This year we all went to Mariah's house for Christmas. We all spent the night on Christmas Eve. We all found a place either on the couches or on the floor to sleep. Our family always woke up at 6 on Christmas morning to open presents. CC was determined that we still wake up at 6 this year so we did. It was actually Jerome, Ciara, Garrett and I who went and woke CC and everyone else up at 6 cause Jerome and Ciara were so uncomfortable on the floor that they couldn't sleep any longer. As everyone gathered upstairs in the living room, Mariah got Travis on Skype so he could be there too. It was fun to watch the 4 little kids find what Santa brought them. Another tradition our family has is the youngest gets to open the first present, then we rotate through to the oldest and keep going in that order until all the presents are opened.
Now there was probably one present for each of us left under the tree. When it was Ciara's turn, Eliza handed her a big box. She opened it and sees that it is filled with news paper. It was heavy so she knew something was under the paper. The first thing she found was a large bottle of hand sanitizer. Then she pulls out a large bottle of margarita mix. At this time the box felt empty and she was really confused. She searched through all the paper and found one last thing, a little box. As she opened it, Jerome got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. He surprised us all. He didn't tell anybody that he was going to propose. We all were so excited for them.
They had been talking about marriage for a little while but Jerome always made it into a joke. They also had talked about doing a Vegas wedding when ever they actually did get married. They started talking about dates that would work for us all to be able to go with them to Vegas and we all decided that we should just do it while we were already together. So we were discussing the next day or the day after that, but that's when people were starting to head back to their houses. So the next thing we know, Ciara is on the phone scheduling a wedding chapel for late Christmas night. There were 16 of us so we all loaded into 2 vehicles and headed to Vegas.
We arrived at the chapel around 10:30pm and we were scheduled for 11 o'clock. There wasn't a wedding going on so they took Jerome and Ciara to go get their marriage license while the rest of us hung out in the little chapel. When they got back they decided Eliza would be the maid of honor and Dalton C. Would be the best man. Then it started. My dad and Ciara took their long walk of 4 steps down the isle. Then Ciara joined Jerome up at the front. The preacher said a couple words and then it was over. It was the weirdest most funny wedding I have ever been to. It was fun to witness a Vegas wedding. It was definitely an experience to remember. We took some photos and then dropped the newly weds off at their hotel and then went and found ours. Before we actually went to check in we tried to go and see the fountain show at the Bellagio but realized we had just missed the last show for the night. We headed back to the hotel and got our rooms and went to bed. We all were so tired. It had been a long day.
