Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year at my family's cabin. Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures of all the fun. Dinner was great as always, and the games were a ton of fun. Sydney loved being with her cousins at the cabin. Before we left, she would tell me over and over that we were going to the cabin and she was going to play on the "little" stairs. There are three stairs coming down from the kitchen into the main room that she loves to jump off of. We also had a competitive ping pong tournament that my brother Matt won. Ping pong is a big thing in my family, and something I have not excelled at. Here are the few pictures I took.

Zoe's First Thanksgiving

The die-hard 3-wheeler riders

Sydney, Ashton, and Tate.

Caleb would have been there but he was taking a nap.

The next morning at 3:30am, Nick and I attempted the Black Friday sales for our first time. We didn't have anything big that we were looking for, therefore we weren't too stressed. It was really funny to see how serious people were about getting what they wanted. Our first stop was Shopko and we waited outside in line for about 45 minutes. When we got in the store, I saw a big crowd of people grabbing this certain item, I won't say what it was because we are giving it to someone who reads this blog :) Anyways, I saw everyone grabbing this item and thought to myself, "That must be a GREAT deal! I should grab some." So I grabbed two. In the end we only kept one. But the rack was empty in 30 seconds. It was so funny. Our plan originally was to go to Toys R Us first, but the parking lot was packed and the street was lined with parked cars. We went back an hour or so after it opened to take a look, and that place was insane! I couldn't believe how many people were there and how full everyone's carts were. We hit a few other stores, and got some killer deals on movies at Wal-Mart. By 8am we were all done and very tired. I had a good time doing this, and I'm pretty sure Nick and I will do it again next year. I won't be attempting Toys R Us though. That was a nut house!