Turkey Dinner, Family, Black Friday

Mom came to visit. Alli was thrilled to share her room with my mom. She absolutely loves waking up in the morning and staring/smiling at my mom. Dom loves having his Nuna around too. She reads and plays with the kids way more than I take the time to (basically, she spoils them with attention). Sean enjoys mom coming too because she and he argue over trivial scientific crap that doesn't really interest me.

And then there's me...I LOVE having my mom here visiting (and whooping me in cribbage-I will admit she did beat me into the ground this visit), especially over Thanksgiving. We are not big shoppers, but we thrive on Black Friday sales. This time we hit Walmart at 3:20 am (we tried to do the Old Navy thing at 3am, but even though the flyer said they would be open, they were NOT open until 5)! We didn't want a laptop or a big screen tv, thank goodness, because all the numbers were already given out when we arrived there. We did get all the electronics, toys, housewares, etc, that we wanted and only had to stand in short lines. We used the electronics counter checkout and sped up the process (and begged people to let us through to exit the store). After Walmart, we went to Old Navy (though we missed out on the free video game) and managed to get some good deals on kids clothing. Then to a couple of more stores for a dog pillow for Polly and a few other miscellaneous items.

After all the shopping was done and we were about ready to fall over (around 7:20am), we went out to breakfast at the Breakfast Club. My friend was able to join us and we had an enjoyable time girl chatting and being silly at an ungodly time of the day (actually it wasn't that crazy early by this point, but considering we had all been up since around 2 it was still kinda absurd)!


Oh, I forgot to mention the Turkey Dinner. It was fabulous! Cat, my sister in law, did a great job cooking. I helped a little, but she mostly cooked and decorated like Martha Stewart. We had dinner at their home and played a few games, but didn't stay too long because both my brother and his wife were slightly under the weather. We did have an enjoyable time with them though...and it was good to see them.