Thanksgiving!

For Thanksgiving this year we made some fun plans with the Fousts. Last year when we were at their house for Thanksgiving we started talking about how it would be so fun to go to the Macy's Day Parade. And after a whole year of talking, we actually made it! They spent the couple days before doing things in New York City and we met them at the home where they were staying on Wednesday night. (A VERY nice older lady let us all crash at her house, which definitely beat the alternative of leaving State College at 2 in the morning on Thanksgiving day!) We stayed up way to late talking with the Foust's (I love them!) and got up around 5:30 to get ready and go wait for the parade. We took the bus to the subway and the subway to downtown and found a spot about 10 blocks from the beginning of the parade. Cooper was able to go with Courtney, Carson, Cameron, and big Cooper in front of a tree where he could see everything. He enthusiastically clapped for the giant basketball balloons and the parade kept his attention for most of the time. It was really cool to see how big things really were and it's always fun to be right in the middle of the fun. Sadie slept in the stroller for a lot of the parade, which was awesome, and both Cooper and Sadie crashed as soon as we left the parade. After the parade we went to K. O. Schwartz, a gigantic toy store, where Coop wasn't any too sure about a keyboard that you walked on to play. He did like the dress up tunnel though. Think we should be worried? After a long day in New York, where we couldn't even find a paper with the ads, we all headed back to State College to check out the ads, plan a shopping route, and set alarms for 3 1/2 hours later. When I tried to wake Spence up for Black Friday shopping, I realized just how out of it he was and let him choose to stay home (twice, and he doesn't remember a thing). Kaylene, Courtney, and I had fun shopping and got all our good deals! It was so easy it almost felt anticlimactic this year. Much better that way!