Short: We had a great week and wonderful Thanksgiving filled with eating, shopping and a Lorie Line Concert. Thanks to the Wiitanen's for a wonderful Holiday Weekend.
The Slightly More Detailed Version:
Well, we had a great half of a work week and Thanksgiving. Jeff was out of the office the beginning of the week as they had an audit type thing in York. I guess they plan it right every year, because everyone from the car dealership that they were auditing or whatever, the day before thanksgiving, everyone brings a piece of the Thanksgiving Meal. So they ate good on Wednesday. My week was fine too. I did aerobics the only day offered, on Monday. Then I went to Hobby Lobby for a little bit, because Jeff didn't come home after work on Monday, just stayed out in Aurora for Monday night football. So I kept busy Monday night with starting my Mexico section of my scrapbook. Tiffany at work painted on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I left work with a headache I'm guessing from the fumes. It looks really awesome in her office...it's a beach theme, fitting for that California girl! I laid around to get rid of the headache a little on Tuesday night, and we packed and got ready. Jeff cleaned out his trunk, because he hated it that we always used our backseat for everything. So then Wednesday, I worked until 2, then headed towards York to pick Jeff up.
Then it was our Holiday weekend from there, so I'll start a new paragraph. I drove the whole way, stopping in Des Moines for gas and dinner. We got in after 10 and we chatted with Nancy and Glenn for awhile. We then went to bed. Thursday was turkey day and we mostly ate and played games. Earlier in the morning we did celebrate Nancy's birthday. Glenn bought us a Newspaper, and Nancy and I literally spent a couple hours just looking through the ads. I was tasked with getting a list of stores to visit and the items we are looking for. We ended up going to bed a little after 10 PM. Crazy huh?
The alarm sounded at 4:15 for me to get up and in the shower and we were pulling out of the garage at 5 on the dot. We headed to Walmart first, followed by these stores: Best Buy, Staples, Fleet Farm, Sports Authority, Michael's, Kohl's, Shopko, Menards, Herberger's, Factory Card Outlet, then Hallmark. We accomplished all of this by Noon! I can't even begin to tell you what I got, but I will try, leaving out the few things I bought for Jeff, because he finds these e-mails interesting. Small Crock pot, Stick Vac, Shredder, Tablemate little table, Candles, Jump Drive, 60 DVDs, Movies, Pasta Cooker, Batteries, Candles, Garden Flag, Elliptical Machine (mostly for Christmas from the Wiitanen's), Books, Cards, Candles, Washcloths, Games, Jewel Cases, and much more...oh but did I mention Candles??? We were whooped when we got home, so ate some lunch and took a nap. We got up to go see Deja Vu at 4 PM with Denzel...really good, we liked it. Then we picked up some Jimmy John's Subs...oooh...yummy!!! Then watched the Red Wings game at the house. I worked a little on journaling in my scrapbook during the game. We all went to bed quite early again.
Got up a little early for a Saturday morning to go to Yoga with Nancy. It was nice. Then we had a nice breakfast, then went out to the mall and target to look at a few things. We came back and took our daily nap. Then we ate a Thanksgiving like dinner over again...just as wonderful the second time! Then we played games for a little while, and around 7 we left to see our Lorie Line Concert. It was really great, all the Christmas Songs you love. My favorites were probably "O, Holy Night" and "Carol of the Bells." It was a great show..thanks again Nancy and Glenn for that! We played a couple games when we got home and went to bed fairly early.
Sunday morning, Jeff and I got up and ready and packed the car. Amazingly enough, we were able to fit the elliptical machine in the back of the car, with only one smashed finger. We had Breakfast with Nancy and Glenn and we got on our way. We had good weather and no traffic until we started close to Grand Island. Jeff drove the entire way, and I made good way on my Cross stitch. After York, the roads got a little icy, so we slowed down quite a bit. Then the first exit for GI, just after the traffic began. We still don't know if there was an accident or what, but we did see police cars and such. We got off the interstate and took the hwy. the rest of the way home. We got home started laundry and putting all our purchases away. A little after 8 we started putting together our elliptical machine. It was fully assembled by 9:15, impressive I thought. It looks good and Jeff is quite excited about it! We tried to get to bed pretty early last night and felt like we got a ton done since getting home at 5:30 or so.
This morning, Jeff headed into work. I think the roads are worse this morning. I was slipping all over the place with just my 2-3 mile drive to work. Oh well.
It will be a busy week getting ready for my huge day camp this weekend...where we will have 150 girls and around 100 parents. Pretty big event. I'm planning to make it to aerobics all week---I sure need it after all the food and pie from the weekend. Then, we have Jeff's Christmas party on Friday. We will take the afternoon off pretty much to head to Lincoln. We will have fun attending a Hockey game, eating out and watching a live band at the bar. They have hotel reservations for us Friday night, so I'll make it back there early and get up early to head back to GI, to be there by 8 am with our first session starting at 9 am. Then Jeff will stay in Lincoln to pick up my mom at 11:27 am, and they'll head out to GI, and meet up with me at Camp. I think we (Jeff, Mom, and the co-workers) will have a nice dinner out Saturday night. Then Sunday we'll try for church and we will see the Singing Christmas Tree on Sunday night.
Well, that's all folks! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well, and warm wishes for everyone!
Gina :) and Jeff the Stuffed Turkey