Thanksgiving weekend

We started off the long holiday weekend with a feast at Xavier's school. They had everything a proper Thanksgiving feast should have! Xavier didn't eat a bite nor did he wear his pilgrim hat or Indian vest! It was a lot of fun and yummy food even if the feast was at 11AM it's never too early for pumpkin pie right?!!

Bella on Jenn's shoulders

Xavier on Brent's shoulders

Thursday morning we headed to New York City for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade! I must be crazy! My friends Brent Jenn and Suzanne are also crazy and went too! There ended up being no parking anywhere on the entire island so I sent the kids out with my friends and they watched the parade while I drove around Manhattan. Eventually I illegally parked and was able to see the big balloons from my car! The kids had a great time and that was what I really wanted for them!

RiLee went a little crazy after cooking all the food!

Xavier, Bella, Mason and Reven eat gold fish and pretzels on the stairs instead of anything resembling Thanksgiving dinner!

Bella and Xavier hiding from the camera. They didn't touch their food on those plates! They did eat about 5 clementines each!

Rob, baby Jesse, Lexie and Me enjoying the yummy food!

This year we had Thanksgiving dinner at RiLee's house with a bunch of friends, It was so nice and so yummy! I brought over my china, I love any chance I have to use it! The food was amazing and the company was even better! Thanks to Rilee and all her hard work!!

BLACK FRIDAY!!!!!

So maybe I am crazy! I went out at 4AM to go shopping! What?!?! Who does that? Well I found out about 5 thousand other people. I started out at Kohl's. When I got there people were waiting outside to get in but I just sat in the car. The crowd wasn't too big! I got in and out with the 4 dollar toys in 15 minutes. Not bad. I headed to Wal mart which was just around the corner.

When I pulled in I saw tons and tons of people waiting in a line and I really started to wonder if I hadn't lost my mind! There were so many people I just couldn't wrap my head around it and yet i was there too. I went to wait in this huge throng of people and as I looked around I couldn't help but wonder what they were here for. I also noticed I was the only white person in the line. I then came to the realization that I was out here at 4:30 in the morning for no reason. There was no way in the world they had come to wal mart for the same reason I came to wal mart. I got up bright and early for the cricut. For those of you non scrapbookers first shame on you but secondly it is a cutting machine that is simply unbelievable. Well this is the best machine they have out and it was on super sale so I had to get it! Getting in and out of the store was pure chaos but I got my machine and i was right when I said no one was interested in the cricut with the exception of the one other white lady I ran into in the craft section! Go figure!

Lastly I headed to Old Navy for 14 dollar jeans. It was in and out no hassles no lines! I was very relived after being in the craziness of walmart! All in all it was a fun experience and I may even do it again. I got everything I had planned on getting so it was a total success!

After a cat nap and some lunch we headed over to the park to play a friendly game of football. I had wanted to play over the Thanksgiving holiday and make it a tradition so I made some calls and got it set up. A lot of the people didn't show but they really missed out! It was such a blast! My team of course won even though the other team had 7 players and we had 5. I even scored a touch down! The kids even hiked the ball and ran it and had a lot of fun playing football and playing in the dirt! The weather wasn't too bad either!

On Saturday night the kids and I went to a sweet sixteen party for a Amanda whom I used to nanny for. I don't have any pictures but we had a blast eating and dancing until almost 10!

I'm glad Monday is here! I'm hoping that I can catch up on some sleep and get some things done around the house! The Christmas decorations aren't going to put themselves up either!! I am so blessed!