Black Friday! :)

Hello fellow bloggers. :)

I have decided to tell you about yesterday, my very first serious Black Friday. :D

It started on Thanksgiving night around 10 o clock when my darling friend Justine came over. We stayed up all night chatting about random things and constantly checking the clock awaiting 3am when we would venture out into the world of insane shopping. (oh wait. I forgot to mention, while Justine was strong enough to stay awake all night, i was weak and ended up getting an hour and a halfs worth of Zs.)

Finally, around 4am, we left the house destined towards my personal favorite store, Target. :)
the roads were much clearer than I figured they would be. This could mean 1 of 2 things- Either everyone was already shopping, most people had already gone home, or they werent out driving around yet. Turns out it was the first option- everyone was already in lines outside of stores. Justine, my mom, and I ended up around the 300th people in line. Fortunately, most everyone in front of us made the HUGE mistake of attacking the store with a trusty red cart. We were smarted than that. :) Dodging people merchandise and seemingly thousands of carts we quickly ran to the back of the store where electronics were being sold. It was too easy really. within moments we had all 10 things that we went in for and were waiting in the checkout line laughing at the packed isles of people in red cart traffic shoving their way towards the now devowered electronics section. High five Mom and Justine. :)

After mom so kindly hooked us up with some french toast sticks from Burger King, we went to several other stores including Old Navy where I bought some very comfy pajama pants and a hat, Berean where we got some free pens, and Cost Plus world market where mom shopped while me and justine dosed off on a very comfortable couch. :)
After this, we headed to the malla nd into forever21, we just wanted to look around,we were mostly out of money anyway. Then one of the ladies standing by the front entrance informed us that if we were interested, we could enter in a drawing to win a forever21 $100 gift card. Why not? Of course we entered. The suprising part is that Justine actually won! :D it was so exciting! Justine tried on somewhere around 20 outfits and ended up getting somewhere around 10 along with some boots and tights. It was legit lemme tell ya.
after that we met up with my mom again (she had been in the Disney Store looking for a few things) and we ate a bit of lunch, concluding the shopping portion of the day around noon.

But wait, theres more. :)

After Justine went home and me getting another half hour of shuteye, the family headed off to meet up with some fabulous old friends for a photoshoot and family night. :)
The shoot went well, hopefully they like the pictures. :D
after the shoot we went to their house for some Barros pizza and a little quality friend time. I have never had Barros before and just so y'all know, its fantastic. After setting the younger ones up with a movie upstairs we decided to have a mini-Office-marathon. :D It was great. I love them :)

annnnnnd that was pretty much the conclusion to my black friday.
It was a GREAT DAY! :) :) :)

much love, alyssa. :)

SHOPPING!

Hey! i forgot to put in the last post that i am so so so so excited about Black Friday tomorrow. :) we are most likely pulling an all nighter and leaving the house around 3ish. :D

WOOOPPP!!

with love, Alyssa. :)

Thanksgiving. :)

Hey bloggers! happy stinking Thanksgiving!

Today has been a fabulous day. :) It started pretty early- around 7:30ish.. We had Thanksgiving at our house this year so we had some last minute cleaning to do- especiallt dishes (my job:/ ) haha. :) and then we were off to cooking. :)

Family started arriving around 9 to eat breakfast- Muffins and juice. :)

Lunch was planned for 2 o clock but ended up starting around 330- the turkey took a wee bit longer than expected. :) There was waaaay enough food. More than we needed actually but thats always nice for leftovers. We had so many different things that we made- from the turkey to mexican corn pudding to my grandmas famous cranberry sauce and my aunt and uncles annual lil smokeys. Needless to say i was very impressed. :) :)

Family time was great. :) i havent seen my aunt uncles and cousins much over the past couple months so it was really nice to hve them over for the past few days. :)

We got some fun pictures too. :D

Hope you had a great day with your family aswell!

with much love, Alyssa. :)

I am going to see New Moon tonight!!!! WOOOHOO!

sorry i havent kept this up. I am a failure to blogspot.com. haha i will try to start it up again though. Ive just been crazy busy over the last few weeks. I am very happy to say that i have been blessed with a couple families that have been willing to be my guinea pigs with my photography thing. Its been SO MUCH FUN! and i am starting to build up my portfolio so that eventually i will be able to start my own website and little business thing a ma bob. ;) Needless to say, i am extremely ecstatic. :)

ill be sure to post some pictures soon and hopefully posy a link to a photo site to call my own! WOOP!

<3 Alyssa.

PS! Kylee Cosgrove. I love and miss you. Since your probably the only one going to read this just wanted to say thanks. and i love you. :)