Thanksgiving and Black Friday

All right, I am falling behind on my blogging. I started this blog yesterday, but then the kids needed me and I never got around to finishing. Thanksgiving was a blast. We had dinner at our house. Micah's mom gave us this tofurky, which is a tofu turkey, so that was our Thanksgiving turkey. Micah pulled it out to make it and didn't realize that you had to add more ingredients to it, so I trucked down to Wal-Mart to get our needed ingredients for our tofurkey roast. We also made those sweet potatoes with the marshmallows and brown sugar. Wow, that was good. We got the receipe online. It was called Mom's Sweet Potatoes, or something like that. Next, we watched some movies and hung out as a family. Then Micah decided to go up to his parents, so we did. We had fun hanging out with his family and watched The Errand of Angels on KBYU. It was ok. I bummed the day after Thanksgiving sale ads and decided I was going to be brave and go down to Wal-Mart at five in the morning the next day, because I had been wanting these princess slippers for Jacklyn and they were 4.00 instead of 8.00. So I told Micah to get me up at 5:00 in the morning, which he did. I finally rolled out of bed at ten after, and got to Wal-Mart at 5:20. When I got down to the Springville Wal-Mart (now I am just going to say this right now, I think I am done with early morning Christmas shopping after this year) there was an ambulance and a cop car at the main entrance. I guess things got pretty crazy there this morning. It took 10 minutes just to find a parking spot because the whole entire lot was completely full. I then go into the store and it was just packed with people everywhere. This store looked like a New York sidewalk at rush hour, that is how bad it was. I could hardly even walk over to the sales. I found Jacklyn's slippers, they only had one pair left, and they just happened to be her size, God loves me. I then went over to the DVD sales because I wanted to get Iron Man for nine dollars. As I was checking out the movies one of the employees there was telling some people what had happened there this morning that had caused the ambulance to come. She said that when the sales started at 5:00, people just started stampeding through the doors, and there was a woman who got knocked down. The manager yelled at the top of her lungs for people to stop because there was someone who had fallen down and was hurt, but no one even cared, they just continued to keep stepping on her. The Wal-Mart employee was saying that it is just sick that people act like that to just save a few dollars. The person she was talking to said that: aren't we all here shopping for Christmas and to celebrate Jesus's birthday, and that is how people act? The employee said that Christmas isn't about Jesus anymore, it's about retail. I agree with them, it is pretty sad how people act at Christmas time for these sales now. So after not finding Iron Man at this point, I gave up, and decided to just go home. I was going to go to ShopKo, but I think I got burned out just from going to Wal-Mart. Then I was instant messaging Matt (or Amber) later on that day and he saying that there was am employee at Wal-Mart in New York that got killed from a shopping stampede, so Jayden and I watched the news of it on MSN. That's pretty crazy that people act like that. I think I might be done with the early morning shopping sales. And that is how our holiday went; we had a lot of fun even though the shopping was crazy.

Today is Jayden's Birthday, so I will tell the details of his birthday and post pictures later. So everyone have a great day and... HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAYDEN!