Turkey Time!

Ha, seriously this is the best picture I got of the night. For whatever reason I always seem to get caught up in the moments of the holidays and not take out the camera. Weird.

Anywho, this is the best shot I got of the kidos in their Christmas PJs that Roger and Joanne always give them on Thanksgiving. As you can see Katy is pretty excited about them.

It was our year to go to the Beardshall side. And let me tell you that it did not disappoint. Joanne made her famous stuffing....my favorite! And who likes that stuff? I was not a fan until I partook of this goodness! We had potatoes galore! And we also had another famous tradition, RaNae's chocolate pies! I only wish I had room for two slices, by then I was too full!

The pie is on the counter and Katy has her eye on it! Delicious!

On Friday morning I got my BLACK FRIDAY on and hit up the stores. I did not see anything that was just screaming my name so I opted to go to Target and get Katy the Disney princess dolls collection. I was out of there by about 4:45 and then headed to KMart. This place was a ghost town compaired....so nice. I got some Christmas lights. Afterwards I headed home to go back to bed. (Mom spent her Thanksgiving with Britney and her family so I had to go alone this year...sniff, sniff! Ha, next year!) When I got up Katy and I had breakfast and got ready to go to the WVC Christmas Parade. Steve was the headliner this year!

As you can see above, Katy was pretty excited about the whole thing! I guess this parade is held every year. They seem to have a good turnout and it's the parade to bring Santa to the mall for the season. There are a lot of local floats and advertising. There was a lot of little dance companies that marched in the parade. It was cute to see the little kids dancing down the road. Katy thought Steve was pretty great and also enjoyed the fire truck honking it's horn!

Frito Lay is based out of West Valley here in Utah so they had a big truck that they drove down the street throwing out chips. Of course Chester Cheeto was there too. Do you think Katy liked seeing him? NO! She almost cried when he came up and patted her on the head...."No way!" She was happy to get some chips though. Ok I had to laugh because they would open a flat of chips, like the ones you can buy at Costco with the little baggies, throw a few then drop the box on the ground. They dropped one right at my feet. I didn't think twice about it and grabbed 3 bags. One for me, Katy and Steve. I think in my mind I was thinking that I would leave the rest so others could share them too. It wasn't until people were grabbing the flats of chips as if they had gone mad! It was like I was back at Target! I saw a guy walking back to his car with like 4 of these things stacked up....he was having a hard time seeing over it! SERIOUSLY??? Only in West Valley I guess. What happened to the spirit of giving and Christmas? It made me laugh none the less.

Oh yeah....this is what Steve got to ride on! Too cool right? Let's just say that he was super cold afterwards.

We headed down to Gateway after and hit up the Build-A-Bear for there 5$ special....Buddy the Moose. Well that is what Katy calls him. She thinks he is the coolest, mostly because his lights on his antlers light up! We also got some sweatshirts. I LOVE BLACK FRIDAY!!!!!

HA, my Christmas "lights" I was talking about! I can't help myself.....I'm married to a COP!

MERRY START OF YOUR CHRISTMAS SEASON!