The Matern's: 2011

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Windstorm weekend Madness

Imagine 102 mph winds coming at you! blowing away and knocking down almost everything! yup we went through this on Thursday! and Bountiful/Centerville area was the worst! i was woken up by the wind whistling at the windows. i looked out the balcony window and this is what i saw fences gone windows broken parking lot full of debris trees blown over! i couldn't believe this! I had only been through something similar in Idaho! and that was over 12 years ago! it was so sad to drive to work with trees knocked over on houses breaking fences, stop lights knocked off the poles people scrambling to board their own windows so they wouldn't blow in! it was crazy and the craziest thing to me was as i was driving right when i went through North Salt Lake to Salt Lake the wind died there it was a totally different thing! i was so shocked! its crazy how bad this storm hit northern Utah! there are so many people helping others trying to get yards cleaned up power back on! last night on the news it said 400 homes in bountiful still without power and 1000 in Kaysville without power! and there is another storm moving in tonight with the same strong east winds! I'm nervous to see what is going to happen, i hope most of the debris is all secured so it doesn't help destroy more things when the wind hits! i hope all the people without power still can keep warm and safe and hope we all stay safe!

On a BRIGHTER note i finally got my tree up! On Saturday Jake and his brother were at our house so i thought why not have them help me move some things so i can put up our Christmas Decorations! i was so happy to put up the few we had i love Christmas time and everything that goes with it! everyone is always so happy and cheerful! i just love this time of year and i am so excited for all of the upcoming festivities!!!!

November Update

The past few weeks have been crazy for us, it seems like there is so much going on! Here is an update on everything that has happened! On 11-11-11 Elise and I went to the opening of.. H&M! Yay!! we were there bright and early! thank goodness Elise was there before i was or else we would had to wait out in the cold for it to open.. it was a good time waiting for it to open, there we lots of music people dancing, giving aways gift cards and bags (we both got some so it was cool) but it was just fun to talk and hang out! H&M was awesome i love love love that store! so fun to find good deals!

On November 14th it was our 2 year (that's right spell it! T-W-O!) anniversary! so we decided it would be fun to go to Park City again and just have a weekend getaway for the both of us! it was so nice not to have to worry about work or school! we just got to relax and have fun! we stayed at the Newpark hotel and resort it was so nice! we had a mini kitchen, great room and view and a balcony with a PRIVATE HOT TUB! it was so fun just to hang out and watch movies. we also went and walked around the outlet mall which is always fun we even found a little friend! Hunter! he is the cutest puppy, we wanted to take him home with us so bad! after we went to the outlets we went to The Historic Main Street, i love walking around there, they have the best shops! we also went out to eat while we were walking around to Bandits Grill and Bar! it was delicious, best old western food i have ever eaten. they bring all their food to you out on a skillet which is cool! Their Tri Tip steak NACHOS were amazing and their sandwiches were amazing also! i love trying out new places and finding places that i would like to go to again! park city was a blast even though it did snow like crazy while we were up there but i loved every minute i got to spend with the best hubby ever! love you jakey!

For Thanksgiving we went up to Idaho to spend the week with my family! it was so much fun to get to go home and just relax and have fun! on Thanksgiving day we had a mini turkey bowl which ended up being just have fun and joking around with each other! towards the end of playing us girls decided to take a break from throwing the football to going back to what we really know what to do.. yes yes we cheered for our men! even shanny had her man there! so it was fun Breanna was determined to fly again so Shantay and i based her and put her up in a half! which is all we could do with no back! but it was fun, then Breanna and i threw up a 2 man stunt i haven't done one of those since high school i was so happy when i had Breanna up! i still got it! jk but i forgot how tough cheer is on our bodies so us oldies quit! =) After playing some football we went home to find the best dinner ever! this year it was just our family no extended family and it was so much fun! mom made the best food ever! my favorites is her candied yams and pretzel salad! i could eat those all day! Bre also made a yummy salad she called it the 70 dollar salad! I guess cause if you didn't have any of the ingredients to make it it would be 70 dollars! But it was good to just get to sit and eat yummy food while we all caught up! later that night we got prepared for Black Friday! it was crazy we just went to Walmart because i had to beg Jake to go with me! long story short Jake wasn't having it by the time it hit 10 pm and the first sale start it was pure madness. it was so hectic and crazy watching everyone scramble to get their stuff.. Jake was getting claustrophobic and i was worried about him, people kept hitting him with grocery carts, he finally said something to this lady like "at least apologize when you hit something", and that was the wrong thing to say! right after that she backfired at him, and there were some words being said so needless to say we left so it wouldn't happen again! so we got Cody and left the others with a car and we went home had some dessert and watched a movie! best way to spend the night while everyone else was rushing to get presents! (my dad laughed when he saw us walk in the house at 10:30) it was funny we only lasted half an hour in the madness!

