Turkey Day - Weekend

Ah the joy of having 4 days off in a row and not having to use any vacation time, what could be better? Oh wait, a huge meal, football all day, shopping the next day, and just hanging out, yes that about makes it right!

Our Thanksgiving weekend started on Wednesday as soon as we all were home and in festive moods already. Dan had already prepared our entire meal and had everything in the refrigerator ready to be cooked the following morning. Dan had also stopped by the liquor store and bought a few bottles of wine for the weekend and for some reason also bought a thing of box wine. Well, being in good moods and not having to work the next day we turned on the music and danced around with the kids and I told him to "Crack open the box wine!" and we did and did we ever. We had such a blast with the kids that night dancing around and playing after they went to bed Dan and I continued to drink the box wine and had a pretty good time ourselves until 11pm. It may have been too good of a time and we knew it when we crawled into bed and thought about the box wine headaches we were both going to have the next day - ugh. Thanksgiving day was very low key at our house (for various reasons!). We enjoyed watching the Macy's Day Parade with Katelynn and the smells in our home with all the fixing's cooking. The meal was delicious followed up with Pumpkin Pie. We watched a ton of football and we all took naps! I of course also went through the shopping ads to see where I would hit first this year and get ideas for Christmas shopping. I also just found out by chance (because nobody had bothered to tell me) that when I work at our other office location for work we are not allowed to wear jeans. I have been working at the county for 7 years and have been able to wear jeans the entire time which means I don't have many dress slacks or pants or anything, so this made the top of my list as well and yes, I am always happy to go and shop for me!
Friday -
I had decided the day before that I would set the alarm for 5am and leave the house by 6am. I didn't want to be in the mix with the crazies who wait outside the store, besides I wasn't looking for a laptop or TV that they might run out of. Well, I didn't sleep well that night (yes, strange considering the night before and the box wine) and ended up getting up at 3:45am and left my house at 4:35am. I drove into Loveland and what did I see: tons of people waiting outside of Target for it to open. Decided I wasn't going to Target first, good thing Old Navy opened at 3am. I bought a few items at Old Navy and then headed over to Target. I got a few things that I had wanted and found a couple of other ideas and then got into a line that I thought was headed to the electronics department. Later, after waiting in that line for awhile discovered that it was the checkout line - Shit!@ I got out of line and went into the electronics dept. and grabbed a few of the things that were on my list and one thing was gone and of course that was the one item I had really wanted to buy there, of course! I then had to get back into the long checkout line again and wait. Other than a few items I really wasn't impressed with the sale items at Target once I got there and saw they were really only selling them for $5.00 cheaper than the regular price. After Target I headed to the outlet mall and then headed to Centerra. I did find a couple of items for me that included pants and of course then I had to have dress shoes to go with those new pants and there my money was spent and off to home I went.
We finished out Friday by getting the X-mas tree out and starting to decorate and kind of did that the rest of the weekend, slow but sure.
Saturday -
Another lazy day at home with the kids. Dan and Katelynn decided to head out of the house for a little shopping and came home with an inflatable Santa Claus for the front yard. Dan also worked on our bar area downstairs and built some shelves in the back which was nice and helped clean it up a little bit. It was funny, one of the comments that Dan made that day was "I think we just keep moving things from upstairs to downstairs and downstairs to upstairs" - these have been my exact thoughts for the past 2 months every time I pick up and clean.
Sunday -
Of course is Vikings football day.

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend and have so much to be thankful for. Thankful for our family of four that feels complete. Thankful that Dan and I have work and jobs to do and paychecks. Thankful that our kids have been healthy. Thankful for the good time to come.