My kids and I just got back from our Very Merry Disney cruise to the western Caribbean. It was 7 days, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica. My kids are 17 and 15 and Santa brought electric toothbrushes, reeces peanut butter trees, lundt truffles, and they were so happy. My parents gave luggage too, and then Disney gift cards so they could buy a souvenir. Best gift ever, we didn't need more stuff. I hope you guys have so much fun.
Next year my family is doing a secret Santa but, we are making the presents instead of buying a store bought present. So we have an entire year to perfect our crafts and share our skills with one another. I'm excited about the process.
I only discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and just found this video today (Oct. 26, 2020), and watching your excitement and knowing that 2020 came along and destroyed so many dreams is heartbreaking. I was scheduled to move several states away for school and a fresh new start in Boston, MA, and to take a trip to Paris w my cousin, and all of that went buh-bye lol. I've still moved, but the whole timeliness for school amd finding a job etc. has been obliterated, and I mostly spend my days watching your videos and taking notes 😁
Congratulations, Beth! Also if you’re booking through hotels.com or booking.com you can use Ebates (Rakuten) for cash back.I got 6% back a few months ago for my birthday trip ❤️ not important this time round for you guys since you got your freebies but for anyone else who might be interested.
My grandmother gave my brother and myself a piece of luggage when we were young and were planning to fly on a plane for the first time to visit our father for the summer. I still have it and use it all the time - 27 years later. It was a really great investment.
What a blessing this trip will be! When things all fall into place, you can be sure this is the right decision. Have a wonderful time making new memories!
Loved vlogmas. Will definitely miss seeing you daily! Absolutely love this idea. My brother is taking his family to Disney World. And congratulations to Beth! Happy New Year to all 🎊🎉
I love building memories over giving gifts! I give my nieces a bday coupon which they get to pick what they would like to do to celebrate their bdays. So we can build memories with them doing fun things and going on adventures.
@@FrugalFitMom Just watched your Mexico trip-looked like so much fun and I hope that allowed you and your kids to get that experience you were wanting back then!
We started this a few years ago and we went in December on a cruise with friends and kids for their Christmas present. It was the first year we didn't do presents and we did experiences instead and it was awesome! Weve done trips ever since. This year we took them to Texas over Thanksgiving. So on Christmas we go do something for the homeless so they arent sitting around bored if they dont have presents. This year we got them a couple of things since their present was the Thanksgiving trip😂 but then we went and helped the homeless.
My daughter and son in law did the same thing. They are going to Paris this year and it's all booked. That was my grandkids christmas. They are 12 and 10. Great idea! Hope you enjoy your trip!
We will be doing a cruise for Christmas for a 3rd time this year for 2020. Our kids love it. We try doing experiences with ours as well. 2019’s big Christmas gift is a TobyMac concert on Jan 31st 🤗
Omg Ryan's reaction was precious but oh so hilarious! Lol congrats on the win Beth! Merry Christmas Christine and family! 😊❤ thank you so much for doing Vlogmas for us! I am really sad to see it end but thankful we got it in the first place!
I feel less guilty for having seen this. So tired of presents they get sick of almost immediately. I saw this deal for the cruise we want to do eventually too, already decided we will do it when timing is right. And we will skip presents that year! :)
I have four kids also-I had wanted to do a big trip also (didn’t finish video yet, but putting note inside the luggage would be cool). My kids have nicer luggage than us also, as they travel w grandparents a lot. I thought a Caribbean cruise would be cool, so you could look, but not not be stranded on an island-my oldest suggested it a few years ago when his friend went on one-thought it would be more affordable to travel that way w everybody. Good idea! Wish I would have done what you did-maybe I will shoot for that next year!🎄❄️😊
Merry Christmas!! What a great gift. I love that y'all are giving them experiences instead of stuff. My husband wants to take me everywhere he's been and he's been all over the U.S. Have a great Christmas and week.
