Black Friday

I've been so caught up in photography lately, and editing said photography (that takes the most time) that I have completely forgotten to document the fact that my husband actually went with me shopping at midnight on Black Friday.

Side note: For the longest time I wondered why it was called Black Friday. I figured it was because of all the craziness that ensues on these sorts of shopping excursions, thus making it "Black" for some people, especially the ones that got trampled, but alas, I was wrong.

I detest Walmart normally. As a general rule I avoid it, but when they have some stellar deals, well... even I like to save as much money as I can when out spending it. Seems somewhat ironic I suppose. But when I saw what WalMart was selling on Black Friday, we just couldn't pass it up. It's really true that money talks, cause my money was saying, "you'll save yourself over a hundred bucks if you suck it up and shop at WalMart." So we did. We headed over there at midnight, took turns standing in line and shopping until 2am, at which time we got our bracelets to reserve our items. At this point the employee says that we have to be back between 5am and 6am to pick it up or they're going to give them to other people. WELL... that ain't gonna happen. I didn't stand in line for two hours for nothin!! (Yes, my redneck tendencies/grammar pop up now and then.) So Doug and I thought that we'd just go home, sleep for a couple of hours and come back. So that was the plan. Until we got in the car.

The reason I am documenting this is because I have never heard such words coming from his mouth.

EVER.

IN MY LIFE.

He says, "Let's just go shopping. There's got to be a bunch of stores open, then we'll just go back at five and pick up the other stuff."

SWEEEET!!!

So we ran up to Citrus Heights as we knew the Toys R US was open, but first we stopped at Denny's. Um, HELLOOOOO, it was incredibly packed. When has there EVER been a line to eat at Denny's??? But we had time! :) Doug and I had pancakes and hashbrowns. MMMMM...I love me some good pancakes.

But here's the thing that was so surprising. People were actually really nice! Even at WalMart of all places. I was really truly surprised. I thought I was going to have to do some take-downs, ya know? It was almost like being part of this exclusive club that only few people know about. A club where great deals happen, where people talk to perfect strangers as if they've known them for years, where the hustle and bustle is actually quite fun. Who knew?!?

We hit Toys R Us for a couple of items. One of the items was the last one so I was glad we got it. Then I overheard someone say that the mall was opening at 4am. Well why not? We had time! :) We ran over to the mall which opened promptly at four. Lots of teenagers there by the way. Fortunately we made it to Teaghan's favorite store quickly because the table with the $10 hoodies went in a matter of minutes. I grabbed a bunch, Doug grabbed a bunch, and we sorted as we stood in line. Mega deals we got there too, along with some freebies for spending over $100! And we are just having so much fun! There were a couple of times I thought Doug was getting a little green around the gills at the amount of money that was being spent, but he actually did pretty good. The man likes to save too.

After that, we headed back to Wally Mart (yes I did that typo on purpose), picked up our "prizes" and headed home. Got home at 5:30. The kids didn't even get up till 10am so we even got five hours of sleep out of it. The Christmas miracles just keep coming:)

But most importantly, I got to hang with my best friend. And he actually liked shopping this year! Wonders never cease.

Teaghan School Pics

Two kids done, two to go. How come this is taking me so long!? I'm planning on using the kids photos on the christmas cards so I suppose I need to kick this into high gear.


Teaghan and I had so much fun taking these pictures!