You Don't Get to Sit with the Crimson Club Every Day

Matt and I are very lucky that we know someone with Utah football tickets, because when we saw that Utah State was playing at Utah, we knew we'd get to go! But going to Rice Eccles means sitting with the die hards in the Crimson Club. Matt and I were the only people there in blue and we got our share of dirty looks before and during the game!

All the Utah fans in our section were in white. The stadium looked like a giant candy cane.

My dad introduced us to all the people he sits near, including a woman who owns an ice cream place in Logan and gave us a bunch of free ice creams. It seemed like everyone really had a soft spot for Logan and Utah State. We had a blast harassing my dad and Laurie through the whole game, and were sad when Utah State lost.

Six years ago, Matt and I got to use my dad's tickets to watch Utah State while he was out of town. This game was at the end of September of my sophomore year at Utah State, two years before Matt and I got married. Alex brought a friend and the four of us went together to the game. That was one of the only times I've ever been rained on AND SNOWED on during a football game! I guess I was just getting prepared for future years of cold football games in Logan!

Matt Moment

Many of you know that Matt is closer to a six-year old than the 28 year old that he is.

This week I saw that my tools were out, and I asked him why he needed them.

He told me, "I used them to open the Pepsi."

Yes. My husband used my tools to open a 2-Liter. Good thing he's so cute.

Back to School 2013

Wow, I can't believe that I have been back to school for over three weeks and haven't posted anything. Okay, I can believe it. This class that I have this year has already been a doozy (it took me a while to think of this word... there were many others I wanted to use instead but thought would not be appropriate).

First of all, I started the year with 33 kids. The other fourth grade classes had 29. The day before school started, the principal asked if I'd like to move a couple of them into the other classes, but I had already gotten everything ready and I said no. This has turned out to be a good call, because some of the kids that have moved in since then would have been hard to bring into our class.

I read a book written by the Disney Imagineers this summer that inspired my bulletin board for the hallway. I HATE making bulletin boards so I try to make boards that I can leave up for a while. This has so far been great. I got a lot of compliments from other Disney freaks like me about how much they liked it.

I have a cartridge for my Cricut that is Disney and does the cute Mickey heads and Minnie bows.

Back to school night was the best I think I've ever had. I actually said everything that I needed to say, and several parents told me after that I did a great job and they loved the information they received.

The first day of school was crazy. I've never had a class with so much loud energy on the first day of school. I barely got half-way through my regular first day of school material. I was so frustrated at the end of the day, but it taught me a lesson about my class: EVERYTHING takes longer with this group. I have to lower my expectations of what we can accomplish during the day or else I will be frustrated every day that they aren't getting through it.

Needless to say, the last few weeks have progressed like the first day. Lots of noise. Lots of frustration. Lots of kids messing around. I have made a million changes, and had a lot of kids in trouble already, and still nothing is working. One day, I had about the worst day I've had in a long time, definitely my worst day at Summit. In the middle of the day, my principal saw me and asked what he could do to help. Jokingly I said, "Refill my Coke!" About 10 minutes later, I had a fresh Pepsi on my desk to help me survive the day. Definitely good principal award! This week, I went to see my principal and we talked about some of the reasons the kids are so crazy, and he was so great to tell me that it wasn't my fault. I needed to hear that!

This week we went on our first field trip. This is a fun, outdoors field trip, usually held up Logan Canyon. They had to relocate due to the rain, but we were still outside for the day. I didn't expect to have any problems. I mean, this is a field trip! Kids love field trips and are usually on very good behavior for other adults, especially fun and interesting adults! I was so sad at the result. The kids were crazy and disrespectful all day. Around lunch time, I had the feeling that we should go back to school. I gave the kids a warning and we stayed. Within an hour, I knew that I was right, that we needed to go back to school. Luckily (or maybe by divine intervention) we had our own bus and were able to leave immediately. The kids didn't know what hit them. I called the principal and he met us back at school and gave them a lecture following my lecture. I have never felt like my whole class should have to leave a field trip due to behavior. It was very sad for the kids to miss out on a fun activity. The principal told them that they'll have to earn back their field trips for later in the year, that at this moment, they are not going on any other field trips.

I love the support I'm getting at school from my principal and other teachers. I've had many teachers and parents tell me how hard this group of kids is and how they are supporting everything I'm doing to get things under control. I also have the best husband and sister-in-law. One day Matt came in and brought me lunch, and Jenny has brought me Cokes more than once since school started. I hope that things turn around for the better with this group of kids! And soon!

Family Pics- 2013 version

Back in June, the Fischer family got together for some new family pictures. Our last picture was taken in 2010 and we have had three babies in our family since then, Harrison, Reagan, and Kailee. Finally we will be able to update the family picture. The only problem is that we will need a new one soon, with Kamie pregnant with her second baby, due in January!

Don't I have the cutest nieces and nephews! Good pictures Kendra!

Babysitting Reagan

Kamie asked if I could watch Reagan on my last Friday before I go back to work, and of course, I was very excited that I could say yes! Luckily Matt had the day off work and we could watch her together, because Reagan is a busy girl and it's better to have two people keeping an eye on her than just one!

