Christmas Shopping! :) Treasures! :) Santa Claus visits our neighborhood! :)

MEGA CHRISTMAS SHOPPING WILD!!! :) oh my!!! :) oh boy!!! :) DASHING THROUGH THE STORES!!! and COMING HOME WITH A FULL SLEIGH OF GIFTS!!! :) whooooo!!! :) WOW! WOW! WOW!!! :) we went absolutely sweet shopping wild!!! at the stores today! :) oh my! :) Whew!!! What a time we had!!! :) we shopped here, we shopped there! we went up aisles and aisles! :) We had our cart saddled up like a Santa's Sleigh! :) HO HO HO!!! :) CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!! :) SANTA CLAUS VISITED OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TODAY TOO!!! :) awww! :) The kids love it!!! :) our local fire department drives Santa around, and he was in our neighborhood today! :) awww! :) i took a picture to share! :) oh my! :) We had such a wild fun, and exciting time shopping today! :) we absolutely rocked it!!! with our Christmas shopping! :) WOW! :) i finished all of my Christmas shopping! :) i was in the shopping zone! :) i bought lots and lots of nice gifts, gift bags, got some nice candles, coffee, oh my! :) i bought gifts for the gifts, i was having a JOLLY GOOD TIME shopping for gifts :) i am so very tickled happy, excited, and thrilled! :) i am super hyped up!!! :) the shopping experiences went great! :) We bought pointsetta flowers for my grandma :) We're going over the river and through the woods, to Grandma's house we go!!!! tomorrow!!! :) Christmas party at Grandma's!!!! :) We're so happy and excited! :) We gonna see her tree, plus putting presents under her tree :) we having foods, snacks, drinks :) i'll give my grandma a nice hug for everyone :) it's gonna be so nice :) we celebrated our shopping accomplishments today, by getting some nice treats at dunkin donuts :) blueberry iced coffee CHEERS!!! :) we sure did rock it today!!! :) i'm all set, and ready to put together, Christmas gift bags :) i went all out!!! :) i got lots and lots of sweet gifts, treats :) i am so very happy and thrilled about giving the gift bags to my family on Christmas :) i've been texting with friends :) i did really well at the stores today, i kept cool, calm, relaxed, and focused :) i even bought a few hotwheels cars for our dear friend Holly and i : )We're watching the classic Christmas movie tonight, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation :) holiday movie night!!! :) Wooot! :) it was so nice, of Santa Claus to be driving all around our neighborhood today! :) Christmas time is here :) there's lots of great things going on, and many very special memories being made :) my famly and i are so very happy, and delighted that everyone enjoyed our baking friday adventure :) awww! :) that warms our hearts :) HAPPY HOLIDAYS SMILES, AND MERRY CHRISTMAS WISHES :) We're so happy! :) Going to Grandma's tomorrow!!! :) The Christmas party is on! :) Whooo!!! :)
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING WILD!!! :) oh my! :) this was SUPER MEGA SWEET AWESOME!!! :) my family and i hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful day! :) i've been thinking of you all often today :) When we arrived home from our sweet shopping adventures, we heard the fire truck in our neighborhood!!! we looked out our front door, and THERE WAS SANTA CLAUS!!! :) awww! :) our local fire department, East Great Plains, has a very special festivity for everyone each year :) they drive Santa Claus all around our city, and neighborhoods, and everyone gets to wave to Santa :) it's a really sweet tradition :) The kids love it!!! :) this day is rocking, and jingle bell rolling! :) WOW! :) We sure did have a big shopping adventure today! :) Shopping for Christmas gifts, enjoying the festive spirit, of holiday shopping :) i am so very happy, and excited!!! :) i'm all set, and ready to put together christmas gifts, goodies, and treasures gift bags, for my family, for Christmas :) HO HO HO!!! :) CHRIST KRINGLE IS READY TO BRING CHRISTMAS JOY!!! :) awww! :) sweet classic, and golden day 21, of the Christmas season!!! :) 4 days until Christmas!!! :)
CHRISTMAS SMILES!!!! :) awww! :) i am smiling and smiling! :) i came home today, with 6 bags full of sweet Christmas gifts, goodies, and treasures, for my family :) i am so happy! :) This was one of the biggest shopping adventures i've ever had! :) hehe! :) i set my goal, to finish my Christmas shopping today, and i got all of the gifts i wanted to buy, plus, i got more gifts too! :) wow! :) This is a spirit soaring day! :)my family and i hope everyone is enjoying the wonderful festivities, of gearing up for Christmas holiday :) it's such a sweet time in the season :) lots of holiday shopping, wrapping presents, listening to Christmas music, watching movies, and lots more :) gearing up, for the christmas holiday :)
