Thanksgiving was a fun day for us. We got up early, put the turkey in the oven and the prime rib on the bbq. Steven and I went to get our Starbucks drinks followed by a little last minute grocery shopping. I see that I am training Steven right as myself and one lady cashier were the only women in the very crowded Save-Mart (aka former Albertsons). We had a great time and found some good deals on stuff.
We got home around 9:00ish only to be told by Scott that our guests were on their way. I know that we said come on over around 12:00, I guess I forgot to say 12:oo pacific time. hee hee. I didn't mind that they cam over early, we had lots of good veggies and stuff to snack on while we waited for the good stuff. Speaking of good stuff I must brag about the prime rib, it was amazing!!! I have never bbq'd one before and I must say I did lose sleep worrying about it.
Our morning/afternoon visitors consisted of Scott's father two of his brothers, his neice, soon to be sister in law, and her daughter. We enjoyed the heck out of visiting with them and I was reminded that way way way back when I was a little girl living at the Kettleman Plant, all the employees kids would go to the clubhouse to wait for Santa to come give presents and talk and stuff. I remember sitting on the floor waiting for what seemed like hours for the jolly old fella to show up. I found out that the jolly old fella was actually Scott's dad. Apparently he dressed up as Santa for several years running for the company. How cool is that........Santa is my father in law. ahhh good times. Later in the evening we were joined by our dear friends Chad, Kathy, Kevin and Kayla. They helped us polish off the left overs (yahoo, no wasted food) and we watched Santa Clause 3.
I considered black Friday shopping, then changed my mind. We normally buy the stuff for our homeless bags on this day because there are so many buy one get two free items but I did not see any in the paper this year so I decided to take down the fall decor and deep clean the house. This took ALL DAY!!!! I hurt today!!! Scott took pity on me being the sweetie that he is hauled in the 12 Christmas storage boxes so I can begin the holiday decorating when my floor duty ends at the office today. We hope to start the outside decor this evening, if I can get my muscles to stop yelling at me, otherwise we will do them later in the week.
I have decided that since we will be leaving the country on Steven's birthday and returning on Dec 23rd that we will not buy a real Christmas tree. I always always have a real tree and it pains me to get a fake one, but I will do my best to get over it. So after I leave the office today I am off to Costco to see if they have the only tree I actually like still in stock, if so then I will buy it and get it put up as quick as possible so I don't change my mind.
Mom and Dad called my a few times during their exciting shopping adventure yesterday, sounds like they had a great time and I think they were going to visit my favorite store Kohls. Last year I went there on black friday and wow did I have a great time buying, buying, buying.
Scott was in Lemoore yesterday so I was very excited to tell him when he got home last night that I saved our family $1,000.00 or more buy staying home. Scott was so excited to here of our savings that he has agreed to take us to Fresno for a little Maggie Moos. Yahoo, it's been almost a year since we have had the good stuff and I can't wait to dig in.
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