Thanksgiving

This year we went to my parents first and had dinner. My parents make such a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, I loved everything. The best part was sitting down with My parents and each of us going over what we are thankful for during dinner. Being asked that question I have hundreds of things I am thankful for, I cant just say one thing. But currently my highest thankful for would have to be my children, they are my heart and soul. Ella has been doing really good. I am so glad to see her doing things she would normally be doing at this age. She does have a slight delay, but with the help of Melinda our Physical Therapist we will work on things. Last night Ella discovered her tongue, its cute to watch her. She also started to put her binkie in her mouth all by herself with no help. If I am laying with her and playing on my cell phone, sometimes she will take it out of my hands to play with it. I think she is actually trying to get attention from me, mom stop what you are doing and look at me.
Anyway, back to Thanksgiving. After eating dinner at my parents and visiting for a bit, we headed over to Matts Parents. We had a second dinner with them, everything tasted great their too. Aunt Terri and our cousins brought us a big kitchen garbage bag full of clothes for Ella. We are sure thankful for the help with clothes, kids grow out of clothes so fast its hard to keep up. Our friend Natalie has been helping us also with clothes for Ella. We are so thankful for the help. While we were at Matts Parents Brayden was playing with his cousins and Marian, he loves being the center of attention. While he was playing with the toys their he came across a small toy toilet that belonged i a doll house of Marians. He would flush it and play with it, does this mean he may be interested in potty training? Hmmm we shall find out soon. Brayden has carried it around with him since Thanksgiving. Hope its a sign of get me out of these diapers so I can use a big boy toilet. After Matts parents we were so sleepy and drained that we went home and hung out. About 9:30pm Marian and I decided we would go to Walmart and find a few birthday presents for him. Thinking we were going to be fighting a BIG crowd of people, cars lined up across the street from Walmart and parking lot full. We came across a parking spot really close to the doors. We went inside and yes there was a lot of people, but it was almost as if we were going there on a Saturday. It wasnt bad at all. The only difference I saw in going on Thanksgiving was that instead of standing in line for 30 minutes on a regular day and only two lines open. All lines where opened and we didnt have to wait for anyone. We were in and out of walmart faster than we ever have been. We will have to remember that for next year. Next was going home and sleeping till 6am. Ella decided that she was going to stay up all night being fussy and not wanting to sleep. So I pretty much stayed up all night with her, got up at 6am. Marian and I went to Fashion Corner in Draper with our BFF Jamie. We were going for Boots and a jacket for me. First 100 customers got a free $10 gift card. We got there at 7:30am store opened at 8am, no lines at all no one was even standing outside. So Jamie suggested going to beans and brews real quick to get coffee. Now keep in mind when we left there was no line we could have been first in line. As we headed back to the store we noticed a lot of people outside. The line had started while we were gone, awesome enough it wasnt a 100 people. So we stood in line and waited for about 15 minutes. The longest wait ever, boots flashing in the back of my sleepy eyelids. Finally the line started to move. All three of us got our gift cards and headed in. We all kept losing one another, but in the end we all got in line to pay together. Marian got a really cute purse free with the Gift card she got and some sunglasses. The jackets went way to fast so I ended up not getting one but I was able to get 2 boots, one pair free with my GC. Jamie was able to get boots, shirt and I was so tired that I dont remember what else haha. We all had a great time, I cant wait to go next year! This

Matt stayed home with the kiddos and reported that Ella didnt do so good. But Brayden was great.

Till Next year!!!