Tim brought Reagan over in the morning and I fed her a normal breakfast. Matt watched her while I was in the shower, and when I got out, he had fed her more breakfast, although I'm not sure if Doritos and Swedish Fish count as breakfast.... haha. Then we headed up to the bookstore to buy our new game day shirts and show Reagan around. Maybe someday she'll be an Aggie, right? You can never start the brainwashing too early...

Matt carried her on his shoulders, but she was grabbing his eyeball to stay up!

See! She's an Aggie!

Then we took Reagan to the awesome Logan Zoo. She couldn't get close enough to the animals. The exhibits are not exactly child-friendly so we had to hold her so she could see better. This proved to be dangerous as she was constantly trying to get in the exhibits.

Feeding the ducks... We kept a close eye on Reagan during this because she had already put a lot of non-food items in her mouth in just a few hours. Luckily, she realized that if she ate the duck food, there would be nothing to feed the ducks, and didn't try to eat the duck food.

Also watched the little fingers close on this... I think these ducks would have eaten her fingers off if they got close enough to the fence.

Again... couldn't get close enough!

After going through the whole zoo once, we went around again. Matt was looking at the elk and when we turned around we saw Reagan doing this... yes. She is licking the ground. I swear Kamie, I watched your daughter! I just was laughing too hard to stop her, and Matt was too busy taking this picture to stop her. She would walk a couple steps, then stop and lick the ground, then walk a few steps and stop and lick the ground. I wonder if different places tasted differently? I guess you never know unless you try it!

In the car on the way home, she kept saying, "Towie, cheese!", wanting me to take a picture of her. I love that I actually got one of her smiling at the camera. That never happens!

After the zoo, we had lunch and watched Brave, hoping that Reagan would get tired and want to take a nap. The movie did not put Reagan to sleep, but did put Matt to sleep. So Reagan and I had some girl time and I gave her a pedicure. She was fascinated for the first foot, but then wouldn't let me paint her toes on the other foot! I couldn't return her to Tim and Kamie with only one foot painted, so I distracted Reagan long enough to paint the other foot. I then had to pin her between my legs and hold her down to get this picture of our cute toes. I'm sure someday she'll slow down enough for me to take some non-action shots of her!

Matt finally woke up from his nap after Reagan and I had taken a short walk and she found the apple trees on our street. She had already eaten her way through one apple when Matt woke up and wanted one for himself. So we walked down and picked two more apples and Reagan and Matt sat still for a few minutes to eat. Then Reagan started playing soccer with her apple and it went in the garbage, then the garbage went on the counter so Reagan would stop pulling stuff out of it.

We had to buy Reagan an Aggie shirt while we were on campus, and had to show it off when Tim came to get her!

What a fun day. Busy, but sooo fun. I am so glad we were able to spend time with our cute niece! We love you baby girl!

4 Years

On Thursday, August 15, Matt and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. We don't go crazy for our anniversary, we tend to buy ourselves gifts throughout the year, so we just usually go out to dinner or something. This year, Matt had to work, so I took him a drink and some treats around lunchtime and we went to Olive Garden before going to Matt's softball games that night.

The funny part about this day is that Matt and I share our anniversary with some of our closest friends. On August 15, 2008, one year before Matt and I got married, I went to the wedding of my college roommate Jeana and her husband Marc. They got married in the Manti temple and I went with some of my other roommates to their reception that evening in Nephi.

From left: Lindsay, me, Amanda, Marc, Jeana, Natalie W., Jenni

One year later, these same people were there on my special day too. Jeana and Marc drove up from Nephi for our temple sealing and basically spent the evening of their first anniversary at our wedding and reception!

From left: Marc, Jeana, Jenni, me, Lindsay, Tom (Lindsay and Tom got married in May of 2009)

So every year, Jeana texts me in the morning a "Happy Anniversary!" text, which I happily return to her. I guess I'll never forget my anniversary with Jeana reminding me every year!

So happy anniversary to my best friend, my other half, the best thing that has ever happened to me... yep I'm talking about you, Matt. I love you and look forward to all the years we have in our future.

XOXO

Slowly... Slowly

Matt and I are getting close to start building our house! We are under contract on a lot we like in Richmond and have our house plans finished. We are now in the process of getting our plans approved and getting bids for all the materials and labor for building. I look forward to documenting our progress as things start happening!

We have decided that we are going to save some money while we build, and are going to move in with Randy and Jenny and the kids for a few months. While I was at work, I saw a bunch of boxes and had to grab them to start packing up books. I have to use smaller boxes to keep them light (mostly so people will actually help me carry them!) and couldn't pass them up. So even though we aren't super close to getting ready to move, I decided to pack up all my books. It was pretty sad. I am still in mourning. I think I am going to put them in my classroom rather than in storage so I can be closer to them. SIXTEEN BOXES FULL OF BOOKS. It's like heaven.

Sad, sad, sad. Bookshelves should never be empty.

I had to document our funny division of space in our spare bedroom. This is Matt's side of the room. This is where he keeps his work clothes, gun safe, hunting clothes and gear, and of course, Spike.

My side of the room. My craft board, bookshelves, and project table.

The rest of my side of the room. Includes my craft supplies (the entire left bookshelf is all my crafting stuff), and other books in the right bookshelf (textbooks, church books, MS books).

I am a little sad to start packing everything up, because I have LOVED this apartment, but I am way excited for a few months of some crazy times before we get to move into our very own house!