop and show her around.
The kids got lucky that they were having some kind of "summer
camp" activities and had all sorts of games to play. They loved
shooting a real gun (A bb gun), riding the carousel, and all sorts of other
games. I don't know if we convinced mom that Bass Pro Shop was awesome
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been a couple of years since we have seen fireworks for some reason so the big
kids and I went to try and find some place to see them in the Valley.
Lucky for us and the flat terrain it wasn't too hard to find them.
From where we were standing we could see 3 shows going on at the same
time. Taylor was so enthusiastic and would reach up to them each time a
big one lit up the sky. I love fireworks and it was fun to share them
with the kids. It would have been better if Abe had been with us but
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at the children's museum in Phoenix and the kids had a blast. I think
they spent the most time in the grocery store where they gave themselves very
important jobs. They are both so bossy sometimes but they both were
working very hard to make sure things were sorted and put back on the shelves.
They were so serious as they discussed the chaos that would happen if
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She stood "selling" ice cream cones even when she didn't have
any customers. She was so persistent. She and Ethan are always asking to start
a lemonade stand in the neighborhood so this was right up their alley. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We had really thought,
based on conversations with the moving company, that our stuff would probably
arrive during the week while we were in Phoenix but I was happy that it didn't
turn out that way so I didn't have to make an extra trip from Phoenix to Yuma
but by Saturday we were all ready to get our stuff and be settled. Abe
was scheduled to fly into Phoenix on Saturday and we would pick him up and head
to Yuma and our stuff was supposed to get there on Sunday or Monday. So
we camped out in the house with the few supplies we had and patiently waited
for a call that our stuff was coming. By "few supplies" I mean
that all three adults were taking turns in the 1 camping chair that we had.
But we were sure it would only be for a day since the last day they could
deliver it was Monday, or so I thought. On Monday morning I called the
moving company representative and she casually said that no they would not be
making the deadline with our stuff and gave no explanation. I couldn't
believe that was all the information we got. So with no furniture and
nothing to do we hung out a lot. Here are the kids at the hotel watching
tv.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Brooklyn loved the beach
chairs that someone from church let us borrow so we didn't have to share the
one chair. She thought she was such a big girl!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And the most fun we all
had was in the pool. We have gotten spoiled by quick nighttime swims
after Brooklyn is in bed and Ethan and Taylor are getting to be even better
swimmers than they were. Brooklyn isn't a huge fan of the water because "Miss
Independence" can't do it all herself but she still joins in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Over the next several
days there were stories about the truck breaking down, and the driver having no
cell phone reception but no one would say where the stuff actually was or when
we would get it. All this time my perfect plan of having my mom and Abe
there to help me as we unloaded and unpacked the house were dwindling.
Both my mom and Abe had flights out of Yuma on Friday and it was starting
to look like the stuff wouldn't come before then. The company told me
once that they were in El Paso but then started saying it would take 3 days to
get to us from El Paso. My blood pressure was through the roof as I tried
to find out when I would get my stuff and get some straight answers from
someone. Finally on Friday the stuff arrived and thankfully my mom was
willing to buy a new ticket to stay a few extra days. I don't know what I
would have done if I had 3 kids by myself for the unloading and unpacking of
the house. </span><br />
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how to whole house looked. The movers were supposed to do the unpacking
but they won't put stuff away so if you tell them to unpack it then it will be
put on the floor until you put it away. So knowing that I was on my own
to put stuff away I only had them unpack the kitchen. And I really think
the packers were trying to be awful with how they labeled boxes because it was
impossible to determine what was in a box to decide if you wanted it unpacked.
Like my sheets that I looked for for a week were in a box in the garage
labeled "garage tools". I was going to wait and have Abe deal
with those boxes when he gets here in September but I couldn't since there was
important stuff potentially in those boxes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> It was a happy day
when I could finally clear enough space to park the car back in the garage.
Brooklyn cries a lot less when she gets in the car when it isn't 120
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Finally the house is
starting to feel like home and we are starting to feel settled. I think
we are really going to like it here once we get Abe here and life settles down.
We are loving the gorgeous sunsets and all the new places to explore.
