Our Jarvis Jive: Thanksgiving & Christmas!! :)

The time flew so fast and there was so much going on these past two months that Thanksgiving and Christmas will have to share a post, lol. I will be printing the past two years of my blog after I finish out this year's posts, which is so wild. Time just flies.

For Thanksgiving this year Brianna and the Campbell family joined our family and Mom and Dad at their house. We all chipped in to bring homemade, delicious, amazing food. It was all soooooooo good. We ate around 1 PM and then just spent the rest of the day chatting and playing games. It was pretty low-key once Thanksgiving was finished, and then we had tasty leftovers for the next few days. I am very grateful we could celebrate with most of our family members and had such a nice day. :)

We put Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas tree up the day after Thanksgiving, per tradition. I am a stickler about *nothing* Christmas before Thanksgiving, I love to give each holiday its turn before moving on to the next one. So, the day after Thanksgiving we turned on the Christmas music, much to Jeremy's delight (ha ha! Good thing he loves me ;)), and decorated the tree and the house.

Ander did SO good putting ornaments on, it was adorable.

Rozzie LOVED the ornaments!

I love this picture, ha ha.

For Christmas Eve the Campbell family joined us here at Grandma and Grandpa's house, and Brianna drove down and stayed a few days through Christmas. We had a delicious dinner and then we played Jingo. Aunt Brianna helped Ander, Grandma helped Benson, and Jeremy and I passed out the gifts as they got Jingo's, and Jen read the Jingo cards. After, we all gathered in the living room for a cute/funny little nativity story acted out by the Campbell kids and sang Christmas songs and watched the nativity from the church.

He kept eating all his Cheerios for Jingo, ha ha. He is so stinking cute. Aunt Brianna helped him with his Jingo game and he had a blast!

Christmas morning was very relaxed, Beckham and Benson were up first, and Anderson and Bridger slept in a little. Roz woke up with Jeremy and I. We ate some breakfast while we waited for everyone to get up and then we took a picture before opening presents. We pass gifts out one at a time so we can make sure we get to see all the kids opening their gifts, lol, otherwise it would basically be an explosion of wrapping paper and all the gifts would be unwrapped in about two minutes. After the kids finished opening their gifts and stockings the adults got to open theirs, and then the Campbell family came over to open their gifts from Grandma and Grandpa.