Thanksgiving!

I can't believe it's already that time of year! 2014 has just flown by! This year for Thanksgiving was pretty traditional. Matt and I drove down to Salt Lake on Wednesday afternoon to meet my sisters, dad, and Laurie for dinner and a movie. Dinner this year was at Buffalo Wild Wings, and after we saw "Mockingjay- Part 1". This is a fun new tradition for us, and really nice that it's the night before Thanksgiving, because holidays are crazy!

On Thanksgiving we had scones for breakfast at my mom's house, and then went shooting. This used to be a Fischer Thanksgiving tradition and for the past few years, my mom, Jeff, and sisters have always been able to come, and less of Matt's family is able to come! My mom and Jeff look forward to it every year. This year, both my sisters were off work (which is amazing considering that they both work retail!) and were able to come! Alex has never been shooting before, so she had some fun trying out all of Matt's guns!

My mom hates the bigger guns, and so Alex was a little hesitant to try, but she ended up liking it! Shooting clays is my favorite type of shooting, so that's mostly what I did.

Matt threw tons of pigeons- we went through almost 150 pigeons.

Lance came out this year with Diet, and Alex brought her friend Colby. They both really liked shooting Matt's bigger guns.

Matt and his dad shooting shot guns.

Alex even tried out Matt's black powder rifle!

All the girls!

First Week of Snow

This week we experienced the first week of snow! It is so fun to be in our house now that winter is setting in. It has been a full year since we started building our house, and it is so great to be able to park the cars in a garage (no more ice scraping in the morning before work!), and kick the heat on whenever we want! Last week we had a BBQ for dinner while we watched the Aggie game, and we had some food leftover, so this week Matt had to shovel the back patio so he could get to the BBQ. I have to admit, the food was great!

On Saturday we went to the Aggie game after a couple days of snow, and everything was still completely covered in snow! They had to use a snowplow on the field, and were slowly shoveling the bleachers as we were getting there. It was 25 degrees and even started snowing during the game, but being the true fans that we are, we stayed the whole time! Good thing it was the afternoon and the sun was out for a little while!

At least our drinks stayed cold all game.

Luckily, we ended up winning, otherwise it would have felt much colder! Good thing I was wearing my coveralls, a long sleeve shirt, a sweatshirt, coat, two pairs of socks and gloves, a headband, and we still brought two blankets. At halftime, Matt bought me a hot chocolate, which really helped keep me warm until the end of the game!

Pumpkin Carving 2014

Every year, pumpkin carving is a huge deal for the Fischers. I don't really know how it started, but one of Matt's favorite things about Halloween is carving pumpkins. This year, Jenny and Randy were a little partied out, so I offered to host pumpkin carving in our garage. We set up tables and pulled out some tarps and we were good to go.

Melissa was babysitting until Randy got off work, so she had Wyatt, Brad, Claire, and Harrison. Jenni brought over her kids until Nate got off work, so it was just the girls with all the kids for a while!

Harrison didn't want to pull the guts out of his pumpkin, so I had to do it for him. I actually did just about everything for him. He helped poke holes, until he got bored. While I was carving his pumpkin, he really wanted a nose for his jack-o-lantern, but as you can see, there isn't one on the pattern, so I had to freestyle the nose while he was shouting, "Make a nose Tori!"

Wyatt did awesome!

Brad did his pumpkin on his own this year! He picked a pretty hard pattern and only needed help with a couple parts!

By the time Randy came, Claire was ready for some help. She did all the poking, and Randy helped with the carving.

Lindsay and Harrison did the same pattern. I think hers turned out better than the one I did for Harrison!

Carter and Brad did the same pattern. Carter kept trying to do the flying duck pattern, but Jenni didn't want to do all the carving on that one, so she had him pick a different one.

After the kids were done, uncle Matt was just getting started. He spent another hour after everyone went home carving his two pumpkins. He got online and chose his patterns carefully. He printed off an Olaf pattern for me to do, which was great because it was super easy.

The "super turtle" and minion! Harrison wouldn't call it a ninja turtle! He kept calling it a super turtle!

On Halloween, Randy and Jenny had already left on their cruise, so again, I offered to host Halloween festivities at our house. Diet and Myrna brought the kids over, and so did Nate and Jenni. Kamie had to work, so Tim brought the girls over. We had chili and scones for dinner before sending the kids out for some trick-or-treating! I stayed home to pass out candy, and was shocked at how many kids we had stop at our house! I almost ran out of candy! Matt said it was way crazy walking around with so many people out. Looks like our street is the place for all the trick-or-treating! We took the kids back to their neighborhood for a few houses, and then watched Godzilla at Nate and Jenni's house after putting the kids to bed. It was a great Halloween!

Halloween Festivities

The week before Halloween, Kenzy and I had to go down to Salt Lake for an After-School Conference at Thanksgiving Point. We were put up in a hotel, so we decided to make a weekend out of it! Matt, Kenzy, and I drove down on Thursday after work. We dropped Matt off with his parents and then headed off to see Thriller! It was fun to go with Kenzy, who had never seen it before, but I did still miss our big group! The show was amazing as always!

We spent Friday at our conference, and Matt went fishing with his dad. After our conference, we got free admission to the Museum of Ancient History so Kenzy, Matt and I wandered around while we waited for Devin to meet us. Then we headed downtown for dinner at Training Table and our annual visit to the Haunted Village at This is the Place! Kenzy was pretty freaked out, and I definitely jumped a few times! That is one of my favorite Halloween traditions!

On Saturday, we went to half of the conference, and then had to leave so we could make it back to Logan for the Aggie game! We had such a great weekend with Kenzy and Devin, and definitely will try to make this a tradition!