Thanksgiving

So this year for Thanksgiving we got to go down and visit both of our families :) It was so much fun, we had Thanksgiving dinner with Pat's family on Wednesday and Jen was there with Audrey, Hydee, and Becky, and Ephraim on the way,  and Kim and Jimmy and their new little baby girl Adney (Yay I'm an Aunt again.), and of course Terrance, Conway and Savannah. Then we had Thanksgiving dinner with my family on Thursday with my mom and dad, Nathan and Katie, and grandma. Paige and Jason couldn't come down til Friday night. It was great to see everyone.

Also on Wednesday I wen to breakfast with Elise and Danielle and then went to Zumba that Danielle was teaching. It was sooo good to see them. Love those girls and always will :)
 
Pat and I did some Black Friday shopping at Walmart/gray Thursday. Every year we save up and then go buy a bunch of DVD's! They are always on a great sale and they provide us with many fun cozy, cuddle-on-the-couch, date nights for the whole rest of the year. There were sooooo many people at Walmart. I do want to say that it was actually quite a pleasant experience though, for all you Black Friday haters out there. :) Everyone was very polite actually and was saying sorry for bumping into other people, and people were handing other people stuff if they couldn't reach it. I was very impressed actually! It made me happy inside :)

We might have a problem :) We will soon need a bigger bookcase. We only bought the ones in the Walmart bags this year.

 Then on Friday morning my mom and I got up early and went into Salt Lake to do some more Black Friday shopping. It is becoming a tradition for us. I loved spending the whole day with my mom going shopping, we had a lot of fun together. And surprisingly the stores weren't near as busy as they had been in other years, we barely had to wait in line for anything. Here's what I like to picture when I think of Black Friday shopping. . . 

Unfortunately I don't really have enough money for it to be quite like that lol. But I did get a lot of my Christmas shopping done wahoo! 

 

 Missed you this year Paigie!

This was a couple years ago when Mom and I visited Paige in Idaho, ate at this cute place and then went to the mall and did our Christmas shopping in November.

 On Saturday Paige and Jason had gotten here already yay, and Paige, my mom, Katie, and I went into Salt Lake to the Capital for Paige(https://www.facebook.com/paige.k.photography?ref=br_rs) to Photograph Katie's bridals. It was a perfect day and it was nice and sunny and actually kind of warm. Katie looked gorgeous and it was so much fun to help her get her pictures taken.

Since I can't show one with Katie in it, since Nathan hasn't seen her in her wedding dress yet, here is just a picture of the capital. It looks even more gorgeous when Katie and her beautiful dress are in it.

 

 Then we met our men and all went to dinner at Bucca Di Beppa's Italian in Salt Lake. It was delish! And Pat and I went to the Utah State vs. BYU basketball game at the energy solutions arena. Unforunately it wasn't a very good night for the Aggies.

It was so great to spend time with our families, I always wish we could stay longer. But we'll take what we can get. After Pat and I got back, we bought our own 15 pound turkey and made our own Thanksgiving feast so we could enjoy leftovers. 

We had more food than pictured but we were too hungry to wait and take a picture of all of it.

 Pat and I put up our little Christmas tree and had a movie night and sleepover in the Christmas tree room!

Bad picture but oh well.

We've kind of decided to just have a sleepover in the Christmas tree room every night of December since we don't want to move our bed back into our bedroom ha ha

Also I have been sick the past couple of days (boo) and Pat surprised me one day and came home with all of THIS! 

Isn't he a sweetheart? I just love him. I'm sure all the chocolate will make me feel better in no time. 
Yay for the holiday season I love it sooo much and am so grateful for everything that I have. I hope we can all remember to be happier and feel the joy of the Christmas spirit and love and serve others.