Easter 2015

Happy Easter!! Here are a few photos of our celebrations this year...

Last year we got a set of Resurrection Eggs at Hobby Lobby. We began it this Easter and the girls LOVED opening one each night as we recounted the story of Jesus's victory over sin and death.

The girls colored hard boiled eggs this year, and had the most fun putting stickers on them and decorating.

However, when it came to actually EATING a hard boiled egg, they weren't fans.. especially Lindsay. LOL.

Easter morning our two little buddies waited at the top of the stairs for Mama and Daddy to get their cameras and start the coffee before searching for their baskets...

Lindsay got a jump rope, night gowns, a movie and toothbrush this year!

She wanted to model her nightgown right away ;)

Madison got a playdoh set, jammies, hairbows and a toothbrush!

The way the girls opened their baskets cracked us up... they are so different! Lindsay tore into her basket and began trying on her stuff; Madison carefully lined up each item and had to check out everything before deciding which to play with first. LOL.

Giving her bunny a snuggle..

Sissy Love: Wearing their new PJ's  

After baskets we got ready for church and made it to the 9:30 service... good thing we are all early risers and morning people ;) The girls wanted me to curl their hair to match their fancy dresses.. Thank you Nonna!

Madison Grace, 3 years old

Lindsay Diane, 5 years old

This was a blooper shot that made me laugh...

After our service the Children's Ministry put on an egg hunt outside and the girls had fun collecting eggs...it was burr cold!

Fisher Family, Easter 2015

We came home and ate Honeybaked Ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, lemon butter green beans, rolls and topped it off with a cherry pineapple cobbler with vanilla ice cream. We had a second round later for dinner.

It was a sweet, quiet Easter reflective of Christ's ultimate sacrifice and eternal joy we have knowing we will be raised again with our King!

A HUGE Surprise and Tiny Blessing!!

WE'RE GOING TO BE BIG SISTERS!!! 

We got the surprise of our lives in February... we are expecting another BABY FISH!!! S/he will be arriving near October 6th and everyone is super excited, especially Madison Grace, a first-time Big Sis ;)

Sweet Baby, 12 weeks, 5 Days

Besides being in total shock for a few weeks, we are finally getting use to the idea of a family of 5. I've had all day nausea since 6 weeks along, and it's almost gone as I head into the 2nd trimester, similar with both of the girls. With this little baby, I have been super tired and craving weird stuff (for me at least!). I have embraced the inner cave-woman in me and been loving ribs, steak and meat...LOL. My favorites go-to foods are salty potato chips, any potatoes really, scrambled eggs and fresh fruit. Aversions: Coffee (?!), a lot of sweet and spicy.

This time around, Jarrett proved again how well he knows me, and how little I really know my own body... haha! I hadn't been feeling well for a couple weeks, super-tired, and emotional. I figured it could be because I've been watching our neighbor's little boy (whose 2!) and chasing him around the house. Jarrett suggested one evening that maybe (just maybe) I should get pregnancy test from CVS. So I drove around the corner and picked up the cheapest, generic brand I could find. I took the test with J (this was a first - I did it by myself both times before) when I got home after the girls went to bed and watched the clock... it came back positive! And we said, better get another test; these generic ones aren't working... LOL. The next day, and two tests later, it came back again... positive for a bun-in-the-oven!

Our little jelly bean is such a gift from God! I wanted share a bit as to why this Sweet Baby is such a testament to God's power and His great plan. Before becoming pregnant with Lindsay and Madison my OBGYN discovered I had cystic ovaries, which means I would rarely ovulate, and made conceiving on my own "highly unlikely" (the doctor's words exactly!).  Fortunately, with the help of some medication I was finally able to ovulate and conceive twice, once with Lindsay and again with Madison.

Fast forward to May of last year; my body was broken and definitely not functioning normally. My doctor wasn't sure what was going on, and I thought was possibly entering early menopause. I was grieved at the thought of being "finished" while I was so young, and so I just prayed for contentment with my beautiful life and two precious blessings, and God's plan (because His are so much better than ours!). We were so busy with family visiting for 1-2 weeks every month from Sept.-Jan., the girls birthday's, and Jarrett finishing his dissertation, plus his school loans coming due this fall....a baby was probably the furthest thing from our minds... But not from God's!!

Now, most people know that Jarrett and I are planners -- we had our children almost exactly two years apart and try our best to be good stewards of the resources God has given us to plan for the unknown. Our precious little one has us stepping out in faith and relying on God's provision and grace, which is a little scary and absolutely wonderful place to be. I marvel that God in His power was able to create a new life using my broken body. All Praise to Him! We already adore our precious little Jelly Bean, and can't wait to meet her/him!!