... that I love Camarillo?

The rest of the weekend was just to relax and keep eating delicious food.

We made it to Establos for breakfast burritos, Jake made us all his famous Kao Soi that tried to kill me, we ate almost all the leftovers, and I tried to make up for the "roll incident" with a huge batch of Mom's delicious eggnog.

I finally got to meet Zeus, the world's most beautiful dog, and we immediately took glamour shots together

And of course there was more Black Friday shopping, followed by a late dinner at Dog Haus and Mockingjay Part II

We love you Camarillo!

... that I almost ruined Thanksgiving?

Okay guys. I'm ready to talk about it now.

Thanksgiving Dinner 2015.

AKA The Great and Terrible Day.

AKA The Day Krissy Almost Ruined Thanksgiving and Was Forever Banned From Helping at Thanksgiving Ever Again.

I was feeling bad that Kell had taken it upon herself to make every single Thanksgiving dish by herself with no help whatsoever (even though it was COMPLETELY her fault since we all begged her to let us help). So I told her I would make the rolls and the carrots. Even after she told me she would make the rolls herself, and even after her best friend offered to bring us over tons of her extra perfect homemade rolls, I told her that I would make them. Because I had been practicing making them with my mother in law for weeks, and I was sure I could make them on my own.

I mixed up a huge double batch of dough, rolled them all out, and waited for them to rise while we got everything else ready.



And then the rolls didn't rise. At all. But we couldn't wait any longer, so I popped them in the oven just hoping they would puff up while they baked.... and they didn't. At all. They were flat as pancakes, baked hard and tough. And I cried. Literally. I think Kell was trying to make me feel better when she said "They're fine! It's just like eating pie crust," and Jer kept calling it "unleavened bread." And the best part was, I was so obsessed with those stupid rolls that I forgot about the carrots and almost cooked them to a soggy mess. So basically I ruined the only two dishes that Kell didn't personally make herself (except for Jacky's potatoes, which were BOMB).

#fail

#Thanksgivingruiner

#thanksfornothing

Oh well. Everything else at dinner was absolutely so freaking delicious that nobody really cared that we didn't have rolls. Or at least that's what they told me. Then there is this little perfect angel who ate 25 of my flat hard rolls just to make me feel better.

All the heart eyes.

After a quick nap,


Matt and I talked everyone else into a little Black Friday shopping!!! Our new favorite Thanksgiving tradition! We jumped in the car and headed up to the T.O. Mall for some post Thanksgiving sales and treats!

I thought they were going to kick us out of the store or at least make us pay for all of the "samples" that Kaari ate in this candy store, but we managed to sneak out before the police were involved. We scored a few Black Friday deals, then just as we were heading out of the mall, Matt convinced everyone that we needed to stop for a little midnight snack.

Matt insisted on introducing Kade to HDOS, which turned out to involve him taking his Cheese on a Stick back to the counter and telling the cooks that they didn't cook it enough and getting new cheeses for everyone. Because if anyone is an expert on fried cheese around here, it is definitely Matt. The manager even apologized to Matt once he explained that he was a former employee and knew what he was talking about. Let's just say it was an embarrassing end to the night for all of us.

Love my Matty like he loves his fried cheese!

... that we had a warm Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kell volunteered her house to anyone who would be in town for Thanksgiving, and I begged Matt to go to Camarillo! A lot of Matt's family came to Utah for Thanksgiving this year, but Matt was so sweet and said we could go to California and I was so excited!!! Lucky for us, the Laugenours decided to come early and hang out with us before we left!

Love that little Pierce!

Cait and Kade wanted a ride too, and the three of us convinced Matt to drive straight through on Tuesday so that we could spend as much time in California as possible!

We started out the fun with breakfast at the Airport Cafe on Wednesday

Which I guess made up for the fact that Kell seduced me to California with dreams of Pie Night... and then had it without me!!! Never mind... I'm still mad about it.

