Ferrero Rocher Sprouts

In the midst of craziness and lostness and overwhelmedness there is always a chance of laughter.  Always.  It keeps us sane and afloat.  It’s joy.  Over the past month or so Josh Kelley has taken on a facial hair transformation.  He now has a full on mustache.  See exhibit A, B and C.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Exhibit C:

While his new mustache growth has taken me some getting use to others are praising it…especially high school boys at Zaxby’s who say things like “Sweet stache man.”  Also since his facial hair revolution has really come into its’ own Josh’s great ideas have gone to a whole new level.  Don’t get me wrong Josh Kelley has always been quite the master mind…the dude is crazy smart.  He arranges furniture in our house like I never could have dreamed up, his jokes are off tha hizzy and he is the one who came up with our most infamous kindness advent which has lived on year after year…surprising someone with a Christmas inflatable…on their front porch.

One night while watching TV a Ferrero Rocher chocolate commercial flashed across the screen and so an amazing idea was birthed forth from the stache.   “Wouldn’t it be funny to buy those chocolates and fill them with brussels sprouts?”  Why yes, yes it would indeed.

In the Kelley family whammy gifts have been given on and off throughout the entire 21 years I’ve known the Kelley family.  Josh and I like to take the whammy to new and different levels like randomly filling Easter eggs for our annual Easter egg hunt with things like rocks, rotten strawberries and used bandaids.  There’s nothing like hearing a 6-year-old exclaim “I got a cigarette butt” while cracking open those plastic eggs.  I kid.  We’ve never used a cigarette butt, but I’m tucking that idea away for next year.

I digress.  So we purchased a Christmas box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates and proceeded to surgically remove each chocolate and enjoy each one over about 2 weeks time.  We kept every last paper until it was just a few days before Christmas and time to execute our plan.

Then we bought a bag of brussels sprouts and loaded each little tinfoil wrapper with a tasty, green sprout.

This is obviously the only tutorial you will ever need again in your life so pin away friends, pin away.

The coconut chocolates had clear covers so we had to get a little creative with these, but nothing some white acrylic paint, hot glue and shaved coconut couldn’t fix.  Why yes, yes I did paint some brussel sprouts white and hot glue coconut all over them.  When we’re in, we’re all in.

We left two regular chocolates in the pack to try and bait people in.  I thought it looked pretty legit when we were done.

In the end 5 people tried our chocolates.  My brother dug into a coconut one, but noticed the bottom resembled a plant before actually eating it 🙂  One of my SILs picked up one of the two regular chocolates in the mixed, popped it in her mouth and said how good they were.  One of our nieces picked out the other legit chocolate and ate it up.  Our crew died a little knowing the full on the laughter we had just missed out on.  Then Josh’s dad late on Christmas night opened one of the coconut brussels sprouts and popped it straight into his mouth and started to chew.  His sudden death from white acrylic paint and hot glue poisoning flashed before my eyes and I immediately started yelling, “Stop chewing.  Don’t eat it.  Stop.  Stop.”  It was the funniest thing in all the lands and well, well worth all our stupid hard work.  Then there was Amon who knew about the joke, watched the joke go down with Big Daddy and then proceeded to open up a Ferrero Rocher Sprout and yell, “Awe, you guys got me.”  I die.

Moral of the whole story:  Mustaches give you better ideas.  Josh Kelley and I might have too much time on our hands OR are evil geniuses.  And Amon, well I could just squeeze him into pieces.

Happy Tuesday.