Black Friday

Well, Black Friday was a blast!!! Let me give you a little background on my addiction to Black Friday. For me, it's not so much about the sales (although I LOVE me a good sale). It's about keeping a memory of mama alive. When I was growing up, we had NO money. So, if mama couldn't get what we wanted on sale, we just didn't get it. Every year we would go through all of the ads, split our lists up and then a big group of us would go shopping. We had a blast. Being so far away from my family, I don't get to do a lot of my traditions anymore. This is one that I refuse to give up. There have been years when Chris and I were flat broke that I have gotten up and just gone and stood off to the side and WATCHED everyone at the sales. Crazy... yes!!!! But sometimes you do whatever it takes to get by!!! This year, there wasn't anything that we just HAD to have. This was one of the years that it was far more about tradition and "girl time" than anything else.
Celeste and I left for St. George at 2:30am. We got some INSANELY good deals. I'm almost completely done with our Christmas shopping. YAY!!! I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time. You know.. it's never a good sign when you go to a sale and there is an ambulance parked outside of the store "just in case" hahaha
I posted this on Facebook too but Celeste and I laughed and laughed and laughed about this. Seriously?? We want to know who thought of this. Cruel joke or smart marketing?
I think we shopped for about 12 hours before we both crashed!!! When I got home, Chris went to a movie and the kids and I hung out together. When he got home I got to play with my new toy a little bit. (a new camera) I just love these pictures. He and Chris were leg wrestling and Preston was laughing sooooo hard!! Love it!Right now, I'm watching the Gators play FSU (yet another one of my family traditions) Chris put Christmas lights on the house today. I can't wait until dark to see how they look.
IT'S CHRISTMAS NOW!!!!