Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!! This year Sam and I decided to throw a fancy party at our house for New Years. I had fun decorating as you'll see and of course the outfits were fun! I started out in my wedding dress, as did Emily...but later changed into my prom dress...yes it still fits, I suck, I know, haha. Actually it is a bit tight but that's better than it hanging on me like it did in high school. Anyways we had tons of fun, thank you to everyone who came by! (More than just the 5 people pictured above showed up, I promise!)

Christmas 2008

Belated post but it's been a busy couple of weeks! We had a great x-mas eve at Church and dinner at my Aunt Brenda's. That next day we opened gifts, had a late lunch or early dinner, whichever you want to call it, ha. Technically this year we should have been at Sam's parent's house but we wanted to stay around and wait for our nephew to be born (and as you can see on the post just before this one, he was born on 1/1/09!). It was a great Christmas, next year we'll have a little baby with us! Though Sam and I will be in England, ha. Hope you all had a great Holiday!

MY NEPHEW IS HERE!

At 10am today my sister gave birth to a GORGEOUS baby boy!!! I am so excited! I got a call at 2:30am (while cleaning up and drinking champagne from a bottle, still throwing our new years eve party) from Austin saying they were on their way to the hospital, having contractions. At 3am, the text said her water broke and also told me to go to bed so I could be ready in the morning. At 8am I got a call from Natalie saying it was going to be within about 3 hours. We got to the hospital at 9, gave Natalie a quick kiss on the cheek, by 10am (after only 15 minutes of pushing!!!) my nephew was born!!! 9 pounds, 3.5 ounces and very long (we don't have an exact measurement yet). Natalie did amazing and looks great, Austin was smiling ear to ear!!! Here are some pics, I'm so proud of my new perfect nephew, Harrison Joseph Crossley!! Happy New Year and Happy Birthday Harrison!!!

Vancouver & Our New Townhouse

Hello everyone and happy holidays! Sam and I just got back from Vancouver, BC. We were there for 8 nights looking for a place for us to live next year. For those of you who do not know - Sam's company just purchased a lab in Richmond and want Sam to head it up for 12-14 months. Canada here we come! So we found a great little townhouse in an amazing part of Vancouver, walking distance to everything including the beach! Everyone told me I would love Vancouver but I really had no idea how right they would be! We got a lot of snow while we were there, which is suppose to be unusual, but it was gorgeous none the less. I will be so super sad to leave our new home, our friends and my family - especially sad to not be around for my nephew's first year! (he should be joining us any day now, I know Natalie is ready to be a mommy)!! Please come visit us, it's 2-bedroom and such a fun little place. Has a private courtyard for Marley too, which is a huge plus!

Enjoy photos above of my first snow angel and gorgeous Vancouver!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Love to all,
Tiff (& Sam)!

Chez Fisher is open for business!

We officially have 3 bedrooms and a breakfast nook!! Sam did a wonderful unique painting for our master bedroom to go with our chocolate brown wall and blue comforter. It took a lot of work to get the middle bedroom done as we had destroyed it by removing the wood paneling when we first bought the house. Up until this past weekend it was nothing but storage. We had a lot of nails to remove, holes to fill, dry walling, painting, and we put the floor boards back in. Our front guest room didn't really need much work, though it has now become storage for tvs and tv stands as you can see, ha. They're not all as decorated as we would like but we're keeping them neutral and not spending money on them for now since we plan on renting the house out soon.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!! Love to all,

Tiff

Anniversary Trip to Breckenridge, CO!

Sam & I had such a great time on our trip to Breck - we took tons of photos, these are some of my faves, you can click on the slideshow at the bottom to view them all, I think...

I even got to reconnect with some old friends. I've known Kelley since I was 4 and haven't seen her in a few years. We got to meet her husband Ross, they live in Fort Collins, so we met up for the day in Boulder. Adrienne & I went to college together and she lives in Denver now, we had lunch @ her restaurant the day Sam & I were flying back to Houston. All in all it was a wonderful trip, just what Sam & I needed after so much stress & work on the house. Hope you enjoy the photos!

xo, Tiff (& Sam!)

Tug of War

I have a ton of amazing photos from our recent trip to Breckenridge...which I will try to post tonight or tomorrow. For now, you can see what Marley was busy doing when his parents were in Colorado...here you'll see his tug-o-war skills with his puppy-cousin Griff...