Weekend Randoms

Another four day has come and gone! We love the long weekends and soak up as much family time as possible even if its just spent around the house. Here are some highlights from the past few days:

• We tackled some Black Friday shopping. It wasn't as crazy but there were few deals of items we wanted or needed.

• We are now owners of a new MacBook Pro laptop. I guess you could say that was our big Black Friday purchase. Brandon went to the PX early Friday morning and although the laptop itself was not on sale, we saved on the tax by purchasing it on Post. However, the deal was a free Apple TV with the any Apple computer. We have needed a new laptop for a while. Our old Apple was used when we got it and has seen better days. This is our family Christmas present and we love it!

• We are keeping the old MacBook for the kids to use, mainly P. Don't know that we will put it in her room but she can use it to watch Netflix or browse her sites like Disney and such. Maybe down the road (if the old computer is still ticking) it would go in a bonus room.

• The Doggette house is beginning to look like Christmas, ha! Although on the outside it has looked like it for a few weeks but now the inside matches. Friday afternoon we put up our new tree in the living room and decorated it. We had to move a bit of furniture around to give the room better flow but it works for now. The little tree is upstairs on the niche and decorated with some of the kids' ornaments. I should mention Brandon put up our old tree on the porch outside so our house has a total of 3 trees.

• I love Christmas, just love it! Its my favorite holiday and I love this time of year. So excited for all that's in store this next month :)

• The kids both got new stocking this year. Henry needed one and of course to be fair to P she should get one as well. Hobby Lobby had cute ones and they were 50% off. Henry's is blue with a train and P picked out a Disney Princess one. Can't wait to fill them up with goodies on Christmas Eve for them.

• Football Saturday did not bring the same excitement and shake up as last weekend BUT South Carolina played a great game against Clemson! YAY :) They finished up with a 10-2 season with 6-2 in SEC. Looking forward to their bowl game!!

• This weather has been crazy lately. I am not a fan. It was barely a high of 50 on Wednesday and by Saturday back in the 70's. Luckily, rain today will bring in some much cooler temps that are going to stick around. Highs for the week range from mid 40's to low 50's. Definitely more my speed especially considering Thursday marks the first of December.

• I love how Thanksgiving leftovers stretch out for so many days and are still good. I haven't had to really "cook" since Thursday. We've had leftovers, ate out once, and had pizza last night. Yesterday for lunch, Brandon made turkey salad with some of the leftover meat from the turkey we had saved. It was really good, yum!

• We finished our Christmas shopping for the kids this past week as well as all the wrapping. I did a little shopping for Brandon and need to wrap that stuff one day this week while P is at preschool. It feels so nice not to only be mostly done but also to have the majority of it wrapped. Its going to make the few weeks leading up to Christmastime less stressful :)

Hope everyone had a great weekend as well! Brandon reminded me that this week coming up will be a full work week and no more long weekends until Christmas Max Leave starts around the 16th. Maybe we will get lucky and paternity leave will start before then, ha!