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

Thriller!

On Wednesday last week, I went with Myrna, Kamie and her mom, Jenny and her mom, aunt, and sister, and Kari to see Thriller at Kingsbury Hall! I always go every year with my dad for my birthday, and he and I went the week before, so I got to see it twice! It was amazing both times! One of my friends from high school dances for Odyssey and was in the performance and I was so happy I got to talk to her after the show on Wednesday! This is definitely one of my favorite birthday and Halloween traditions!

Melissa and I after the performance


Myrna, Kamie, Karen and I after the show (Jenny and her fam left before we could get a picture with everyone!)


My birthday was on Thursday and it was a pretty normal day at school, but after school Matt took me to dinner (at Olive Garden of course) and then we went out to my mom's house for cheesecake and family time! It was such a fun birthday!

This is what Matt got me for my birthday! These pictures are the samples from the store, so they aren't the same as mine (since I painted mine a little bit different) and I haven't finished my Christmas letters yet!

Deer Hunting

Last weekend I skipped out on all my other family members and went with Matt and the Fischers to Strawberry for some deer hunting. The boys actually did go hunting (once) and Matt took me up the mountain on the 4-wheeler and showed me how he hunts (it wasn't Edward but... haha just kidding)! Again, no one shot anything, but we had a fun time sitting around the fire, watching football while sitting around the fire, playing games, and relaxing! Tim and Kamie let us stay in their new trailer, and it was so fun! Thanks you guys! Lance and Kendra came up with Diet and Myrna and it was so great! While October is a lonely month for the women, I can see why the boys like it so much!

Matt and I in our sweet orange outfits


It was cold! I wore Matt's coveralls one night to stay warm!


Matt's mustache... I do NOT approve, however, I seem to have no choice!

It Shall Come To Pass...

Thankfully, this week was the END of some things we were ready to finish! Now I know we usually celebrate the beginning of things, and are sad when they end, but this was different. Matt has had the flu for a week, and is still recovering, but was finally able to go back to work! That is the first thing we are grateful to have done (not to mention our gratitude that I did not get the flu even though we still slept in our bed together). Secondly, my first grade experience is over! The kids all gave me hugs yesterday and it was sweet, but inside I was thinking "YES!!!" I couldn't have asked for a better learning experience, and my cooperating teacher ended up giving me good grades, so I will be able to get a job after all. My supervisor is the best! I love her. Definitely got the best deal when we got put together!

Now even though I still haven't gotten my name changed on really anything, and our apartment is always messy, and there is always about ten million things to do, I am definitely one of the happiest people you are going to meet! (It helps having the happiest husband, his good vibes rub off)

Conference Weekend

This weekend has been such a blur! What ever happened to life slowing down on the weekends so you can actually enjoy it? Well, Matt left me for "the hunt" on Friday and I went off to babysit the twins while their daddy ran the St. George marathon. I attempted to watch conference, but the twins weren't having any of that, so we gave up and ran errands on Saturday and went out to visit my mom on Sunday. It was so different to have just the twins, rather than all five kids, and I must say it was pretty nice. After bedtime every night, I settled in for a couple hours of Thank-You-note-writing. Thankfully, I finished those this weekend (except for a few, I ran out of cards- I bought 100 cards.... So many great people)! Matt helped with about four of them last week and that was it for his help. That is one thing I am very grateful to be finished with.



One other thing I am grateful to be nearly finished with is my student teaching block in second grade! Now, it has been a very good learning experience for me, although I am BURNED OUT and come home stressed out just about every single day. Poor Matt has dealt with my mood swings for too long! SEVEN MORE DAYS OF SECOND GRADE!!!!! Then I get a few days off (well to work on my portfolio) and then I start fifth grade on October 19. I cannot wait!!!!

Spooky Corn Mazes

On Friday night, Matt and I went on a triple date to a corn maze out in West Jordan with my mom and Jeff, and Alex and Jason. Good times! We had a bbq at our house first, I made some good better-than-you-know-what cake, and we stuffed ourselves until it was dark enough to go. When we got to the corn maze, there was a bunch of ambulances and fire engines on the road and we were all wondering what happened, and of course, my mom said, "They're here for the corn maze!" Pretty much rolled over in my own grave at that one. We went through the "scary" corn maze first and had a fun time laughing when everyone got scared. I learned something new about my husband... he is a WIMP! Pretty sure he was jumping at everything and he was holding on to me! I was a little disappointed, I have been to better scary corn mazes. Then we went through the normal corn maze and were still trying to scare each other and about half way through, we were all done! So we took the passage to the exit and headed home. It was such a fun night!



Alex and Jason giving the scary guy some lovin'


Matt trying to blend in with the corn...


Matt of course had to jump in front of the camera to be in the picture! Can you say five years old?


Let's be honest, how many of these pictures do I have?


Yay for Halloween and October! My favorite holiday and my favorite month!