Nice LONG Weekend

I had a wonderful weekend, full of fun! Friday kicked off the long weekend. We ate out with the usual crowd at Jason's Deli and then went next door to Starbucks. Yum! Thanks Kim and Paul! You're too kind! Then, Jared, me, Pam, Joseph, and Casey went over to Dick's until they closed. Saturday I woke up, but not in time for the Belk's charity sale. That's ok, I needed the rest more than the sale! I did attempt to get to the Galleria in time, but didn't make it, so I shopped other stores instead and hit Starbucks again! Then I headed over to Sam's Club. I am almost done Christmas shopping!!! That evening we went to Meleah's 16th birthday party. It was fun! Then we headed over to the Fiesta at Ben and Rachel's. The fiesta was festive! We had Xander for the evening which always makes things so much more fun! Sunday Pam made lunch, bacon cheeseburger meatloaf, homemade (Paula Dean's recipe) mac-and-cheese, and apple butter pie! She hit the target with this! It was delicious!That evening was Rachel C.'s 18th birthday party. We played board games after the party and had a good time! Today, Veteran's Day, I slept in until 10:15 am! It was nice, but not normal for me. Anyhow, I went shopping with Pam, Mama, and Joseph this afternoon. We had so much fun together! First stop, Starbucks! Then we went over to Sam's Club. That's where the adventure started. Joseph found a kayak and had to have it. He had been wanting one and we found one for a good price. Even better, when we went to check out, it was on sale for $40 less! Whoo-hoo! So, that's most of his Christmas for this year and he couldn't be happier! Well, we were in the Element, so we laid Joseph's seat all the way back and slid that sucker in, and only 2 feet of it stuck out the back of the car! We still wanted to go to Hobby Lobby and we didn't want to have the car opened to the public, so we crammed that sucker all way up into the front dash (it barely fit) and we shut and lockd the door. We went a little overboard with the Halloween/Thanksgiving/Fall/Christmas decoration sales. Well, we got back to the car, slid the kayak back out to where it was hanging out of the back of the car, squeezed Joseph into his backless seat (and he could still buckle his seatbelt!) smooshed Pam in next to Joseph in the backseat and stuffed our loot in around them both and shut the door! We even ran through Chick-fil-A's drive through! We made it home and Joseph has received full feeling back in his side! The only scary part was riding through Ensley with the back of the car opened; however it was still daylight and not really that bad, I only ran one red light! All is well! What a fun day! Now I have to return back to work tomorrow, complete with a full day of work, an afterschool book study (blah!), and Family Literacy Night which will end at 8:00 pm! Yuck!!! On the bright side, only four days of work and then a full week of vacation!