i knew going into the day today, we'd be having a big shopping day :) i've been looking forward to going shopping :) i made a list! i checked it twice! oh my Christmas shopping today, was AWESOMELY NICE! :) SANTA CLAUS IS COMING, TO TOWN!!! :)awww! :) my family and i want to take this time, to thank you all so very much, for all of your wonderfully heart warming comments on our baking friday journal, and pictures :) We're so very happy, and delighted that everyone enjoyed our adventure :) We had lots of fun, joining our dear friend Dezna for a nice christmas tree and rudolph the red nosed reindeer themed baking friday adventure :) We love sharing our adventures with everyone :) it warms our hearts, and makes us smile :) We're having a new years eve countdown themed baking friday next week, and then beginning a whole new year, of super fun baking friday's :) There's lots to look forward too :)
This morning, we were gearing up, for our day of super sweet christmas shopping fun :) i enjoyed a nice nature walk, i love to put goodies around our yard, for our nature animal friends :) i also enjoyed some nice time here on ds, writing to friends :) Kayla and Taylynn went out to visit with Taylynn's dad's parents around mid-morning :) my mom, dad, Alyssa, and i were gearing up to go shopping :) We love going out to holiday shop. :) it was still very early, shortly before, 11am, and we were all set, and ready to rock and roll, and to SADDLE UP OUR SLEIGH, and JINGLE BELL our way to the stores! :)HO HO HO! :) Christmas shopping time! :) We began our super fun adventure! :) We enjoyed a nice car ride over to Domino's pizza :) my dad picked up his check, and we went to the bank :) i felt very relaxed, focused, i knew exactly what i wanted to buy at the stores, and was focusing in on accomplishing all of my shopping goals :) we were talking about shopping :)
We drove over to the dollar store, the stores are very busy today, but the dollar store was surprisingly, not that busy :) We got a shopping cart, and a shopping basket:) we began to shop and shop! :) this was awesome! :) my mom showed me these nice festive christmas themed gift bags, 2 for $1 :)SWEET!!! :) i bought 18 of the bags! :) i was pumped up, and ready to buy some gifts! :) i bought some more christmas mugs, some nice toys for the kids, some arts and crafts for Kayla and Taylynn :) they love arts and crafts :) i bought some of my dad's favorite candies :) my mom and dad were buying some nice gifts too :) i had almost filled my shopping basket! :) hehe! :) i was so happy to be finding lots of nice gifts :) i bought a red cardinal decorative for my dad, the cardinal sings :) So cool! :) i also bought a box of chocolate covered cheeries, for my dad, and some nice hard candies too :) he loves those hard candies :)
The shopping experience was going great! :) i was in the zone! :) it was so nice! :) the store wasn't busy :) We were shopping around, we went up the foods and snacks aisles, and my mom found some more nice gifts, including some mittens and hats for the kids :) We finished up shopping, and went to the checkout :) it was really nice, smooth, and went so well :) i spent $28 at the dollar store :) SUPER!!! :) i was so excited, 4 bag fulls of nice gifts, goodies, and treasures :) This was so nice! :) we put our stuff into our minivan :) i felt an amazing sense of joy, excitement, and accomplishment :) We did really well at the dollar store :) We then saddled up our Christmas sleigh, and made our way to walmart! :)
We drove to our local walmart :) there were some gifts i wanted to buy there, plus i wanted to look at the collectible hotwheels cars :) We arrived at walmart, and found a nice parking space close to the store :) We walked over to the store, and walked in :) we saw lots of pointsetta flowers, Christmas candies :) We bought some pointsetta flowers for my grandma :) She's gonna be so excited! :) We looked at the men's clothes, and then walked over to the dvds, electronics area :) we were looking at the movies, and then went to look at the candles :) i bought some candle wax cubes for my mom, for her potpouri pot, and i also bought a candle for my sister Jenn :) We were browsing around the store, it was a bit busy in some areas of the store, but overall, it was really smooth :)
