Life of a Dolphin: November 2008

Well our Thankgiving was nice this year. My dad BBQ'd the turkey and my mom made the stuffing, yams and gravy. I made the mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie dessert. Greg made the bean salad. Everything was delicious, and we had alot of left overs as usual. Brandon played Guitar Hero for my parents after dinner, he's getting pretty good. I will say he does love music and has a talent for playing. My mom and I looked through all the ads to figure out where we wanted to go shopping. Jill stopped by and visited for a little while after my parents left. I went to bed around 10pm that night. I set my phone to go off at 3am. At that time I woke up and got ready to go shopping. Since Brandon wanted to go and spend the weekend at my parents house he went with me at 3:30am. We got to my parents house around 4am and my mom was getting ready. Our first stop was at Walmart, but when we got there there were about 300-400 people waiting in line that was wrapped around the building, it was insane. So instead we went to Macy's across the street and we only had to wait in line with 20 or so other people. My mom and I got some really good deals. I got a shirt, 2 pairs of capri's, shirt for Brandon and a blanket for a Xmas gift for only $32.00. After that we went to Gottschalks but didn't get anything and then we made our 2nd attempt to go to Walmart. I was surprised we got a parking space right away and got the things we needed and left. Alot of people were buying TV's so I guess that was the huge deal for the people tha waited in line. After that we went to Circuit City and I got a DVD and my mom bought a CD. By this time it was 9:30am and my mom and I were getting hungry so we went to Marie Calendar's for breakfast. Then we went to Mervyn's. That was our last shopping stop. Jill picked up Brandon and we were going to get L&L to get lunch but they were closed. So we ended up getting chinese food from Raley's and took that over to our grandpa's house. We had lunch and then we helped him with the yard work in the front of his house. The rest of the afternoon I relaxed and took a nap. That night Greg and I got out the Christmas stuff and I put up our tree, ligthts and other decorations. Greg is going to put the lights on the house today. I can't wait. I love Christmas. Ok, well until the next time.....everyone enjoy the rest of there weekend.

Well yesterday was Halloween, it was a fun but very long day. I will attach pictures of the pumpkins that Brandon and I carved and me in my vampire princess costume. I had a fun time dressing up, but I was glad to get out of the shoes I was wearing that's for sure. At work we had a potluck / costume contest / best decorative suite contest. Of course we had alot of great food. A bunch of us dressed up, it's always nice to see alot of participation. There were some really great costumes. At night Brandon passed out candy, I got 63 (Mike & Ikes / Hot Tamales) and 150 (dum dums). We only ended up having 31 kids that came. About half of what we had last year, so therefor we had a bunch of candy left over. But the good thing is it's stuff the 3 of us will eat. There were some cute kids that were dressed up but there were a few that didn't have a costume at all. I don't mind giving candy to teenagers and even adults for that matter as long as there dressed up and not just wearing a mask. We had this one boy come that was maybe a year old he was a little devil, so cute. Obviously he was out getting candy for his parents. But that's ok, he was adorable doing it. Enjoy the pics!

Brandon's Scary Pumpkin