Black Friday Shopping

We had a fantastic Thanksgiving celebrating with my family.  My aunt and uncle hosted it this year, and they live a mere two miles up the road from us, which is very convenient.  For the occasion, Madeline wore one of my old dresses that my mom had saved...

Ever since Mathew and I met seven years ago, we have always gone shopping on Black Friday.  We scower the ads on Thanksgiving Day and develop our game plan for the following morning.  This year, we put together a game plan, but we went to bed with the intention of playing the morning by ear.  If we had a long night with Miss Madeline, we were not going to worry about getting up to go shopping.  Well, a little after 5 AM on Friday, we had a bright eyed little girl who was ready to get up and go...

 

She had on some soft and fuzzy footed pj's, so we threw her sock monkey hat on her, grabbed the Baby Bjorn, and headed out in search of some bargains!

A few weeks ago, we were at Old Navy to get some KU apparel that Mat and I had been wanting.  We ended up with a Christmas dress and sweater for Maddie as well as the sock monkey hat for her....

I was a bit apprehensive about buying the hat since it wasn't on sale, and I don't think I've ever paid full price for anything in my life.  However, her daddy insisted on his little girl having it (can you say spoiled?)  Maddie wears that hat all the time now, and we get more compliments on it from random people than I can believe.  When we were shopping on Friday morning, we had people walking by stop to comment on how adorable that hat is on her, and everyone we stood by in line loved it as well.  I guess it was a good purchase, and it keeps her head toasty warm.

Our first stop of the morning was Dick's Sporting Goods where we can across this...

A sock monkey with a KU hoodie.  Of course, Maddie HAD to have it (according to her daddy).

Later that morning, we were at JC Penney's, and we came across this...

Maddie was too intrigued by it to let me get a good picture, so here's a close-up...

 

That's right, it's a sock monkey ornament that says "Madeline".  Obviously, our little Madeline absolutely had to have it :)

After making stops at the four stores we wanted to, we met our friend Trish at Panera for breakfast before heading home...

Our tradition of Black Friday shopping continued for another year!