People Are Crazy

I found something in the Black Friday ads that I really wanted.  I had no hope of getting it, of course, but who knows? It was worth a shot and Bronsynn came with me for fun. The destinations: Walmart's 10:00 PM Sale.

We left from Thanksgiving dinner separately from Paul and when I saw the parking lot from Bangeter, I nearly kept on driving.  I thought "Well maybe there will be room in the shops at the back."  Ha Ha.  What we noticed was people parking at the Home Depot across the street and running to Walmart.

New Plan:  Drop Bronsynn off nearest the entrance without actually entering the zoo of a parking lot.  Have her run in and scope things out.  Find parking spot and join in.

Ha ha!!!  Parking took a while as it made it's way under the highway and all the way back to the new Riverton Baseball diamonds.  I did find a spot and made it twenty feet from the truck when Bronsynn called at 9:50 and said they started the sale early, it was a mad house, and everything was already gone.

Perfect.  Well that was fun.  I picked her up in the same place (seriously it was C.R.A.Z.Y. there) and she told me how the produce area was literally crammed tight like sardines with people waiting for the deals to open.  She ran through people and ducked and twisted and got back to the DVD's and such and found people swarming it like it was the last morsel of food on earth.  And THEN, she witnessed a man throw his daughter over people into a pile of barbies so that she could nab the one she wanted.

Sometimes I wonder at mankind.

Thanksgiving Festivities

THANKSGIVING:

 the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God.

The thing I look forward to the most is traditions with family.  I love that every year I get together with my female Madsens and spend an entire evening making and baking pies.  I love that my dad's extended family comes over for a huge feast, usually the week before Thanksgiving.  I love that it starts the Christmas season by name drawing.  I love to have laughs at the dinner table and then spend the rest of the night sprawled over the carpet going through Black Friday ads (and then battling the crazies and early a.m. hours for a couple great deals).  

This Thanksgiving was one of the funnest I've had.  It started out with a little pie baking - Asher tagged along and kept me company while I made an Apple Crumble Pie. 

Dallin helped out Grandma by separating pumpkin seeds so my mom could make Pumpkin Pie straight from the pumpkin!!!:

Then we enjoyed the company of all the Madsen's, which is really quite fun and crazy.  I have a blast.  It started off with some paper airplane making with Uncle Paul: 

And Grandma showed these little whipper snappers how to make a real airplane, not one of those fancy schmancy ones from the airplane book :) 

My camera battery unfortunately died and so I don't have any fun pics of the family.

But come Thanksgiving Day, my battery was fully charged and ready for action.  This year was supposed to be our 'Off' year.  However, for several reasons my family ended up being 'on' again, which ended up being great for us since Paul's family had to cancel due to a sick kid.  

So initially my mom and dad were planning on taking Gaven and Amber out shooting...but then Paul and I had no where else to be so we joined in the fun...and then Amanda and Kenny didn't want to be left out so they came along as well!  Almost a full house.

We headed clear the heck out to the boonies to shoot - and the setting was gorgeous and it was a BLAST! (ha ha pun not intended...or maybe it was)

It was a perfect day for Asher to wear his Carhartt gear!  I was so excited to get a picture of him wearing this with my dad since my dad has Carhartt coming out of his ears! Isn't he CUTE??!  (That was a rhetorical question.  The answer is yes, of course). 

We all got a kick out of Gaven's style for the day: 

My high school sweetheart (literally, they were!) parents: 

       

  

Later at dinner - our first Thanksgiving with Asher Pants:

Asher in a Johnny Jump-up for the first time....he'll work at the jumping part :) 

Gaven took over Samantha's back tickling...with a pen.  Morgan was given a 'Tramp Stramp.' 

The boys played in Grandpa's hunting fort: 

And Asher was victim of Dad! 

That was a lot of photos I know...but I was too lazy to collage them. 

Yay!!!  Now to get busy with Christmas!

Lingonberries

I'm so cultural!! Look at me eating Lingonberries! Ha ha.
The book series I'm reading takes place in Sweden and a couple of times it has mentioned Lingonberries. I was at Harmon's yesterday for some fondue supplies and I was pretty stoked to come across this! Gotta love Harmon's! Honestly, it tastes a bit like cranberry sauce - which would explain why I have a hankering to put some on my turkey in a couple weeks!

Took Ya Long Enough

Seriously!! My garden has been ripped out and pretty much everything in my patio died last week with the frost...except this!!! It's November and my dahlia is just now blooming. Boo :( At least now I know where it will do well at for next year!

Frightfully Awesome Halloween!!!

This year I was able to add even MORE to my outdoor haunted graveyard!!!  Can't wait until I have a full on Haunted Attraction!

New this year...my homemade cocoon man (which does need some improvements...I was running short on time):

I love my Tombstone Lifter!!:

The Graveyard:

For our nummy treats I made a Snake calzone - it was pretty good!  I think it's funny that the stuff oozed out and made it look like guts!:

This is my mummy with Spinach dip...It went a little retarded but still was nummy:

And, I had to have the Worm Brain!!  (I also made this AND a Frankenstein brain for Debbie's party - I won scariest treat!!):

....And apparently the werewolf didn't like my treats and was on a strict diet of baby:

Becky and her little monkey!!  Truman is soooo cute!:

And apparently werewolf likes monkey:

I heard this alot:  "What are you??"

The answer to that question is:  Selene, the vampire death dealer from Underworld.  I hunt Werewolves...hence why Paul is a werewolf!  And Asher had to match of course so he is a vampire too - I made him Coven Leader :)

We love our babies!!!

He hates this binkie so I had to hold it there to even get the picture:

And the rest are us having our usual geek-fest photo shoot!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!