Happy Thanksgiving

Did you have a good Thanksgiving? We spent the day at Chuck's parent's house with 3 of his sisters. It was a full house but we had a good time. Leland loved playing with her cousins. She is only around boys now so she is getting into trains and cars. It's really cute. Although she did get one of the boys to push the stroller with the baby dolls until his dad made him quit playing that game. It was pretty funny.

Chuck and I got up at 4:30AM on Friday to hit some of the specials. It was a failed mission. We were trying to get things for his mom and dad, not for us. Chuck had spent most of Thursday going through all the ads and making lists of what he may want from each store. So when we got to Circuit City the line was so long. Chuck dropped me off and said find the end of the line while he tried to find parking. Before I got out he said Where's my list? Well it turns out I had left it at the house. He was so upset. Well the line wrapped around the building and continued the length of the building and Chuck said he thinks the line was 3/4 of a mile long. Chuck was so upset about his list and that he couldn't find parking he came and picked me up from the end of the line and said We're going home!! We had slept at his parent's house so we could leave Leland asleep, plus they are really close to a shopping center. We got back home got his list and he changed his mind and we went BACK to the stores.We finally got into Circuit City and of course they were already sold out of everything he wanted. It was shoulder to shoulder people and just madness.

It brought back horrible memories of working at Wal-Mart. You think you are the only person crazy enough to get up at 4 in the morning to go shopping but then you realize that there are about 400 crazier people that got up even earlier or slept on the sidewalk. We went to 4 stores looking for the camera (that was on sale at 4 places) that Chuck's mom wanted and they were sold out at all of them.We did find some things they wanted from Best Buy but the line looped and looped around and through the aisles of the entire store and Best Buys are huge. We would have been in line for at least a few hours. Everything that we were going to buy were things that his parents wanted and since they didn't get up at 4:30am we decided it was not worth waiting in line. We actually bought some sheets at Target that I wanted and that was it. After only 4-5 hours of sleep and dealing with all the craziness, I guess my $60.00 sheets for $20.00 were worth it.

We are cold here cause it's only a high of 65. My perspective of cold and hot is getting so screwed up.