Black Friday

even though it's almost a week after the fact, i thought i would tell what a great time we had black friday shopping and brag about some of the deals i got! i can't mention items by name in case tony reads this blog since all the best deals i got were on his christmas gifts. one item was regularly $160 and i paid $26, i got something else for $20 when it originally cost $80 and i paid $10 for another thing when it would cost $50 on any other day. those three items were the best deals i got. mady got a sit'n'spin toy for $10 but i don't know the original price, i just know it didn't cost as low as $10. we were up by 3am and jen, lily and grandma were here a little after 4am. if i had known they would have been late, i could have slept in for 20 more mins!! :) they were supposed to be her at 3:45. we got to watertown about 5:30 and started at supercenter walmart. compared to last year on black friday, i spent over $200 at walmart but this year i only spent $35. most of the stuff we wanted for mady wasn't on sale and i knew tony would want to help me shop for her christmas presents so if it wasn't on sale, i didn't buy it so tony and i could go present shopping for her together. after walmart, we went to cracker barrel for breakfast, we were there from 6:30-8:15. the coolest thing happened there. a man with a beard and a bit of a belly looked like santa claus and the kids got excited and just keep staring at him. he noticed and after a bit came to our table and introduced himself to the kids as santa claus and normally he wasn't supposed to do that but was out early before christmas to check up on some kids. their faces lit like up a christmas tree and just totally made their day, considering it started so early they were so happy after that. we went to target next but had we known that they would have sold out of everything they had in their flyer and on sale by 8am, we would have gone there first before breakfast. they had some good deals on board games, a camera sara wanted to get and toys. so needless to say no one spent more than $20. then we found ourselves at kohls where i saved the $134 on that one particular gift. sara wanted to go to kmart cause they had something in their flyer she wanted but mady was half asleep and lily was so i stayed in the car with mady and carol sat with lily and abby. lastly, we were at the mall and i can't even tell you what stores i went to or what i bought. by that time, everything was a blur!! j/k. i know i got mady two outfits and tony stocking stuffers and such. mady was an excellent little shopper that day despite how early i got her up. i woker her up about 4:05 but she actually didn't wake up til i put her in her carseat around 4:15. thinking she would instantly fall back asleep in the car, i thought she would sleep at least for another hour but she was awake all the way til about 10 mins away from walmart. the drive, 5 mins, between walmart and the restaurant she slept again. she was awake all through target, kohls and while we waited for sara and jen in kmart she slept for another 10-15 mins. she woke up when i took her out the car to be put in her stroller to shop in the mall. we waited for about an hr before we ate at the food court and i put her down for a nap which started about 12:30-12:45 til 4pm. was my kid tired or what!!! we left the mall around 4:50 but stopped at walmart again and was home by 6:45. what a day!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

tomorrow mady and i will be up early, early, early to go black friday shopping. we will be shopping with auntie jennie, lily, grandma, sarah (a fellow state troppers wife) and her daughter abby. we want to be in watertown by 5am so i will be at 3 to get ready. lucky me...i better get some good deals!
even though we had our family thanksgiving dinner on mon, the only day everyone was home or off from work, tonight i will be cooking for my family a ham and some other thansgiving fixins for the first time. we sure hope it turns out edible! :)
enjoy your turkeys and time with family. i'll let you know how tomorrow goes.

These are my two scrapbook pages to contribute to my grandma's bday present. Everyone in the family was to make a scrapbook page of their family and they would added to an album that she already has. I am proud of myself because I just started the first page last night and all I had to do today was glue the pictures down and write on the second page. I hope you can see them okay.

New Post

Since it is time for me to post again and I don't have anything to post about, I suppose I can do those 6 things calicanadiangirl tagged me to do.
1. Ever since I was pregnant with Madiysn, I can not sleep without a pillow between my knees/legs.
2. I have more pictures of Madisyn from over the past 17 months then Tony and I have of us in the past 5 years we have been together.
3. I have not become a better cook since becoming a mother! (but I am trying harder)
4. I miss my family and wish we could see each other more. (I only add this too tease saying they should move closer to me!!)
5. I want a tattoo and to go sky-diving, scuba diving, parachuting, and other things I don't know what they are called...like flying behind a boat, caving, being lost in the wilderness for days (but please someone save me!!), going somewhere exotic. I think you get the point.
6. I want 12 kids but Tony and I will have 3 or 4. Realistically we wouldn't have 12 kids due to costs of raising them and of course, our sanity!!

halloween costumes

lily was a princess kangaroo. she original wanted to be a kangaroo so jen bought one online. then she got a princess dress/outfit just for play and bedtime. so she decided she wanted to be a princess for halloween. but it was not really a costume so she put it over her kangaroo costume and so as it turned out she was a princess kangaroo. she was so cute and everyone else thought so too.


masen was boba fatt from star wars. i don't even know if that is the right name or spelling. i have never seen any of the star wars movie and don't plan to.


mack was jango fatt, boba fatt's brother in star wars.


and i saved the best for last!! :) mady as a ladybug. i thought for sure i had finally got her smilinmg in her costume but once i took the picture she moved and so it turned out blurry. you can still see her smile though.


we went trick-or-treating just in richville. chris drove the quad and pulled us on the wagon. way better cause the kids didn't get tired so we got to do more houses than last year. mady was having so much fun, hence all the smiling. it wasn't really quicker doing it this way but like i said because the kids didn't have to walk we went done side street and up further on the roads. they got alot of candy. remember how big her trick-or-treat bag was, it was over half full from only an hour and a half. they were getting full size candy bars and bags full of candy.
i tried to get a picture of all the kids in their costumes on the wagon but since we were always stopping and getting out, driving a little and then stopping again there wasn't much time in between to get the four of them ready for a picture.
it's kinda sad that after a whole year, halloween is over in 90 mins but we had so much anyways!!