• The “Guys” & New Year’s Eve

    Jared’s buddies from Texas typically come out to Arizona between Christmas and New Years. They get together and play games and catch up. They’ve been friends since High School. I love that he…

  • Mannheim Steamroller

    Jared’s childhood best friend’s parents (if you can keep that straight 😛 ) messaged me this morning asking if we were available this afternoon. They had tickets to see Mannheim Steamroller but weren’t…

  • Christmas Day!

    Christmas Day was low-key and relaxing. Jared and I woke up before the kids…teenagers…LOL! So we went and woke them up by bursting into their rooms saying, “Santa came! Santa came!!! It went…

  • Christmas Eve

    As is tradition we spent Christmas Eve and Grandma and Grandpa Morrison’s. We picked up Rigatony’s for dinner and that was the best decision we made! It was soooo good!! Plus, no one…

  • Happy 13th Birthday Alayna!!

    Happy 13th Birthday (how is my baby a teenager already!?) to my favorite Christmas present I could ever have asked for! 🎂🎄 The start of her bday we went to the Giving Machine…

  • Workin’ at Joe’s BBQ

    Eli quit Rubios a few months back. The work environment was hostile and he was so unhappy there. He’d been applying for jobs all over the place and wasn’t able to get any…

  • EVJ White Elephant

    I really love how this year EVJ is trying to help the girls bond more outside of volleyball. Tonight they met up at Panera and had cookies and hot chocolate while they exchanged…

  • Best Caroler!

    Eli got up bright and early this morning to participate in the 12k’s of Christmas Run at Freestone Park. His Jazz band was invited to play with other groups to keep the spectators…

  • Jared Went to Visit His Momma & Pop

     It’s been a couple of years since Jared went back home to Texas to see his Mom and Pop. The stars aligned just right and he was able to fly out for a…

  • Jesus

    We have a family group Hangout and we got this text from Eli –“My Jesus is looking nice.” We were all super confused because the image was taking a while to send and…