The Oistad Family: Thanksgiving!

This year for Thanksgiving we stayed home and spent the holidays with family. It was nice to be with family, although I was wistfully remembering that last two years we spent Thanksgiving in Hawaii with our good friends, the Dodges. Now both of us have added baby girls to our families since then. So much can happen in one short year!

Thanksgiving morning, my mom stopped by the house to give Noah a special present from Vegas. A big Mickey Mouse plush toy! It was so cute to watch Noah show Mickey around our house, his bedroom and play with him. He acted like Mickey was a famous friend who was coming to pay him a special visit! Now Mickey has been added to the large reportiore of his bedtime pals (puppy, his water and his three "danks"). A few times a week, Noah will wake up around 3-4am and crawl into our bed. He does not come empty handed. He will make several trips from his room to toss up his danks, toys and water into our bed and then lastly climbs up himself.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at the Oistads' with my parents as well as Wes' godparents. The spread of food and desserts was incredible and we all enjoyed each other's company. After dinner we were looking at the Black Friday ads and I spotted a crazy good deal on Barbie dolls and games at Walmart starting at 10pm Thanksgiving night (which is just a few miles from my house). I had already planned on skipping the early morning shopping madness on Friday, but I thought I could "swing by" Walmart really quick at 10 and just pick up those few items. Yeah, right! When I arrived at the store at 10pm, there was a long line of cars the parking lot was completely full. I lucked out and a car was leaving so I got a spot pretty easy. I headed into the store and there were no carts! I had to go back to the parking lot and find one. When I headed back in, it was pure chaos. I will spare you all the play by play, but long story short, all the advertised specials were scattered around the store and I ended up leaving without the items I wanted. What a nightmare. Never again!