Turkey day 2012

Turkey Day.

I absolutely love when the holidays come around.  I love that for 3 solid days I can eat whatever whenever I want, I get to spend every waking moment with family, the shopping never ceases, its a lovely break from reality, and I get a gaurenteed day with babe.  

This year was no different.  I love that I live so close to my siblings and parents, I love that even though we are grown and have our own families, its still a treat to get together and just hang.  This year was the "on year" so Thanksgiving day was spent with with my parents instead of our in-laws, we missed going up to Grandma & Grandpa's and seeing all the McGugin family but it was good to be here as well! 

Grandma was always in charge of making the rolls.  Now I don't really like thanksgiving dinner, so the rolls are of most importance to me, I've missed her rolls and being around everywhere watching her make them.  Lucky for me, mom makes a dang close runner up.  Everything else was lovely as well, just not as good as the rolls. ;)

After dinner we hung out for a bit, and then it was off the in-laws.  There wasn't much going on there so we decided to get a jump on our black Friday shopping.  We headed to Walmart at 7:30PM.  The goal was to snatch some DVD's.  Anybody who knows me knows that  I am incredibly claustrophobic, I dont handle tight spaces well at all.  Aust dropped me off at the doors while he went and parked, I went back to where the DVDs where and let me just tell you, it was a full on mosh pit.  I stood amidst it for about 2 terrible minutes and gave up.  I called Aust in a major panic telling him there was no way I would get in their with the crazies and be trampled anymore than I already was.  Needless to say that was kind of a bust.  We went back to my parents to pick up more shopping partners and off the the Layton Walmart we went.  This experience was much better, we literally got our $20 printer, paid and were done in 15 min. record timing! We hung out for a while longer then headed to Dicks at midnight, it was a total bust, we will not be going there again, they had zero idea on how to handle black Friday.  I was incredibly annoyed.  Sadly aust had to work so he went to bed and I went back out with my sisters, we went all over and had such a blast!  Our shopping adventures didn't end until 3PM Friday!  Moral of this story... shopping is great. 

I really just love the holiday season and the joy it brings to everybody, I love that there is lots of time off and food involved!  I'm sad that reality sets in again tomorrow but even then we have some exciting news... stay tuned!