Thanksgiving
was great this year. Otto went hunting with his dad. (who loves spending time with Otto & hunting so it was an almost perfect day for him -- if they would have gotten something!) Then I was to meet Otto's family & follow them down to Otto's Moms side of the family. We got down there & visited & ate & visited & ate some more. They have a fun tradition well most of the family lives here in Arkansas so naturally they are HUGE Razorback fans! Well Otto has a cousin that grew up in Louisiana. So she is a HUGE LSU fan. For those of you that do not know they are a huge football rivalry! So Cousin Steve & Cousin Jill write a peom to the loser. It is super silly & fun. Last year C. Jill got to write the poem. She has for the last 4 years or more! But this year C. Steve got to write the poem & he will next year too! It is something that we look forward to wach year. After that is was time to head to my parents, where my G'ma & G'pa were there to share Turkey Day with us, which is so much fun to have Grandma and Grandpa come visit! Needless to say Otto & I rolled home! It was a great Thanksgiving, made me realize how blessed I truly am!Black Friday
I have never been a huge fan of shopping so waking up @ the butt crack of dawn to shop really has never crossed my mind. But for some reason the past 2 years I have wanted to do it. I love to people watch & after the entertainment I got from going to the Twilight book party I thought this could be just as fun! I remember last year going home from my parents house & seeing the people camping out in front of the stores & thinking that is crazy stuff! We tried last year but Black Friday was my B-day & when Otto tried to wake me up well that is the key he tried I thought sleep was a much better present! But this year I was ready! We planned on getting up @ 4am but we did not wake up till 4:30am but I was the one that woke up Otto! So off we go. We were just going for the experience if we found something SWEET if not o'well. So we did have a plan, kinda & we did have a few thing we were looking for. Kohl's opened @ 4 am so we went there 1st. I was every impressed how many people were there but it did not feel any more crazy then just a busy shopping day. So we found a few thing that we were looking for & we went to check out & the lines were wrapped around the store. (so back to the I am not a fan of shopping--- lines are really not my thing!) So Otto & I had a planning meeting in the middle of the store. Target opened @ 6am its 5:30 @ the time of this planning meeting. But we really wanted what we had found but it was not marathon line worthy. I also wanted to experience the craziness of a store opening. Which my chance to see this was Target. So we went to a section of the store which not much was on sale so no one was in that area & we stashed our loot we found! (things we do for our angel tree kids) then headed to Target. As we approach Target it was amazing the line was wrapped around the parking lot I had never seen anything like it! It was AWESOME! Just the experience I wanted! I did have to giggle there is a home depot right next store and it even had people lined up for the opening only like 15 & they were all guys imagine that! So we are walking up to find or place it the Target line & I start thinking, OK we have seen a lot of people this morning, but no one that we knew, so I said to Otto, "we must be the stupid ones out of all our friends we have seen no one we know..." I was not even able to complete that sentence when we here "Hey its the Beaumont's!" There they were almost half of our ward standing in line. OK it was not half but there was like 8 of them! So we jumped in line with them, they asked us what our game plan was, we didn't have one! Needless to say we were in line with Black Friday Pros, they had already been to wal-mart & almost a fight later they were in the front of the target line. It was funny to hear them talk about all they got & what they had to do to get them they had been up all night! It was amazing to see they all had assignments of what to get & how many! One of the ladies in line w/us as soon as they opened the store sprinted to the doors made it all the way to the back of the store, grapped her goods & was looking for more, by the time Otto & I got into the store! We had a fun time. We did not see any "major fights" but wow we got the see the natural man, in a lot of people. It was a fun experience. Not sure if we will ever do it again but I do have to say I did have a fun time! So we got a few things a Target & I got my Hot Chocolate. Then we headed back to Kohls by this time it was 7 am. We walked in found our stash & in our line of 8 people we stood.Black Friday Finds:
The Office season 3 DVD for $10.00
P.S. I love you DVD for $ 3.50
Cute sleeping bag backpack combo for angel tree $8.00
Leapseter for angel tree $25.00
Mom & Dads Christmas Present $ good price
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