So the morning after Thanksgiving Chantz and I got up VERY early and went shopping during Black Friday. This was the first year we have done this together. I used to go with my parents when I was younger and LOVED it, but haven't been in years. When we were looking at the adds on Thanksgiving we found the camera that I had been wanting and so we decided that we would go and get it while it was on sale.
Best Buy and Ritz both had it and even though it was cheaper at Best Buy I didn't want to wait in those long crazy lines there so we hit Ritz instead. We were actually surprised it didn't take us that long to get it at Ritz there were only like two other people in the store. We stopped at JCPennys on the way out and got two one pound down pillows that have improved our sleeping ALOT so far and then we went to Toys R Us to see what they had out. Let me tell you that place was pretty funny!!! We just got a couple of things but people were knocking things over everywhere and running and scrambling through the aisles like it was a life or death matter. We only had to wait about 15 minutes in line and I got to look around while Chantz waited so it wasn't really bad at all. We were right near Target after that and chantz said why don't we just go in there to laugh at everyone. Well let me tell you this store was CRAZY!!! The line just to check out was over a 4 HOUR WAIT!!! Are people insane?? I mean I could never wait that long in line to check out with my things I don't care how much money I was saving. And that was just to check out in the entertainment area to check out in the normal lines was even longer. The line wrapped around the whole entire store TWICE with going in and out of aisles. We thought it was just hilarious to watch all of these people act so silly. We went to eat a good breakfast at Dennys which was very nice to take a break from all the shopping. Then we went home and I started putting up the Thanksgiving decorations while Chantz got ready for the Renissance. Gigi and Dalton arrive shortly after and we were on our way!!!
We thought it was going to be fairly empty because of all the shopping going on for Black Friday. We were terribly wrong. I guess because everyone had their family in town for Thanksgiving they took all of them to the Renissance the next day!!! It was packed!!!
I love this picture because I have one of the two of them in front of the same thing last year.
Dalton was so tiny back then!!!
And this year he's my big boy!!!
He was playing around and got to throw a penny into the water to make a wish.
I think he wanted the penny back though after he threw it:)
And then he saw the merry go round and he was going on it whether we wanted him to or not!!!
GiGi and Dalton had such a fun time on the merry go round.
He waved every time he would pass by Mommy and Daddy.
Dalton got to experience his first Pony Ride while we were here. I know there's a lot of pictures but it was his first ride and I just had to get a ton for memories:)
He looked so graceful riding that pony!!!;)
He was so excited when they first started moving. I think it reminded him of how he rides Aggie hahaha. Only Aggie goes WAY faster than they do.
He did NOT want to get off when the ride was over. GiGi was trying so hard to make it seem like ok it's fun to get off the horse haha. He probably would've rode that pony all day if we let him.
We had a great time walking around and EATING!!! I just love the food there. We got a sausage on a stick, a hamburger, steak on a stick, funnel cakes, pretzels, and a chocolate covered banana.
Dalton had a great time running around he just kept thinking that we were playing "chase" with him so we got our work outs:):)
And of course Dalton loves when we go to the store that has all of the wind chimes.
There was one that the pipes were bigger than Chantz and it was 1600.00. Whoa that's a lot of money for a windchime!!!
This year we were actually able to sit down and watch the full show of the Jousting.
We were cheering for the red and blue knight!!
GiGi bought Dalton a sword and a shield. Now he is really a knight!!!
We just hope that he doesn't hit us with that thing because it is made solid out of wood. That would hurt!!!
Our little man slept the whole way home he was so pooped from the adventureous day he had.
When we got home we started the Christmas decorations!!! We only got as far as pulling the bins down though so we decorated all of it on Saturday. We got both of our trees up and decorated the mantle is done and our village is out. The only thing we're still working on is the entertainment center. This was our first year with two trees and I absolutely LOVE them both. Here is just a taste of the tree in our dining room.