We looked at the hotwheels, i found 5 hotwheels, including some cool ones i wanted to get for our dear friend Holly. :) i even bought one for myself too :) the scooby doo mystery van :) looks cool! :) We were enjoying shopping ,my dad and i were digging in the hotwheels bin, i was finding some of the hotwheels in the middle of the bin :) we then walked over to the cats/dogs food aisles, and the Christmas center where the gardening center usually is :) we were looking at some gifts, and then met up with my niece Alyssa, in the foods aisles :) i bought, 2 bags of coffee, for my brother's and their girlfriend's, plus, i bought 2 boxes of coffee for my sister Lisa, some fruit slices jellies to put in my grandma's gift bag :) this was great! :) i had completed my Christmas shopping :) We went over to the checkouts, and checked out :) it went really well :) i was texting with friends today while shopping :)
my niece Alyssa went over to the dunkin donuts that's in walmart, and picked up some drinks for us :) my dad treated us :) so nice and very generous of him :) at walmart, i used my $25 walmart gift card i earned online, it came in very handy, for the shopping adventure :) i am so happy and excited!!! :) i finished my Christmas shopping, and now can put the gift bags together :) We put all of our stuff into our minivan, and began our journey home :) When we arrived home, shortly lately, is when Santa Claus visited our neighborhood :) Super cool, and festive! :) it was awesome shopping today, wow! :) We got some really nice items, i am so very much, looking forward to putting together Christmas gift bags for my family :) it's gonna be a very sweet, and festive time :) i've been enjoying my blueberry iced coffee, CHEERS!!! to family, friends, and to the holidays! :) Spirited times, and many very special memories being made :) it was so nice shopping today :) i love all of the nice gifts and items i bought at the stores :) i took some pictures of the nice items i bought today :) my family and i would love to take this time, to share with you all, about some wonderfully heart warming, and very special Christmas gifts, and treasures we recieved :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS WISHES, SENT WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF LOVE, AND CHRISTMAS SMILES, FROM UTAH! :) awww! :) this is very sweet, lovely, and wonderful :) my family and i have some new friends, here on ds, from Utah :) our dear friends, Donna (Idonna), and her family :) we recently become friends, this past summer season :) it's a pure joy, making friends, and getting to know eachother :) Recently, Donna and i exchanged addresses :) She and her family wanted to send my family and i some nice christmas gifts :) awww! :) it's so very heart-felt, and we feel the wonderful love, each and every day :) Your friendships bring us very special joy :) Donna, and her husband, and their family sent us, a wonderful Merry Christmas card :) on the front of the card, there's a lovely Christmas scene, with a christmas village, sleigh-rides, and winter wonderland :) Inside the card, Donna wrote us a lovely note, wishing my family and i a Merry Christmas :) awww! :) my family and i love our Christmas cards :) i display our cards, here in my Christmas town, and on Christmas Eve, we display our cards, on our living room wall :) Donna, and her family also sent us, 2 lovely snowman treat bags, and wonderful candy treats, they are called, Idaho Spuds candy bars :) they sent us 6 of the candy bars :) this so cool, and very neat! :) my family and i love candy, and will enjoy sharing the candies :) this touches our hearts, in many wonderful ways, the wonderful love, sharing, and joyful festive spirit, of Christmas time :) my family and i love these very special gifts, and treasures, and will always love, cherish, and treasure them :) Donna, family, myf amily and i thank you all so very much! :) We're very happy, and delighted :) We deeply appreciate your wonderful kindness, and generousity, with all of our hearts :) sending our love, and Merry Christmas wishes, and smiles, across the miles, from our home to yours :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS WISHES, SENT WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF LOVE, CHRISTMAS SMILES, AND HOLIDAY CHEER, FROM WASHINGTON! :) awww! :) this is so very wonderfully heart warming, very special, and lovely :) special greetings, across the miles, from our dear, and lovely friends, Lori (Keepholdingon), and her wonderful family :) This is so nice, and heart-felt, the special joys, of celebrating the season with eachother :) We're always very close within our hearts, and with eachother in spirit :) my family and i recieved a lovely Merry Christmas card, from Lori and her family : )on the front of the card, there's