Black Friday!

So this is the first year in a very long time that I have not braved the crowds and the cold for the biggest shopping day of the year. I really considered it, but there wasn't anything I was just dying to get. Plus, most everything can be found online for the same prices. However, it is a fun experience and if I would've had someone to go with I may have gone just for the heck of it. There were people camping out at Best Buy the day before Thanksgiving and probably earlier than that at some stores. We ran into the Best Buy in Logan on the 23rd to see Emery's best friend Josh and I just had to take a picture of these crazy people!

Last night, about 20 hours after Target had opened for it's Black Friday sale, I went in just to grab some lights for our Christmas tree and figured I would see if anything I wanted happened to be left. I quickly realized everything was long gone, but then I went down the toy aisles looking at the very top shelf and what did I find? Exactly what Morgan wanted for Christmas, which happened to be one of the doorbuster sales! I think I actually squealed with delight and another lady who was shopping laughed at me and said Congratulations! Morgan did see that I was shoving something Barbie related under the cart, but she doesn't know exactly what it was and it's not like I could take her home and come back to get it. She will still be surprised come Christmas morning. I still have some shopping to do, but I have made a dent. I am hoping that Cyber Monday will have some good deals, so I can finish soon.

I guess we are not going to New York City now, which I am super bummed about. I totally forgot my daughter has her dance recital that weekend! But I am excited for that and my mom will probably fly down to watch. Maybe we will be able to go next year at Christmas time.

We got a real Christmas tree this year and it smells so good in my house! The last few years I had a peacock theme, but this year I decided to go more classic with a burgundy red, light green and gold. I am also going to start giving the kids an ornament each year. Morgan is going to get a Disney ornament and Cam is going to get an animal ornament. I found the cutest animal ornaments at Macy's. I wanted to buy all of them, but I just got three.  The lion below is one of them...I also got a bear and a fox.  I am really regretting not buying more now!  But, I want Cam to have a variety of ornaments, not all the same style...so hopefully they will come out with more cute animal ornaments next year!

 I also decided I am going to start getting an ornament from everywhere we go on vacation. I need to find a cute eiffel tower ornament from when we went to Paris and something from when we went to Mexico. Those are the only big vacations Emery and I have been on together. I think traditions are so fun and really create good memories that your children will always remember.