Black Friday!

Since I have never been to the crazy Black Friday sales, I thought this was the perfect time. I was in the market for a new digital camera and there were many onsale. We went to Walmart on Thanksgiving to look at a couple to see which one I liked best. I found the perfect camera, then we went back home to see who had it on sale.

While driving home, we decided to go look at Best Buy to see if anyone was in line yet. Low and behold, there were! At about 1:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day there were about 20 people in line! Crazy!

After many hours of persusing the the sales. We went to bed. At 5:00 we got up early to go to some stores. The stores weren't nearly as crowded as I thought they would be.... but we didn't go to Best Buy or Walmart early though... I got a couple of sweaters at Old Navy, oh yea, and the shiny new digital camera!! And Joe and Patti (John's parents gave us money for the camera to be an early Christmas gift, woo hoo!! Thanks Joe and Patti!)

Here is the very first picture from the new camera... don't pay attention to my grossness, it was way to early to shower when we left the house to go shopping.

Fun at the Garden

For Thanksgiving, John and I went down to Louisiana to spend some time with his extended family. On Friday evening we decided to go out to the garden. The garden is where John's grandmother grew up and where they started to raise their family. Their house has since burned down, but the land is still full of memories for his entire family.
If you look closely at the tree, you can see bullet holes. This was the "target" tree they used when they shot guns with their Grandpa.

There are "grape vines" that grow from many of the trees. They pull/cut the vines down and make wreaths with them. (That's why John has the machette in his hand.)Since don't have a wreath from the garden, this was the perfect reason to make one.

John had all the hard jobs, some of the vines were stuck in the tree pretty good.

On the way back to Grandma Weaver's house we stopped at a Christmas Tree farm to get her a tree... but they all had flimsy branches so we went home with just this cute picture.