thanksgiving

Every year for Thanksgiving we always go to my brother's house. Nice for us since he is only 10 minutes away so it isn't a far drive. This year there was a lot of people and since mine and my brother's family seem to grow every year their were A LOT of kids. Rylee stuck with my cousin Maggie that is the same age as her. That is usually what happens at parties in which they are both their. Zach hung out with his "buddy" Gavin and the two caused a lot of trouble as always! Now that Brienna and Liam are both very mobile they played on the floor most of the night fighting over toys, it was so cute to watch them interact!

I made sure we took our Christmas card photo right when they got there since after dinner my aunt and uncle like to take the kids out to play football after dinner.

The next morning I was up at 4am to head out for Black Friday shopping. I picked up coffee for me and Cara and headed to WalMart to meet everyone. As soon as I pulled out on to Randall Road I was amazed at home many cars were on the road already. I was even more blown away when I pulled into WalMart and had to park at the Ihop in front of the store to find a parking spot. They had several Algonquin police outside the store as well as inside the store making sure things went smoothly. I could not BELIEVE how many people came out this year to shop. My sister and I waited in line to check out an hour! By the time we got to Target things were a little better, and when we finished at Kohl's people were starting to disperse. My family and I do this every year and have done it since I was in high school when my sister and I were able to start going with my mom and aunts. I remember the Black Friday when the furby came out being at Spring Hill Mall when there was a huge crowd of people that broke into the KB Toys to steal some off the display they had in the store. Anyway, other then that I have never seen this many people out shopping the day after Thanksgiving. I was able to get pretty much everything I wanted except of course what I wanted to get for Gary! I love the day after Thanksgiving, and would safely say it is one of my favorite days of every year. I even downloaded the Black Friday app for my iPhone, and now it is counting down until next years Black Friday!