a wonderfully festive Christmas scene :) There's a sleigh, with christmas trees, horses, a winter wonderland, and a festive cozy town, with the moon light and stars shining :) it's a scene where you can dwelve your spirit into, it looks so nice, and festive :) inside the card, Lori wrote us a lovely note, wishing us a Merry Christmas :) awww! :) i want to call Lori this holiday season, it'll be so nice, catching up with eachother :) i'm going to display our lovely Christmas card here in my Christmas town, and going to display our cards, on our living room wall, on Christmas eve :) my family and i love this very special gift, and treasure, and will always cherish, and treasure it :) Lori, family, my family and i thank you all so very much! :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of our hearts :) Sending lots and lots of love, Merry Christmas wishes, and happy holidays smiles, from our home to yours :)
We're enjoying a super mega sweet awesome day!!! :) Christmas time! :) my family and i are doing well, and are in good spirits :) this morning, my sister Lisa went to pick up some lottery tickets for me, and i have began to put together a lottery tickets Christmas wreathe for my mom :) She's gonna be so happy and excited! :) it's so nice and sweet of my sister Lisa to pick the tickets up for me :) i'm gonna surprise my mom, by putting the wreathe on our tree :) it was great shopping today :) Tomorrow, we're going to my grandma's house, to have a celebration at her house, Christmas themed :) We're gonna bring her some goodies, gifts, drinks, and gonna have a nice time, seeing her christmas tree, and putting presents under her tree :) i'll give my grandma a nice hug for everyone :)i'll also take pictures to share :) also tomorrow, lots of big football games, i'm the championship game, on my NFL.com fantasy football league :) There's lots of great things to look forward too : )my family and i are so happy, and thankful to have you all in our lives, and to celebrate the holiday season with you and your family's :) We thank you all so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of our hearts :) BIG GROUP CHRISTMAS HUG :) tonight, our dear friend Holly and i are going to watch a movie, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation :) There's many more great things to look forward too :) Christmas Smiles :)
-never lose hope :)
To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we had a nice time Christmas shopping today :) We got Christmas gifts, treasures, lots of goodies :) it went awesome, and a festive spirited time :) the holidays are here :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a good day" :) She says, "have a good night" :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful day :) we're thinking of you all, and sending our love, and our warmest friendship hugs, from our home to yours :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS WISHES, SENT WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF LOVE, FROM UTAH AND WASHINGTON! :) awww! :) this is so very beautifully heart warming, very special, and lovely :) my family and i are enjoying a wonderful time, opening our Christmas mail, and sharing with you all, about the very special gifts, goodies, and treasures we recieved :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives :) You all are very special, and precious to us :) We cherish, and treasure your friendships :) my family and i are very happy, and delighted :) We'll always love, and treasure these very special gifts, and treasures :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of our hearts :)
Thank you so very much, Donna (IDonna), and family! : )
Thank you so very much, Lori (KeepHoldingOn), and family! :)
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!! :) we had lots of fun Christmas shopping today :) i bought lots and lots of nice gifts, goodies, and treasures for my family :) i took some nice pictures, of the gifts, and treasures :) it's lots of fun shopping :) i am so very much ,looking forward to putting together the nice gift bags, for my family, for Christmas :) i bought some nice gift bags, and gonna be putting the gifts into the bags :) it's so much fun, shopping :) a season of traditions, and festivities :)
Christmas mugs! :) i bought some more christmas mugs today :) it's a very special tradition, i love giving Christmas mugs to my family for Christmas :)
Toys, and Arts and Crafts for the Kids :) Lots of Christmas smiles :)
Goodies, lots of nice treats :) i bought some coffee, and also candies :) i'm so very happy about putting together the Christmas gift bags :)


