Black Friday Fun

Myself, the cow, my aunt, my sister.

My stepmom, aunt, sister, and I all headed out Friday morning about 5:30am and shopped till about 6pm that evening!  We had a bundle of fun!  We bought so much stuff that we had to unload the Yukon in the parking lot of one of the malls and reorganize everything to make our new purchases fit!  By the end of the day, we could barely see out the back of the vehicle!  We had some crazy fun though!  Add some Starbucks and Chick-fil-a to 4 sleep deprived women and you have non stop laughing all day long!

All Good Things Must End...

The past few days have been absolutely wonderful.  Seriously, the best.

Thanksgiving - time spent with family.  Lots of time.  It was wonderful!

Black Friday - I was up and out the door at 5:30am and with my sister, aunt, and stepmom.  We hit ALL the stores and then headed out to Little Rock where we hit the rest of the stores and both malls!  We had the BEST time!  At one point, we had to unload the Yukon and repack it just to fit everything we bought into it!  It was crazy fun and lasted a little over 12 hours!  I have a fun picture that I'll show later this week.

Saturday - I finished my PowerPoint Presentation for class this Thursday!!!  YAY!  That was such a big, big relief!  I also finished the last book in my "list."  I'll talk more about that later this week.
Sunday - spent with my wonderful husband who had returned from the deer woods the night before.  We were pretty low key and our only big outing was to Wal-Mart :)

Now, for this week... We start the 30 Day Shred, have my presentation on Thursday (yikes!), start (and hopefully finish) my paper... and somehow survive all of that!  :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This will probably be my last post this week, so I wanted to say that I hope everyone out there has a very SAFE and WONDERFUL Thanksgiving Holiday with their loved ones.

Now, for a few random updates...

I ordered The 30 Day Shred yesterday from Amazon for $8.99 with free shipping!  Got to love Amazon Prime with their free shipping!  It will be here on Friday.  Just in time to work off that holiday dinner!

I also did some Christmas shopping on Target.com thanks to Swagbucks!  I've told ya'll before about Swagbucks, but basically you earn points towards giftcards, gifts, etc by doing online searches and such.  Well, I cashed in some points last week and got a $20 Target e-giftcard.  Seriously, who doesn't like free money!  So, I bought 4 Leap Frog Tag Books and paid $16!  That would've cost me $46 before the sale and gift card!  Awesome! 

And no, Swagbucks nor Amazon paid me to say all of this, I just thought I'd share my deals. :)

To sign up for Swagbucks, you can go here...

Seriously, ya'll have a great Thanksgiving and be extra safe in all of this holiday madness!  No drinking and driving please :)

With Thanks

How amazingly awesome are these pictures?? My little sister took these as my family followed me around on the Half Marathon course. I love them! She took many more, but only posted about a dozen or so on FB and I stole the ones that didn't make me look like a moron... These are the two best ones! I love the fact that I'm smiling SO BIG in the first one - that was around Mile 8 I believe. The 2nd one was a little further down the road. I love it! Brings me back to race day - a day that I will NEVER forget! I'm smiling pretty big right now :)

Anyways, here is my Thankful List. I figured it was time that I state what I'm thankful for, since tomorrow is Thanksgiving and all :)

1. That we're able to live in a country where we are free and free to practice any religion we want.
2. That I know God - not as well as I'd like to, but I'm getting there.
3. My amazing family and their health. I'm so thankful for their health.
4. I'm thankful to have shared the precious moments with my Grammy and was able to tell her what I needed to tell her. I'm also thankful to know without a doubt, that she's in Heaven.
5. I'm thankful for having a caring and understand husband.
6. I'm thankful that we both have jobs in this economy - even though I complain about his quite alot.
7. I'm thankful that I have a healthy body and am able to push myself physically.
8. Thankful that my entire family has a roof over their heads, food in their fridge, working vehicles in their driveways, and heat to warm them.
9. Thankful that I've come out of my box and have tried different things such as spin class (I love that class!! Went last night again...LOVE IT!)
10. Thankful that we've started recycling. Last week, we only had 1 bag of trash - we usually have atleast 3 in a week.

There are many, many more things that I'm thankful for, but I know that if you're like me...you can only read so much before your ADD kicks in! Ha!
I hope everyone has a joyous Thanksgiving Holiday!
P.S. I'm thankful that I have so many readers as well! :o)

Thanksgiving Pictures

Well, it's Monday and I'm back at work... Hooray! No, in all seriousness, I had today off, but came in anyways because I was going insane at home. Not to worry though, I'm taking another day off sometime this month to compensate. ;)

I'd like to thank everyone for their prayers and their concerns. I know we all have days like my last post...it just seems like I've had more of those days here lately than I normally do. Ugh. Anyways, I just wanted to say a big Thank You. Also, I wanted to say a big Thanks to those of you who thought of me over Thanksgiving - that means more than you'll ever know.

So, Thanksgiving... As some of you may recall, this Thanksgiving was extra special for me - It's the first time in years that I've seen my mom and Aunt (and family). How did it go? It went pretty well. I have to admit, I was very nervous. I was so nervous, that I teared up a few times on the drive there. But, it all turned out alright. I don't really have any great stories or anything...but I do have a few pictures.

Here is my mom and me:

Think we look a tad alike? Ha! I have to admit, we do look a lot alike. I cropped out our bellies - Thanksgiving full bellies are not that cute!

And a picture of my grandma and me....


Isn't she the cutest in her red and black outfit? I love my grandma.
And one last picture... of my aunt's family....Notice, they can't all look at the same camera. :)