Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Thanksgiving was such a great day and we are so thankful for everything. We are so blessed with just even the small stuff, but very important -- Family and Friends. Since this past year has been rocky for some, we are very fortnate. My sister-in-law Liz was talking with one of her daughters. Because I think Brooke was asking why they couldn't do something. And Liz replied with we need to spend our money carefully. Brooke asked why? Liz went onto explain in langauge a child would understand, that times are tought right now. You are very lucky, because you have a mommy and daddy that both work. There are some family that only the mom or dad work, and some that neither parent are working. My hearts go to those families. Not that they weren't living right, but I tell Blake all the time we need to keep doing the right things, so good things keep happening. We will all have trials to learn and grow. But Blake and I are very blessed. Thanks for all the friendships we have created and hope to continue them all.

Thanksgiving was a sad day though. It was our turn to spend the dinner portion of the day with my side of the family. Which works great for both sides of the family. Because all of my side is all together and all of Blake's side is all together. Because we were eating dinner with my family we thought we should go down early to see Blake's parents in the morning. It was a nice drive. Only because I was asleep as usual. Needless to say Blake drives. But when I am driving I do stay awake. Anyway...We got down to his parents about 10. Just shortly after being there, we got a call from my mom with sad news. About 9 o'clock my dad was in the barn with the dogs. And he was taking a cooler or something to put away up to the loft area in the barn. Well, the dogs followed him up there, which this isn't the first time. So it was nothing new to them. My mom said my dad told "Farlery don't you fall." And about a few minutes later he did. It is about a 10 foot loft. And just to the side of the stairs my dad had an old couch. Farley's back in between his ribs and hips hit the arm rest of the couch. He got up, but my dad knew he was hurt. He thought maybe he had just broke some ribs and he knew he needed to get Farley to the vet ASAP. Farley was still walking, but by the time the vet took at look at him the paralysis and shock was setting in. Because of the injury he had to be put to sleep. This is one of the hardest things things that we have dealt with in the family when it comes to animals. Reason being is that we haven't ever had to put an animal down because they were sick or hurt. It has so far until Farley been because of old age we have had to put down the other animals or they have passed on their own. Farley was a cute dog. We will miss those puppy eyes and his tenderness. He is running around with all our other animals that have gone before. It was an unfortnate accident but a blessing. You see because, in September I had to take my mom and dad's other dog Pork to be but down. He was 16 years old. Which is incredibley old of a lab/german shorthair mix. Pork and Farley were the best of friends. They had been together for like 12 or 13 years. Farley also had asthma and he froze in the winter and he missed Pork. When you would walk out to say hi, you could hear Farley's teeth just chattering. The dogs lived in what I consider the Hilton for Dogs. My dad had and still has for Dakota an infrared heater in the dog run. So they didn't live too shabby. So Pork (dog) and Beans (cat), Farley (dog), Max (dog), Bandit (dog), Norman (goat), Eddie (goat), Star (horse), Snaffles (horse), and Frisco (horse) are all together again.

The rest of Thanksgiving Day was very sober, but super nice. Dinner and Dessert were delicious. Thanks to all the cooks.

We made our plans for the next day for Black Friday Sales. Now, I didn't quite experience anything like Josh and Kayla Farr did last year. But I do admit I had some anxitey. My mom dropped my off and she went to park. I set out for the adventure. There was a Cabbage Patch doll at Wal-Mart that I wanted for Kennedy. After asking where they would be I located the general area. I saw a girl that had one. And I asked her "where did you get that?" She replied "on that isle." Pointing beind her. So I went down that isle with a sea of people. And it was gone, no Cabbage Patch to be found. I eneded up seeing this cute train that swirled and dropped the balls. It was cute and a good price. And then my mom called "and was like where are you?" I replied. She was like "I am in front of the Cabbage Patches." And low and behold there were the Cabbage Patches. Plenty to choose from. And the anxitey went aways. Ahhh....So much that girl was for directions. She tried. I do have to admit when I walked into Wal-Mart I was very surprised on how full people's carts were. Dumbie me did not realize how this whole thing works. We got all the stuff and then some needed at Wal-Mart. We had all the items we needed by 20 after 5:00. Which isnt bad and we could have been out of there sooner, but people are retarded. We waited in line for over 45 minutes. Not because the line were so long, but because people crowded in line some where along the way. Once we saw what was going on when we got the front of the line (so we didnt crowd it front of others), we cruised into a middle check out line and we were out of there in a matter of mintues. We then made our way to Sportsman's, Target, Shopko, and Bed, Bath, & Beyound. Talk about a crazy place. Target in my opinion looked worse that Wal-Mart. I heard they had over 2 hour wait in line to check out. Talk about CRAZY!!! Wal-Mart was definitely not that bad. It was a fun day. I Don't know if I can do the 5:00 am thing again, but only time will tell in the years to come.