Loving the Holidays

It's been a while since I have posted anything. Probably because my hubby was home for a while! ;) I do have to say that things have gotten much better since my last few posts! What ever it was that was making the kids act like crazy little monsters is gone!! I have my kids back!! YAAAYYY!
We had Thanksgiving this year at my sisters. It was pretty small compared to what we are used to. All our family has moved and we are all too spread out. :( Mike did get to be here for Thanksgiving though! He has never missed a holiday yet. So far for the past 4 years he has just happened to be in between jobs on both Thanksgiving and Christmas. So he has not missed one as of yet. He did have to leave at 5AM the morning after Thanksgiving though. It was close but he made it! I am praying that the same happens for Christmas. Last year his job finished the day before Christmas Eve which put him getting home on Christmas Eve. I don't know how in the world I would be able to do Christmas morning with the kids and no Daddy!
Went shopping on Black Friday with my sister in Lubbock. I just have to say that I absolutely LOVE getting up super, extra early to go shopping ALL DAY!! This is probably the one day out of the year that my husband understands that I need to go shopping and spend money, and that I need to do it with out the kids. So I get a whole day to myself, shopping! What could be better; oh wait, I know! The fact that there are fantabulous sales!!! I LOVE to bargain shop! So this year Toys R Us opened at midnight, me and my sister stayed up all day Thanksgiving Day and left Denver City at like midnight to drive an hour to Lubbock and shop like crazy women!! It was great! I got pretty much everything that I wanted. I even bought myself a pink BB Gun! ;) Can't wait to use it. I guess I can sit at my back door and pop squirrels... LOL
I still don't have the tree or decorations up yet. I had to move stuff around in my living room because we got new furniture and didn't really have room for our tree. (We need a bigger house, we out grew this one 4 years ago!) But I think I got it figured out. Now I just have to get someone to help me get the tree down from the loft in the storage building... Hopefully I will get that done tomorrow.

I have been DVRing a bunch of Christmas movies for us to watch as a family. I can't wait till Mike gets home!!