Turkey and Shopping!

Oh how I love Turkey Day. The food, the family, the football and the countdown, and plotting to Black Friday shopping!

 

This year was pretty similar to last year. We got to take 2 of our nieces on a date Wednesday night. Pizza Hut and some Breaking Dawn, part 2. This is the exact same thing we did last year with 2 of them. It was so fun, I think we are going to make it a tradition. They kept Mike and I laughing all night. We substituted Schydi for Maygun this year since she wasn't joining us at Papa's, but she was missed. Thanks to DaNell and Schydi for a great time.

 

Thursday morning we got up early and hit the Thanksgiving Day sale at Kmart. They had more great deals this year than ever before I think and we came out saving loads more than we spent, plus racking up some gift cards for next week. After that and going back to the hotel for a bit, we headed over to Papa's to see how the kids were doing since they all stayed the night there and to watch some football and make our next game plan while the smells of turkey and pie filled the air.

 

After a super yummy dinner with all the fixins (thanks Grandma Judi), we began to prepare for battle. DaNell painted us up with some glittery war paint. We assigned all of the troops certain areas of the store and converged upon Walmart about 6:30 pm for the 8:00 sale. 

 

 

When they said go, we were off! We scored everything we wanted and then manned our next battle stations in the store for the 10pm sale. And when the clock struck, mayhem occurred again! We once again prevailed, thanks to DaNell for being a scrapper and fighting off one guy for an item (we have taught you well young one!).  After checking out, which went amazingly quick this year, Mike and I went to Kmart to see if they had any of the items we wanted there. They had opened at the same time as Walmart so we thought we'd be skunked. But to our surprise, we got them. They had the exact quantity we needed of them left so we put them all in the cart and headed back to the hotel.

Because of the earlier start times, we were actually able to get about 4 hours of sleep before the 5am sale at Walmart. I went to that one alone. I knew what items we wanted to look at and the store was dead so it was pretty dull and I decided against those items once I was there. After stopping back by the hotel and grabbing Mike we went to JC Penney's for the 6 am sale. I have to say, we were pretty disappointed in them this year. We did get a few of the items we wanted but they didn't have any of several of the items in the ad. We ended up having to order them online.

After that we went once again to Walmart and Kmart for the last of the sales and to see if we missed anything. We found a few more items to snag and then it was time for another tradition, brunch at the Cowboy Club with Papa after the shopping. I enjoyed a yummy cheeseburger and swapping war stories from shopping with everyone.

We stopped by Grandma Nette's and I enjoyed a nap in her recliner while she visited with the kids then we went back to Papa's for a bit to play some Apples to Apples (another tradition). Then it was time to head back to the big city. We made another stop just like last year at the Little Acorn for dinner then to drive through the Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork.  I didn't get any pics this year as I didn't take the camera at all. But the kids absolutely loved it. Especially miss Faith who sat on my lap with a perma-grin on her face pointing and telling us , "Whoa" and "wook". I have to be a little sappy and tell you that it brought a little tear to my eye watching her be so enchanted with it all. And her little eyes lighting up. 

It was a great Thanksgiving and Black Friday again and we can already start the countdown to the next. Next stop, Christmas Mania!