Happy Thanksgiving

I'm late on the Happy Thanksgiving thing, I know. We left town on Wednesday and just got back yesterday so I haven't been able to update. If you are wondering where we were, that would be Wyoming with Tom's family. It was a crazy busy weekend. Tom did alot of work on the ranch and I mostly rested and played with the kids or cooked with the women or went for walks. Basically, no homework was done and now that is coming back to bite me because it is due in an hour and a half. So why am I on here?

Tom and Jeremy started building a new manger for the sheep.

This is a picture of a barn with their brand on it.

Anyways, I only threw up twice the whole weekend and baby kind of let me get through Thanksgiving dinner. I just had to take a break to lay down and settle my tummy, that's all. We went Black Friday shopping, which required leaving the house at 3am to drive an hour and a half to the nearest Wal-Mart. Gotta love Wyoming! We got there 30 minutes before the sale and everyone was inside standing by the item they wanted. Instead of locking us out they had everything out, but wrapped in plastic with signs saying "Not available until 5am". It's probably not surprising but the Blu Ray player door buster we wanted was fully taken. There were about 3 of them in the stack surrounded by what seemed like 20 eager shoppers, so we gave up and moved on. We were looking for something else in electronics and I had the brilliant idea to go look at the regular Blu Ray aisle. Believe it or not, there were 8 more of the same Blu Ray player there with no eager shoppers hoarding them and no "Not available until 5am" plastic wrap. I guarded our stash while Tom went to check the other stack just to make sure they were the same. A couple of the eager shoppers yelled at him just for getting too close to the box. Funny stuff! It was the same though, so we stood there until 5am and gathered quite the crowd of people who were excited to find us with more Blu Ray players. When alarms went off at 5am, we grabbed the first and by the time we had walked the 10 feet to the electronics register, the other 7 were gone. Ours indeed rang up at the discount price of $200 (instead of $350 and we were pumped). We really wanted to find one of those eager shoppers and rub it in their faces, but we went straight to the car to lock it up and finish shopping and Boy, were we proud of ourselves!!!

Tom and I posed with our new nephew Rodney! He's a cutie! Can you tell I'm pregnant now?

Ok, so that story turned out pretty long, but it was at least entertaining, right, right??? We went to a light parade later that night and Saturday was mostly uneventful. Sunday we all went to church and Tom blessed baby Rodney. After church we took some family pictures all dressed up and then went home and changed clothes. Tom and I finally got to take potential Christmas card pictures around the ranch and on the horses and stuff. I need to load them this week, so we can pick one and go get Christmas cards made to send out. We also have to finish shopping for my family this week so we can mail their presents out in time. Not to mention all the school work we have to do before Christmas! Argh! When will life calm down?!?

As a parting note, we went to the doctor last week and scheduled the Ultrasound for December 17, so watch for that update. He also said I am measuring big and a bit sicker than normal, so we will have to check for twins...........