Catching Up!

Wow, It has been forever since I last blogged! I wanted to start way back with Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving we went to my parents house first. We had the best Thanksgiving dinner with my mom and dad, My brother and his family, our family, and my grandma Olsen. It was a much smaller group this time, but we really enjoyed it! The food was wonderful! After dinner we went to Payson for pie at Darrin's parents house. We did lots of talking and eating! We also sat down and planned out our attack for Black Friday shopping!

The next morning I woke up at about 3:15. I got ready real quick and went and picked up Sarah and my mom. We went to Wal-mart first. I got everything I went there for! After Wal-mart we headed over to Target. Tammy was already standing in line, it was a good thing too because they really cracked down on security this year and wouldn't let you even sneak up to the front like I have in past years! It was all really crazy and a lot of fun! My car was jammed packed! Whoo Hoo! I didn't shop as long as I usually do this year, because I knew Darrin wanted to go and look for a TV. I took Sarah home and then met Darrin at my mom's house. She watched the kids for us while we went back out and shopped! It was a long day! We did end up getting a new TV for Christmas! it is sooo nice. I still like my old one that broke, and it was sad wheeling it out to the truck. Of course we or should I say Darrin couldn't wait until Christmas to set it up! It looks a little weird not having a stand to put it on, we just set it on our coffee table until we get a new built in to put it on! Maybe that will be my, I mean our Christmas present next year!

Darrin's work party was on Thursday night. We went to the Golden Corral, not my favorite but the salad was good. They always do fun little games and drawings. Darrin won us a backpack {Disneyland here we come!} And I actually won one of the big items this year!!! I was really wanting the GPS, but I won 2 tickets to the Jazz game! We will be on the 14th row! I can't wait! It was a fun night!

Friday I finally went and saw Twilight! I haven't finished the book yet, but I'm much more of a visual person anyways, so I just went and saw the movie. I didn't have any expectations, so I really liked it! Darrin and I also did some shopping after the movie! I'm so excited because we are almost done! That night was our ward party. Abby had been looking forward to seeing Santa all week, and was counting down the days. When we got there we had dinner and the kids did some crafts. It was finally time to see Santa! Madi of course was wayyy to cool to go and see Santa, Kaiden wanted nothing to do with him to, and Abby had a total meltdown. I really wanted to get a picture, even if she was crying. So the mean mom I am Drug her kicking and screaming to see him. I also convinced the other kids to come and take a picture to try and get Abby in there. It wasn't easy but we finally got a picture!

When we got home Abby said she was afraid of Santa because he had on glasses and she wasn't used to him wearing glasses? She also told me that she told him a secret. We didn't believe her because she was so terrified, but when I opened up my email to look at the pictures, I saw this......

I'm still wondering what she told him?

Saturday Darrin took Kaiden to work with him, so me and Madi headed to the mall! We meet Tammy, Brittany, and Brooke. We got lots of shopping done for Madi, so I'm 1 step closer to being done! Christmas is coming so fast! I can hardly wait. Hopefully I wont stay this busy, so I will have more time to blog. Enjoy your week!