Midnight madness...

Because we all take stimulating the economy so seriously we were willing to skip sleep to help out...
After eating all our Thanksgiving meals we met up at my house for midnight madness. When we arrived at the outlets it was packed. We actually had to to take another exit to avoid the hour traffic jam. It was a blast.
At the last store (around 4am) we were shocked to walk out to see huge snow flakes sticking the road. The outlet center we were at is nestled up in the mountains so this unexpected weather made the drive home scary. About half way down the mountain it turned to rain, whew. We then went to still another mall. We arrived home around 6:30am. I thought I would just collapse into bed not so... I could not fall asleep. I ended up getting up again and not going to sleep till 2pm that afternoon. I think my diet coke at 3am really affected me.

It was a great time. Can't wait till next year.

Wordful wednesday- girls night out...

I am very lucky to have a husband who understands I need a night out. Weekly I can count on one night to get out and have a break. It's usually my sister in law Lisa, and my two sisters Holly and Diana. We do a variety of things but it always includes dinner and a movie. I seriously see movies almost once a week, crazy huh. We always DO very late movies so we have much time out as possible.

This past week Alan has been out of town (on a cruise vacation) and I have been home doing all the cooking, cleaning, driving, doctoring, and some fighting with my kids alone. I could never be a single Mom. I also missed getting any sort of break so here's to weekly girls night out. It just makes life SO much better. Thank you Alan for this break! I love you!

Here are pics from last week (my little sis was missing)

Here is a picture from his cruise. We believe in equal time around here so I see a girls vacation coming on soon!


They dressed up in the funniest cruise gear they could find ( I can barely recognize a few). This is a group of Alan's best friends who he grew up with. Married w/ kids they have all remained friends. Believe me I am glad I wasn't there.

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