New Laptop/Black Friday

I am in the kitchen blogging from my new laptop I acquired from an awesome Black Friday deal last night/this morning, thanks to my awesome sister. (Which is so cool because usually I was at the desktop in the office and now I can be anywhere thanks to wireless internet!)

Well now I am on the couch after making some pico de gallo for my niece that is staying with us for the night. She came down to watch our kids. We went out to a nice dinner and shopping at ToysRUs for a kung fu fighter thing for S. He saw a pic of his daddy with this bop bag thing and wanted to have one just like it, so off we went to find something similar tonight.

Anyway back to Black Friday. I headed up to the Walmart by my sister's house to wait with her. She was planning on getting my niece and nephew a laptop for Christmas. She lined up at 10! I left our house about 10 and went her way to wait with her. Well on my way I pulled over by a cop for speeding!!!! Yikes! But he let me go. What a nice cop. I was super grateful for that. I made it to Walmart by 11. Her and my niece were waiting around for someone to figure out what was going on. This particular Walmart isn't open 24 hours and with the death last year, they were making major changes to the shopping process. We lined up in one spot (first in line!!) and were moved then lined up in another spot only to be moved again later. We were not prepared for waiting outside and got super cold. We did take turns walking around in the store to warm up though so that helped. The grocery store nearby opened up their Starbucks at 3 so we were first there too. After waiting for 7 hours, we were rewarded with 3 laptops. My sis got me one too!! It was a fun experience. Thankfully everyone was in the mood for fun so there wasn't fighting and fussing over stuff. The only major glitch was Walmart tills freezing up when we went to pay for the electronics. I guess it was a nationwide problem. We had cash so it was fine for us but not for people that were paying with credit cards. I was so tired by this point, having been up for about 25 hours at this point. We headed home. I was able to drive most of the way but had to have my niece take over driving about an hour into the drive. I came home and she took care of my 3 babies while I napped - yeah for a wonderful niece :-) Tonight she watched them while we went out to dinner and shopping. We came home to kids with full bellies from her homecooked dinner of ramen noodles and mac-n-cheese, fresh from a bath, watching Snow While while eating popcorn while she was cleaning up the kitchen - WOOHOO!!

L was not happy about the new laptop. She thought it should be for her. I told her to get her mitts off my computer. There are 2 almost brand new computers in the office for the kids.

Now I sit next to my hubby on the couch, with SP in the chair switching our cellphones around and enjoying the new computer. Life is good with much to be thankful for. Not the material things but the fun memories made last night and today!!