THANKSGIVING/BLACK FRIDAY

 I have cooked dinner by myself for about the last 15 years. It is a lot of work and can be stressful at times if the kids are losing it and I have to tend to them as well, but I do enjoy cooking especially when its for a big meal for my family to gather around and be together, we have so much to be thankful for! The last few years I have cooked the dinner over at my dads house since its bigger over there and the kids can just run back and forth through the house and so we all aren't cramped in our tiny kitchen with no where to put food.

 As you can tell Daniels starving...

 Justin always wants to sit next to Pa

 This may sound silly, but Daniel and Natilie LOVE the Sparkling Grape Juice at the holiday times, this time we got a 3pack and they guzzled it all down...

 My cute Wade, we can never get him to sit still, so he just ran around while we ate (since he wont eat ANY of that type of food anyways, he played with a hot dog in hand)

 Some of the Feast

 Delaney LOVED her food (as she always does, this girl can pack it away)

 We had to take a silly picture...... its only sparkling grape juice!!!! lol

 the proof, it really is juice :p

After we ate dinner, I sat down and went through the thanksgiving day ads to map out my route! I have always gone black Friday shopping with my dad since I was a teenager, but now with his bad health he cant go anymore but I still go out and do his shopping for him. I went through each ad, and wrote down what I needed from each store and arranged them in order according to the times they opened. We left around 8pm on thanksgiving day, Daniel and Natilie decided they want to venture to walmart with me since that was the first stop, that place was a  MAD HOUSE, with looney people everywhere, a fight had broken out over the towels and one lady got punched in the face, thank goodness that was all that happened, in other walmarts in California, 2 people were shot and killed....people can be so crazy!!! we didnt get done at walmart till almost midnight so I took daniel and natilie home to sleep since daniel had a wrestling scrimmage the next morning, then went back out to my other stores and didnt get home till 6:30am....Yes we shopped for 10 1/2 hours, but we saved a ton of money, with 5 kids and our income, we HAVE to do black friday shopping, so its fun, exhausting and can be irritating, but I suck it up :)