i bought these nice christmas themed gift bags, to put the treasures in :)

Candles, gifts :) 
At walmart today, i bought some collectible hotwheels cars, for our dear friend Holly, and bought 2 of the Scooby Doo Mystery van hotwheel :)

CHRISTMAS TOWN! :) i'm enjoying my Christmas town, so very much :) holiday movies on, and decorating, displaying our lovely gifts, cards, and treasures :) season's greetings, from Christmas town :)



SANTA CLAUS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!!! :) our local fire department, has a special tradition :) they drive Santa around our city, and neighborhoods :) This afternoon, Santa was waving to us all :) HO HO HO! :) this is such a cool holiday tradition they have for the kids, and family's :) a very special shoutout, and thank you to the East Great Plain Fire Department :) Christmas smiles and Christmas cheer! :)
Hi angel friends! :) in my journal tomorrow, i'm going to share about some more lovely gifts, treasures, and presents my family and i recieved :) We're very happy and delighted :) i love spreading the Christmas joy, in my journals :)

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CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you had such a wonderful Christmas shopping adventure.You sure bought some nice gifts too.I\'m sure your family will be very happy with them. I think it\'s cool you bought the mystery Machine Hotwheel. I use to watch Scooby when I was a kid. hope you enjoy your movie tonight.Thanks for all my great hugs today. Have a good evening. Hugs and Smiles-Stephanie
1Patriciann
1Patriciann

I loved your pics -- especially of your ChristmasLand.

Merry Christmas precious Christopher and family.
((hugs))
ddeadred
ddeadred

Glad you had such a GREAT DAY, CHRIS!!! WOWOW~~you found much cooler HOT WHEELS for Holly than I did for Cameryn... I\'ll have to keep looking and check our dollar stores to see if they have them. I got him 3 at our Walmart, but they didn\'t have a great selection... You really ROCKED THE HOLIDAY SHOPPING TODAY!!! Add all the other holiday things you\'re doing and you seem to be having SPECTACULAR HOLIDAY ADVENTURES THE ENTIRE MONTH!!!

Got roped into going to town again today, but it was pretty quick. Picked up some art supplies for Brooklyn as she likes to draw and color. I have these cool mechanical crayons I\'ll be adding to the pad of drawing paper as well as a large coloring book. Slowly but surely I\'m finishing what I am going to give. A tight budget has me getting more thrifty with my selections, and I\'m focusing on little things. I do have some great little items for Mom and Linda already so today I finished (mostly) the kidz. I\'ve decided I\'m done with Guy and he\'s my main person... We had a nice simply dinner (chicken thighs, tators, broccoli with cauliflower, and salad). Certainly, it\'s one of my easiest and cheaper meals, but it\'s simply good healthy food. I love doing the chicken as then I used the liquid in the pot for soup the next day. Once it sits in the fridge overnight where all the fat will rise to the top solid so it\'s easily removed. This is one of my FAV tricks for homemade soup for lunch!

Love to you and Mom and Dad and everybody in CT!!! Have a wonderful evening!!! xoxoxo Cj
annieheart
annieheart

I love your photos. our wal mart here has a subway sandwich shop in it.I think having a dunk in doughnuts shop in wal mart is awesome. I love the hot wheels and mugs you bought. My Grandson asked me 3 times so far is Christmas tomorrow, lol. He is worried about making Santa\'s nice list he said sometimes when he is good he gets distracted. I told him I\'m sure he is on the nice list.
KneeDeep
KneeDeep

Hello Chris....Wow your day sounded busy but right in the spirit of Christmas. Being with family and picking out gifts. Those gift bags are really nice! Holly I know will love the gifts you give and so will your family. Your very thoughtful and loving.I liked hearing about how your shopping day went and how your remained calm and having a good time. Good for you Chris! How cool is that to see Santa riding on that fire truck. Here when we lived in the Brookstone apts the local fire department would ride through the neighborhood throwing out candy canes and wishing all a Merry Christmas
Enjoy your evening my friend,and your day tomorrow at your Grandma\'s.
Get a good nights sleep as well. Love/Blessings/Greenies
Love4you
Love4you

Dear Chris, I am glad you had a great day! :-) love your new treasures
and your new pictures! :-) been resting all day,yesterday. Thinking of
you and your family..Sending Best Wishes your way! Love/Blessings,
Maria