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.

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!!!

My husand with his wonderful parents who did an amazing job raising him and allowing me to have him for eternity.
My husband working in Wyoming in the Natural Gas Fields for Halliburton.

Bryan and I with Cambria after the Homecoming Football Game. He was a coach and she was the Homecoming Queen as well as one of the cheerleaders.
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I have a special thank you to a woman who gave it all to me, through one person. I want to thank my mother-in-law, Cheryl for my wonderful husband and best friend. She instilled many wonderful traits in him. She taught him how to be sensitive to others who were different, etc. She taught him how to respect women and children. She taught him how to cook and clean. And of course there are many more. Who would've known that 27 years ago, that I would meet the man that I was going to marry. Now that I have girls that age, I always tell them, be careful-you could end up marrying him. Bryan was always that guy that I had my eye on, the popular jock who could have any girl in school. I never could understand WHY he liked me, but I am sure glad that he persued me. I always knew that he would be a great husband, he has a great example, through his dad. Watching his mom and dad together, I knew that Bryan would treat his wife the same way, and he does. He is such a patient man, I know sometimes he just wants to pull his hair out and scream at me, but he doesn't. He NEVER has spoken a mean or belittling word to me in our whole time together. I can't say that I have never, but he is the greatest example to me, in everything. I am so grateful that he is ALL MINE and that he took me to the temple and are together for eternity. Something Bryan told me, that has ALWAYS stuck out to me before he left on his mission was, "Ton- I want you to date while I am gone, I don't want to marry a wallflower. IF, by chance you are gone by the time I get back from my mission, PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE make sure that whoever you marry will take you to the temple, because you ONLY deserve the BEST!!!! I love you." I am so grateful for him and the wonderful friend, husband, father, brother, and son he is.

Avenna's Blessing

Becca keeps us all laughing!!!! We love her.
Josh and his baby sister on her blessing day.

The proud parents of Avenna.

Both grandmas with Avenna.

Both grandparents with Avenna and the proud parents looking on.
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Sunday, my brother Adam blessed his baby girl, Avenna. He was sooo excited. Their family is just adorable.

Hannemann's Baptism

Hannemann and Sale right before he gets baptized.
Irene and her little man right before he gets baptized.

Hannemann with his parents

Irene and her 3 kids - we know that Tierra was there in spirit with her family.

Hannemann with his grandma and grandpa Ah Quin

After the baptism, instead of cooking, my sister came up with a brilliant idea of going to Golden Corral. We all ate as much as we wanted, had someone waiting on us and not having to clean up the mess. GREAT IDEA!!!

My beautiful parents - they live for these outings - IT'S ALL ABOUT FAMILY!!!!

Cambria, Jeff and Hannemann

Hannemann went to one of the Trevor's football games and Jeff was there with Cambria and the two of them hit it off from the beginning. Hannemann loves talking to Jeff and the feeling is mutual with Jeff. Hannemann started off standing talking to Jeff at the table and then ended up on his lap, talking about his bully problem at school. Hannemann is such a good boy.

Trevor with Grandma

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Today was Hannemann's (Irene's third child) baptism. His dad was able to come back for 2 days from the military to come and baptize him. It was so good to see Sale and his wonderful family. Hannemann had a wonderful amount of people who came to support him and show him love on his special day. He is such a good boy, who watches over his mom and sister and brother. He is literally the LITTLE MAN of the house and he takes that calling seriously.

CHEER COMPETITION 2009

Cambria and Trevor after the competition. He really does love his sister, but he HATES pictures.
All of the kids.

Our cheerleaders after the awards ceremony with their trophys.

The girls waiting for the awards - giving each other massages while waiting.

Come of the girls after their performance.

Grandma and Grandpa with Cambria, they were so proud of her.

The girls just about to go out to perform.

Me and my cheerleader

ALL OF US WITH CAMBRIA - I am so glad that my mom and dad were able to be there for her also. They are at everything for their grandkids. I love them so much.

Here they are watching from the bleachers. Perfect seating.

Cambria with Tori and Cecilee when they first got there. All of the cheerleaders thought it was so cool for them to do that!!

Maybe next year they will be cheerleaders - NOT!!!!

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Yesterday was another full day of activities. Cambria had a cheer competition that she and her squad had been working so hard preparing for. It was held at Desert Hills High School, which was nice, cause usually we travel a few hours and this was right in our town. Everyone did such a great job. They received a trophy for 1st and 2nd in another category. Cambria is so much fun to watch, she loves to entertain. That morning we were all sitting around the kitchen table eating cocoa rice and talking and Cecilee and her friend asked Cambria, "How many uniforms do you have?" Cambria answered, "3, why?" Well they thought it would be fun to show up in her uniforms to cheer her on. I didn't know if Cecilee really would, so I just left it - well we get to the school and her and Tori call me and say, "We need you to pay for us", so I came out to pay for them and everyone told us, "You don't have to pay for the cheerleaders, they are free." I told them, "They aren't real cheerleaders, they are wearing their sisters uniforms." They just started laughing!!!!! I guess I could've saved $10.00, but I would've felt terrible. We spent a couple hours there and watched all the teams perform. I can't believe this is her senior year. Life seems to be going too fast. Cecilee said that when her and Tori were at the concession stand one of the ladies heard them say, "Snow Canyon is up on deck" and she told the girls that Snow Canyon is getting ready to perform. I guess she was expecting the girls to get shocked and run into the gym, well Cecilee and Tori responded, "COOL!" They just looked at the two of them like, you need to get in there. They had NO idea they weren't real cheerleaders, they were WANNABE's. I love how daring Cecilee is and how silly she loves to be. You can never predicted Cecilee, she tends to ALWAYS do the opposite.

Pigskin Tournament 2009

Trevor on the run

Trevor and Jordan doing the bump after their first touchdown.
The team after their first game.

Dad and Trevor

Our family, minus the photographer, after the game with our MVP.
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Trevor participated in the Las Vegas Pigskin Tournament again this year, but this year he actually played on Thanksgiving Day. That's why we celebrated Thanksgiving early, so that we could be with our family. He played with his old Football Team from the last two years. His old coach moved to Kaysville and wanted to be able to let his son play with his old team one last time so he put back together the old team. They all had such a good time being together again. They played rather well and got 2nd place in their age group. Trevor absolutely loves football and enjoys any position that he is asked to play, whether it's Quarterback, Running back, Blocker or waterboy. He loves it all!!!!