Turkey,Deals & Hold

      Our Thanksgiving weekend was very quiet. We didn't play with friends the entire school break which must be a new record in this household, 5 whole days! 

We ate lots of turkey on Thursday. Played with cousins and visited with family. All the good stuff! It was peaceful and quiet. 

Thursday night/Friday morning came on the sales. All of the black Friday sales that I wanted where available online. It was sweet! I only had two dilemmas one was I didn't get the Belgium waffle maker that was $10 bucks( I've wanted one other these forever and really the only reason I stayed up), it was in my cart but I was slow in the check out process so I lost it. The second dilemma was our bank thought there was suspicious activity with so many purchases they put a hold on our account just to be safe. Hello! Black Friday!!!!

Friday morning bright and early I called the bank and let a nice lady banker know all the purchases were made by me and valid. 

If you know me I had to take the next step and call each company just to double check that I could still get all my stuff even though the banker over the phone assured me like 3 times everything would be ok. 

Every day since then I've received an e-mail that something is being shipped. It just makes my day to know I got awesome deals plus a bonus of free shipping on most of my x-mas gifts!

I'm really exited that I only have a few more gifts to put together and then I'm officially  done earlier than ever before. I'll have so much free time this December than any other December in the past to spend with family and dedicate to the list of things that need to get done for my Primary calling. 

I owe this new way of x-mas shopping to my friend Callie who taught me last year it's the only way to go. Thanks Callie!

Thankful

A few things we're grateful for this year:

Things & Turkey

Homes & Healthy bodies

Animals

Naps & Nuts

Kites

Family & Friends

Umbrellas

Late nights at work during the Holiday season(it means we have a job). 

Tooth Fairy

Maddie is cashing in loads of $ from the Tooth Fairy this year. She's a late bloomer when it comes to losing teeth.

She has two more that are wiggly on top. Korbin was teasing her about losing those soon too but she will really like it if they would stick around for a while. Eating certain foods hasn't been a treat for her the past few days. 

Night Games

      I love that the kids are getting older and we can explore new things to do together. A few weeks ago while it was still warm outside we had a fun FHE activity of night games in the backyard. The kids played their parts without asking for parental help. It was nice.
We had a great time playing. I scared the crap out of Jason in one round. I loved it and couldn't stop laughing afterwards!!!
I've never been able to scare him and I owed him one from years ago. I'm not the most coordinated person and in this family it's not uncommon I get picked last but wahoo I finally found something I might get picked for first. It's also fun to see Korbin get a little more competitive in the last couple of weeks.

Bolt aka Gimpy

We have a pet! It's nothing spectacular but whatever keeps the kiddos happy and stop asking for a puppy at least for now.

His name is Bolt! He's a little different than most goldfish. He has an extra fin and he's oddly shape. 30 seconds after leaving the pet store Korbin said..."What happened to him?'. Maddie picked him because he loves to swim somewhat fast all the time(explanation for the blurry pic). Jason found a nickname for him that is not allowed to be said in front of Mads. She's a little overprotective of him. So far we've only forgot to feed him once.