Darren and Dad picked me up at 4:30am. I knew there was a 4:30pm, but until today, I didn't know the "am" existed. I thought it was an old wives tale.
We went to Best Buy, dropped Darren off at the end of the line, which was something like a mile away from the entrance. Then Dad and I went to Sam's club. We thought for sure Darren was going to be a few hours, but we were surprised to see him walking to Sam's Club with big ol' boxes under his arms like 20 minutes later. Who would have thought, but Darren is quite the power shopper! ha ha ha!
Then we headed to Shopko to get my dad some nuts. Wait, that sounds weird....but it's true. On Thanksgiving Day my dad yelled out "I want those nuts!" and pointed to the Shopko ad. They had a three pack of peanuts for $3.99. My dad was convinced it was an amazing deal. So, off to Shopko we went. By this time it was a little after 5am. We got to Shopko, found dad's nuts (again, that sounds weird), and he said to Darren and I "Here, you guys go stand in line, I'm going to look around a bit" OH sure, give the rookie's the crappy job. Well, Darren and I walked all the way to the BACK of the store, thinking that was the end of the line. We were wrong, excruciatingly, painfully, wrong. The dang line wound around the entire perimiter of the inside of the store. The line ENDED at the cash registers, in the bad way....it was like a bad nightmare, but in reverse. Does that make any sense? So, Darren hands me the nuts he was holding and goes to find dad to tell him he's crazy. So now I look like the idiot holding four 3-pack cans of nuts, in a huge line of serious shoppers. I can't imagine how pathetic people thought I was. Then Darren came back and yelled "Dad says he doesn't need nuts". Well, some people live fine without them I guess.....
Anyways-----a few more stores, a long wait at IHOP (we watched the sun rise while waiting for our pancakes) and then a few stores after that, and I was home. It was 10am and I'd been up for 6 hours. I keep thinking my mascara is smeared, but I really think I just have bags under my eyes. We laughed a lot, got annoyed at bossy shoppers, and laughed some more. Overall, it was fun!
Now that it is officially the Christmas season, I figured we should get rid of all our pumpkins on our lawn. But, to just throw them away is so boring. I wanted to end the fall holidays with a bang. So I told Sam to haul the pumpkins up to the roof and throw them into the garbage can, which was on the street, and see if he could make some baskets. Our friends, Davis and Holly, came for the show. Very fun, I think I'm going to make it a tradition.
Sweet action sequence. I'm loving my new camera.
Tonight we had a Sweet Family gathering to assemble care packages for Sam's brother Rod, who is serving in the army, in Afghanistan. The packages were actually for Rod's entire unit. Let me tell you, when you ask the Sweet family to contribute towards a good cause, they go the extra mile for sure! Thanks to Fern for hosting the chaos, and thanks to Audrey and Jeremy for organizing the entire event, it was a blast!
Phew, I'm tired. Peace out.
11 comments:
Your big ole pumpkin bash looks awesome. Next time you'll have to invite the whole ward and have a big ole party out of it! HA HA
I am sad that you didn't have loads of fun shopping and buying tons of random odd stuff liek nuts! I live for Black Friday. Luckily this year I had lot sof peoples money to spend so it made it that much better!
i just can't do black friday...it gives me way too much anxiety. i just send my sister for anything i want! evil, i know.
that's hilarious that you sent sam up on the roof to throw those pumpkins. tom would be all over that. i'm going to have to suggest it to him next year!
oh by the way, we're planning on having everyone over once the madness of the holidays is over, so hopefully we'll see you guys soon!
Your crazy to do black friday! I went one year with tj and I dont think I will ever do that again! Kimmy does it every year with all the girls in her family -but they are gone ALL day long-I think she should get a gold medal for hanging out with her inlaws for a whole day..she dosent seem to mind. I love the new pumpkin tradition, I think we might steal your creativness and make it a tradition for us..jake has a thing for throwing pumpkins..I'm sure he was one of those teenagers that everyone hates during halloween time. Anyway...thats nice of you guys to make the care packages for the army troop-I'm sure it will make your relitive the popular guy for at least a week. Peace out
If you really wan to know what black friday is I could give you some pointers....Kudos on the pumkin bashing....one day when I grow up and own a house I think we could give it a try.
why does jean look like she has 4 0 clock shadow???
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Hey Carrie...um, I would really, really, REALLY like your nougat recipe now that the Holidays are amongst us...Please! bartonfamilyco@msn.com
You know, my brother has a saying: "Save your dignity and pay full price."
You're brave. I think I would have braved the day too if I could have gone with you. I will laugh forever about going to Shopko on Black Friday for peanuts!! Hilarious!
That's a great idea for a Thanksgiving tradition. I'll have to remember that one! Just don't be surprised when you find your boys on the roof one day, throwing off various vegetables and other explosive things. It will happen. It will.
I like your pumpkin throwing tradition. next year you should borrow my dads potato gun. it's a blast to use...literally. ha ha ha
nuts story = best ever. you crack me up. always.
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