Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday!

I didn't get to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving yesterday since we were in West Tennessee, so I'll do that today! I hope everyone had a great time with friends and family! We enjoyed our visit with Shad's grandparents, aunts and cousins. Christopher had lots of fun playing with his cousins. He was so exhausted that he slept in until 9:30 today!! We spent Wednesday night with one of Shad's cousins who's married and has a 3-month old baby boy. Being around him and another newborn made me realize that I have absolutely NO baby fever! Instead, I'm suffering more from Doggy Fever! LOL! I really want another small lap-dog, so will start looking into it more after the holidays.

As for Black Friday...I did my part in stimulating the economy. Did you?? I decided to brave Wal-Mart around 9:00 this morning. It wasn't too terribly bad: the parking lot was normal, the inside was a bit crowded, but it was all centralized to the Toys, Electronics and sale isle (all of which were areas I needed :p). Sale items I snagged were: 2 pairs of pj's for Christopher ($4/pair...too bad I didn't know the style is snug, so 24M wouldn't fit him right!), Kung Fu Panda ($9) and Ratatoille ($10). I also finished up Christopher's shopping by getting him a Hot Wheels race track. Later this evening, I also did some shopping online, but I won't go into those details since the recipients may be reading. ;-)

Richard came down this morning, so after my shopping excursion, we all worked on outside Christmas decorations. We haven't put up the icicle lights since getting our metal roof 2 years ago, so Shad didn't know it's nearly impossible to hang lights anymore. So, we had to find a ladder to borrow. Once we found one, things went fairly quickly. After icicle lights, the guys started working on the tomato-stake Christmas tree, but ran out of lights before finishing. So, I made my 2nd trip to Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, I got the WRONG ones (who gets white lights on WHITE wire??), but I decided not to make a 3rd trip today, so will exchange them tomorrow. The guys then moved on to the net lights on the bushes and the rope lights on the front porch before finishing just in time for it to get dark. Shad will finish the tomato-stake Christmas tree on Sunday afternoon since the Titan's don't play. I'll attempt to take pictures and post them when it's all finished.

Shad's going to be gone tomorrow to the final UT Vols game, so it'll just be me and Christopher for most of the day. Since I didn't get to work on the inside Christmas decorations, that's what we'll do. I'm sure having Christopher's help will be lots of fun! LOL! I'll take pictures and post when that's all done, too.