Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years:)

Well last year was very eventful especially being that I'm most definitely in a transition stage of life where I really don't know what my role is. Any who it's been a while since I posted anything but I'll give a little sneak peak to what my holidays looked liked. First of all I spent Thanksgiving with my big crazy Mexican family which I absolutely love. I think there was about 50 of us or more. I have like 24 first cousin or so. Well coming from a big family there is always tons of food I think they cooked like three turkey's and two hams and all the other non-mexican food:). It was tons of fun we played Loteria after dinner. Loteria is kind of a Latin American Bingo. My family gets very serious about playing this game I wish I could record them sometime. That wraps up my Thanksgiving.

Well Christmas was fun as well. At church we put on a Christmas service and it's always a joy to go early and help set up for everything. I really enjoy serving and seeing people serve. At the end of the service we get to take Christmas pictures by a tree and I took one with my brother. He is a pretty sweet brother:). I'm not sure if it's all Mexican families that do this but we celebrate Christmas by staying up on Christmas Eve and then we open presents at midnight. So we did and it was a bit tiring. I don't remember being so tired when I was younger though. Oh I almost forgot about my near death experience on Christmas Eve. On my way to my aunts house I was driving on the 15 going to the 60 W listening to a pretty sweet I Tunes mix when all of a sudden my car loose control (I think because it had lightly rained not sure) well all of sudden I do a 180 off the ramp and my car gets stuck on a slope. The funny thing is that I was not afraid at all. I just got out of my car and was really grateful that it did not do a 360 with a flip. Well I called AAA and my brother of course, CHP came to make sure I was safe. It took me like three hours to finally get to my aunts house. I think what frustrated me the most was all the expenses but like always God provides.
On Christmas Day I got to see my mom and it was a true blessing to see that she was doing well. I was just excited to be with her, my sister, brother, grandma and the rest of the fam. I guess the holidays are enjoyable because one is able to see everyone they love all at the same time. Well here is the pic of me and my brother...