End of Vacation or T minus 3 weeks until the next one!

Thanksbirthdaygiving was great! Thanks to my fabulous friends for hosting us at their home. As usual it was an engaging day. From cooking together the day before to ending the night playing balderdash an all around awesome time for tay and I. We got to see old friends and eat WAY too much. I'm still having leftovers 3 days later. In fact, I saved a lemon cupcake for me to remember the day. I will admit to bringing my own tupperware over to bring home leftovers.

After that long day I dropped off the kid at her friends and met jean and robin at Walmart at midnight for a night of shop til we drop. We started at wal mart where jean wanted to get some doorbusters. She got some great deals, things I don't need but man what great prices they had. We ended up getting a wristband for the doorbuster by 2am so we were able to pay and leave and head over to Kohl's, which opened at 3am. Just as we pulled into the center Starbucks opened...hallelujah! After getting a hot beverage, we got in line at Kohl's. I didn't need anything but I got some new towels for the house at a fabulous price. Finally a matching set for each bathroom. We headed to target next for their 4am opening but their line to get in was ridiculous. So back to walmart to pick up the doorbuster at 5am. Back to target, but again foiled by a riducuous line to pay. There was no way I was standing in that! Then off to sports authority to get myself the best workout pants at a discount and sam's club, who was feeding everyone breakfast, for an end to the night. I picked up tay and headed home to take a nice long nap!

I woke up friday afternoon and realized the cold I had been fighting all week had won. Probably shouldn't have stayed out all night. Way too old for that at my advance age, LOL. Basically spent the rest of the weekend hanging out on my couch. Clearing the DVR and watching some rental movies. It was nice to just chill out.

Now, I haven't worked out for a week as I was fighting a cold and didn't want to get worse. HOWEVER, I bought myself some new pants and sweaters and guess what...they are all a size smaller than before and fit! So I guess this gym, diet thing IS working. What a deal! My new gym opens tomorrow and I am excited to go and start working out 4 miles from my house. I definately plan to go tomorrow. There are lots of classes that look good to me.

I am fighting with myself to decorate for xmas. I have no visitors this year and laurie and bec are headed to hawaii (lucky) so I am going to cook at my aunts house instead of mine for xmas eve and go to moms for xmas dinner. I don't know what tay is doing as her dad is still working out their plans. My kid wants to come with me for both but it's really not fair to her dad so she will have to figure out what to do. I'm hoping she can just spend xmas day with them and come home to go to gmas but we'll see.

I hope all your decorating or not decorating goes well. Happy holidays to all!

Thanksbirthdaygiving!

Yeah, today is thanksgiving and my birthday. It only rolls around on the holiday every 7 years so it's extra special today. We are celebrating this day with friends. I like to call thanksgiving my anti family day. I love my family but it's fun to have a great dinner with friends and just chill, catch up, laugh, watch the kids run around etc. Yesterday we spent the day doing prep cooking for today. Got alot accomplished too. There's alot of good food coming my way tonight.

Other updates for our house..tay fininshed soccer placing second in her division. Same place as last year but different division. She tried out for winter soccer and did great. Unfortnuately there were 60 7th and 8th graders trying out for 15 spots. So no winter soccer this year. Bummer? (not to mommy)
Tay also tried out again for competitive volleyball and made the team. She's already started her practices and was excited to find out and old friend made the team with her. She is also playing basketball at her school. Due to our gym renovation we only have one team this year but tay is having fun with the girls.

We are planning another trip to dland so I guess I should have bought that season pass. Looks like I'll be purchasing it in 2011. I've never spent new years there so it ought to be fun. I'm looking forward to bringing in the new year with my baby bro too.

Happy Thanksbirthdaygiving to you all!