Holly's birthday, Thanksgiving & Black Friday

HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY HOLLY!

November 16th was Holly's birthday! I can't believe she is now 12 and in Young Women's. I think I'm stuck in a time warp because this is what I still think of Holly. Isn't she cute?

 Anyway, we had a fun night with the family celebrating her special day.

Love you Holly!! You're so beautiful and I'm so glad you're my sister!

(Oh, I had to post this one of Zach. haha I don't know why he was wearing Holly's rings. Silly boy.)

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We had 2 Thanksgiving dinners this year. We went over to my parents house first and we didn't even have to put the extra leaf in the table this year! We definitely did miss Brittany, Dan, Danny, Natalie and Tracy not being there but we still had a fun day.

Zachary and Keoni love to eat the legs.

We went to Greg's parent's house later in the afternoon for our 2nd feast. :) Boy, was it good, but we were soooo stuffed!

This was so funny. One of the kittys kept jumping up playing with the blinds at Greg's house. And then it would go over to the other glass door and jump up and unlock the latch! We couldn't believe it!

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 So, this year was the first time I've made an attempt to go shopping for Black Friday. I didn't get up super early because there wasn't anything I needed that early so I ended leaving at about 9am. I found some cute jeans for Greg and I at Old Navy for $15 a pair that I couldn't pass up. Then, I decided to go over to Best Buy just to look around because I knew all the good deals would be long gone that late in the morning. I had found an awesome deal on the exact tv Greg had been wanting earlier at Fred Meyer's but after waiting in line for forever to talk to an employee I found out that they were sold out. Bummer. :( So anyway, I just went window shopping at Best Buy just to see what they had. I ended up finding that same tv again and it was even a better price than I had seen earlier. I asked a worker to see if they still had them in stock... crossing my fingers. By this time it was well past their advertised 'sale hours' I wasn't getting my hopes up. Well, he checked their stock and he said they had about 5 or 6 left and the price included a free Blu-ray player too. I couldn't believe it. This would be the best surprise for Greg. So I decided to get it. However, I had to end up calling Greg at work to make sure this is the one he wanted for sure. He was so excited! (I'd been telling him we weren't getting a new tv for awhile because we desperately needed a new couch first. BUT, it's so fun to surprise your husband so I changed my mind) After he told me for sure he wanted it I had to stand in line for probably another 30 min to purchase it. I was so nervous they would be sold out when I finally got to the counter. Well, my fears came true and the guys said they have been sold out for hours and the guy I previously spoke with was wrong. By this time Greg was with me (he was so excited he came to the store on his lunch break). Long story short they checked again with the warehouse and to their surpirse they were told they had ONE left!!! I was so relieved. They immediately put our name on it and we were soon the proud owners of a new 46" LED Samsung TV. WOOHOO! I don't think Greg has ever been happier. :) So, all in all this was the best black friday ever. hee hee

First movie we put on was Avatar on Bluray. It looked amazing!! We love our new tv!