Christmas!

This is all of us waiting to come downstairs Christmas morning. If you’re wondering who the guy on the right is, it’s Scott, Sherice’s boyfriend. No, they are not engaged, but we are hoping!

When we got downstairs we finally saw what awaited us: new strollers for the pregnant couples, pink bikes for Sherice and Lacie, and some toys for Maddock. Unfortunately, Maddock was only interested in the bikes.


After opening all our wonderful presents (thanks again everybody!!), we headed to Snowflake to finish Christmas with my family.


I had gotten my gifts for my mother and my sister way back in August, so I was so excited to finally give them their presents! I got them tickets to see The Lion King. I saw it before when it came to Phoenix about four years ago, and I’ve been wanting to see it again ever since! They are awesome seats (front row of the middle balcony), and I’m just so excited to have such a special girls night!



After all the exchanges were done, we had a very special present for my younger siblings. Jelly Bellies. Not your ordinary Jelly Bellies, though. It’s a special box of them entitled Bean Boozeled, I think, I can’t remember the name of them right now. But here’s a picture of the back of the box.

So the joke is, there are two identical jelly beans. One is the normal flavor, the other…not so much. I had taken the beans out of these boxes and put them into normal Jelly Belly bags so the kids had no idea what was coming. I couldn’t have asked it to work out more perfectly. The first one or two jelly beans they got were good flavors, then they started getting the bad ones, and that’s when the hilarity started.






We had such a wonderful Christmas this year! It was so nice to have a week off of work and just spend time with our families! We love you all!