Giving Thanks

This year I have a lot to be thankful for, so making a list would be pretty difficult (and long!). It was my first Thanksgiving with Matt, and we spent Thursday with my side of the family. We went shooting in the morning with my mom and Jeff, and Diet and Myrna. Matt brought along many of his different guns, as did Diet, and we had a lot of fun shooting the clay pigeons and setting up targets. My mom was scared of Matt's big guns, and actually his 30.06 was pretty scary to shoot, even for me!
My mom and Jeff

Matt with his 30.06


On Friday, Matt went fishing with Bill and I spent the day doing crafts with my mom. It was really relaxing and way fun to actually spend time doing this stuff, since I rarely have a spare minute for anything besides school. We made the counting blocks you can see in the picture of the fireplace sitting in the middle of the mantle. I also painted my Christmas letters that Matt got me for my birthday and put my new frames on the wall that I have been wanting to do forever! I am really excited with how everything turned out, and especially can't wait to put the pictures in our new frames.
On Saturday, Matt's family introduced me to the Christmas tree cutting tradition. We went up with Diet and Myrna, and Lance and Kendra, to cut down our own Christmas tree. I tried not to be too picky, but it is harder than it seems! We had a fun time climbing all over the mountain through the snow to find a good tree for our little apartment. We had to hurry so we would be home in time for the Utah vs. BYU game, and we had fun heckling the BYU Fischer family. What a fun game! Of course, we had to watch the Jazz game afterward, and luckily the Jazz didn't suck, otherwise it would have been a very long night!


Our Pepsi Christmas tree- Matt is so excited!

My Christmas letters and picture frames- During the year, the letters will just say "Fischer"

I must admit, my mom made our Pepsi wreath, but I love it!

Our fireplace

I love feeling festive and feeling ready for the Christmas season. I can't wait for the fun things we are planning for the rest of the year!

Also, I am only 7 school days away from being done with my student teaching! I graduate with my bachelor's degree on December 12! I can't believe it is already almost over. I am so excited. I am also interviewing for available jobs right now and have a good chance to get one here really soon! I'll keep you all posted.

Trick-or-Treat!

For Halloween weekend, Matt and I went up to Richmond to spend some time with Matt's family at Randy and Jenny's house! On Friday night, the girls all went to see "This Is It," the new Michael Jackson movie while the boys watched the Jazz game at home! We all were having a tough time controlling ourselves to keep from singing out loud in the theater! It was way fun! On Saturday we woke up and had pumpkin waffles and carved pumpkins! Carving pumpkins with the Fischer family is a big deal, and I wanted to do something easy, but NO, Matt finds the coolest Utah State pattern and I have to do it of course! We had a blast. Jenny carved Michael Jackson, Matt did Tiger Woods, Lance carved Jesus, Kendra did Tinker Bell, and Randy did a guy hanging from a tree, and Matt carved Scooby Doo and a pirate skull for Brad in the biggest pumpkin ever! In the afternoon, Kendra and I went shooting with the boys. It was my first time shooting a shotgun and my shoulder is still sore! It was really fun and I actually hit one of the clay pigeons! That night, Matt and I stayed home and handed out candy and everyone else (8 adults) took Brad and Claire trick-or-treating! We had such a fun weekend and it was so sad to have to come home on Sunday! We love spending time with our family and wish that we could do it more often!



Kendra and I being hard-core






Matt and I with cuties Brad and Claire


Matt had to carve two patterns for Brad on this giant pumpkin, so he had to carve one for himself! Tiger Woods (I think it looks like he has a mustache!)


My champion Utah State pumpkin! It was definitely appreciated in Cache Valley, one guy took a picture of it with his phone and set it as his background


Lance carved Jesus on his pumpkin