Thanksgiving and Black Friday

We had such a fantastic Thanksgiving this year. We spent most of the day with my family in Perry. We had divided the dinner up between everyone and sat down to eat our lovely feast at twelve. Then I was able to work on a few things and then we left to go to Brian's sister's house to see his mom. We had a great visit there since everyone was in such good moods. The kids were chatter boxes and were telling me everything. I love it when they are that way. It was great seeing everyone from that side since it has been a while since we all got together. We then went and saw Brian's grandpa. He had made himself a lovely dinner of pork and the rest of the normal fixings. After we saw his grandpa we stopped by at his other sister's house to figure out the game plan for shopping. It was a good thing we did too because we collected two new recruits for black Friday shopping, Trevor and Bryce. This was their first year. Once we had them in our car we headed out to Logan. Brian had to get in line for what he wanted that went on sale at ten. While waiting we strolled to see what else was on and ended up standing in line for the eight o'clock event to snag some of the deals. I couldn't believe the rush of people who have never been Black Friday shopping before that decided to try this year since it started Thursday night. It was crazy!!
We got our deals at eight and had the funniest thing happen. Since we had come up earlier we went to our "normal" walmart. Brian's sisters came up later to join us...but we all split up to get the things they wanted and Bryce spent 40 minutes trying to find his mom in the store. After we got our items we went to meet up at the register and while Tammy was saying there was a line at register 19 we were the front of the line. That is when it dawned on me that we had two walmarts up in Logan. I asked her is she was at the South Walmart and got told yes, aren't you? To which I had to say no. I started laughing so hard and headed back to where Brian was in line. It was really funny thinking back on our conversations especially Bryce's. Tammy was a good sport about the jokes that we had the rest of the night.
We met up to exchange the gifts so she could pay for them, lent them Bryce while Trevor and I went to get in line for the items Brian and I were getting at ten. This is when Walmart really got crazy (once again with non-normal Black Friday shoppers). I was in line for an external hard drive with four other people until seriously like twenty minutes to ten then I was crammed up against the box with about twenty to thirty people behind me and only 24 external hard drives and some people who had been there earlier wanted two!! Let's just say I grabbed my two (one for me and one for somebody else) and couldn't move away from the box for the life of me. I was seriously piled on top of. But I guess I got less hurt that way since people who couldn't get to the box were scratching and grabbing from people's hands as they came out away with one.A couple guys were on the floor rolling around fighting each other and ended up pulling the whole thing apart so it wasn't even in packaging anymore.
After our crazy time at walmart, things mellowed out for us. We went to Sports Authority and froze while waiting in line for our free money. We got lucky this year and got a $25 and a $10. This paid for a gift for another person on our list. It was great! When then went and browsed the stores that were open before heading back to our apartment for FOOD! See going to the store at six o'clock makes it hard to get dinner and so we hadn't eaten since twelve when we had lunch and it was now two o'clock in the morning. Once we all sat down our weariness caught up to us, so we decided to power nap it for an hour and a half. It was the perfect amount of sleep too because we got up (I finished waking up with some nice hot chocolate) and hit Smith's Marketplace, JC Penny, and the mall. I finally decided to call it quits at eight thirty. Brian had stopped after we went home at two since he had to work the next day. So when I got home I check to make sure he had an alarm set and went to sleep. I got interrupted a couple times, went back to sleep, and got up at noon. I got ready and headed out to a couple stores to get a few last things that weren't things that needed to be grabbed at earlier times or to stand in line that long for when my mom called. My grandma who had been recovering from emergency surgery to remove some of her some intestine was taking a turn for the worse. So I called Brian and made a game plan to go down and see her. Then hurried to finish up looking for what we needed for our new front room. I met up with my sister during this time and got to call and talk to my grandma some on the phone. I then went home, met up with Brian, we called a few people to make some arrangements, and headed down to Ogden.
It was great to say goodbye to her. She finally passed away on Tuesday. But we knew it was coming since Friday night and thought that she wouldn't make it past Saturday. We now have to wonder if she will really get to work on getting Brian and I a kid or two like she said she would when we last saw her. We aren't trying for it so we will see huh?
Overall Thanksgiving and our Annual Black Friday was a success and we had a lot of fun with family and friends throughout the whole two days.
I then spent Saturday and Sunday setting up my house, getting Christmas out, and supporting Brian and our last home football game and a basketball game against Weber. I will write more about those two events later.

Here we are freezing

And the rest of the gang bundled up. Trevor was super happy to be there can you tell.