The Holidays are here...

This was mine and Jamie's first Thanksgiving together.  We decided that we would go to Jamie's families house for the actual Thanksgiving dinner, and then go to my families house for the rest of the day.  I was pretty interested how it would be going to Jamie's family dinner because I have never really enjoyed the family get togethers of my ex and this would be my first Thanksgiving with them.  I really enjoyed myself and enjoyed the dinner, the food was really good and so was all of the company.  I am grateful to have a fiance with such a good family that I can actually enjoy spending time with.  It was my year to have the boys for Thanksgiving and they really enjoyed it too.  Later on that night we went to my parents house.  There has been a long running tradition in my family that all of the women go out shopping after dinner to hit the early black Friday sales and do some Christmas shopping.  This of course was Jamie's first time doing this with my family and I think that she really enjoyed it.

The next morning, we got up early to try and hit some of the sales.  For one of the things on the Christmas list, we found an ad for at R.C. Willeys.  The sale started at 8 a.m., so we got up and got there at about 7:30.  The line of people was around the building!  We sat in the parking lot for a while contemplating if it would even be worth it and if we would even get a chance to get the item that we wanted.  We got out of the car and walked to the back of the line.  It was freezing outside and more people just kept showing up so we finally just decided that it wasn't worth it.

Through out the rest of the day we ran around doing a bunch of shopping.  Both me and Jamie didn't really have any Christmas decorations, so we bought ourselves a tree, some stockings for everyone, and some other decorations.  While we were out shopping, we decided to buy one tree ornament that we picked out together.  We are going to pick out a new one every year from this year on to signify our time together.  I hope that years down the road, we will be able to look at a tree full of ornaments and think back on all of our years together!

When we got the stockings, we also decided that we would write everyone's names on their stockings.  We bought some glitter glue and Jamie wrote the names on each stocking.  She did a really good job as you can see and we hung them all on the mantel.  I am so excited for our first Christmas together!

When we were looking at the sales on Friday, we found a 50" plasma on sale for an amazing deal.  We hurried to my sisters house to get our trailer so that we could buy it.  It feels good to be buying a T.V. that is big enough that I need a trailer to transport it!  This is the biggest T.V. that I have ever owned, and believe it or not, it is my first flat screen.  We had to get a new entertainment center that would actually fit the new T.V. which of course we found on ksl classified.  We have watched a few movies since, and I love it!

Last night we were watching a movie, and Jamie fell asleep on the couch.  When the movie was over, I went upstairs to set the coffee maker for the morning.  I looked back at the living room with our new T.V., our Christmas tree, the mantel full of stockings, our new family picture on the wall, and my beautiful fiance sleeping on the couch.  I stopped and just looked and took it all in and thought to myself "I LOVE MY LIFE!!"