SHOPPING!!!!

In the two and a half years since we got married we have both shown tremendous restraint in our shopping habits. I think you really have to change when you get married because it's not "your" money anymore. You have to sometimes check with the other person. You have to consider all of the other millions of things that money could be spent on. Living in Ktown has also curtailed our shopping because we're just never in stores anymore. Well, we loaded up and drove to Mesquite on Friday night to pick up a few things for Jake. We should have had a game plan!

We started at Babies 'R' Us. We learned that it's really hard to have restraint when it's your child. We really felt like he "needed" all of the cute outfits, Santa hats, crazy socks, and picture frames we found. We also thought that on our way out we would just "stop by" the toy section to get some ideas for Christmas. At this point we decided we needed a cart. All the toys we "needed" would not pile up on top of the stroller as the clothes had. They still have some of the old toys that we played with as children and some really cool new ones. I mean, what six month old doesn't need a phonics ball that says the ABC's, makes the letter sounds, and plays a song for each letter. We had a small case of sticker shock at the register, but again we reasoned that he "needed" everything we picked up.

You would think that the story would end there, but no. After our breakfast at the waffle house on Saturday morning, I know Trey you're so proud, we decided to stop by the Gap outlet. At least their clothes were on sale!

I'm to warn out from washing, drying, folding, and finding room for all the new clothes to take pictures for the blog tonight, but I'll try to get some up this week.