Thanksgiving at the Dunes!! And BLACK FRIDAY UPDATE!!

This Thanksgiving we celebrated John style. We headed up to the Dunes just past Safford on Wednesday night, then spent Thanksgiving day eating, visiting, eating, riding the 4-wheelers, eating, and did I mention eating?? It was really fun to see everyone again from Travis's side. The kids had an absolute BLAST!

So we woke up on Thanksgiving day and had pancakes and bacon. Someone had bought a kids table at an auction and it came in very handy...

Then for most of the day, all we heard out of our kids was "I want to go on another ride!!!" Kyle and Travis took Austin out with Payten and Kaleb to go teach him how to ride the 4-wheeler himself. He did pretty good until he almost rode full speed into and through the camp. The second picture is of the kids playing Follow the Leader.

Around 1:00 it was declared Turkey Time. They had pitted the Turkeys in the ground the night before, and it was amazing how dang moist and yummy they turned out! Here is Jace and Grady digging them up...

And here are the kids at the Kids Table eating their Thanksgiving Feast. For some reason Zoe is protesting her feast- she is so dramatic.

We had to go home that night because Travis had to work on Friday. But it was all good because that allowed for us to get some Black Friday Christmas shopping done!!! I am going to try my best to give you the play by play of the night, but FYI, I do not have REAL pictures of the events that took place. This was too serious for fun and games, and a camera would totally slow me down.

So, we got into town at 9:00. I dropped Travis off at Toys R Us so he could wait in line to get it while I got the kids to bed at my Mom's house. I got back to the store around 9:45. So we waited until Midnight till they opened. While in line we mapped out the store and made a plan as to where and what we would get first. Good thing our friends Shannon and Jason came otherwise this would have been a very boring night. So they open, we get in, and this is basically what happened....

Somehow we try to quickly get our stuff, and get in line only to find out that IT IS WRAPPED ALL THE WAY AROUND THE STORE. We waited in line for OVER AN HOUR to check out our things!

After that, it was like 2:15 am. There would be no nap as we had planned in our Black Friday Itinerary. So we all went to Denny's to kill some time. We knew we had to be at Walmart by 4 am, so we had an hour and a half to kill.

I probably should have taken this ladies advice to heart....

But I didn't.

So at 3:30 we head off to the local wally world. This was the place I HAD to get what I wanted. I was nervous. And for good reason. At walmart they dont let you even grab what you want until 5 am on the dot. So you just have to HOVER around the items and hope you get it. Well, I was standing next the Leapfrogs (pink) for Zoe on sale for $30. I was there with about 2 other ladies. But by the time 5 rolled around, there were like 40 people there.

AND THERE WERE ONLY 24 LEAPFROGS PEOPLE.

Luckily I had formed an Alliance with 2 of the girls there and we were all looking out for eachother. That is not to say that I didn't have to put some people in their place though. A couple ladies tried to weasle in in front of me. Oh but trust me, they heard from me. They heard me loud and clear....

Anyway, thanks to my alliance I got the pink leapfrog for Zoe. So I went to check on Travis at his station and then Jason and Shannon at their stations. It turned out to be a success! Everyone fulfilled their missions.

After Walmart, it was time for Target. It opened at 6 am, and that is exactly when we showed up. I got in the back of the moving line and BOOKED it for one item that I can't mention. But let me just tell you. Those sorry suckers that waited in that line for probably 3 hours or more totally lost to ME! I got the ONLY ONE of the thing I came for and we were in and out of there in seriously 5 minutes. It was amazing.

So after a night of absolutely NO SLEEP, we went home around 7 and got some shut eye for a couple hours. Poor Travis had to go to work. But he was a trooper and I couldn't have done it without him! But as I lay there trying to go to sleep, this is all I could think about..... and I was so dang tired I wished I hadn't gone! But we really did save A LOT of money. ( I know Kristal had this on her blog, but it was so fitting I had to use it.)

It was sooooo much fun though. I spent the WHOLE night with our friends and with Travis, I felt like we were kids again. Totally fun!