We usually do large family trips with my parents and my sister’s family and cruises are the best!! We celebrated my daughters first birthday on a cruise versus a big birthday party that she’ll never remember. I’m all for experiences versus stuff 👍👍
Oh yeah and check excursions outside of the cruise line.... as long as you stick to the port timeframe, the excursions outside of the cruise line are usually cheaper.
enjoyed these videos, very cool that your trip is so inexpensive......i do hope you have the happiest of holidays and that the family enjoys their Christmas vacation!
My family was supposed to go visit FAMILY in NZ as our big gift this year....but 2020 Wonder how this ended up...did u get to go on the trip pre-March?!?!
Congratulations Beth 🎉🎉🎉🎉 . Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. What awesome gifts for your family. A cruise they will remember forever. I'm gonna go be a sore loser now for the rest of the day. 😭😭😭😭
Merry Christmas to you and yours!🌲❤Gosh! What an awesome experience you all will share on the cruise #memorymaker I hope we can come along a bit🤓Congratulations, Beth🙆 Thank you so much for doing Vlogmas. I totally enjoyed it🎥
That’s what we’re doing this year we are going to Disney in September and some for Christmas I got him a loungefly bag which is a Disney bag and I got them 200 trading pins for the trip but a lot of them they’re going to keep lol but I got it on eBay and it was really cheap
So exciting what a wonderful gift of experience for them!! Are you still doing your Walmart clearance shopping tomorrow?? What time do you go? I need to get to bed so I can get up early enough to hit the good clearance!!
Watching this in Nov 2020, realising that that decision didn’t really go to plan 😂😂.... will you be buying presents this year? 😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️Xx I got some stuff for my 16 year old last year that were ‘experiences’ we haven’t been able to do any of them lol!!! He’s having a PS5 this year 😂😂 xx
Was your sailing cancelled? If you want to rebook, let me know! I can get you a discount but only at the time of booking. Thanks for all your videos! You always inspire me to cook and try new recipes.
BETH! Email me at swimmerturnedtriathlete@gmail.com
What a precious gift from Grandma and Grandpa Craig
the best thing ever is when your kids want gifts that have to do with sports!! shopping was super easy this year !
My kids and I just got back from our Very Merry Disney cruise to the western Caribbean. It was 7 days, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica. My kids are 17 and 15 and Santa brought electric toothbrushes, reeces peanut butter trees, lundt truffles, and they were so happy. My parents gave luggage too, and then Disney gift cards so they could buy a souvenir. Best gift ever, we didn't need more stuff. I hope you guys have so much fun.
Next year my family is doing a secret Santa but, we are making the presents instead of buying a store bought present. So we have an entire year to perfect our crafts and share our skills with one another. I'm excited about the process.
I only discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and just found this video today (Oct. 26, 2020), and watching your excitement and knowing that 2020 came along and destroyed so many dreams is heartbreaking. I was scheduled to move several states away for school and a fresh new start in Boston, MA, and to take a trip to Paris w my cousin, and all of that went buh-bye lol. I've still moved, but the whole timeliness for school amd finding a job etc. has been obliterated, and I mostly spend my days watching your videos and taking notes 😁
I won a cruise over 10 years ago to the Caribbean and it was fantastic. I think you will all have a marvelous time! Merry Christmas to all of you.
Congratulations, Beth!
Also if you’re booking through hotels.com or booking.com you can use Ebates (Rakuten) for cash back.I got 6% back a few months ago for my birthday trip ❤️ not important this time round for you guys since you got your freebies but for anyone else who might be interested.
Sorry! You pronounced Jennifer Mitchell wrong! It sounded a lot like Beth!!!!
Lol...this comment is too cute
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Must be her accent. Huge congrats on the win, Bethifer! 🤣👍
My grandmother gave my brother and myself a piece of luggage when we were young and were planning to fly on a plane for the first time to visit our father for the summer. I still have it and use it all the time - 27 years later. It was a really great investment.
What a blessing this trip will be! When things all fall into place, you can be sure this is the right decision. Have a wonderful time making new memories!
