Thanksgiving and Science Center

For Thanksgiving we went to Spokane and spent a couple days with our friends Tim and Liz. It was a great dinner, great company, and great fun. 

After dinner we went through the ads while the kids played and made a plan for our black Friday shopping, which started at 10pm on Thursday but it was still fun. Liz, Chris and I went out we stood in some lines, figured out that Best buy was ridiculous, Target was crazy so we just skipped those. We went to Walmart which was pointless basically because everyone went super early got the deals they wanted and then waited in the store for the sale prices to start (not worth giving up Thanksgiving for in my opinion but that is what they did), so we only got one thing that we wanted. We had success at Shopko at Midnight, Khols, and at Fred Myer and Sears in the morning. We loved Fred Myer because we got there at about 8:00 and they still had everything that we wanted and were not crazy crowded at that point. Then we went over to the Mall and hit up the last few stores. 

Our buys were Matthew's Christmas present ($9.00), new socks for him (50% off), a second set of tupperware which we needed ($8.00), a Harry Potter Movie-part 1 ($7.00), and I was able to get a nice sterling silver and gemstone ring that will work as my wedding band during my pregnancy. It was a $130.00 ring that we got for $30.00, not too bad. Considering the other option we found we paid almost $15.00 for and the lady said that the rings sometimes turn peoples fingers green so I should put clear nail polish on it to prevent that. So we spent a little extra and were able to get a nice ring, we picked out one with Chris's birthstone in it which I really like. We have a very tight budget this holiday so we are sticking to needs (minus the movie and the ring I didn't really need, but I really don't like not wearing a wedding ring)

After we were done shopping, we had lunch the kids took a nice nap and then we took the older two boys (Matthew and Travis) to the Mobius Children's Museum. While Chris and Tim worked on Chris's application essay which he finally was able to finish! Thanks Tim!! 

Anyways it was a great trip, we love spending time with our friends, and Matthew loves playing with his buddy Travis! Here are a few pics of the boys together.