My (super big) black friday

So....hopefully you didnt tune in for black friday shopping tips.  Yikes.  To be honest, I usually do 99% of my shopping online, using ebates, found coupon codes from fatwallet.com and the like, and a bit of dumb luck.  I did most of my shopping pre Thanksgiving and had a really lovely Norman Rockwell wanna puke Turkey day - full ofrelatives, yummy food, laughter, and off color jokes (oh c'mon, it cant all be brady bunch).  Then my cousin (god I love that girl) decided we needed to go pre black friday shopping, so I did get to enjoy the merrimant of a zillion silly people waiting for the latest x box and dollar dvds....but since it was with my girl, it was all worth it :-P

Lovin' with Great Uncle Alan

I moonlight as a flight photographer....

Day after Thanksgiving...its all good.  Ate leftover turkey, cut down the tree....

 Bought a house.  Wait, WHAT??  Yep, you got it.  While most people were dropping 3 (or 4!) figures on flat screen TVs, Greg and I heard back on a house we put an offer in on on a whim.  6 figures later....its ours :-P  Its a 5 bedroom 2 bath home in Fairport, right on the canal and less than half a mile from our old townhouse.  I guess things do come full circle.  So, of course, less than 3 days later, with a moving truck full of stuff parked in my moms garage and all of the half finished projects now finished (figures).  7 trips to Lowes, one meltdown (it was me, I own it), this happened:

Of course, it's with mixed feelings we put the house up for sale.  We moved in here 3 months after we got married.  I found out I was pregnant in this house, we brought home Rob to this home, and my little kitty has a spot in the backyard.  We have friends here.  But Fairport....seems like the place we need to be.  And so, with the right offer and a hope that the sellers in Fairport don't get a better offer (always a risk!)  this is my life right now.  A perfectly clean house, a life box, and 2 bengal cats, a toddler, and a partridge in a pear tree all ready to leap up for a showing.  We had our first open house on Sunday (house went live Wednesday) and had a favorable response so....we shall see!  Never a dull moment, is there?