Heat Condo!

The heat tent has evolved.

They can be nice to each other!

Delicious!

Well I figured that "shark" tacos would taste just fine but I was really scared of the roast.  One of the reasons I didnt encourage Matt to get a deer was cooking and EATING it.  I am happy to say that our roast was amazing.  We usually cook our pork roast with french onion soup and cranberry sauce so we did nothing different other than add more fresh onion and fresh cranberries in since we had them for the co op.  We couldnt even tell a difference and I was amazed!

Yummy!

Celebrating Beauty!

Spent the day at Mom's to celebrate Kaylee's birthday with the ladies and kids.  The guys were all busy wrapping up their hunting so us ladies and the kids got together for nachos and brownies.  As always it was stressful with all the kids together but I wouldnt have it any other way.

True Beauty!

What, 14?!?

I can not believe that Kaylee is 14!  She is growing up to be such a beautiful young lady.  This year I have noticed that she is really becoming a unique person.  She is really deciding how she wants to be as a person and I an proud of her choices she is making.  She is also becoming quite funny.  I mean she has always been pretty funny to us but now she is getting her wit and it is hilarious sometimes. Matt is very jealous because he is not witty at all, between the both of us he is going to be screwed. :)

We had celebrated her birthday earlier in the month so by the time her day came she had a pretty low key birthday. We had already taken her to her birthday dinner because we had to hit Shrimp Fest at Red Lobster and she had an early party due to her birthday being so close to Thanksgiving.  So since her birthday was on a Friday she decided that her and her BFF Keili would just go to the mall and spend some of the cash she received at her party.  They had a blast and she spent almost all of her money but she came home with some cute clothes.

I am proud to call her mine!

Got Meat?

So since Matt got his first the next logical step is to learn how to process it, right?  So my gracious cousin Joel offered to help.  We went over Monday evening so Linc could see but I thought it was a little to gruesome for him to see by the time we got there.  Maybe next year!  Once they had it all cut up the grinding started.  Linc was excited to see this part but he is refusing to eat it now!  Good thing he will never know.

We all had a little fun with the meat bags.  We have a wide variety of meat to eat now...wanna try dinosaur?  I hear they are extinct now, this could be your last chance!

Weights?

We were not able to make it to the gym tonight but we didnt want to miss our workout so Kaylee and I decided to bring the gym to our living room.  We searched Hulu for a workout video. Once we settled on we realized we needed weights.  So we searched and found these....

Got One!

Matt decided three years ago to pick up hunting.  So he went out and purchased a gun, ammo and hunters orange.  The first two years were warm so not much was needed.  This year it was going to be cold so he decided that scent resistant overalls were needed instead of his already owned Carhart ones.  As he starts getting more and more into this hunting stuff I proceed to make fun of him.  Scent resistant overalls, really!?!
However in making all this fun of him I miss that him and Joel are planning a night to invite us over for dinner with plans to get me to like deer!  So chef Joel makes deer chili and backstraps two ways. Fried was my favorite of course!
Turns out the jokes on me because on Sunday afternoon on opening weekend I get a text from Matt, "Got One"!  Looks like the scent resistant overalls worked afterall.  Jokes on me! Ha!

The text that I received!

In the back of the car (Ford Focus)!  I found this to be one of the craziest parts of the of whole thing.  You have a dead deer in the back of your car???  

The kids were very excited!

Heat tent

When I met Matt I thought it was ridiculous that he would make heat tents. I would continuously make fun of him, then Kaylee started and now Linc! Linc takes it to a while new level though.  When he hears the heater kick on he comes running to the kitchen with blankets.  Then he pins up the blanket in the drawers and that is how the heat tent is created.  He then crawls in and lays there in a ball until the heat turns off.

Here is a glimpse of what I saw when I work up this morning!