We were all sad when we had to all go home because we had so much fun with my family and didn't want to weekend to end and "go back to the real world" but it was fun, we will for sure have good memories to look back on!

Monday, November 7, 2011

New Discovery.... The Day Book Blog

I Love browsing the internet especially Pinterest!! I saw an outfit that was absolutely amazing so i repinned and looked up the website, turns out it is a girl from utah who does a fashion blog about clothes and everything that goes with an everyday look!! I love this blog so much because i love fashion and everything that goes with it! It helps give you ideas on modest clothing that works and looks great!! i think everyone should check out this blog and see what you think!! just had to let everyone know about this latest find.. (unless everyone knew but me..) Happy Blogging!!

Here is the address: thedaybookblog.com

Here are a few of the style idea finds on this site

I love love love this look! if i can find those shoes it would be the best thing!!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Family Picture

Thought I'd post a picture of the Pearson Clan! this was right before nick and lacie left to Michigan with their cute family! Boy do i miss those guys so much! especially the little boys! hopefully we will get to visit them soon!!

The Past Few Months...

The past few months have been busy but yet full of fun!! jake started school back up at the U and he is still working at Performance West Physical Therapy keeping busy and working hard! love him for doing that for us! and i have just been keeping busy at the salon still. i have got to make a few trips to idaho for different occasions, a my best friends wedding, just for fun with bre and rob, and it so happened to be shanny's sadies dance that weekend, and for my cousin josh's farewell. its been fun getting to see my family a lot more than usual.

For Halloween we were up in Twin Falls for a farewell and it was way fun seeing my extended family and catching up with my cousins that i haven't seen in so long. Also for halloween we went to his parents house that night and had Papa Murphy's pizza and watch scary movies! it was fun getting to see all the cute trick or treaters all dressed up! I got to go to Thriller the dance show production up at the U with my old roomies! it was so fun to have a girls night and to catch up with everyone! its crazy to me how we can not see each other for over a year and still act like nothing has changed between us! i love it! Thriller was AWESOME! i got to go twice this year! once with the girls and then with Jake's family! it was fun to go with them also since we went last year with them too! kind of a fun new tradition! whoever has not seen thriller needs to go and see it next year! its so fun!!

I'm so excited its November its the month of mine and Jake's anniversary! I'm so excited to get to go away with him for a weekend i cant wait!! i also cant believe that its the holiday season! i just love this time of year its always stressful but fun! everyone seems so happy! well i will be posting more after our anniversary weekend and thanksgiving! Happy Holidays!

On the way up to idaho, the colors were so pretty!

Bre and I watching Shanny cheer at her game

Momma and me at the corn maze it was so much fun

Shantay and her date Jaxson!

Me and Shanny

Thriller!!!!

Erin, Heidi, me and Tashi

Me, Tashi, Lauren, Creeper, Erin and Heidi! lol

Bountiful girls!

i have missed these girls so much!

BFs

one of my favs! love her

Jakes awesome halloween outfit! he had to dress up for work! :)

Mikell and her boyfriend, they had a chocolate fight!

Yes we cut her hair off!! she looks so cute!

Friday, July 8, 2011

Fun Under The Sun on 4th of July Weekend

Bbqs, movies, fireworks and good times... 4th of July weekend was so much fun, with so much going on it was hard to try and get some free time. On saturday we both had to work but jakes best friend brennen got married that day so we went to his luncheon to see him and say congrats. it was so much fun to see him and catch up with all of our friends it really makes us really realize sometimes how much we miss it down in provo, but it was still fun to see everyone.
That night we went with jakes family to watch fireworks and ended up leaving early to get ice cream and then hanging out which to me was the most fun. Sunday was a usual sunday, sunday dinner with jakes family and we had a bon fire and roasted mallows! Monday was jakes birthday we had a breakfast with jakes moms side of the family, it was fun catching up with everyone. Then we went and saw TRANSFORMERS! which is legit! seriously best movie for the summer! go see it you would love it! but then after that we celebrated jakes birthday how he wanted good old fashioned bbq with burgers and the works. it was yummy! jake got exactly what he wanted for his big 24 birthday, golf clubs hes hoping to get to go more and more now. the rest of the night we played badmitten and watched all the fireworks around the neighborhood. i swear fireworks are so stinking expensive so it was fun to enjoy everyone elses fireworks haha . all in all it was an awesome weekend i loved spending time with jake since we never see each other im so excited for even more upcoming events!
ps sorry no pics this time i forgot my camera so i have no 4th pics