Preparing for Christmas

We started our Christmas preparations just shortly after our Thanksgiving dinner. Wayne wanted to try the Black Friday Smithfield adventure this year. So Jackson went to Wayne's parents for Thursday night and ventured to our destination with my dad and step-mom around 10:30pm. We thought that everything opened at 12:01 am but when we arrived, there were several stores already open. Our main mission was to Nautica and that was the only place we really got any "deals". After that we just walked the center. Apparently Yankee candle was giving candles away because there was a long line to get in the store and people were walking away with cases of candles. I will say that we quickly realized that we probably won't do this again. There was just too many people and I didn't get any deals worth going out for in the middle of the night. There were also too many people just "hanging out". We got home around 4:15 and went right to bed. We got up around 1pm and went into town to do a little more shopping. We seemed to get better deals at home than we did in the middle of the night. Hmm...

Saturday was the day to put up the Christmas tree. We were able to add some new ornaments to the tree this year.

Of course, I have not added the pictures needed for these ornaments yet. I plan to do that this week. I was very excited about Hallmark's Baby's First Christmas ornament this year. We used jungle animals for Jackson's nursery and the ornament was just so fitting.

I was also able to purchase these cute ornaments at the Carolina Pottery Friday morning. So fitting for our "House Divided"!