Our Jarvis Jive: Holidays!

Alright, I didn't blog for like four months and that is not normal for me...at all. I don't like it, I just haven't had much time, now I'm making some time so it will quit stressing me out!

In September Jeremy and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary, my mom came up and watched Bridger for us and we went to the temple to do sealings, then went out to dinner. :) Pretty low key, it was fun. The next day I went to a day-long writing conference at UVU that was awesome, my mom babysat Bridge for that too. I actually wrote a book in July or August, I don't remember which month. I should say, most of a book, it's not finished yet, but I'm not sure where to go with it...I wrote over 50,000 words in a month, it was awesome! The only person who has read any of it is Jeremy, my sister Bri read a page and that's all I would share, ha ha. I don't know if anyone else writes but I realized how personal your book can become and it's scary to put it out there for critiquing, I'm not ready! It's a piece of my mind, literally, on pages...the words are my personal thoughts, so I have to prepare myself for a lot of changes and comments. Not only that, I am a perfectionist and I want it to be perfect before I let anyone else read it. As if that will ever happen. ha. It's sort of a historical romance with a twist. That's all I'm saying! :)

Somewhere in August or September we went to the zoo...for FREE! yes. for free...and we can go for free for a YEAR. My little sister won a gift card to buy a year pass and since she doesn't live close enough to use it, gave it to us as long as we'd take her a few times. I think we are going to go in the next month again, when the lights are up. :) We love the zoo!!

Cute boys. :)

Ignore my crazy look, I had to make up for his serious expression.

Halloween was such a blast!! We decided to stay home this year, since it was in the middle of the week and Jeremy had to work. My mom came up and helped me sew Bridger's costume, he was Peter Pan, and it turned out SO cute!

He had a little brown Peter Pan hat with a red feather sticking out of it, BUT, he wouldn't wear it. :p His little knife is made out of felt, the rest of his costume is made out of wool. (that was an accident btw, we meant to buy felt...when we looked at the receipt we paid a whole lot more than we would have for felt! At least he was super warm).

He was so excited!!

Bridger LOVED trick-or-treating, loved it. We went around the neighborhood with the Hoffman's and their two girls Ruby and Olive, which I think helped because Ruby is older and showed him how to do it. :) He would go up to the door and bang his little fist on it and when it opened he held out his little bucket while I said "trick-or-treat!" Then I would say "thank you!" and sometimes he would copy me, we're workin' on that. :) ha ha. It was adorable though. He started getting tired and his little bucket was getting way full, but he did NOT want to be carried, and he did NOT want to let go of his bucket, so I just helped him hold the handle instead while we walked. Jeremy was Captain Hook, and I was tinkerbell. My mom and I shopped forEVER for a long coat for Jeremy, we finally found a perfect one...but the dry cleaning cost more than the actual coat...I kept my costume simple, my mom and I just made a tulle skirt and I wore leggings. :)

It's kinda blurry, but right when we walked in the door after our Halloween party at the Hoffman's, he dumped out his bucket and started going through all of his candy. That's what my sister and I used to do! He doesn't even know that it's all candy, he played with it for like a week, then lost interest. He knew the M&M's were candy, but that's about it. I like it that way. :)

His first time decorating Halloween cookies!!

Bridger's work of art. :) I had to get this picture fast...that cookie was gone within a few minutes!

Thanksgiving was a blast too! We went down to Hurricane two different times for Thanksgiving, once to eat with my family, the next time to eat with Jer's. The first weekend was my family, and it was amazingly delicious...we even ate...turkey. Yes, we sure did. Ha ha. And believe it or not, I drank soda too! I told myself it was a holiday so I could break a few rules. Anyway, we just hung out most of the day and played a few games that night, it was nice to just relax.

The next weekend we came down and ate with Jeremy's family, Rich and Emily were even there, visiting from Virginia! It was fun to see everyone! Then...on Black Friday Jeremy helped out at my mom's store from 10 pm-3 am, it's sort of a tradition now, and I usually go too, but Bridger was sick all week. :p So we stayed home and went to bed! That week was pretty rough for our little guy, he was hardly sleeping at all. He's just so particular about everything. If there were ANY boogers in his nose he would start freaking out, even at 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 in the morning. It didn't matter what time it was. We were all so exhausted, from having him crying all night for like two nights with a 102.5 fever, it was awful...but that finally passed! He still has a runny nose, though, hopefully he can get over the last of this fast so he can be his happy self again. :)

That's about it for catching up! Yay! :) Now I'm just getting ready for Christmas and Bridger's birthday. I am sewing him a huge car/city mat and getting him some more Hot Wheels for Christmas, and a little red trike. For his birthday we got him one of those little red cars with the yellow roof that they can get in and use their feet to move it, it even has a little trailer, he's gonna love it! I need to plan his party still...I'm thinking a Curious George party, since that's his very favorite show, I already have some ideas. I'm just feeling a little overwhelmed with all the crafts I need to get finished in the next few weeks, but when I get them done, I'll post pictures! :)

Christmas vacation was such a blast! We went down to Hurricane for ten whole days, and, for the most part, relaxed. It was so nice to have Jeremy home everyday, I love him. And it was so nice to be with all our family. :)

Christmas Eve was spent with both our families, we had a really nice dinner and opened presents with Jeremy's family then headed back to my parents house for Christmas stories and singing Christmas hymns with yummy snacks before we all headed off to bed. We had our Christmas/Christmas Eve on the same night with the Jarvis's. Justin gave us some sweet hats, and a hilarious shirt for Jeremy that has a picture of Bridger on the front and it says "I'm WAY good at having kids." I have no idea where he came up with that, but it's cute. :) ha ha. Emily gave us some matching animal hats (Jer has a picture on his phone I will steal later), and Aaron gave Bridger a Curious George book that Bridge is in love with. It was so fun, we even got to Skype Emily and Rich while we opened presents since they couldn't be there with us this year. I just have to say that I love that this family is so silly. :)

Christmas morning we let Bridger be our alarm clock, he woke up around 8 so that's when we started! He actually opened his presents this year, ha ha, and I think he really liked it! He got a whole set of 20 Hot Wheels, a homemade car/city mat I made for him, an oversized car that goes on it's own with noises and stuff from G&G Brown, and a train with a track from G Jarvis. He got Finding Nemo and The Lion King in his stocking along with some mini m&m's that he loved. :) Oh, and when we got home he got to open his car!! He got one of those little tikes cars that you can ride in and you make it go with your feet...if you know what I'm talking about, ha ha. He loves it. :)

Jeremy got Logic Pro (a professional music program), pajama pants, $20 to take me on a date ;), and new SOCKS! Whoo hoo for socks! ha ha. My parents also got him an military ammo box and his dad got him some ammo, he was pretty excited. :)

Jeremy got me a new cookbook that I'm in love with "The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook." It is so perfect. He also got me a book on Vegan eating that I'm pretty excited about. He also got me $50 to Amazon for BOOKS! I love reading, I've already used most of it... :l

My parents got us an awesome ladder and a much needed step stool for our kitchen. They got me some socks and a food chopper thing I've really been wanting, it's Pampered Chef and chops onions like a pro, it's amazing. And, Jarom got me a super cute watch. :) We got so many other things, and I'm so grateful! We have the best friends and family ever.

We got totally spoiled.