Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was wonderful! It was so good to see all of my family! I hadn't been to my grandparents for over a year and it felt good to go back. Melissa drove over with me on Thanksgiving morning. The weather was absolutely horrible! From home all the way to Silverdale it was POURING down rain! So hard to see 50 ft in front of me! Then between Silverdale and somewhere it started snowing. Then when we were like 15 mins from the house it was pure blue sky and sunny and then at Grandma's it was cloudy. So that was my crazy drive over. We had a ton of amazing food! The yams were my favorite this year! After dinner my Aunt Mardel had some planned games for everyone to do together. Then we broke up and all the women played different games, compatability and I'm totally blanking on the other one. All the men and a couple of the kids played Texas Hold 'Em. Jesse and Luke beat all the dads in one round! Then we watched Grey's Anatomy. I have never seen the show, it being the middle of the 3rd season I was a little lost, same with Grandma. It was actually a good show, even without knowing everything that was going on I enjoyed it. Jaime and I won out and got the hide-a-bed which really wasn't too comfy and at one point Jaime was sharing my pillow...she's a cuddler! All us women woke up at 6am and left at 7am to go shopping. We stopped at Starbucks and were at the mall by 8:15! The first stop was Mervyn's and I bought myself a new pair of New Balance tennies. They are light grey and light pink. They were originally $60 but with the store closing and the additional 15% off I got them for $30!! I definately spent a lot of money and it was nice to actually have money to spend this year! We had lunch at the Olive Garden this year. I had the baked ziti and it was delish! Great Uncle Bob and our cousin of some sorts was there and Uncle Bob ended up paying for everyone...so nice! After lunch was the Target stop and that was where I spent the most of my money! After Target I got changed and headed out to Ray's dad's place in Port Orchard which was only 20 mins away. So when I got there Max was being a bad boy. He so does not like Zach and I have no idea why. Every time Zach walked by he growls or tries to bite him. He gets in trouble with me if he acts like that so he got a time out in the truck. At dinner Maggie gave him a bone but he wouldn't touch it until he was with everyone else. That was a good time when Max and Zach had their bones away from each other. His dad made stuffed pork chops and they were amazing! He said it was his first time making them and WOW! We had mashed taters and asparagus with them. Yummy! The drive back was only about an hour but I was so tired it felt so long! I got my order of 140 pictures in the mail that I finally got downloaded and a bunch of the Christmas presents I ordered for people so I'm super excited! Ray and I went to Alderwood Mall last night and I got Jordan, Janae, Steve finished and half of Randy's and Al's. Ray also gave me a bunch more ideas for him so that helped. We had dinner at Claim Jumper and we decided that the Redmond one is better. We then headed out the the SUPER WALMART in Marysville since we were already in Lynnwood. Totally forgot what I needed from there but got some good stuff anyway. So I'm at work today and right now...IT IS SNOWING!!! YIPPEE! I love love love the snow but it will be a long drive home because it is slick out there. I'm also excited because I have my doctor appt tomorrow so we can finish up everything from my last visit and make sure everything is good and get my meds for the next 3 months. So I'm going home to enjoy the SNOW!