Matthew and I have so many things to be thankful for. After we returned from our dream honeymoon to MAUI, we had the privilege of spending time with Mom and Grandma down in Florida. Grandma (and Molly her lovable yorkie companion) live about an hour outside of Orlando. The weather is irresistible and the memories we made were countless. In Lakeland there is a serene little lake where you can feed hundreds of swans. Grandma took us there and it was a day we will never forget...what a blast!!! It was loads of fun and quite terrifying when the little boogers would come up behind you and snatch the bread from your grip. We also got to travel up to see mom's childhood friend Barb. She is such a great family friend that we commonly refer to her as "Aunt Barb."
Matthew experienced his FIRST Black Friday shopping this year. Of course, we went to Target...we go there every year and it's turned into quite the family tradition. Since shopping started at an ungodly hour this year, we hit Starbucks around 12:30am and Target thereafter. I tell you what, FLORIDA is the BEST place to Black Friday shop. Usually I am up in Cincinnati and the worst part is fighting the bitterly cold weather. Not this year!!!! It was 72 degrees and I was sporting a cute tank-top and jeans while Matthew proudly wore his shorts. What a fantastic evening. Matthew found a few great country CDs and we got our ONE "must have" item. We wanted the porch fire pit that usually runs about $75. We saw in the ad that you could get it for $29.99. By the time we got into the store, there were none left...boo!! We looked everywhere...Finally we saw this lady who was carrying two. She looked at us and said, "Hey I'm waiting on my husband, if he doesn't want this, you all can have it!" Well long story short, hubby came back and didn't want it!! We got our BIG find and left the store (around 2AM) as happy Black Friday campers!! All-in-all it was a great Thanksgiving and as newlyweds, we were so glad to have spent time with family...love you all.
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| Feeding the BIG duck. |
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| Opening up gifts from Barb!! |
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| Black Friday finds!! |
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| Family shot. |
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| Starbucks to start off an evening of shopping!! |
This holiday season we have had the privilege of going to 7 Christmas parties. Needless to say, we are DEFINITELY full of yuletide cheer. One evening was particularly memorable and that was the evening we traveled up to Richmond to the Nationwide Christmas 2011 bash. It was a blast and Matthew and I danced the night away. What a great time meeting Matt's "wamily"....work family - as he commonly refers to it as.
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| Christmas 2011 Nationwide |
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| Enjoying an evening of fun and friends. |
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