Christmas shopping

Getting ready for the holidays can take up so much time that we forget to have a little fun. Well, have no fear - there are lots of fun events (big and small) happening this week in the Gallatin Valley. Grab some friends and enjoy the season.

This is something my siblings and I have instituted recently and it's been pretty nice.

Wondering when all those big stores will be opening and offering those massive discounts this Black Friday?

  Black Friday means waking up about an hour after you went to bed on Thanksgiving night, it means a stop for coffee and it means standing in the freezing cold just waiting for that store's front door to open and let us barge toward the discounted scarf, the huge TV and the one-of-a-kind toy that Santa said he would get. I'm already tired. However, I'd do it for the $1 million that one store is of