And this is just adorable. Dalton LOVED the trees. When we lit it all up he ran over and said "I ove eit" so he LOVES our tree;) He thought it was a fort at first and was trying to lay under it with me while I was trying to set up our santa ski slope. We decided that we just wouldn't do it this year because we know Aggie would chew it and Dalton would take the cars off of the slope and they would all probably be missing. So that won't be brought out until next year. I just love it because I played with one when I was younger and I went and bought one last year because I want my kids to share that fun that I had. It was very hard to find because they stopped making them like 10 years ago but I finally found one after looking long and hard!!!:):):)
This is a picture of one of the balls that Dalton was trying to put on the tree. This is the tree in our living room and he was trying to help decorate it and when I would give him a ball ornament he would just lay it inside of the tree:):)
Aggie has been WONDERFUL with the trees luckily but I don't want to jinx myself by saying that. He has chewed one of the presents though so we had to go buy another one. It was unwrapped though so I can understand a little...or maybe I'm just being super forgiving because it's Christmas time:):)
We went to Garden Ridge and Lowes on Saturday and bought all the stuff we needed to decorate the house. We're almost finished and when we are I'll take a picture of the whole thing to show you. Lets just say our house looks like one big candy cane!!!:) Chantz did an AWESOME job with the lights he got all the way on the second story which is very steep and I can honestly say it looks like a professional job!!!! Thanks for all your hard work babe, you did a wonderful job:)
We thought it was going to be fairly empty because of all the shopping going on for Black Friday. We were terribly wrong. I guess because everyone had their family in town for Thanksgiving they took all of them to the Renissance the next day!!! It was packed!!!
I love this picture because I have one of the two of them in front of the same thing last year.
And this year he's my big boy!!!
He was playing around and got to throw a penny into the water to make a wish.
I think he wanted the penny back though after he threw it:)
And then he saw the merry go round and he was going on it whether we wanted him to or not!!!
GiGi and Dalton had such a fun time on the merry go round.
He waved every time he would pass by Mommy and Daddy.
He looked so graceful riding that pony!!!;)
He was so excited when they first started moving. I think it reminded him of how he rides Aggie hahaha. Only Aggie goes WAY faster than they do.
He did NOT want to get off when the ride was over. GiGi was trying so hard to make it seem like ok it's fun to get off the horse haha. He probably would've rode that pony all day if we let him.
We had a great time walking around and EATING!!! I just love the food there. We got a sausage on a stick, a hamburger, steak on a stick, funnel cakes, pretzels, and a chocolate covered banana. 
Dalton had a great time running around he just kept thinking that we were playing "chase" with him so we got our work outs:):)
And of course Dalton loves when we go to the store that has all of the wind chimes.
There was one that the pipes were bigger than Chantz and it was 1600.00. Whoa that's a lot of money for a windchime!!!
This year we were actually able to sit down and watch the full show of the Jousting. 
GiGi bought Dalton a sword and a shield. Now he is really a knight!!!
We just hope that he doesn't hit us with that thing because it is made solid out of wood. That would hurt!!!
When we got home we started the Christmas decorations!!! We only got as far as pulling the bins down though so we decorated all of it on Saturday. We got both of our trees up and decorated the mantle is done and our village is out. The only thing we're still working on is the entertainment center. This was our first year with two trees and I absolutely LOVE them both. Here is just a taste of the tree in our dining room. 
And this is just adorable. Dalton LOVED the trees. When we lit it all up he ran over and said "I ove eit" so he LOVES our tree;) He thought it was a fort at first and was trying to lay under it with me while I was trying to set up our santa ski slope. We decided that we just wouldn't do it this year because we know Aggie would chew it and Dalton would take the cars off of the slope and they would all probably be missing. So that won't be brought out until next year. I just love it because I played with one when I was younger and I went and bought one last year because I want my kids to share that fun that I had. It was very hard to find because they stopped making them like 10 years ago but I finally found one after looking long and hard!!!:):):)
This is a picture of one of the balls that Dalton was trying to put on the tree. This is the tree in our living room and he was trying to help decorate it and when I would give him a ball ornament he would just lay it inside of the tree:):)
Aggie has been WONDERFUL with the trees luckily but I don't want to jinx myself by saying that. He has chewed one of the presents though so we had to go buy another one. It was unwrapped though so I can understand a little...or maybe I'm just being super forgiving because it's Christmas time:):) 
We went to Garden Ridge and Lowes on Saturday and bought all the stuff we needed to decorate the house. We're almost finished and when we are I'll take a picture of the whole thing to show you. Lets just say our house looks like one big candy cane!!!:) Chantz did an AWESOME job with the lights he got all the way on the second story which is very steep and I can honestly say it looks like a professional job!!!! Thanks for all your hard work babe, you did a wonderful job:)
