Friday, December 6, 2013

Continued BF shopping trip....

Continued:




Why Not??........     Adorable!!   

Tell the truth......always tell the truth!   Are you a shoe lover????

Wouldn't be shopping if we didn't take the time to try on a shoe or 2 or 3 or 8!!


Academy....J.C. Penny's..... Life way Christian.....Chick Fil A.........Dillard's....
Macy's....The foot locker.....
.The Buckle.....Target.....McAllister's....
Justice.....
Hobby Lobby.......Karen Horton....
Kohl's.......
Bed Bath and Beyond!
Wal-Mart..............
Journey's......

and this is just to name a few of our stops!!!!

Oh...what fun it is to shop, and shop and shop and shop.....

Our stop at "Bed Bath and Beyond"......almost made me crash!!
Just before checking out, I noticed this chair in the middle of the isle and it had a heated vibrating cushion, rested on it.   Not only that, but in front of the chair, set a machine that massages your legs.   All you have to do is sit down in the chair, slip your legs into this machine and Wa, La......it was like, dream baby dream from that point on!  Oh my goodness....I must have sat there for at least 30 minutes.

It felt Sooooooo......Goood!!!!

Around 2:30, we realized that we had not even had lunch.....so off we go to SHARE a nacho basket and drink a glass of "Iced Tea" @ McAllister's .....

We were meeting the rest of the family around 6:30 for dinner.

As Carson would say.."This is a family tradition"...for the last four years, the family meets for dinner at:

The....Jalepeno Tree

So, So.....Good

Of course, this means that we Stink for the next few hours......As we shop!!!!!

After dinner.....we sent the kids and the men back home while we finished up our shopping.

Even though we stunk from all the Mexican food and grilled onions.....we marched our way right into the stores anyways,  just like we had just left a perfume factory!   Best part is....Not one person stopped us to say how bad we did stink!!!!

At the end of our 17 hour shopping spree......the girls decided that we had to end the day with something SWEET...    Lo and Behold.....right there in front of us was a "Baskin Robbins" ice cream shop!!!!  Imagine that!!

I can't believe it, but I ended up getting NOTHING!  Just too full from dinner.

Both of the girls.....filled their grill with not just one sweet dip, but 2 big dips of
creamy ice cream.   

By the time we got home.....my piggies were crying!!

Yep, both feet were mad at me!!

Can I tell you.....we had a super great day and I wouldn't take anything for the amount of time that I got to spend (alone) with my girls!!



I'll be back soon.....Stay warm!!!

shug ~






Thursday, December 5, 2013

Winter and a little BF Adventure time...

Ok.....Let me first apologize!   NO....  it's not snowing around here!  I have seen so many beautiful pictures from all of my dear blogging friends, who live up North.  You all have posted some beautiful photos of glistening white snow and it has sure made me wish for some to fall around here.

The above picture of Trista and I, was taken about 6 years ago (maybe longer) and I do believe it was the last decent snow that we have had here in East Texas.  I love to play in the stuff!!  Funny thing is........very few people in our area have the proper clothing for playing outdoors in Snowy weather.   Hoping that we get at least some snow this year.

And now......for my Black Friday Adventure!

The girls and I woke up around 4:00 A.M. and we were dressed and ready to walk out the door at exactly....4:30 A.M.      We all had matching T-shirts........UNTIL, I decided to do a tiny bit of needed alterations to mine.  You see, T-shirts that fit close to the neck......make me feel very claustrophobic!  I feel like I'm choking with a shirt on like this.  How could I possibly have a super productive shopping day, if I was bound at the neck?   



Cute........aren't they?

Well......as you can guess, I MESSED my shirt up....big time!   

Hey, I can't sew a lick, and I don't even try to pretend that I can.    What seemed to be a simple task, turned out to be a major disaster for my team shirt.

Trista....(who cannot sew either) came up with this super great idea.
Why not cut the neck out!!!!!  After all, a lot of friends do this and their T-shirts look great!

SO.......

With scissors in hand......I cut the neck on my shirt.  A person needs to realize that when making alterations.....it's all in the layout of the material that you are cutting.

Needless to say.......My shirt, is now in the pile to be cut up for OLD RAGS!


Our very first stop was.........Academy!    The doors were opening at 5:00 A.M. and YES, we were right there in the middle of that  (MILE LONG) trail that went around and around and around the building.    It didn't take very long to get inside, but I was already calculating in my head, how long it might take us to get through the stinking check-out lanes.

The picture above was taken about 5:30 that morning.   My feet were already HURTING, and the girls were still shopping.  I found myself a BIG seat on an exercise bicycle and I propped my feet up!!!!   Shoot naw....I didn't exercise not one bit on that thing!!



Next stop......The Mall!   As always, we had to get our snow globe from J.C. Penny's.
I must have at least a dozen of the things and they all look alike!!  


A little shoe shopping for the kids......at this point, Trista needed to rest her little piggies for a moment or two.   


then it was on to our Traditional breakfast at Chick Fil A.     Oh yes.....these small little chicken bites are soooooo goood and sooooo fattening!!   When you're hungry and when your tummy is making sounds that could make one think an earthquake just happened....
the best thing to do is EAT!!


Time for Shanda to take a break.  She needed a little bit of 
Face book therapy!!

By the way.....the shop that we were in for this picture, is a Resale shop and boy did we find some great deals!!!   (It never hurts to do a little shopping for yourself)


I have no idea what time this was......but, Shan found her a comfy place to rest.....right there on the TARGET buggy!   Target was a big stop for us.....after Shanda caught her second wind, we loaded that buggy up with all sorts of things.   Great sales?  Oh yes!!


Who needs a little time for SHOE shopping........WE DO!!!!!

More tomorrow!!!!!

shug~









Monday, December 2, 2013

Week update

  My goodness, my days have been more like 6 hour days and my nights have been like 6 hour nights......In other words, not enough hours in my days (or nights)

Our family celebrated a fun-filled, four day celebration, of being extremely thankful for so many things.   Of course, we are thankful every single day......what made the Thanksgiving Holiday's so special, was being able to spend quality time with family and friends!

My dad certainly enjoyed the entire family being able to get together and share not only a fabulous meal, but lots of games and fellowship.   Dad did not know everyone by name, but he knew their faces.  He made me smile because he kept saying....."do all of these people belong to me?"  Lol..

The kids returned to school today and the rest of my crew were back at work.   I had a FULL day planned of doing laundry, sweeping, mopping and cleaning house.  However, I spent the day taking care of our youngest grandson.....Trey.   Lets just say...... a family game of football was just a bit too rough and Trey ended up with a broken collar bone.   Yes, he sure did!  Bless His Heart....none of us knew that it was broken, until this morning.    I'm happy that I could be here for him!!

I remember breaking my collar bone when I was about 14.   Oh my goodness!  It hurt so bad and as I recall.....I was miserable for weeks.  My shoulder hurt, my neck hurt, my arm and wrist hurt......I hurt all over.

 I can tell you that I am so proud of our big boy!  He has really been a trooper and has been extremely tough throughout the entire ordeal.   He is in a sling right now, but will see an orthopedic doctor this week.   According to the x-ray, it sure looks like it needs to be set....Or Something!!!


I have much more to post.....(as I'm sure you all want to hear about my BLACK FRIDAY shopping trip) but for right now....My bed is calling my name!!

See ya later!

Shug

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