Christmas Came A Month Early

We had a super yummy Thanksgiving dinner with my family on Thursday...and I was very proud of myself because I didn't eat myself into total oblivion. After dinner Neil and I planned out our Black Friday travels and at 10 o'clock p.m. Neil and I started our Black Friday adventure at Toys R Us.

It was my first Black Friday ever, but luckily Neil was a veteran and prepared me as best he could. Toys R Us was a mad house...the line wrapped around the store and went down the street quite a ways. After Toys R Us we went straight to Walmart and I thought I was prepared, but I was not at all. The deals we were there for started at 12:01 a.m. and they were all on crates wrapped in plastic wrap so people couldn't start grabbing them before the appropriate time...but at like 11:56 p.m. everyone started ripping the plastic wrap off and I started freaking out. Neil only put me in charge of grabbing 4 things while he got 10 things, haha,and luckily we got everything we wanted!

Our next adventure didn't start until 3 a.m. at Kohl's but we went home after Walmart and fell asleep by accident and didn't end up getting to Kohl's until 6 a.m. and then Neil went straight to Pep Boys and we finished Black Friday with True Value and Ace Hardware.

After a full night of shopping Neil and I were very excited to look at all of our presents we got :)


This is me and all of my presents :) I got the movies 17 Again and 27 Dresses, as well as a vacuum cleaner, crock pot, 10 piece frame set, a mini chopper, and a spice rack!


Neil with his goodies...he got 2 portable power systems so we can jump start our cars and one has a tire inflator, he also got a dremel set, some extension cords, and he got the movies Spider-man 3, the first three Fast and the Furious movies, X-Men: The Last Stand, and I Am Legend.


Together we both got the games KerPlonk, Chinese Checkers, Othello, Scrabble Slam, and Yahtzee. We also got a few movies that we both love like Batman Begins, Walk the Line, Ice Age, Casino Royale, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we also have The Dark Knight and all six Harry Potter movies on their way.

We saved over 330 dollars so lets just say I am converted to shopping on Black Friday!

No Work So I'll Knit Instead...

My work is kind of on the same schedule as the Alpine School District, so we get a Fall and Spring Break, two weeks off for Christmas, and three days off around Thanksgiving...it's really nice.

Since it's been getting cold and the holidays are coming up I've been knitting a lot, and since I didn't have work today I pretty much knitted all day and between gifts for other people I decided to make a little gift for myself.



I've seen the headbands on various craft blogs and decided they couldn't be too hard to make, so I made one. It is really easy and took me less then ten minutes, so I decided I that I'm going to make a lot of these in various colors because they're comfy and they make a pony tail look cuter if I may say so myself.


(Just ignore that I'm not wearing any makeup...it's my day off)

Thing's are Getting a Little Hairy Around Here...

When Neil and I met in 2007 he was always clean shaven, and then when we started dating in 2009 he like never shaved and this trend has continued, so today was the last straw and Neil had to cut his hair and shave off his beard!


(Neil wanted me to add that he was trying to look crazy in those pictures...but he's just letting his true colors shine, haha. Oh and the pictures on the right he combed his beard to make it crazy puffy and yucky looking...which he thinks is funny for some reason...)


And finally the scratchy beard is gone! He looks like a completely different person...I'm constantly looking over and then remembering "Oh yeah, he shaved off his beard." He kinda looks like a baby without all the facial hair doesn't he? Haha.

...so Neil and I will be making our way there for our 1 year anniversary and also for Christmas, and we're so excited!