You were meant to go. Enjoy and Merry Christmas
You will love the cruise . They are so much fun. We go on one FEB also. Agree adventures so much better than getting stuff. Love your channel.
Loved vlogmas. Will definitely miss seeing you daily! Absolutely love this idea. My brother is taking his family to Disney World. And congratulations to Beth! Happy New Year to all 🎊🎉
I love building memories over giving gifts! I give my nieces a bday coupon which they get to pick what they would like to do to celebrate their bdays. So we can build memories with them doing fun things and going on adventures.
Aww watching this in 2021....minute 2:03 sweet innocent child
Just seeing now that it's a cruise, Oh my goodness I'm so sorry
Yeah, that was a bummer
@@FrugalFitMom Just watched your Mexico trip-looked like so much fun and I hope that allowed you and your kids to get that experience you were wanting back then!
I agree...experiences are fantastic. It is great your entire family can share that! Merry Christmas!
We started this a few years ago and we went in December on a cruise with friends and kids for their Christmas present. It was the first year we didn't do presents and we did experiences instead and it was awesome! Weve done trips ever since. This year we took them to Texas over Thanksgiving. So on Christmas we go do something for the homeless so they arent sitting around bored if they dont have presents. This year we got them a couple of things since their present was the Thanksgiving trip😂 but then we went and helped the homeless.
Got the idea from you in the first place!
Love your shirt!!! 🌲
The blankets❤️ and luggage was awesome.
My daughter and son in law did the same thing. They are going to Paris this year and it's all booked. That was my grandkids christmas. They are 12 and 10. Great idea! Hope you enjoy your trip!
Merry Christmas Christine and Family.What a wonderful Christmas gift.
Congrats beth! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
We will be doing a cruise for Christmas for a 3rd time this year for 2020. Our kids love it. We try doing experiences with ours as well. 2019’s big Christmas gift is a TobyMac concert on Jan 31st 🤗
Experiences are SUCH a great idea! I hope you all have a wonderful time with your extended family!
Omg Ryan's reaction was precious but oh so hilarious! Lol congrats on the win Beth! Merry Christmas Christine and family! 😊❤ thank you so much for doing Vlogmas for us! I am really sad to see it end but thankful we got it in the first place!
This is awesome, makes total sense to gift an experience. I will have to start coming up with ideas. Thank you and congratulations to the winner ❤💜
I feel less guilty for having seen this. So tired of presents they get sick of almost immediately. I saw this deal for the cruise we want to do eventually too, already decided we will do it when timing is right. And we will skip presents that year! :)
I have four kids also-I had wanted to do a big trip also (didn’t finish video yet, but putting note inside the luggage would be cool). My kids have nicer luggage than us also, as they travel w grandparents a lot. I thought a Caribbean cruise would be cool, so you could look, but not not be stranded on an island-my oldest suggested it a few years ago when his friend went on one-thought it would be more affordable to travel that way w everybody. Good idea! Wish I would have done what you did-maybe I will shoot for that next year!🎄❄️😊
Congratulations Beth!!! What a fun Christmas for the kids. Merry Christmas 🎄
We are going on a cruise in Feb!!! Kind of excited, but nervous!
The trip will be so fun. We do it about every 2 years. It gets harder as they get older, married and have babies.
Merry Christmas!! What a great gift. I love that y'all are giving them experiences instead of stuff. My husband wants to take me everywhere he's been and he's been all over the U.S. Have a great Christmas and week.
Merry Christmas! What an awesome gift for your family! Congratulations Beth on your win!!
I hope you all had a great Christmas! And I hope you all have a great vacation ☺💖
We did the same thing this year and booked a dream vacation ( Hawaii) but we did get them little things for them to open.
I'm so happy for you guys !
We usually do large family trips with my parents and my sister’s family and cruises are the best!! We celebrated my daughters first birthday on a cruise versus a big birthday party that she’ll never remember. I’m all for experiences versus stuff 👍👍
Oh yeah and check excursions outside of the cruise line.... as long as you stick to the port timeframe, the excursions outside of the cruise line are usually cheaper.
