{happy thanksgiving! aka holiday card photos}

i hope you all had a fantastically wonderful thanksgiving!  we had a great day.  it was the kids year to spend thanksgiving dinner with dad so we got them for breakfast and made eggs, bacon and french toast.  we also had banana bread and cinnamon streusel bread.  thanksgiving morning isn't complete for me without a yummy banana bread and the macy's day parade.  i actually recorded it while we were watching it so we can go back and watch it again.  i know there is stuff i missed and we didn't watch all of it yet.  :)

we headed over to lisa's mom's house to say hi and take a family pic in her backyard.  it seems to be the location of choice when we take a photo.  the kids looked super duper cute.  :)

ummmm, isobel looks a bit evil in that last one.  lol.

it was a great day surrounded by great people.  i have so much to be grateful for in my life.  :)

{insta-friday 11/25}

today's insta-friday is black friday.  since i work for a big box retail store my life this week has been about preparing for black friday.  i'm going to start with those pics and kind of work my way backwards....it will be ok.  i promise.  :)  although i'm gonna go back to the middle of the week and then work my way to today and then go back to the beginning of the....oh crap you know what?  let's just start at the beginning.  :)

last friday night we had a team outing at work.  we went to a providence bruins game.  it was fun.

i wore my cute necklace this week....

on monday we went to lisa's mom's house to inventory what we already had for the kids for christmas. we read the paper and looked at some catalogs too.

lisa's mom has these cute pilgrim doll things out.

then we were off to target where we did *almost* all of our shopping for the kids. and when i say almost, i mean like 99.9%. oh and we also had some hot chocolates with whipped cream and cinnamon. yummy!

we went to chilis and got take out for lunch. i took these while waiting for the food.

i really wish we had been able to go to this. it would have been epic. ;)

chloe had a thanksgiving event at school. it was super cute.

ian made a potato pumpkin at school.

i might have a slight problem....

balsam is back! and we attempted a holiday card photo. :)

now on to black friday. i could bore you with everything we did at the store to keep people safe this year but i won't. i'll just share the few pics i have of our line. this year we had about 900 people in line. which was a crazy huge amount. to put it in perspective, last year we had about 350 which was the most we had had before. everyone was polite and well behaved for the most part. NOT like over at another store in our plaza. rumor has it that he threatened someone that cut him with a gun. really????! you wanted that tv that bad????! i'm pretty sure they don't have good deals on flat screens in lock up at the local pd. just sayin'. ;)

this was my set up outside that we did wednesday night before we left.

kendra took these pics of the line when we got there for crowd control.  

the twins wanted a "security" pic. :)

this am i got home, napped for two hours and dragged the kids to the coffee shop. i was in my pajamas with my rockin' hat. don't be jealous.

this filter makes me look like i have a black eye. i don't. promise. :)

{when the fog lifts}

it's not nearly as pretty.  :)

these were all taken with my iphone and the hipstamatic app.  :)