But we just can't wait for it to cool down some so we can spend more time
outside. San Antonio was hot but it would at least give you a couple of
hours in the morning when we could go to the park but here the minute the sun
comes over the mountains at 6am it is hot. And by midday it truly feels
like you opened the oven door when you walk outside. It is funny how
upper 90's seems cool now and we go for walks at 105 degrees. I wasn't
thinking when I suggested an after dinner bike ride on a rough day only to
realize after the fact that it was 111 degrees still. We can't wait for
fall and winter so we can enjoy all the fun things that Yuma has to offer.</span>
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I was thinking today about how fast the last 3 years have gone by but I was remembering that my kiddos were just so little when we got here. This picture was taken on the 4th of July three years ago when we had just moved in. Holy cow have these cuties grown up! I just can't wait to see what the next three years will hold for us.<br />
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Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-24682536552206593652014-06-21T23:01:00.002-04:002014-06-21T23:01:20.787-04:00The Final CountdownI feel like the last couple of weeks have been painful as we know our time in Texas is winding down. I can't believe that the packers come on Tuesday to start boxing up everything. It seems like we have had a lot of "lasts" and it is starting to make us all very sad. We have had an amazing 3 years in San Antonio. We have had great visits with family, amazing friends, great classmates, wonderful opportunities to serve, and so much fun. We were so excited when we found out we were moving to San Antonio and we have not been disappointed. It has been everything we had hoped for and more. I have a feeling that we will be through here again during our time in the military so I won't feel bad about the places we didn't get a chance to see and things that we didn't get to do.<div>
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In an attempt to take full advantage of free time left in San Antonio and time with Abe, since he won't be joining us in Yuma permanently until September, we went to visit the Quadrangle at Ft. Sam. I had only heard of this place through playgroup rumors but it looked fun from some of the pictures I had seen. So we grabbed some of our aging veggies and went to feed some animals at a little grassy area surrounded by stone walls on base. We had a great time enjoying the lovely weather, feeding cute animals and taking in all the green. I'm trying to soak in all the green I can before we moved to the desert. I have a feeling it will be what I miss the most in AZ. I remember thinking how brown San Antonio seemed when we moved from the beautiful green mountains of western Virginia and now I keep thinking how green San Antonio is. I guess its all relative. The other day Taylor was looking at Yuma on Google Earth and she called to me with a lot of excitement in her voice. She said "Look mom. I found some green grass in Yuma. Isn't it beautiful?" I guess she will be missing the green with me. But I guess the astroturf in our yard in Yuma will count as green, right?</div>
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The peacocks were very fond of being fed but several of them weren't very fond of sharing so there were a lot of ruffled feathers. They also loved to sneak up behind us and let out a loud squawk. I hate being startled so they were not my favorite.<br />
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Brooklyn had mixed feelings about the animals to begin with and made sure to keep an eye on them at all times.<br />
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The deer were so sweet and tame. I loved to hear Ethan talk to them as he divided out the food they would all get.<br />
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Brooklyn wouldn't take her eyes off the peacock long enough to smile for a picture.<br />
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Ethan was less enthusiastic than Taylor about a group picture but he was a good sport.<br />
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This is what an oak tree should look like. I have never gotten used to the tiny sad little oak trees they have in San Antonio but this one reminds me of the trees in South Carolina.<br />
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Brooklyn had a love/hate relationship with this little duck. She was afraid of him at first but then she decided she really wanted to pet it. I tried keeping her hand away but she kept putting it back out there. And of course those chubby little fingers look very much like the baby carrots we were feeding the ducks so eventually the duck tried to eat one. Luckily it was just a little nibble and I think she was more startled than anything.<br />
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Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-54313508938547536092014-06-21T22:19:00.000-04:002014-06-21T22:19:07.528-04:00Missing our sweet familyWe were so lucky to be able to squeeze one more trip in to Dallas to visit our amazing family up there before we leave Texas. It was an absolutely perfect weekend and none of us were ready to leave when it came to an end. I wish I would have taken a few pictures but we were too busy having lots of fun.<br />
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We had the chance to visit our ADORABLE nephew Caleb in the NICU while we were there. He is even cuter in person than all the pictures we have seen of him. It was so nice to finally meet him! All of our kids have a cousin in this family very close to them in age so Caleb is Brooklyn's playmate. We can't wait to see them together one day soon.<br />
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Abe's brother had planned a huge surprise party for his wife for this same weekend so it was so fun to get to be in on the surprise for her. We dropped all the big kids off at a gymnastic place for their open gym and the adults went to a cable lake for wakeboarding. I have never wakeboarded before but it was such a great time. At this place you don't wakeboard behind a boat but rather by cables that pull you around a loop. It was great for beginners like me. Everyone was so nice and we just had a blast. The kids all played so nicely together and we had lots of time to visit so it was just a perfect weekend with family. We have been so lucky to have family relatively close for these past 3 years. We are looking forward to moving a little further west to be closer to Abe's family for the next couple of years.Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-74237500343812087532014-06-21T22:07:00.001-04:002014-06-21T22:07:06.411-04:00The End of Another YearWhere has the year gone? It seems like a blur but it is official that summer has began and we are getting closer and closer to moving from San Antonio. The kids both had great years in school and were sad to know that they would be leaving their friends and wonderful teachers. I was a terrible mother and forgot to check the battery in the camera before Taylor's graduation so we really didn't get many pictures of that but here she is with her two teachers on the last day of school. Taylor learned so much in school this year. It seemed like overnight she went to reading small sight word books to reading easy chapter books. She is still my little rule follower and would report home every day who could not follow the rules. It's funny that she acts like she doesn't understand how people can want to break the rules yet she breaks rules at home all the time. I think she puts home and school in different categories. She went to a week of dance camp at the YMCA this week and she was worried that if she missed the first day of camp then she might miss the explanation of the rules and it would be awful. It seems that some kids in the camp didn't have a problem breaking rules and the whole group had to sit out of free play time as punishment. Taylor pointed out to me one of the girls that caused the problem and told how she stood up when they were supposed to be sitting and you could tell Taylor was MAD about it. She cracks me up. <br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">For some reason Ethan's school handed out certificates in class rather than an assembly and decided not to tell the parents about it. It is so frustrating because there are quite a few parents that are in the school almost every day so they get information but the teachers don't seem to feel the need to pass the information along to the other parents that try to keep a reasonable distance from the classroom. So I was a little bummed that I didn't get to see Ethan get his award for the top reader in his class. He has really started reading for fun lately and can plow through some pretty big books. I am really hopeful that his class next year will be able to challenge him instead of just giving him lots of time to read books in class.</span></div>
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Of course Abe was also a big graduate this year. We are so proud of him finishing is EM residency. It has been a long 7 years of medical school and residency and I can't believe it is over. With all the bumps we have had in the road during those 7 years it seems like a miracle but we are so excited for Abe to start a new chapter in his life. He is a pretty amazing doctor!</div>
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For graduation/Father's Day we got Abe a projector to watch movies on and it has been so fun. The kids have decided it is so much better than the movies. I see a lot of movie nights in our future. Other than the truck, I think it is one of the few presents I have surprised Abe with that he has really liked.<br />
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Meredith and Abe Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157865269557494336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645662867527097934.post-69731764091779614412014-06-19T12:54:00.003-04:002014-06-19T12:54:53.111-04:00Last Beach Trip for a WhileWe had made plans to see our wonderful family in Dallas a few weekends ago but Ethan had a cough so we decided that we didn't want to give anyone our germs up there but the kids were so upset about missing a fun weekend that we decided to head to the beach instead.<br />
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This was Brooklyn's first visit to the beach and her took her a little while to warm up to the idea of hot sand and cool water.<br />
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Ethan and Taylor had a blast as always but they were missing friends that we have gone to the beach with in the past.<br />
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This was the first time Brooklyn put her feet in the water. She wasn't thrilled about the wet sand or the cold water. <br />
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No trip to the beach is complete without being buried in the sand by their dad.<br />
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By the end of the day Brooklyn had gotten used to the idea of sand and had fun playing in it. She liked it a lot less when I had to try to get the sand off of her in the cold showers.<br />
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After all our fun we stopped for some yummy seafood before heading home. We all ate too much and had a great time. Less fun was the stomach bug Ethan got that night because shrimp does not smell good when you throw up. I think that would have to be some of the worst vomit EVER.</div>
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We are looking forward to some trips in the near future to the Pacific coast and all sorts of new adventures.</div>
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Brooklyn is her own little person these days with her own little personality. She is not a big fan of baby food and pretty much refuses to eat it. And even real food she is particular about. Pretty much with every bite she will stick the tip of her tongue out and taste what is on the spoon before she will open her mouth all the way. If she doesn't like what she tastes she will shake her head "no" and flap her arms around to make sure you get the message. But when she does want to eat something she likes to keep food in both hands. She will pick up a cheerio in the palm of both hands and then grab another with her fingers and eat that one. You usually have to pry the remains from her hands at the end of a meal because she doesn't want to let them go. <br />
I had my doubts that she would ever learn to really crawl because she thinks she is just going to walk but she has figured it out. For the last several weeks she just wants to cruise or have someone hold her hands and walk around. Neither of the other kids walked until they were 12 months old but I think she might beat them both unless she figures out how to crawl before we get to Yuma and hard tile floors. <br />
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She absolutely loves other kids and will wave hi at people to get there attention. She is a mama's girl through and through but she flashes some big smiles when she sees her dad. She doesn't want him to hold her but she sure does like it when he is around. I think it is so interesting how good she is for him and how whiny she is for me. They can be sitting in the playroom and she will be entertaining herself without any problem and then minute she hears my voice she will crawl over to me and whine and want me to help her stand. It can be so frustrating.<br />
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Brooklyn is not a cuddly girl so I have to steal my snuggles when I can. She usually grabs on tight when she doesn't want to get into her carseat so I try to leave a few minutes early to take advantage of them. And I steal a few after she nurses during the night. Any other time she wants to be facing away from me and seeing what is happening in the world. She can't get enough of what is going on around her. It can be very frustrating when she is trying to nurse somewhere and she wants to constantly know what is happening. Her head peeks out every minute just to make sure nothing exciting is going on. <br />
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She has just started making kissing sounds and I love it so much much. Those kisses melt my heart. She has also started saying "ma, ma, ma" which is nice since she would only say "da, da, da" up until this month. I don't know if she knows what she is saying but I love it anyway. <br />
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