The Matern's: The past month's festivities

Christmas Time and a New Year!

I know this is a little late but better to be late and not post anything right! So this last year we spent Christmas with Jake's family which is always fun! they asked us if we would spend the night and do Christmas Eve with them that way we don't have to really get ready also that morning! It was way fun Jake gave the Christmas Eve lesson which was on the Christmas Orange one of my favorite stories and you cant forget the Nativity on Christmas Eve right! it was so great i always love hearing Jake give lessons and giving his testimony! He is such a role model to me! Christmas day was filled with fun festive things to do and lots of yummy food! Breakfast at the Matern's is always fun because Jake's mom is such a great cook! She makes the best food! That day we got to go see his grandparents and hang out with them and watch old movies it was so fun just to get to relax! That's always what i look forward to with Christmas is just spending time with family especially MY HUBBY! Gifts don't really matter to me i realize this way more now that i am married i am honestly just grateful that we both get the day off to spend with each other and our families!

For New Years we made a quick trip to Idaho with Bre and Rob and surprised our family! It was so fun when met up with them at El Vaquero, the best Mexican restaurant ever! Jake and I were so excited, this is becoming a tradition to go at least once while we visit Idaho every time! Its Delicious, if your ever there in Blackfoot GO! anyways after we settled in we had lots of fun watching movies and playing games with the whole family! On New Years Eve day all the boys went to the church house to play some basketball and dodge ball, we met up with them a little later after i was done doing hair and mom and bre were done making all the yummy food! it was so fun, we played lots of different basketball games and my younger cousin who is 10 beat everyone he kept making all of his shots he was even beating Robbie and Jake it was kind of ridiculous how good he is! Then we played some friendly dodge ball ;) all in all it was a fun day after that we got to go home and clean up so we could eat all the tasty food my mom and sister made! Mom tried out a new recipe, shrimp wrapped in bacon with pineapple! and for all you shrimp haters I'm not a huge fan of shrimp but this was the best thing i loved it! Mom did such a good job, i will be making this one day for something! after feeding our hungry bellies with all the yummy food we played more games and watch more movies until the ball was dropping! it was such a fun weekend even though it was a little different without my grandma and grandpa Brower there to enjoy the festivities with us but it was still a blast! hopefully when they are back from their mission we will get to enjoys tons of stuff with them! i cant wait to see them i miss them so much!

It is always fun spending holidays with family i think there is no other way to spend it! we are so blessed that both families are so close to spend them with! its always fun being with them! Hopefully the new year will bring much more fun memories to come i am so excited to see what adventures are coming our way! hopefully i will be better at keeping up with blogging! maybe that should be a new goal this year!