Thanksgiving Weekend 2011

I feel so blessed that I had off the whole Thanksgiving weekend. I was one of the only ones at work that did and I totally needed it. I have been working so much recently and now my next day off isn't until December 9th! (besides Sunday of course when we are closed)

WEDNESDAY
Omar and I were supposed to drive down together after work to Orlando to spend the holiday with my family. He ended up having to work till late that night so we had to drive separately. The only place I can find a swim suit is at Everything But Water and the closest is in Orlando. I called them to see if they have any sales going on for Black Friday, which they didn't but they were having a sale right then and so I asked them to save the suits that were my size which they did for only 24 hours. Wednesday I got off work and drove down the Florida Mall. I found 3 of them and 2 cover ups.

After the mall, my sister, Kelly, and I went and saw the new Twilight movie. It wasn't the worst of the movies so far, at least. The movie ended after midnight so CVS started their Thanksgiving specials. Kelly and I bought a ton of stuff!

THURSDAY
Thanksgiving was wonderful. My whole family was there with exception of Lindsey. Nancy came with her boys, and Aaron came with his boys (Nicole didn't come - she was working on dinner for her parents). It was nice being able to spend time with Croix and Levi (Aaron's 2 boys) as they really had no idea who I was. Also, my mom's Uncle Jim came from Tallahassee. I met him when I was a little girl from what everyone told me, but I didn't remember him. I really enjoyed meeting him and talking with him.

It isn't Thanksgiving without going through the ads and making our list for the Black Friday Game Plan

I love my meat carving artist! 

Nancy's Family

My family with Jim

This was the first time I really every got a spend any time with my cousins - it was nice talking to them

Croix and Levi so wanted to pet the cat

This year we had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, rolls, cranberry sauce, creamed squash, creamed onions, pumpkin pie, french apple pie, sweet potato roll, and ice cream. This year we didn't go to a movie like our normal tradition - there were just no good movies out.

I was so tired from getting to bed at close to 3 AM in the morning and waking up at like 8:30 AM to help get stuff ready for Thanksgiving meal, at lunch time, that I wanted to go to bed early. Omar really wanted to go and watch the 49er's football game at Buffalo Wild Wing's since my parents didn't have the channel for it. He convinced me to go with him, and my dad came as well. The place was not open and it happened to be right next to Walmart which had opened a few minutes earlier for Black Friday so we thought we would go check it out.

WalMart was a MAD house - I had never seen it like that for any Black Friday thing before. My dad found a GPS for my mom for Christmas and they let him take it even though the deal wouldn't be available until after midnight (It was 10 PM when we got there). They were actually letting everyone take what they wanted prior to midnight so long as it wasn't the TV's and laptops. It was awesome, Omar and I found an XBox with the Kinect for $150!!! With a deal like that we couldn't pass it up. Now we have all 3 of the game systems (Wii, XBox, PSP). We walked around Walmart about 10 times just checking everything out until we decided to wait in line at about 11:15 to check out at midnight. We waited longer having the lady get us ringed out than anything. We totally chose the wrong line, she was SO SLOW. I am sure she just didn't care since she was going to be there all night anyhow. We got home a little after 1 AM - so another late night for me.

FRIDAY
Kelly was invited by the Pratts to go to a mud games activity at their farm. I had never been out to the farm oddly enough and wanted to go. We got there a little before 11 AM. I guess their crops had flooded due to the rain so they dug a retention pond and put the dirt pulled up to raise their crop bed. So we were going to play in the mud. We played ultimate Frisbee and my team won. We then went and did a tug of war over the pond. My team lost and that water was REALLY cold. It was fun spending time with all the Pratts and to meet Tanner's new wife, Sarah.

Tug of War over the retention pond

the gang