Kanyon71

I mean more along the lines of at a house with a bunch of family which is how we’ve always done it.

Oddly enough we have bought very little so far. Been a hectic year I guess lol. I’m sure we will start soon. Bummer part of most of the kids we buy for are all at that age where they just want money or gift cards

We have thought about doing either a TG or Christmas cruise. Now that our daughter is getting into our teens it might be a little easier to do Christmas since we wouldn't have to worry about presents and such. Let me know what you think of it and if it's just weird not being somewhere to celebrate the holiday.

Anyone working on their BF plans yet? Not sure if we will go out much this year, we are having family in town for the week and we have decided this year we want to get our daughter experiences instead of a bunch of gifts that she really won't touch. Going to try and get her tickets to a play (maybe NY and make a trip of it), concert tickets, trip to a huge indoor water park, try to come up with some other things. Then also get her some clothes and maybe some new shoes, makeup or something (miss the days of getting her toys which she sometimes asks for and doesn't play with, I sort of think she asks so that we can enjoy getting them).

I know it's still early to be thinking about plans for the day but does anyone have any yet? We just found out my wife's family is going to come into town where we live for the week so we are already making plans. Plus my sister and her family will probably come over. Figure for dinner we will make: Smoked Turkey Ham Mashed Potatoes Gravy Sweet Potato Casserole Green Beans Rolls Stuffing and Dressing (yes North and South versions lol) Homemade Cranberry Sauce Desserts: Chocolate Pudding Pie, Chess Pie, Pumpkin Pie and possibly an apple pie or cheesecake. We have some plans to take them to some cool places here to see some of the sights.

Nice prize. I wouldn't mind winning it.

Now it's even more real.

Soon the ads will appear…

A new month already. Can’t believe soon we will be in the BF season already.

I'm pretty sure they went bankrupt and all of them have or are going to close. We went in there around the holidays to pick up a bunch of holiday decor.

We added a new member to the household yesterday. Picked up our 7 week old Siberian Husky puppy.

We’re you on Carnival Pride?

I think the weather has been crazy everywhere this year.

We started our first day of August with a broken water main around here. YAY. They got it fixed but we have a boil advisory for the next 24+ hours. Oh well could be worse.

Didn’t you just have a birthday?

I can say it's been a crazy weather month.

Wish they would put prices and not percentage off.

Happy July all.

You sure it won’t be raise by 30% and then have a 20% coupon?

Kind of an odd thing with no brick and mortar stores but I guess the name has more clout.

So all of the stores are going to be gone. This really never seems to work when a brick and mortar is turned into an online only. The company that buys them loads up the site with garbage never sold there before and then it fails also. CompUSA, Circuit City both come to mind where this was tried and failed. Sad to see this store go away also even though due to really high pricing we rarely shopped there any longer.

All is good sod far.

From what I read they aren’t going away just trying to reorganize some debt.

You could always drop out

June is upon us. Can’t believe we are already halfway through the year. Weather has been really nice here lately so that makes me happy.