The last few days have been a blast! We had a great Thanksgiving with Lance's family and then some yummy dessert with the Kansas Rushiks... then we were blessed to have a great Aunt and Uncle who offered to watch Javan OVERNIGHT while Lance and I did some black friday shopping.

This was absolutely invigorating for me!

 I know some people can't handle the crowds and whatever... and I will admit when we went into Walmart to see the line go back halfway through the store... we didn't stick around there... but most of the stores were just BUSY not too crazy for me.

Friday was pretty much a "catch up" day. I had planned on going down to Crown Center for the tree lighting but decided everyone (including Javan) was just too tired for that!

We did head down to Crown Center today and went to Union Station's Science City, which we realized we could have used a few more hours to play!!  We were all hungry though so we went to Crown Center, had some dinner and then checked out the tree lighting.... once again, I forgot my camera...Lance did get a pic on his phone... i'll have him upload it next.

OH ... and while we were at Walmart today, we totally lucked out and happened to be there when Santa was there.. It was AWESOME! Javan got to sit on Santa's lap AND we got a FREE 5x7 and a CANDYCANE!   Then, after we did a little shopping we decided to get a family picture with Santa... i mean, WHY NOT... its FREEE!! haha. Of course, it was after Javan had already nearly devoured his candycane...Hence, the blue lips, sticky fingers, and HUGE grin :-)  Those are the kind of pics we like... candid.  haha