It is finally Thanksgiving break and I am so excited. This means that we only have two more weeks in the semester. YAY!
Today Ben and I went to Wal-Mart. We had our cute little shopping of about three items and left with about twenty items. We would have stayed in budget, but Ben suggested getting Christmas lights for the tree. So we went over to the Christmas section and lights just didn't seem justice. We had to get the little round ornaments, then that didn't seem good enough so we had to get the icicles (you know, the really messy ones, otherwise it's no fun). We just had to get a candle. It's my moms rule, if you have a fake tree you have to by a smelly candle to compensate. There wasn't a pine sented candle so we settled for vanilla. We decided that we need a little more than a tree to decorate this year to make up for our lack of decoration last year, so we got window decorations. After all that we realized we didn't even have stockings so then we had to get those. It was so much fun! I wanted to keep going, but we decided we better wait for next paycheck. Oh yeah, we also got a nativity set. I really embarrassed Ben over that one. Ben told me not to post the story on the blog, but it's kind of funny. Ben and I were in the same isle, but at opposite ends of the isle. I was looking at the nativity scenes and I saw this nativity scene with a black wiseman. In all the nativity scenes in my life I have never seen a black wiseman. So I said, "Hey Ben, come look at this nativity scene. There is a black wiseman." Ben was so embarrassed and ashamed of me. He came barreling toward me telling me to keep it down or I'm going to get us beat up and on top of all that he told me I was being racist. In my defense I just have to say that I love people of all shapes, sizes, and colors. I didn't mean anything bad by the wiseman scene, I just haven't ever seen a black wiseman in a nativity set before.
That's about the excitement of this week though. We went to the doctor earlier today. We heard the babies heart beat answered a few questions and that was about it. Ben and I will post pictures next week when we put up the decorations.
