Black Friday

edited to add: I figured out how to make my pictures "clickable" so you can click on them and see them closeup. Turns out that when I clicked and dragged them where I wanted them, I lost some of the html code enabling them to be "clickable." Now I just left them where they end up, and typed around them. Yo can click on all of them, except the last one. I accidentally deleted the special "clickable" html code when I dragged it to it's spot. Enjoy!

It's Black Friday today. Who braved the shopping malls? Not me! I worked several years in retail and decided that I would never shop on Black Friday unless absolutely necessary. So, we've just been hanging around the house, doing laundry, stuff like that. Yesterday was a good day. We didn't go anywhere, just stayed home and enjoyed each other's company. Made a modest Thanksgiving dinner, and watched a silly movie. It was a happy/sad day. We had originally planned on being in San Diego visiting family in the morning, then flying to Arkansas to visit family in the evening, but those plans fell through when our orders didn't get cut in time. We were happy to be together, but we were missing our family that we didn't get to be with. I really hope and pray that our orders get us to Italy for Christmas, because I know it will be a difficult day to get through if we're still here and my husband is still in Korea. But enough about that! Yesterday I got a chance to be a little crafty. My oldest son and I made Christmas lists! Andrew made his own list, and I made lists for Ashton and Angel.

Above is Ashton's list. I stamped and then colored Santa from Doodlefactory's Sweete Shoppe stamp set. Then I cut him out and glued him onto the list. I printed the lists out from my computer on Very Vanilla card stock and Real Red Card stock.

I cut the title off the red cs and put it on the vanilla cs. Then I stamped the images around the border of the lists. Andrew colored the Santa on Angel's list. Then Andrew made his own list.

He wanted to have a little section on his list for his "most wanted" presents. He colored the Santa, then glued it onto two circles that I cut out. He also decorated his list with Gio (the gingerbread man) and an ornament from Kim Hughes' set that I paper pieced.

We had a good time making these lists, and they didn't take long at all. The boys have already started filling them in with the toys they want. Notice the gift on Andrew's list? He wants a VERY expensive iPod! lol.

Well, on another subject, Wednesday was Einstein's last day with us. The poor little guy had a bad liver, and it slowly took his life away. He was just 6 months old, but he was suffering. My Mom took him to be put to sleep on Wednesday afternoon. We all miss him, but he was in so much pain, that now he is much better off. Here is a picture of him playing with Angel:

He had a great life, and we are all happy that we knew him.

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