So, for black friday this year I had a list of places I needed to go, things I needed to get, and lines I needed to wait in. Well, all the things I had planned were thwarted by the fabulous event of online black friday shopping. . . the day before!! Yes, Thanksgiving morning I got up and had all my black friday shopping done by 6am! What a relief! I didn't have to get up at 3am!! This also meant the plans could be re-arranged and the whole family could go out with me! So we got up, got ready and left our house at 6:30am. I went to collect next years fabric for our Christmas pj's from Joann's great sale, then we headed to McDonalds for what Evan declared "the best breakfast ever!!" Then, yes, the whole family went to wal-mart. Was it still crazy?? A little, but really manageable. The kids were able to get presents for the sibling whose name they had drawn in our drawing, and we were able to pick up a few necessities. Then, we were able to go and get our Christmas tree. We went to Lowe's. Not really ceremonial chopping down of the tree, but quick, fun and worth it! Here are some of the pictures from our great day!
Oh, and at the end my cutie pie has a surprise she would like to show you!!
This is Josh getting the tree off of the car. I couldn't resist the shot.
The tree in it's spot in the living room.
Decorating the tree (the next day, but it really went better in this post).
We did decorate the whole house later that day. Since we got home by 10:30am we still had a lot of time to get other things done!
The kids got to wrap their presents for each other. Evan wrapped his for Brayden all by himself!
Now, if you've made it this far you are in for a WONDERFUL SURPRISE!
The day before her birthday our little girl took her first steps!! She was commemerating in her own way Black Friday. She was, after all, born on a Black Friday! (ps. we were able to get 2009 black friday t-shirts from a website I follow. They were so nice they gave them to us for free!! They were last years shirts after all! Thanks bfads.net!!)
She is so cute, and we are so proud of her!! Congratulations Addison!
Don't worry, I'll post birthday stuff later today!
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