Mt. Baldy Snow

I took this picture of Mt. Baldy with my cell phone this morning after I took the girls to school. This is what I get to look at from my dining room window. Too bad those darn power lines are there.

It is soooooo cold!!!!

I woke up this morning and boy was it cold. It was 31 degrees this morning when I dropped the kids off at school. I actually felt guilty because this is Southern California we don't exactly have fur parkas in our closets. The good part was it wasn't raining today. Yippie!!! I got to go on my walk this morning and although I looked like the kid in the old Malto Meal commercials when I left; I was stripping off my gloves and hood and unzipping the hoodie by the time I got to 18th street. I feel great, I love walking on crisp winter mornings and you should of seen Mt. Baldy. That is one of my favorite things about my walk is the whole way up Euclid I am treated to a beautiful view.

The rain is supposed to come back tomorrow night and it is supposed to warm up into the mid 50's tomorrow so that will be a welcome relief. The worst part of this rain then freezing temps is that it freezes the water in between my doors on my car and then I can't open the sliding side doors to let the kids out at school. I have to let them crawl through the front seat.

Well that is about all I have to say for now except wish me luck for fantasy football. Right now I am in 2nd place in my division and I am headed for the playoffs. So let us keep our fingers crossed that I keep up the good work and take it. I COULD GO ALL THE WAY!!!

I Still Miss You

You know it is funny or maybe horrible how the mind works. I can remember everything from that day but I can't remember what day it actually was. Was it Monday or Tuesday? Was it December 4th, 5th or 6th? I don't know and sometimes it makes me want to scream and cry because how could I have forgotten what day it was? It was the worst day of my life, how do you forget? I remember where I was, I was driving on Foothill at the light for Foothill and Mulberry right by Taco Bell. It was about 2:45, I had just picked up Cheyanne from school, dropped her off at the babysitter and gone by Baja Fresh and ordered but did not eat chicken nachos. I remember everything that was said to me that day, everyone who tried to make me feel better, driving home and driving up the hill it was getting late I was hungry because I never ate my lunch. We stopped by burger king on Bear Valley Rd. and I picked at a cheese burger and some fries. I remember all of the phone calls I had to make and how hard they were to make. I remember everything in that house. I remember the way everything looked and what was said. But I can't remember what day it was. I just know that it was sometime around today 3 years ago. The worst day of my life.

I want to apologize now for all of the above because I try to keep this cheerful but I need to say it somewhere because it is that time again. I wrote this poem on December 7th, 2006. I still miss you Bratt and I still love you.

Hard to Love
For Leslie

My sister, my friend

Like black and white we were
I was the cautious one always thinking things through
Afraid sometimes to take the risk of disappointing those we loved.

You were like a bolt of lightning
Beautiful, amazing, dangerous, reckless and sometimes scary as hell

How I hated you and loved you all at the same time
You were hard for me to love

Not hard because you weren’t likable or lovable but hard because loving you meant watching you struggle, feeling your pain
And watching you make choices I didn’t always agree on
And I was sure were not right.

But you did it your way and in taking all of those risks you had a beautiful life. I admired you your spirit, your courage, your fire

You were my first black eye and one of my best friends
You were caring and spiteful
Loving and sometimes hurtful
Truthful and manipulating
But you were you
You were my sister and I miss you and I love you
In all of your ways


Christina J. Fisher
Dec. 11,2006

Can't Think of Anything Clever This Morning.

Well it is raining which is really great except it is throwing a wrench in my exercise routine. Last week my friend Anita and I started walking up and down Euclid every morning 2.2 miles at 2 mph. It has been fun, we just stopped whining going up hill, I have almost got my new shoes broken in and now it is raining and 44 degrees outside.

Christmas is almost here I can't believe it. I am not even sure that I ever fully got to enjoy Thanksgiving and I feel like I just went to a Halloween party and now everyone has their lights up and I just took my bats down. Somehow I need to get decorated, get in the "Christmas Spirit", and shop within the next 3 weeks. Ahhhh!!!!!

Speaking of Christmas we did do something to get us in the mood. We went to the Upland Christmas Parade on the 5th with our friends John and Anita and some of their friends. It was fun and the girls definitely enjoyed it. they even had an elephant in the parade which kind of made me nervous because it was about 3 feet way from my kids in the front row and I watch too much animal planet. I really, really, really didn't want to end up on Your Worst Animal Nightmares but the elephant was cool and just did her thing and the kids thought it was really cool.

Next year we decided (Todd, John, Anita and I) that we will all buy Snuggies and enter into the parade as U.S.A. the Upland Snuggie Association. It doesn't seem that difficult to get into the parade there were quite a few of us going "huh? What or Who is that supposed to be?". It will be fun if we do it, we are even going to get Snuggies for the dogs and kids. I'll keep you posted.

Last but not least the girls got into the adult Halloween costumes last night and I took some pictures. They have been looking for creative ways to entertain themselves since they are grounded from the TV for two weeks. This was pretty creative and a little weird.

Has it been a whole year?

Heather, Aurora, Danny, Noah, Cheyanne & Taffy

Aurora

Cheyanne

Heather

Heather & Cheyanne

Todd & Me Halloween Part 09

OK, to my 1 fan out there. I am back and will try to get on this thingy at least once a month. What have I been up to? Not much. We just had school conferences last week and as usual both my girls got an "N" aka "needs improvement" on the controls talking stuff. It must be genetic and I swear they get it from their dad. Heather just got reading glasses and they look so cute on her. I gave the little dog a bath and she smells good again but that will only last another day or so. I am posting some recent pictures of Todd and I and of the girls. They are Halloween pictures again, we do not normally just wear costumes for the fun of it. Well maybe but that's just between Todd and I :).

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I look at my family and there is definitely a lot for me to be thankful for. Love to everyone who reads it.

Just Showing Off

Cheyanne age 9

Heather age 6

Heather & Cheyanne

Cheyanne & Heather

Just wanted to show off my girls in their Halloween costumes this year. I know it is early but we went to a Halloween party at the school and they are the two most beautiful witchy poos and pirates around so I couldn't resist showing them off.

We hope all is well with everyone and Happy Halloween!!!!

Love ya!

Hello again

Delci, Noah, Aurora & Heather

Heather & Moe

Cheyanne & Lucky

Todd (this one is for the ladies) :)

Well it has been awhile, but I try to live by Thumper's doctrine, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say nothing at all." I haven't had much nice to say lately so I have been in hiding. :) October is almost over and I can't believe how fast this year has gone. Heather just turned 6 a couple of weeks ago and she is acting so grown up now. We got her a camera for her birthday and she goes about taking pictures of everyone and everything in the house. Thank God for digital cameras I can't even imagine how much the bill would be for buying film and processing it on an old fashioned camera.

I still haven't found a job yet which is getting pretty tough. I really miss my old pay checks BUT somehow we are getting by. Every month when I pay the bills I am just happy that we sold our house and were able to payoff some of our stuff before I lost my job otherwise we'd be in a world of hurt right now and Todd would be riding his beach cruiser up the 15 freeway every morning.

Todd spent last nigh tearing apart the old Harley almost completely down to the frame (I helped but only a little). Once we get the last stuff off of there I think we will be stripping the paint and sanding it down ourselves and then we will probably do the paint ourselves. We've watched OC Choppers enough I am pretty sure we can do this :). Of course if one of our lottery tickets is a winner we won't be trying our hand at motorcycle painting.

I am posting a couple of pictures here from Heather's, Noah's, Aurora's & Delci's birthday party a few weeks ago. It was fun and the kids seemed like they had a blast. Til next time Love ya all.