Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2012

Our Thanksgiving morning began like all others have- getting up to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and Adam making a trip out to pick up a newspaper with all of the Black Friday ads in it for me :) About halfway through the parade we paused it so Ava and I could make rolls for Thanksgiving dinner.



Both Adam's family and my family come together for Thanksgiving. It seems to work out quite well for everyone. This year we had 20 people, so it was a full house, although I'm sure if a few more had decided to join us, we would have had the room :)

I had it set up where everyone could eat together in the dinning room/front room. We weren't all at the same table, but at least we were all together.



After stuffing ourselves silly it looked like a middle school dance with the girls are congregating together separately from the guys who were watching, what else?, football.



As you can tell from the pictures we didn't have near enough food....



Pinterest has been a great source of inspiration and a huge time waster ;) but I saw this picture where someone took a photo of their child in one of the cozy coupe cars with a Christmas tree on top and I said that would be so fitting for Ava since she absolutely LOVES her little car. Next thing we know is Dad has gone out and gathered some limbs and tied them together and has Ava in the car posing for pictures- haha!



It will be a sad day when she is too big for that car!



After eating and socializing we broke out the game Quelf and if you aren't familiar with it you need to RUN and get it- it has to be one of the best games ever created, espeically in a close friends/family type environment. At one point mom had to sit under the table until it was her turn again.



Grammy had to play the air drums whenever it was Maxx's turn- haha!



Mrs. Karen had to dress herself like a present.



Mom ended up getting the most stunt-type cards- she also had to wear a piece of paper taped to her forehead with the word Quelf written on it. I'm not sure if she will ever want to play the game again. Actually she might, because I think she won- but I really can't remember any more at this point.



After everyone left I had a short amount of time to clean up and get ready to head out shopping. Mom and I left at 8:00 Thursday night and didn't get home until about 2:00 the next day. We shopped all night and had a good time with friends. Marty and Caroline actually came out and shopped from midnight until about 6:30, it was their first Black Friday experience  I think we were able to get just about everything we had on our list to get even though it was crazier than I have ever seen it. Of course I'm not one to get into confrontations over sale items- they aren't that big of a deal to me, but it is exciting to shop on Black Friday :) Ava has already started asking when she can go with us, but I have assured her it will be a long time from now :)