Thanksgiving has come and gone. I had a great meal, and a good time with my family and some of our friends. It was myself, Mom, Dad and then my parent's neighbors for lunch. I had a great time hanging out with my parents. :) Here is a picture of all the wonderful food we had! I guess I need to suck it up and learn how to cook all the holiday essentials, otherwise, one day, a day far far far away from now, I'll be trying to figure it out, and I'll be screwed. Anyone who knows me, knows I dont cook... I didn't get those good cooking genes... Which I'm not sure how, because both my parents are awesome in the kitchen.
Whenever Thanksgiving comes around, everyone always talks about things that they are thankful for. 2007 has been a rough year in a lot of difference ways. My family went through a lot at the beginning of the year, losing my Granny in January. This was our first year without her. I was really worried about Mom, but she stayed pretty busy cooking and enjoying everyone's company. We played cards after we ate lunch, and I could feel my Granny there. Granny loved to play card games. She was one of the most competitive card playing cheaters I have ever met! :) She loved to have fun and always had everyone laughing with her cheating antics. I know she is in a better place, and watches over us everyday, but we can't help but miss those we love.
Sometimes it is hard to articulate all the many things we are thankful for - cause there are soo many!! I'm thankful for my family (even though they drive me crazy sometimes), I'm thankful for great friends, and I'm thankful for the opportunities that I have had over the years. That probably seems like a pretty generic answer, but its a genuine one. I am very lucky to be surrounded by such good people. I'm thankful I have such strong good parents. They taught me alot to make me into who I am and should get alot of the credit for molding me into that person....even the not so good characteristics :)
Friday was Black Friday... I had a great time this year. Michelle and I always get together on Thanksgiving night and go through all the sale papers and work out our plan of attack :) This year, we started our day at 3:30 a.m. at Starbucks, followed by Kohls, Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, Bed Bath Beyond, Panama City Mall, and various stores at Pier Park. We started at 3:30, and were at it hard until about 9:30. I finally got to bed around 11:00 p.m. We got some fantastic deals and saved alot of money! I think Michelle got her family almost taken care of! I was so excited, I got a 4 gig memory card for my camera for $10.00!!! What a great deal! I also finished up my Vegas shopping. We leave for Vegas on December 4th (this upcoming Thursday) I am soooo excited! We are gonna have lots of fun! This is our second year going together, we are staying at Treasure Island. When I say we...We consists of: myself, Bob and Julie, James and Kim, Greg, Pam, and we are meeting some friends that live out of town, Julianne and Juanita. I am so excited to see those two! Its been almost a year since we have seen Juanita, and gosh, I can't remember how long, I guess like 3 years since I have seen Julianne!
Well, I'm still pretty tired from shopping and being up for about 20 straight hours yesterday, so I'm gonna go lay down and try to get some rest.
I hope everyone else had a great thanksgiving!
