Christmas Day with the Family

On our way to the Stake center we stopped by the Beehive home to see Bryan's grandma who is 102 yrs. old. When we got there my mom and dad were there already singing with his karaoke machine. She was so cute, she was dancing in her chair and singing. We had an enjoyable time with her.

We had the stake center for the family, like we ALWAYS have since I was younger. There is never a home big enough for our family, besides a church building. We had sports, food, karaoke, and fun.

Here are some of us ladies just hanging out.

(Tia, Cambria, Julee, Cecilee, Me and Sunshine)

Max and his 2 favorite girls: Raya & Sunny with Tristan

Tia, Andy and Major. Major is too busy focusing on his food to look at the camera.

Joe and Janessa riding the wiggle cart through the gym.

Jeff and Cambria doing a musical number.

Max and Sunny snuggling.

Jeff and Hannemann

Christmas Morning

Good Morning my beautiful children.
Lots of Hugs!!!!

Lots of Duct Tape!!!

WOW, don't we look great--NO makeup, Hair is crazy as ever & in pj's.

The kids playing the WII.
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We had a beautiful christmas morning. Trevor woke up at 1:00am and said was in amazement but knew NOBODY would wake up then, so he went back to sleep and waited till 4:45 to wake everyone up. We all joined at the tree, had a beautiful christmas prayer and opened presents. We had alot of laughs, duct tape, wrapping paper, hugs and thank you's. Santa brought a WII for the whole family, so of course the kids couldn't wait to get that thing hooked up.

2009 Family Christmas Card

Christmas slapped me in the face this year and I didn't get time to get my christmas cards out before christmas. So all of my friends are getting them after christmas. Thank goodness it says, "Seasons Greetings" instead of "Merry Christmas".

Annual Caroling with the Family

Everyone on the trailer going caroling through the neighborhoods.
Mom and Dad love to be with the kids in the back. (L to R) Trevor, Kiana, Jaden, Irene & Dad and Mom

Cambria and her friend Jeff

We got the wonderful opportunity to go to the Beehive HOme and sing to Bryan's Grandma who is 102. While we were singing she joined in and loved singing with us. This picture is definately PRICELESS!!!!

Bryan and his Grandma

Our family with Santa after caroling. We have all been GOOD boys and girls. Can't wait to see what he brings us that magical night.

Santa talking to everyone .

All of the kids in their PJ's from Santa.

My 3 girls, Tia is more like a sister to these girls than an aunt. We love here as part of OUR family.

Me and my sweetheart!!!

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Every year we get together as a family and go caroling and there always seems to be a special visitor that makes his appearance. My sister Irene was in charge this year and she did a great job. We all brought soups and went caroling in the back of Bryan's trailer. It was a little cold, but we kept each otehr warm, by just being together and making memories.

My Little Elf Trevor

This Christmas season hasn't really felt like Christmas, I couldn't put my finger on it, I just think that working so much and running from one thing to another just hinders the feeling of the Christmas season. Well the other night, all of my girls were gone for the evening and Bryan was going to bed, so he talked to Trevor and told him that he wanted him to stay by my side and do whatever I needed to help me out. So Trevor said, "Mom, what do you need me to do first?" I had him crush my oreos, graham crackers and then I remembered I had presents for the girls, so I had him wrap their presents. He said,' Mom, are you sure you want me to wrap, can I do it ANYWAY I want, and can I use as much duct tape as I want?" at this point, as long as I didn't have to wrap, I didn't care, how he wrapped them. I watched him wrap the boxes first and he did a pretty good job, not quite as straight as I would've wanted them, but I was NOT micro managing, so I let it go. Then I watched him pick up the curling iron and he said to himself, this ones going to be tricky. I went on with my business and looked over a few minutes later and he used all of the scraps that he had cut off the other presents to wrap this one. I was just laughing inside, he had three different wrapping papers going on. It didn't look bad at all, it looked like a quilt. I then told him that I had tags to attach to the presents. and he said, "Oh mom, I didn't need them, and held up a present and he had taken a BLACK sharpie and written ON THE PRESENT "TO Cam" and FROM ? I then told him about the ribbon and he said, "It;s OK, it looks good enough without it". Oh My Goodness, he made my night, what do you expect from a 13 year old boy. He is such a sweetheart!!!! I want to remember this night, that's why I chose to put it on my blog.

Gingerbread houses with our Ohana

Dad helping Irene and her cute kids with their houses.

Joe and Janette with their little tribe.

Kiana and Tayvia (Clay's girls)

Andy building with Major

Adam and Becca and their boys getting started on their houses.

Max and Sunny and their family building.

Some of the mess as we go. We had candy everywhere, but that's the fun of it all.

Trevor working hard.

Andy, Tia and Major.

Clay and his boys working on their house.

Everyone working on their gingerbread houses, everywhere!!!

Max is serious about this.

The Stokes gingerbread house.

That's what we do with the leftover frosting.

close up at Adam's house.

Adam is having a blast, can't you see it on his face. He did have a helper in the beginning, now he's on his own.

12 gingerbread houses. Our very own little neighborhood.

We had our annual gingerbread house making night with our family. Everyone brought their own gingerbread kits and everyone brought candy and goodies to eat. We had a blast. It's so funny to watch my brothers totally get into making the houses with their kids. I think they were all going for "Father of the YeaR". They were so cute to watch.

Bryan's Birthday - DAY

Cambria worked Friday night and came home from work with a pizza for her dad. She made him a garlic chicken pizza.

Cambria and Bryan pose with the 41 pizza.

Bryan indulging in his birthday pizza that Cambria made for him.
Bryan watching Trevor play in the snow. Good morning 6:30am and we have SNOW!!!!!

Trevor gathering the snow to start his snowman.

Trevor and Cecilee slowly building their masterpiece. Those were Cecilee's arms.

Cecilee getting pretty serious about building her snowman.

The kids just hanging out and waiting for the movie.

Me and Bryan at the movies waiting for the movie to start.

The kids when we got home from the movies. Their snowman was still standing tall.

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Well Bryan's birthday was actually Saturday and we let him pick what we did that day. Well when he got home from work that morning at 6:30am he came into the house and let us know that it had snowed. Well Trevor woke right up and ran outside so excited. He ended up getting on some clothes and went out with Bryan and started rolling the snow into a big snowball. Then he was on a mission to build a snowman. He came in and Cecilee happened to wake up and heard Trevor getting warmer clothes on to go outside and build a snowman. She immediately put some clothes on and went outside with Trevor. The two of them were outside for about a half hour building their snowman. It ended up being 6 balls high (6 1/2 ft) tall. They were so excited. What a great way to start our Saturday. We made Bryan an omelet for his birthday breakfast. Then he wanted to go and see the new movie "OLD DOGS". I dislike going to the movies, I don't enjoy it one bit. I guess remembering when I was a kid and sticking to the floor in the dark and sitting on the contaminted, yucky chairs makes me NOT enjoy going to the movies, but it was his birthday and I decided to do WHATEVER he wanted, so I went. I thought that the movie was going to be full of STUPID MAN humor. Well I was wrong, I enjoyed the movie alot. It was hilarious. Bryan laughed so hard it made me laugh just listening to him. It was a gun activity with the kids and Tia and Andy and of course, Major. We then came home and got ready for Bryan's company Christmas Party. We had a very enjoyable day, no chores or cleaning. Happy Birthday to you, I actually didn't clean anything on your birthday.