Life After We Do's

Thanksgiving Week

(super long post because it's been awhile)

Well Thanksgiving came and flew this year, now we are gearing up for Christmas. It was really nice because we had the week off of work. For the most part the beginning of the week was spent running around getting things ready for Thanksgiving. We had to get an air mattress, toes painted, turkey groceries, and oil for the fryer...and many many other things. By Tuesday night we were ready. I went to get Natalie from the airport Tuesday night and we just came back home and watched TV. We didn't get back till after 12am. Wednesday I got up at 6am and went to pick up our nephew Jason and his girlfriend from the airport, they got there at 7am. We spent the rest of the day running around doing getting final things for turkey day. That evening Natalie went out with Conrad and I went to go get Keith's sister from San Francisco Airport. Joselyn and Jason rode along with me and we didn't get back until after 12 am almost 1. Me, Natalie, Conrad watched some TV before going to be around 3am.

Turkey Day came and the cooking began, everything turned out really really nice. Keith did a wonderful job frying the turkey, and everyone was very full by the end of it all. Natalie, Keith, Jason, Joscelyn and I had a chocolate party that night we were going to use the chocolate fountain but after some complications the chocolate fountain became more of a fondue pot! Natalie and I tried to bring it back to life in the ER (sink) but it wasn't going to make it. Niki came over because we were going to go shopping on black Friday at 4am. We got to bed around 1ish and then got up at 4 and we were out the door by 4:30 am.

We were official "door busters" and we did pretty good at the stores we went to. Niki was took on the title of "parking lot buster" because she wasn't about to let anyone get a spot from her!! We hit up Starbucks (twice) and then went home to rest. It was fun just sitting around laughing like we do.

Everyone else was slow to get up so decided to take Bart into the city. Niki and Natalie's Mom and Joe joined us, we shopped some more. Then Keith, Jason and Joselyn joined us and we went to get something to eat. After eating we went back to the square where the tree was all light up and took some pictures. Niki, her mom, and Joe left to head home and the rest of us shopped some more at Nikitown and Levi's. We went back to the house and crashed.

Saturday we got up and all headed to Berkeley to shop and have lunch. We had a really good time walking around and looking at all the Berkeley stuff! We then went back to house and got ready to go to SF where were went to see a comedy show, it was very funny. We had a good time laughing, but on the way home we were all so tired we had a hard time staying awake.

Sunday Keith and I took Natalie to breakfast before we took her to her Mom's house so she could take her to the airport. I went on a Christmas Train with my Mom,Julie, Chris, the kids, and several others. The train wasn't the greatest in my opinion, but it was fun to visit and the kids loved it. Thank gosh Julie brought a blanket to share because it was COLD!

Monday Keith took Jason and Joselyn to see a movie, and we all went to dinner before they had to go back to the airport. It was a busy week but I still feel like I relaxed a lot, and that we got a lot in too. Now we just have to get the tree and get ready for Christmas!

Tell me Chris doesn't look thrilled! (Mom, Lynda, Chris on train)