Whaz Up?: July 2004

Lexi's THREE year pictures!!

We had Lexi's pictures taken this morning. She'll be THREE on Monday you know ;-) If you would like to take a peek at the proofs, go here: http://quality1hrfoto.com/ and then click on YOUR PHOTOS ONLINE. Find my name FISCHER L 7/26/04 and then the PW is 5657-1. Lexi had so much getting them done!! Hope you enjoy them!

Lexi riding her Barbie Bike in the Cashwise Kiddie Parade!!

Nick & Lexi before the kiddie parade at Cashwise Foods. What they are suppose to be?? No one knows!! Just threw some stuff on them!!

Nick with all his loot from the Heritagefest parade!! Full of stickers & an ICE CREAM bucket FULL of candy!

Lexi was the star of the show!!! She sang with the microphone all by herself!! She was singing TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR. I couldn't believe she did.....of course this was AFTER big brother sang. Jennie saw them...how did they sound?? I don't think the crowd scared them one bit ;-)))

Lexi & Nick at Heritagefest today posing with their favorite Narren.....the Pickle Man!

Roasting marshmallows around the campfire at Flandrau! Eric, Nick, Lisa, Zander & Lexi.

Nick & Lexi w/ all the sandcastles they built at Flandrau! See Phil in the background ;-)

Ok, WHAT is it I do with this thing??? The next Matt Nachreiner??? Future Chicago White Soxer.......Thanks Mark, Dawn, & Matt!! It fits him great ;-)

Busy Busy Busy.....

Phew!! Got a second here to do a quick update of the week thus far! It has been busy! Mom & Dad let us use their camper for a few nights. We went to Flandrau Monday afternoon. Phil stayed Mon & Tues night with Nick & Lexi & I came home at night with Zander. Wed night Lexi came home with me too. She was just exhausted!!! She fell asleep in the camper at 5:30 & we didn't want her to sleep that long so we tried to wake her up at 6:15. She was NOT in a good mood so she had to come home with me. Put her to bed after a bath at 8:30 & she slept until 10:00 AM Thursday morning!!! 13.5 hours. She NEEDED it. The kids had a GREAT time there. Spent 5 hours swimming the one day....lots of riding bike & walking. I'll post some pictures later! Nick played with Zach who was camping with his grandparents. Zach is 6. They swam together too. Eric came & swim too & he spent Wed night w/ Phil & Nick. Now today is the start of another weekend of HERITAGEFEST. We'll head out there later this afternoon for a few hours.

Yesterday I went to the Twin Cities. My first time leaving Zander for more than a couple of hours. I left about 10:45 AM & got home at 11:30 pm!! Long day of shopping !! My first stop was the Hanna Andersson outlet. They are moving & so they had an extra 50% off the lowest price. I got stuff for resale. I hope I do well with it!! Didn't spend as much as I thought I would as it was pretty picked over. I was then going to head to the IKEA that just opened near the Mall of America. It opened on Wed. But I had heard it was super busy & I HATE those large crowds. So I skipped it & will check it out on my next trip there.

I also met a group of Ebay sellers that live in the metro area. We all met for dinner at 7. There were 8 of us there. I've been chatting with these ladies since Jan so it was pretty cool to meet them & put a face with a name!! I've also learned a few things that I hope will help with my Ebay job. What was funny was that when I was at the Hanna outlet, I saw Lisa...another Ebay seller. She has posted a link to her family webpage & I recognized her from that picture. So I said Hi to her....of course she had NO clue who I was. She said Hi. I said "you don't know who I am do you?" "nope" I told her & she was surprised!! She had her baby boy with too. There are 3 of us that just had baby boy's in March & April! She was gonna come to the dinner last night too but something came up & she couldn't make it, so it was neat I ran into her at the store!

After the Hanna stop, I went to four different thrift stores. Spent the whole day at them!! Had fun. Found some stuff......which now means I have more work to do ;-( I wish I had more time to do it. A couple of the ladies sell all new items & I know where they get there inventory but there isn't one around here. So I think I may have to make tripes to the cities more often!! They make a LOT of money on Ebay. The one lady said "you have to spend money to make money" That was after she said she will spend anywhere from $100 - $2000 when she is shopping. Another lady said she recently spent $1200 at the Talbots outlet on dresses & sold a lot of them already. I couldn't imagine spending that much at ONE time. I think it's a lot when I spend $100. !!!! But I guess I just will have to spend more if I want to earn more ;-)

Zander had his 4 mo doctor appointment yesterday. Daddy took him. He had to get 3 shots ;-( He now weighs 17 POUNDS & 4 OUNCES. He is a chunker ;-) He's 26" long. He seems so much bigger than Nick was. But I checked & Nick went in at 4 1/2 mos & he was 18 lbs 12 oz.

Zander was on schedule too & pooped for daddy while I was gone. It's been 10 days.

Nick dancing with the Narren.

Nick & Lexi in the big bouncer!

Here's what Zander thought of Heritagefest.......

Waiting in line at the Kinderfest KEG opening.....mmmmm 1919 Rootbeer. Nick had THREE glasses....Lexi drank two ;-) Lexi wasn't quite sure of the Narren.....now she says she'll dance with them!