Black Friday

After Thanksgiving dinner, Mark, Lisa, and I decided to go Black Friday shopping at Target.  It was exhausting!  I don't know what possessed an 8 month pregnant lady to want to go after working a 9 1/2 hour shift! 

Here's what we scored!  Mostly we go to Target every year to find TV series on DVD.  This year they didn't have all of the latest seasons on sale! I was bummed.  But we still found some we wanted.  There were even a couple of things I found for the baby.  Mark mentioned that from now on, we won't be shopping for us anymore.  I can't wait!  We also got telestrations.  If you haven't played it, you need to!  It is so fun.  It's kind of like the game of telephone meets pictionary.

 

 

By the time we got home my feet were so sore, and my ankles were swollen.  I couldn't even walk anymore.  Overall, we shopped for an hour, and then waited an hour in line. 

 

The next morning we got to sleep in which was so nice!  Then we decided to hit up the Nike factory store since Mark needed some new shoes.  Everything in store was an extra 20% off.  Mark got some new shoes, a pair of pants, and a pair of shorts.  I got some new shoes, and some workout clothes.  Maybe it'll motivate to work out after the baby with my new gear!

 

 

 

Earlier in the week, Lisa and I also shopped some week-long Black Friday sales.  Everything at Carter's was 50% off all week long, so I bought an outfit and some socks for the baby.  We have lots of clothes for her until she's 6 months old, but not too much for after that.  I thought this outfit was so cute, but it was so hard to buy one that she won't fit into until she's 9 months old!

 







After we went to Carter's Lisa wanted to go to Banana Republic Factory Store.  I had gotten an email just that morning saying everything was up to 70% off, and I had a 15% off coupon to use on top of that.  I couldn't resist buying some clothes even though I won't be able to wear them until after the baby!  I tried them on just to make sure they'd fit, and most of them I could probably wear now but I don't want to stretch them out too much!  I found a really cute sweater cardigan that I wanted and the sign above it said 70% off.  It turned out that it was really only 30% off, so I had to pass!  After I went to work on Friday, Lisa went back and got it for me!  It was so nice of her to get it, because it's the one thing I really wanted there!

 

 

The day before Thanksgiving, Mark got me my Christmas present.  It was the last day it was on coupon at Costco, and he didn't want to miss out on the deal or get me the wrong thing.  He got me a DSLR camera that I've been wanting forever!  It's the Canon EOS Rebel T3i, and I can't wait to take pictures of our little girl with it!  It's been awhile since I've used an SLR, so now I just need to learn how to use all the features on it!  Mark said now he never has to buy me a birthday or Christmas present ever again.  We'll see how that works out for him!

 

 

I'd say we had a pretty successful (and expensive!) shopping week!







My Birthday & Thanksgiving!

I love November!  For my birthday this year Mark told me he was going to be out of town for work.  I was bummed, but we went out to dinner the Saturday before to celebrate.  I decided on Wingers, and it was yummy.  Luckily, Mark ended up not going out of town after all, so on my real birthday he surprised me and took me to Zupa's.  We are seriously addicted.  Zupa's is always our go to place to eat. When Mark got home from work, he brought be some flowers and a picture of the Salt Lake Temple to hang up in our living room.

 

 The weekend after my birthday, we decided to paint our living room.  It was painted yellow when we moved in, and I really haven't minded the color that much, but Mark was getting bored with it.  One day we just went to home depot and grabbed all of the supplies we needed to paint!

 

I didn't really like it at first because it looked a little orange to me, but I think it's starting to grow on me...



Mark's sister Lisa came to visit us for a week over Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately, I had to work Thanksgiving! :(  I worked from 9-6 so all of my family made other plans for Thanksgiving.  Before I went to work, I prepped my apple pie and a few other things. 

Work was INSANE!  I don't understand why so many people need to go to Walgreens on Thanksgiving day! (non-24  hour pharmacies are closed) A customer literally pried open the door 5 minutes before we opened, and everyone started coming in.  I was seriously running around for 2 hours straight before it slowed down a little.  It was such a long day.  By the time I got home, it was almost 7:00.  The turkey was almost done, and I helped finish make the rest of the food. 

By the time the three of us sat down to eat, it was 7:45.  Dinner was good, but it was really different being by ourselves and eating so late. 

I'm so thankful for..

my husband who works hard to provide for us

our little baby girl who will be here soon

a house we can call ours

our two cute dogs

being able to quit my after the baby comes

the gospel

being able to get pregnant so fast after my miscarriage

all of my family and friends

and all of my blessings!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So much to do, so little time!

I feel like I have so much more to do before the baby gets here!  The nursery furniture has been set up for a few weeks, but that's about it.  We have most of the big items (my travel system should be delivered any day now!) But there are a couple of big things we still need and lots of little stuff.  My baby shower is next week, so I'm hoping we will have a better idea of what we need after that.

 

Mark insisted that we get the Eddie Bauer travel system because he really liked them. (The depth of the cup holders and the storage had a lot to do with it--The stroller had to be good for Disneyland.)  I wanted to get a gender neutral one, but there weren't any that I particularly liked.  I decided on this gray/pink one because I really liked the colors.  If we have a boy next time I will see if I can cover it or something.   

I only have 8 more weeks!  It sounds like such a long time, but I'm hoping it will be here before I know it!  I can't wait to be done with work.. It's getting so tiring.  I still need to figure out what I'm going to do afterwards.  My original plan was to just quit as soon as my maternity leave was over, but now that I started getting my pharmacy hours in, I'm not sure what to do.  I need to get 180 hours in the pharmacy before the end of next year and it will be a whole lot easier to get the hours if I'm still working.  As of right now I only have 12!  :O

Last week at our house was spent watching the world series.  Mark was so excited for the Giants to be in it again, and I don't think he really thought they would win it all again!  Needless to say, he went crazy when they won! 


Halloween was pretty laid back this year.  I had to work that night, so Mark was left at home to pass out candy to the trick-or-treaters.  I thought I bought candy late enough for it to be eaten, but Mark proved me wrong.  (I ate some too.. but not as much!)  Luckily, we had 2 pieces of candy left at the end of the night!