After breakfast, I introduced Matt to the wonderful world of the Camarillo Premium Outlets, where I promptly began spending my pre-birthday-Black-Friday-shopping-spree-allowance from Matt (which I HOPE is now a tradition that will continue until the Last Days).

After our 1st trip to the outlets, we made our 1st trip to Target, then went back to Kell's to start helping with Thanksgiving dinner prep.

And by that I mean I whipped up one small part of one dessert and that was it, because Kelly had already done everything since she is more OCD and controlling than our mother. And that is ME saying that, so you know it was bad. Seriously. AND she also managed to make us a DELICIOUS soup for dinner, on top of getting everything prepared for Thanksgiving dinner. She's so wonderful it's stupid.

After dinner, we had to go back out to the Outlets again because I had forgotten my purse the first time (yes, I know, I did the same thing last year too, good grief what is wrong with me?) and, you guessed it, also back to Target. We Blicks are nothing if not predictable.

After a quick game of something that I can't remember the name of, but I definitely won, we called it a night.


I love being home!

... that Fall flew by?

October and November were a blur.

We cheered for our Cougs

Matt won 3rd place in the Ward Halloween Chili Cook Off (and 1st place for most humble entry)

"Super Champion Blue Ribbon Winner First Place Best Chili." Right.

We petted this bun a lot

I learned how to crochet all the scarves!

(Grandma Blick would be so proud!)

We went to admire Caitlin's choreography skills in her cute/awkward Junior High production of Bye Bye Birdie

And then she embarrassed us with her Asianness

(She is using an electronic razor to shave off the pilling on her Korean sweater in the middle of a frozen yogurt store. And you may think that the look of horror on Matt's face is from embarrassment, but I think it was his actual reaction to Caitlin telling us that she hasn't washed that sweater since she bought it in Korea. TWO YEARS AGO. *monkey covering mouth and crying face emojis*)

We still love you Cait!

... that I hate Chad?

Chad is the worst.

But sometimes he buys tickets to the Garth Brooks concert and lets us come along and it is AMAZING.

Amazing like I don't even listen to country music anymore and I sang along to every single song amazing. It was an AWESOME show! So awesome in fact, that I agreed to spend the weekend after that with them as well up at Lyndsee's parents' cabin. Which is also amazing.

We ate tons and tons of food, shot things, wore pajamas, went in the hot tub, watched a lot of football, took naps, read books, and saw lots of deer.

I love to hate Chad.

... that Matt said:

When I tried to make him eat a salad: "I already ate healthy today. I had pizza for lunch."

Riding on BART in San Francisco: "Time to catch some lice!"

When I caught him pushing the bunny with his foot:
Me: "Don't kick her!"
Matt: "I didn't! I mean... I petted her. In the face. With my foot."

Describing traveling in Taiwan: "If you can't tell what you're smelling is food or sewage, that's a bad sign, right?"

Trying to remember the name of the drink place, Swig: "Straws? Sips? Squirts? Diarrheas?"

Being a good example to our Sunday School class: "A lot of people experiment in college. I experimented with Family History."

When I asked him if it was okay to eat some hummus that had been left out:
Matt: "Oh, one day won't hurt it."
Me: "Well, I know you'd eat it."
Matt: "I wouldn't eat it."
Me: "You wouldn't?"
Matt: "No. It's healthy."

On Harry Potter: "My patronus would be a snake. Or a race car. Do they have race car patronuses?"

Watching American Ninja Warrior: "If I was stronger, I could totally do this."

On being a world traveler: "When I go to other countries, I always think to myself, please don't judge all Americans for the things that I do."

Me: "I need a favor from you."

Matt: "If it involves me not farting, you're out of luck."

Me:
Matt: "Like, cause I already farted."

Upon hearing acapella singing on the radio: "Why is this on the radio? Anything is better than this. Nicki Minaj is better than this."

I love my Matty!!!