Thanksgiving 2012

We had such a good Thanksgiving. It was so nice and relaxing and enjoyable.

 

 

It started Thursday morning with Cinnabon cinnamon rolls and eggs, its what we do every year for breakfast and every year after we eat such high sugary foods we all feel horrible for about an hour or so. We should change it next year but the cinnamon rolls are so yummy I think its that no one cares. lol

After breakfast we start prepping food and have the parade on in the background. The kids LOVED the parade.

We went outside and played some while food was cooking. It was actually a really nice day and playing outside was enjoyable.

Dinner was at 3 and we ate and ate and ate. Then we all laid on the couch with our super full bellies and watched The Santa Clause which is another family tradition.

Chris and I were lucky enough to have my mom offer to keep the kids so we could do black friday shopping. This was HUGE because Tenley sleeps only in her crib. She will not nap anywhere but her bed and she would certainly not sleep all night long without her bed. So my mom took a huge leap of faith and let Ten spend the night. We made sure to bring her blankets and her dolly, Izzy, hoping those would help.

So we put Ten down waited about 30 mins to make sure she fell asleep and then we left. I made an agreement with my mom that if she woke up to call me and I would go straight home so Chris and I took 2 cars just in case.

Chris and I made it to Walmart with 5 mins to spare before they let people start buying stuff and it was CRAZY! We went to get 2 games my mom wanted for my sister cause they were normally 50 and they were on sale for 25 and I wanted to get the kids a play kitchen. This play kitchen normally is over 100 bucks well they had it for 50 so of course I HAD to get it.

Then we went to target which was even crazier then walmart. The line literally wrapped around every single aisle of the whole entire store. So we left. Nothing was worth that line.

We ran to Sears and Toys R Us then to post to buy a new TV. Chris waited outside in the cold for 2 hours for this TV. I stayed in the car and slept. HAHA. They let them in early to wait since it was so cold outside around 2 am so I went and joined him inside. We got a 55in Sony Smart LED tv for 699. This is normally a 1600 dollar TV. It was on sale for 799 but if you got there early they had some coupons and we got a 100$ off coupon for the TV! It was so worth it then.

After that we went back to my moms house (5am) and I woke my mom up to go shopping and Chris stayed with the kids. I was very impressed that Ten had slept all night long =) Proud mama moment.

My mom and I had the best time shopping since it was DEAD out. Like seriously. We went to target, Kohl's, the mall, and had no lines and no problems with traffic or anything. It started getting busy around 10am. So we got 5 hours of crowd free shopping. I got the kids some gifts, some friends some gifts, I got Ten 6 cloth diapers for 30$!! Basically I feel like I scored. I LOVE Black Friday shopping. It is my favorite and even though by 2pm when I got home I was exhausted and even when the husband says lets go to lowes and then go to the farm and get a tree after I have been up for over 36 hours, I would do it all over again.

So to me it was a great Thanksgiving. The fact that I got to spend it with my family and the people I love makes it even better =)