remember the holidays??

Valentines Day is this weekend so I think its about time to post about thanksgiving, christmas, and new years eve....

i know, so embarrassing. 

I had individual posts for every holiday but now that it is February I decided to just combine. 

i know, i know. 

lets start with thanksgiving...

Jordan and I were kind of dreading thanksgiving (sorry mom and dad). We had been traveling like CRAZY and just didn't feel up for another trip. Thanks to a lot of persuading from my mom and dad we made the 10 hour drive... & I'm SO glad we did!

We had so much fun with my brother and parents that week!

Our thanksgiving was so tiny this year because the majority of the family decided to stay in Utah, but it was kind of refreshing have an adult only, calm day. 

I hope next year we have our usual kid crazy dinner, though!

Dec. 23rd was jordan's birthday and we were in CA!

We spent the day doing his favorite things... EATING AND SEEING A MOVIE!

We slept in, went to his favorite sushi restaurant with my parents, laid low, went to dinner with both of our families, then saw star wars! 

I love this guy so much! I am the luckiest to be his wife!

Christmas!!!

I did a horrible job documenting christmas this year! I was so busy enjoying my family that i didn't even pick up my phone, let alone my big camera!

We started our christmas eve with my family and we drove down near the beach for Cafe Rio. Us Californians don't have the privilege of having cafe rio on every corner so we have to go to great lengths to get it.

That night we spent christmas eve with jordan's family. We went to both sides of grandparents houses.

I got a snap chat from my brother while I was at jordan's grandparents of him and my best friend and her husband. They happened to be at the same restaurant as my family for christmas eve. I was so sad to have missed them because I hadn't seen them since their wedding. Splitting up holidays between families can be so sad when you know you're missing a party haha. Luckily for me, we ended up having a very late night party when jordan and I got home from his side! We got home at about 10:30 and our best family friends came over to do our gift exchange and play games (games never quite happened, tho. too much chit chat!) And then my bff and her husband came over! It was so fun to talk!

Christmas morning was great! We opened up presents with just the 5 of us and it was so nice. We were gifted the best things and felt very blessed. We spent some time with jordan's parents that morning before we skyped adam.

Obviously, our highlight was seeing our elder! He looked so good and was so spiritual! I am so glad that was his last christmas Skype. I hate being away from each other during the holidays! NEXT YEAR WE WILL ALL BE TOGETHER!!!

The rest of the day was spent in PJs and eating way too much! 

We were so lucky to have some little cousins visit from Utah. It just isn't the same with out the littles around so I was glad to at least have 5 of them!

Last but not least... NYE!!

NYE is eeeeeeasily my favorite holiday! Jordan's too! Every year my parents throw a party where we play games and EAT! I look forward to this so much! I get to ring in the new year with the people i love most. There is always such a positive vibe at the party! Gah how many more days until this years party??

New Years Day is always spent in bed. My family loves lounging in bed. It drives jordan nuts but we don't care. My dad always makes a steak and crab dinner for us and we enjoy it in our PJs. 

okay, thats it for the 2015 holidays! That was a lot to recap but I'm sure glad I have it documented so I can remember it forever!

HAPPY 2016 ;)