Thanksgiving 2012

It looks like I may be behind in blogging for the rest of the year. My schedule is so hectic right now. We are currently in the middle of crunch week at church on top of having overtime at work.

We had a great Thanksgiving! My 4 day weekend began Wednesday at 1:33 p.m.I woke up at 4 a.m. to be able to leave early. It was really hard making myself work at that time, but so worth it! Santa needed a little help in getting elf ready so I helped. Once elf was all ready I went and picked up Maddy from school. Thursday morning we woke up with a surprise from santa. I took a video with my phone, however, I ran out of storage as she was opening it. I stopped her for a minute to delete pics and then she continued.

Before this video she asked if it was Christmas. We read the book and she ended up getting really mad because she couldn't touch her. She did give her a name...Dee. We had a bit of a rough start to Thanksgiving as she woke up in a bad mood. I think she was in pain and didn't know how to handle what she was feeling. The last straw was when she started hitting me. She took a time out and I told her she had better turn those listening ears on! It was actually quite cute because as soon as I said that she simply said, "Ok" and turned them on. I had to walk out of the room to laugh. After she turned her listening ears on though she was a total sweetheart the rest of the day. I didn't take any pictures with my camera and I'm glad I didn't try...I found out as we were looking at Christmas lights at Rock City that my memory card was full. I snapped a pic with my phone.

I did try to get her interested in the Macy's parade, but she wasn't having it...she just wanted to play.

On Friday we stayed home for the most part. I was extremely tired Friday. I think all the late nights/early mornings caught up with me because I just could not shake it. We played until it was time to get my oil changed. Saturday was a real fun day. We went shopping with my mom for boots and warm clothes. We had plans of going to Rock City to see the wonderful lights but it was going to be in the low 30's. My mom and I found our boots on sale for $19.98...they are normally $39.99. They kept the doorbuster price and I was so excited. I found Maddy some too, but hers actually cost more than mine...$29.99. After we got our boots we went to Academy Sports for some gloves for Maddy. I ended up finding another cute pair of boots for her for only $12.99. I snatched them up :) Once we got done shopping we were ready for Rock City. I took some pictures on my phone, but will add more as I get them.