Turkey Break

This was a great week off of school. I am actually excited to get back to school tomorrow! I only have 3 weeks left until graduation!! Yahoo!! I am sure I won't be so excited during finals/packing week. But for now. . . I am definitely excited!

We celebrated Nick's birthday and Christine threw him a little party! It was fun, but as you can see in this picture, Will wasn't quite into the whole party idea.

He was asleep the entire party, except when a balloon popped and he woke up and laughed a little bit and went back to sleep! He's quite the partyer!!!

Emelia gave Nick his birthday kisses. . .she got up to 16 or so and was too tired to finish! She loves her Uncle Nick!I missed Chad's bowling birthday party as we showed up too early and then drove around to find the party and probably just missed everyone :( I am sure Will would have beat me anyways so I saved myself from the embarrassment I guess.

David and I took a day trip to Boise to look for an apartment, and we were successful! We found a cute little one bedroom apartment for a really good price. We will move out of Rexburg on the 21st and into our apartment in Boise later that day. We are so lucky, and we got a great Christmas present from them . . . we don't have to pay rent until February 1st!! Sweet deal! It is such a relief to have that taken care of and to have found such a good one!

My friend Kelly and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner this year. She did the turkey with her husband Derek and was a little grossed out by the prep work, but it turned out really good! I made some food for the meal, and I made a banana cream pie that was a hit! All the food was perfect, and we had plenty for leftovers the next day. We stuffed ourselves and the lounged around. We played games and looked through the ads for the Black Friday sales. We all saw some stuff that looked worth waking up early for, so 4 a.m the next morning we were out the door! As we drove by Wal-mart, the parking lot was packed and David got really nervous. Who would have thought it would be packed already! I dropped him off at Best Buy where he stood in line til the doors opened. He was wanting a laptop that was on a really good sale, but didn't get it. He sent me to Wal-mart to see if I could get a different one, but they were all gone. David was browsing around, and found a voucher for a different laptop that was also a way good deal. . . so he stood in line for three hours and finally got it! He had a blast chattin' it up with the other determined computer buyers and they all talked about how crazy they were for getting up early or spending the night outside in line.


I had fun weaving through the crowds at Wal-mart, but I didn't get anything this year. Kelly wasn't sure if she wanted to wait in line at Target to get in. There was a line about a block or so around the store, and it was pretty cold out. As I drove up, she saw someone passing out some free bag, and that convinced her! She jumped out of the car for that free bag and probably ran to get in line before the other crazy shoppers! She got all of her stuff in like 30 minutes and was out of there! She saw people frantically grabbing things, and started grabbing what she could but only ended up buying one thing she didn't plan on getting.


It is so funny to me that all day I felt the need to buy something. It was just part of the energy of the day that gives shoppers the impulsive buying power. Luckily I talked myself out of it every time, but I definitely was tempted to by too many things that I had no reason to need to buy them.


It was a great break, and I didn't get nearly as far ahead in my classes as I had hoped, but I enjoyed it. I missed some good times with my family, but luckily I have some family that is close by! I find out what school and what grade I do my student teaching in. . . .I hope it is close by, and in Kindergarten, but I just have to wait and see!!!!