First Thanksgiving

Kevin and I spent out first Thanksgiving together as a married couple and it was pretty great. My parents and little sister drove up from California and we spent Thanksgiving Day with my Dad’s side of the family. Dinner was good and pretty uneventful until my older cousin Zack threw a wadded up piece of roll and it hit my younger sister Heidi right in the eye. Her eye was pretty swollen after that and I think it still hurts.

It was so strange to have Black Friday start the night before. We attempted to go to Toys R’Us at 10 pm, but the line was at least 2 hours long outside, so we made our way to Walmart and wondered around figuring out what items we were going to stake out for the next couple of hours. Our group consisted of my parents, Aunt Judy, my three sisters and my little brother. We paired off and it was a lot of fun. I ended up just buying a bunch of stuff for Kevin and me. The most exciting purchase: a Sonicare toothbrush. Exciting, I know. The movie section was like a mosh pit, so I sent my little brother in for the movies we needed and he had a blast. I attempted to brave the crowd for a couple minutes, but I was nearly trampled, so I retreated and let my brother do the work. The store was so disorganized and we waited in line for over 2 hours, but finally finished around 2:30 am. I was glad to have it over with and get some sleep.

I loving having all kinds of firsts as a semi newly married couple. We put up our tree this weekend and it was kind of surreal. We bought a 7.5 artificial tree, and it is way bigger than I thought it was going to be. Our place isn’t that big and it just seems huge in our tiny living room. I think my favorite part of the whole ordeal was when Kevin opened the tree box and was shocked and very frustrated to find that we had to assemble the tree branch by branch. His family didn’t have an artificial tree when he was growing up, so it was a new and not so exciting experience for him. I found it quite entertaining.

Between the two of us, we had plenty of ornaments to cover the tree. I inherited (in other words “took” ) a bunch of ornaments from my grandparents since they have both passed away. Most of them are duplicates of the ornaments they sent to us growing up, so they bring back a lot of memories. For some reason I really love Christmas ornaments and tend to buy them throughout the year. We even bought a couple on our Honeymoon in Cancun. I just love to have memories of those special trips and events in my life. I really wish I had taken pictures of us decorating our first tree together. Maybe we will have to reenact it tonight for a photo op.