Christmas 2015 & A Surprise

Another dreamy Christmas has come and gone. Although I'm super sad it's over, this Christmas was one for the books! 

Sunday through Wednesday everyone in the house except for me had the stomach flu. I was up to my elbows in puke and spent days sleeping on the boys floors and going from one room to another cleaning up vomit. Anyone who knows me well knows I can't deal with throw up. I. Just. Can't. So it was a loonnnggg three days. But prayers were answered and everyone woke up 100% Christmas Eve morning. 

We try to make Christmas Eve as low key as possible. We had a family breakfast planned for the morning and relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. 

After dinner, Ryder and Gage opened their Christmas Eve present which had their Eve Jammie's. Ryder obviously was on the naughty list at this moment. 

The rest of the night we built a gingerbread house and frosted santa's cookies that the boys Elf left for them. 

After the boys finally fell asleep, we got to work being Santa's Elves as the snow started to fall outside. Having a white Christmas is a dream come true!

Both Ryder and Gage slept in Christmas morning. Thank you Santa for the Christmas miracle of letting me sleep in until 9am. When Ryder saw that Santa came all he could say was "oh my goodness!!!" And the sweet little soul that he is showed Gage all of his presents before even looking at his own. 

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas!

There was wrapping  paper and toys everywhere, permanent smiles on the boys' faces and nothing but love in our home. It truly was so magical! 

If you follow me on Instagram {@whitrichins} you saw that Santa also left us a HUGE surprise in our stocking this year....baby #3.

And when I say he left us a surprise I mean it was truly a surprise. When we first found out I was a little scared. So much changes with baby #3 -our basement isn't finished yet so the boys will need to share a room for a while and also my car isn't big enough for a 3rd car seat. Gage is still so young being 18 months old and he is a total mama's boy so I was also concerned about how he is going to handle it and also the financial aspect of it. I'm a big time planner so when a surprise this big pops up it throws me off my game a little bit. But, we are SO excited! What a perfect Christmas gift and we are truly blessed. We are so very thankful that we have  been trusted to bring another baby into this world and we cannot wait until August! Obviously since I have two boys and this will probably be our last baby I would love a girl. But I just want the baby to be healthy and I will be just as happy with another boy, and I do have a tiny feeling it might be a boy. 

So bring it on 2016!! We are SO excited for what you have in store for us!