So so excited for you and your family!! I love the experience and extra special time with your family!!
Merry Christmas!!
enjoyed these videos, very cool that your trip is so inexpensive......i do hope you have the happiest of holidays and that the family enjoys their Christmas vacation!
I'm going to miss vlogmas! You were so fun to watch. Merry, merry Christmas!
Congrats winner.
Bookmarks are for quitters … I can’t with you! 🤣😂🤣😂 I will get one for my dad for sure!
Kudos to you for getting free airfare and a free hotel the day before. We use our points for our Hyatt stays. Love it.
Merry Christmas. Cruises are so much fun
My family was supposed to go visit FAMILY in NZ as our big gift this year....but 2020
Wonder how this ended up...did u get to go on the trip pre-March?!?!
It was scheduled for April, so it was cancelled.
What a thoughtful gift. Contrats Beth and enjoy!
Congratulations Beth 🎉🎉🎉🎉 . Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. What awesome gifts for your family. A cruise they will remember forever. I'm gonna go be a sore loser now for the rest of the day. 😭😭😭😭
Thats how I was feeling with presents....
Merry Christmas Frugal Lady!
Congratulations Beth!
Merry Christmas! I’m so excited for your guys trip! I really hope you vlog and bring us along with you 😁 congratulations to Beth!
Merry Christmas to you and yours!🌲❤Gosh! What an awesome experience you all will share on the cruise #memorymaker I hope we can come along a bit🤓Congratulations, Beth🙆 Thank you so much for doing Vlogmas. I totally enjoyed it🎥
So I’m watching this in August 2020 and I just really hope you got all of your refunds!!
Merry Christmas!🎄🎁
Bring motion sickness meds for just in case
Family during a big cruise in September for my grandmother 75th Bday on my daddy side
That’s what we’re doing this year we are going to Disney in September and some for Christmas I got him a loungefly bag which is a Disney bag and I got them 200 trading pins for the trip but a lot of them they’re going to keep lol but I got it on eBay and it was really cheap
Merry Christmas to all! 😍
What an amazing deal for your cruise, well done!
Merry Christmas from Alabama!!!
Awesome idea for a gift ! Merry Christmas!
Great video
Great present! Came to check out your channel because Jenn Chapin mentioned you.:)
Welcome! Glad to have you around!
Congratulations Beth. xXx
Merry Christmas!🌲❄️❤️
So exciting what a wonderful gift of experience for them!! Are you still doing your Walmart clearance shopping tomorrow?? What time do you go? I need to get to bed so I can get up early enough to hit the good clearance!!
I am!!! I will be there when the doors open at 6am!
Frugal Fit Mom Awesome! Excited to see your haul!! You always get such great stuff! I may share a haul too if I find some great stuff!
Merry Christmas
Wow , good advice
Awesome vlogmas! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Yippee. Wonderful.
Loved your vlogmas series!
Wow !
Merry Christmas!! I loved Vlogmas! Enjoy the cruise!
Watching this in Nov 2020, realising that that decision didn’t really go to plan 😂😂.... will you be buying presents this year? 😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️Xx
I got some stuff for my 16 year old last year that were ‘experiences’ we haven’t been able to do any of them lol!!! He’s having a PS5 this year 😂😂 xx
Trip sounds amazing
How old are your kids ? Sounds like a great gift a cruise !
15, 13, 10, and 8
Aww beautiful
I must have your pajama pants (I love the peanuts)!
Are you sailing on Royal Caribbean?
Yes!
Let me know if you have any questions! I work for them!
Although it sounds like you really have a handle on everything!
Yes! How can I get more discounts. LOL!
Was your sailing cancelled? If you want to rebook, let me know! I can get you a discount but only at the time of booking. Thanks for all your videos! You always inspire me to cook and try new recipes.
Are you leaving out of New Orleans???
No, Texas!
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Congrats Beth!!
Congratulations Beth!